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Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community. It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had di...
“Mermaids: The New Evidence” offers, as the title suggests, amazing new evidence — new and historical documentary evidence and even more incredible real-world phenomena and real-world people. Real public figures appear in “Mermaids: The New Evidence” including actual government agents...
Aging oilfields in the Sultanate of Oman and other places in the Middle East still have a lot of oil beneath the sands, but extracting the deeper, heavier oil can be an expensive and difficult process. To help cut their costs, Oman's national oil company is turning to a new technology...
Rosslyn Chapel , the same church featured in the best-selling novel and movie "The Da Vinci Code," has revealed a sweet secret completely hidden for the last 650 years. While undergoing restoration — thanks in large part to a massive increase in tourism to the site — workers discovere...
In the epic and eternal battle between sea turtles and fishermen, can both survive? The answer can be yes, according to the new documentary, "¡Viva la Tortuga!" Produced by students from Pace University, the 16-minute film takes a close look at the coalition Grupo Tortuguero, which ha...
Barbara Garcia was on live television, telling a reporter about her terrifying tornado experience when an amazing thing happened. Garcia was standing near the wreckage of her home in Moore, Okla., talking about all that she had lost, including her longtime pet. Someone from the crew o...
The Irish Potato Famine killed about 1 million people in the mid-19th century, but the exact strain of the potato blight that caused massive crop failures has never been identified, until now. According to research to be published in the journal eLife , the Great Famine was caused by ...
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