After years of speculation that cell phones may harm your brain, new research suggests they may actually fight Alzheimer’s disease. Yes, you heard right. Microwave radiation from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice. The results were so surprising that study co-author Juan [...]
January 12, 2010
The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public. The event will take place at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) on Jan. 14 at [...]
January 11, 2010
WEBSTER, Texas — A cat that ran away during the 2008 Hurricane Ike evacuation in the Galveston area has turned up more than a year later in a neighborhood not far from home. Juliet Pennay said Simon was living with her mother in Webster, while Pennay was in Paris studying French, but was being moved [...]
January 10, 2010
A family in New Mexico was mortified when they found their recently deceased grandmother’s brain had been sent to them with her personal effects. The bag, which had been sent to them by the DeVargas Funeral Home in Espanola Valley, New Mexico, was left inside a family member’s truck overnight, and when one of the [...]
January 6, 2010
Last week, a virtual space station in the online world Entropia sold at auction for 330,000 real dollars, the largest-ever expenditure in an online game. The previous record-holders, both in Project Entropia as well, included a virtual space resort and nightclub purchased for $100,000. The currency in the futuristic Entropia universe is entirely based on [...]
January 4, 2010
A man has been convicted of catching, killing and eating what may have been the last wild Indochinese tiger in China. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla in the southwestern Yunnan Province, got a 12-year sentence and was fined a total of 580,000 including compensation to the state for economic losses. He had denied the [...]
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