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Hey Nonny No, No, No: Goths And Pagans Are Reinventing Morris Dancing
Just before dawn, by an empty shingle beach, sinister figures move through the gloom. Living shadows, they're dressed all in black, their coats made from long rags, their faces obscured by paint. But

Pagan Prisoners Allowed Twig Wands In Cells
Prison officers have been ordered to allow Pagan prisoners to take twigs into their cells to use as magic wands. The ruling has been announced as part of a prisons policy that requires Pagan prison

Weed With A Past
Vervain (Verbena officinalis), a native to the Mediterranean, has naturalized here as a weed. It isn't really much to look at as a garden plant. It has however a colorful and dramatic history. For ins

Nature-Based Wicca Misunderstood, Practitioners Say
Sheri Metcalf's house is pretty ordinary, for the most part. There's an entertainment center with a television tuned to HGTV and several DVDs on the shelf. Cozy chairs sit around the room along wit

Witchblade Movie Developing
Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions and Arclight Films will team on a live-action feature adaptation of Witchblade, based on the Top Cow comic-book franchise, Variety reported.

Medium's Preston Open To Return
Kelly Preston, whose guest role on NBC's Medium wraps up in the season finale on May 12, told SCI FI Wire that she's willing to return next season no matter the ultimate fate of her scheming charac...

Weber Is Horror Dad In She
Jake Weber, who plays a father on NBC's Medium, told SCI FI Wire that he's completed production on She Lived, a supernatural thriller movie in which he also plays a concerned dad.

ABC Close To Mars OK
ABC is zeroing in on a series pickup of David E. Kelley's time-travel drama pilot Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, with October Road creators Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg com...

Moss Is Terrorized In Fear
Elisabeth Moss, who appears in an episode of NBC's upcoming horror anthology series Fear Itself, told SCI FI Wire she had to learn how to hold a gun and do some stunts for the role.

Fox Orders Fringe To Series
The Fox broadcasting network gave a series order for J.J. Abrams' SF drama Fringe for the fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Is Love Coming To Eureka?
Sheriff Jack Carter will find a love interest on SCI FI Channel's original series Eureka in the upcoming third season--and so will his automated house, S.A.R.A.H., producers told SCI FI Wire. (Poss...

Stoltz Joins Caprica Cast
Eric Stoltz (SCI FI Channel's Triangle) has signed on to star opposite Esai Morales in SCI FI's two-hour Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot Caprica, while Frances Fisher has been tapped for an eigh...

Barnes: Caspian Is Lost Soul
Ben Barnes, who plays the heroic title character in the upcoming sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, told SCI FI Wire that he starts out as a bit of a tragic character because of his s...

Fonda Joins SCI FI's Revolution
Peter Fonda has joined the cast of SCI FI Channel's upcoming two-hour pilot Revolution, about a planet colonized by humans, Mark Stern, executive vice president of original programming, told SCI FI...

1948 Flying Human Case Revisited
Some new insights about an old story, which is found in many books, gives pause for concern about such eyewitness accounts.

Celebrity Naming of Cryptids
Who would you pick for what? Images.

Ghostbusters Decide to Quit the Business

EAST Anglia may be home to some spine-chilling ghost stories - but for one group of paranormal investigators the county just isn't Most Haunted enough!

As Elusive As Bigfoot
The search continues, but at what cost, people are asking.

Heading skyward to beat gridlock
The solution to gridlock on our overcrowded roads is to take to the air in a plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works. This vision of the future twenty years hence was reveale...

Bee deaths continue in Europe
In germany's bucolic Baden-W�rttemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, help...

Wave pattern discovered in Saturn's atmosphere
Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. The discovery...

A Tale of Two Suits
The tome (about the Mother of all Bigfoot films) is badly in need of less about when Greg Long eats those little chocolate donuts (p. 354), and tighter editing. One big blunder is the inclusion o...

