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Hoax: Georgia Bigfoot is a rubber costume

Its official, the ‘Bigfoot’ claimed to have been found and stored in a freezer by two hunters in Georgia has been thawed and found to be nothing more than a rubber costume. On a press release posted on the Searching for Bigfoot web site, executive director Steve Kulls outlined the events lea…
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NASA Moonship flight target slips

Nasa has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the shuttle. Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship. This is a year later than Nasa had hoped for, but still inside its March 2015 absolute […]

How big brother watches your every move

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s citizens. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement…
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Cassini gets close up to Enceladus

The Cassini spacecraft has returned some remarkable new close-up images of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. They were captured during a flyby on 11 August, with the probe passing above the icy terrain at a distance of just 50km at closest approach. The pictures show previously unseen detail in the so…
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How to vibrate a virus to death

Submitted by iCandy: Physicists at Arizona State University say they have developed a method to calculate the exact frequency that it would take to shake a virus to death, according to an article published in the journal Physical Review Letters.Researchers have discovered that when viruses are bomba…
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Stone age mass graves reveal green Sahara

Submitted by Marvy: One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyard from the era reveals. The archaeological site in Niger, called Gobero, was discovered by Paul Sereno …
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Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found

Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld. Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers discovered the…
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