Baby Mammals Twitch in Their Sleep Because They’re Learning Cute Moves

Baby Mammals Twitch in Their Sleep Because They’re Learning Cute Moves:

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Snake with foot found in China

Snake with foot found in China - Telegraph:

"Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night."

Voyage confirms plastic pollution

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Voyage confirms plastic pollution:

"Scientists have confirmed that there are millions of tonnes of plastic floating in an area of ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre."

Reincarnated! Our son is a World War II pilot come back to life

Reincarnated! Our son is a World War II pilot come back to life | Mail Online:

"It sounds totally beyond belief. But read the tantalising evidence from this boy's family and you may start to wonder... The agonised screams pierced the air. 'Plane on fire! Airplane crash.' In the dark, a two-year-old boy was just visible, writhing on his bed in the grip of horror. 'He was lying there on his back, kicking and clawing at the covers like he was trying to kick his way out of a coffin,' remembers the boy's father. 'I thought, this looks like The Exorcist. I half expected his head to spin around like that little girl in the movie. But then I heard what James was saying.' Over and over again, the tiny child screamed: 'Plane on fire! Little man can't get out.' "

Dead Sea Sinkholes Swallowing Up Unwary

Dead Sea Sinkholes Swallowing Up Unwary - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com:

"The Dead Sea is the lowest spot of land on the planet, where the Bible says God rained fire and brimstone down on the misbehaving residents of Sodom and Gomorrah — and where now, the Earth occasionally opens up and swallows peop"

Toxic Substance Allows Birds to "See" Magnetic Field

Toxic Substance Allows Birds to "See" Magnetic Field:

"A toxic substance plays a key role in helping birds migrate, a new study says. Previous research had shown that birds seem to have an internal compass that allows them to 'see' Earth's magnetic field. This magnetic vision guides them on long journeys. "

Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females

Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females: Discovery News:

"New research found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by allocating more or less seminal fluid to copulations. The determining factor is whether the male finds the female attractive."

Nine Arctic Nukes Exploded in Eighteen Hours

Nine Arctic Nukes Exploded in Eighteen Hours | Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul:

"On November 17 and 18, 2008 nine H-Bombs were exploded below the Arctic Ocean near the North Magnetic Pole.

Battered Men

Battered Men:

"‘Forget what you’ve heard about domestic violence,’ says Patricia Pearson, author of When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence. ‘The truth is that women are just as likely to batter as men.’

The largest and most recent survey, conducted three years ago by the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that 39 per cent of spousal assault victims are men. Professor John Archer of the University of Central Lancashire in England reached a similar conclusion after analyzing 17 international studies from the US, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom published over the last 20 years."

Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules

Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules - Discovery.com- msnbc.com:

"The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a 'dinosaur mummy,' have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study. "

EPA's own research expert 'shut up' on climate change

EPA's own research expert 'shut up' on climate change:

"Environmental Protection Agency officials have silenced one of their own senior researchers after the 38-year employee issued an internal critique of the EPA's climate change position.

Alan Carlin, senior operations research analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, or NCEE, submitted his research on the agency's greenhouse gases endangerment findings and offered a fundamental critique on the EPA's approach to combating CO2 emissions. But officials refused to share his conclusion in an open internal discussion, claiming his research would have 'a very negative impact on our office.'

His study was barred from circulation within the EPA and was never disclosed to the public for political reasons, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, or CEI, a group that has accessed four internal e-mails on the subject."

Evidence of the Great Flood?

AIMS Media Release - February 17, 2005:

"AIMS biologist Dr Dan Alongi said the expedition was surveying the impact of nutrients on coastal inshore areas when scientists unearthed mangrove forests in old river channels they believe may snake for 30 kilometres to the edge of the continental shelf.

Scientists have long theorised that sea level rose very gradually over several thousand years, but these remnant mangrove forests tell another story.

While it was previously known that relic river beds exist beneath the Great Barrier Reef, formed 9000 years ago when the sea level was lower than the continental shelf, their significance was never studied."

Knife-wielding gorilla shocks zoo visitors

Knife-wielding gorilla shocks zoo visitors:

"'He grabbed the knife exactly in the correct position and he smelled it and looked at it,' said Calgarian Joe Scheffler, who was at the zoo with his wife, Heike. 'A few seconds later, another gorilla came and he was very interested.

'He tried to get the knife, but the gorilla with the knife lifted the knife for his buddy....It seems to me that the gorilla with the knife was a little bit angry, and he lifted his hand with the knife.

'It was just a scene from a crime,' added Scheffler, whose wife snapped photos of the morning incident."

Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears - NYTimes.com

Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears - NYTimes.com:

"All seemed to be going well — until Dec. 8, 2006, when the project set off an earthquake, shaking and damaging buildings and terrifying many in a city that, as every schoolchild here learns, had been devastated exactly 650 years before by a quake that sent two steeples of the Münster Cathedral tumbling into the Rhine."

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified

SPACE.com -- Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified:

"For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere – but no longer.

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.

The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists.

The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified. "

'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world - Telegraph

'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world - Telegraph:

"The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."
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Girl who doesn't age baffles doctors

Girl who doesn't age baffles doctors:

"A 16-year-old girl who is the size of an infant and has the mental capacity of a toddler continues to baffle doctors in the US. "

Ananova - Burglar bit through steel bars

Ananova - Burglar bit through steel bars:

"Police who solved a spate of mystery burglaries were shocked to find the culprit was biting his way through steel window bars."

Tornado in Siberia

English Russia » Tornado in Siberia:

" Tornado in Siberia Category: Photos, Society, Video | Tornado in Russia 1 Tornado? Well, it’s OK on Cuba, Haiti, in Florida, Louisiana or even Texas, but tornado in cold cold Siberia? Noway! But not in this year, already a few of the have been spotted slashing through Siberian woods. Something is changing in the climate, really."

Smartest Dogs: Moscow Stray Dogs

English Russia » Smartest Dogs: Moscow Stray Dogs:

"Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The four legged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding the Moscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown they demonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog skills. Those skills can include ‘the hunt for shawarma’ for example, the popular among Muscovites eastern cuisine dish."