Oldest Captive Gorilla Turns 55
"It's a special milestone for us," said Todd Bowsher, curator of the Dallas Zoo's Wilds of Africa exhibit. Photos.

Ghost Hunters Look for Urbana HauntScandal

URBANA, Ohio -- Ghost-hunting groups are enjoying a surge in popularity. On a recent night in Urbana, about 90 people helped set up night-vision cameras in a grassy field to see if they could captu...

Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus
Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus � one of nature's strangest animals with a bill like a duck's, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom.The researchers, whose analysi...

Examining next-gen bullets and bombs
The pentagon has quietly been working on a new arsenal of advanced weaponry that replaces metal casings with "reactive materials," normally harmless matter that combines to release explosive amount...

European probe finds missing matter
An orbital x-ray telescope has found a chunk of matter in the universe whose existence had long been theorised but evidence for which had been lacking, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wedne...

Spring?s White Moose & Brood XIV
The warmer weather accounts for some of the strangest sightings. Image.

San Francisco Pythons by 2020
Strange wonders may be on the horizon.

ISS Astronaut on Colbert Report
The Colbert Report has gone galactic! ISS astronaut Garrett Reisman joked with Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central last night. It's a very fun interview. Laser cannons and alien puppet masters are...

"Tricorder" Checks for Unwanted ISS Microbes
Astronauts on board the space station now their very own tricorder. While this 21st century version isn't as versatile as its 24th century counterpart, made famous in the Star Trek television seri...

Hauntology

A specter haunts contemporary culture - the specter of modern French philosophy.

Mars Entourage Poised to Welcome Phoenix
Three orbiting spacecraft set sights on the approaching Phoenix Lander.

That's WMAP, Seen from Earth
Okay, now astronomers are just showing off. See the three little multicolored dots in the upper right of this image? That's NASA's WMAP satellite, seen from a distance of 1.5 million km. The photog...

Learning to Breathe Mars Air (Video)
Talk about dedication! Volunteers in Russia are testing the ability of humans to breathe argon-enriched air, as part of a research program that simulates a manned trip to Mars. Researchers want to...

Hubble Image of the Colliding Antennae Galaxies (with Video)
It's time for another beautiful image from the Hubble Space Telescope. And this time, there's an added bonus… video. The latest images released by Hubble are based on research of the Antennae Galax...

Solution to NASA's Glove Problem
Damage is occurring to NASA's spacesuit gloves during spacewalks at the International Space Station. In fact, in August of 2007, astronaut Rick Mastracchio was ordered back into the the space stat...

Myanmar Facing Risk of Another Big Storm
Weather experts say Myanmar could face another big cyclone this season.

Sharks Ruled Alabama's Dino-Era Waters
Teeth reveal Alabama was teeming with sharks nearly 80 million years ago.

Space Hotel Prototype Makes 10,000th Orbit
After 660 days in space and 10,000 orbits around Earth, the pioneering inflatable prototype is still going strong. Launched atop a converted intercontinental ballistic missile on July 12th, 2006, t...

Rumor Mill Churns With NASA's Upcoming Announcement
This past Wednesday, NASA announced they have scheduled a press conference for next Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to reveal the discovery of an object in our galaxy that astronomers have been h...

The Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: May 9-11, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a very incredible weekend? The action begins on Friday as we take you on a guided tour of the lunar surface. On Saturday, celebrate Astronomy Day...

After the Shuttle, Should Astronauts be Launched on Satellite Rockets?
When the Shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, what other mode of transport could be used to take NASA astronauts into space? After all, we routinely launch satellites into orbit, why can't the same te...

Fungus Genome: Key to Clean Fuels?
A fungus known to devour canvas tents could be key to cellulose-based ethanol.

Scientists Soup Up Micro Speed Racer
Scientists add carbon nanotubes and a little rocket fuel to make a fast nanomotor.

Black Lions Prowling
Big black lions are said to be roaming the streets of Matsulu township, South Africa, terrifying residents who say they are too afraid to walk outside at night. Melanistic lions - even in South Afr...

New Messin? With Sasquatch Commercials
Jack's Links Beef Jerky has released some new Messin' With Sasquatch commercials. Watch them here on Cryptomundo.

NASA plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid
It was once considered the most dangerous object in the universe, heading for Earth with the explosive power of 84 Hiroshimas. Now an asteroid called 2000SG344, a lump of rock barely the size of a ...

Vikings: from ram-raiders to fishmongers
Archaeologists and scientists have revealed that 1,000 years ago cod was traded extraordinary distances across Europe, from the Norwegian Arctic to England and the Baltic. The research may force ye...

Man hiccups for 15 months
A musician who has been hiccupping for 15 months is hoping an operation will solve his problem. Chris Sands, 24, from Lincoln, hiccups as often as every two seconds - and sometimes even when he is ...

The Schirmer abduction 40 years later
Kevin Randle: Starting in the mid-1960s, UFO research found a new category of sighting. The first indication came from South America where a Brazilian farmer (who later became an attorney) told a t...

Jesus and Bigfoot
What? Compare the images.

Stars Orbiting Close to Black Holes Flattened like Hot Pancakes
Playing with black holes is a risky business, especially for a star that is unlucky enough to be orbiting one. Assuming an unfortunate star hasn't already had all of its hydrogen fuel and other com...

Gravity Anomaly Challenges MESSENGER Mission
Scientists from the MESSENGER mission continue to analyze the data from the spacecraft's first flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008. Initial data about the planet's gravity field grabbed the scie...

NASA Flips for Petaflops
NASA is collaborating with Intell and SGI to create one of the world's fastest supercomputers whose power will be measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency wants to develop a computational...

Paranormal State: The Complete Season One

When you're walking down the street, and you see a little ghost, what you gonna do about Judge Adam Arseneau? It's not your imagination.

Long-term Observations Reveal Patterns in Saturn's Atmosphere
Reading something like this makes me hopeful that we're no longer in the infant stage of our understanding of our solar system: we've been patient and observant while growing in our knowledge. Sci...

Carnival of Space #53
This week, the Carnival of Space is hosted by the Space Cynics. A big thanks to them for stepping in at the last minute to host this week's edition. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #53 And...

Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans
Remains of ancient meals may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.

Popular Space Elevator Video Not "News," says LiftPort Founder
An online video that's been circulating like wildfire on the internet recently is actually almost two years old, says Michael Laine, founder of LiftPort, a company looking to develop a space elevat...

Good Soil Critical in Food Crisis
Experts say cultivating better dirt is key to ending global food shortages.

Inside Mercury, Is It Snowing Iron?
Flakes of iron sinking toward Mercury's core could explain the planet's magnetic field.

Shuttle Launch Controllers Prepared to Press "Self Destruct" Button
This is something I can stomach when considering the launch of an unmanned robotic mission into space. It seems obvious that there should be a "flight termination" switch, especially when consideri...

Flesh-Eating Insect Gnawed on Dino Bones
Teeth marks and feces reveal that dermestid beetles ate away parts of a dino skeleton.

Legendary Astronaut John Glenn Speaks Out On Shuttle Decommissioning
On Tuesday, to help out with the 50-year anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, clips from 100 hours of restored archive footage of NASA missions were made public. At the...

Greenland Ice Has Sensitive History to Warming
Geology reveals Greenland's ice has melted in synch with past fits of global warming.

Ocean Science Experiment Could Fight Acidification
Is a maverick scheme to soak up carbon dioxide in the oceans too risky?

Astronomy Day - May 10, 2008
Are you ready for Astronomy Day? Astronomy Day is a grass roots movement designed to share the joy of astronomy with the general population - "Bringing Astronomy to the People." During this year'...

Volunteers Sweat for NASA
For three weeks, 23 volunteers spent time helping NASA test a new life support system for the spacecraft that will replace the shuttle. Five volunteers at a time would squeeze into a special room ...

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