Mexico fights swine flu with pandemic potential

A new swine flu strain that has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico has "pandemic potential," the World Health Organization chief said , and it may be too late to contain the sudden outbreak. This swine flu and regular flu can have similar symptoms — mostly fever, cough and sore throat, though some of the U.S. victims who recovered also experienced vomiting and diarrhea. But unlike with regular flu, humans don't have natural immunity to a virus that includes animal genes — and new vaccines can take months to bring into use. Read more>>

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Penicillin: An accidental invention


Sometimes a mistake is the best thing that could happen. Every once and a while, whoops really turns out wonderfully. Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." That's the genius behind all these accidental inventions - the scientists were prepared. They did their science on the brink and were able to see the magic in a mistake, set-back, or coincidence. believe it or not

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When Dinos Fly

April 24, 1997: At the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, a team of paleontologists confirm the discovery of a trove of dinosaur fossils in a remote area of China, including one that reinforces the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Another is the first fossil of a dinosaur containing a mammal it had just eaten. Read more

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Science after Death


Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward. Read more>>

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Team NASA on Everest research mission


A team of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials today arrived in Kathmandu on a visit to the Everest region. The team members said they would contribute ti the research activities of the NASA. They, However, said their trip was not official. They said they wanted to do some serious research to help the astronauts.Equipped with the Actiwatch and Lab-On-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System, the team members would record the sleeping and walking movements and light exposure of the subjects, adding that the lab-On-a Chip, which detects bacteria and fungi on surface inside the International Space Station, will be used to work for new snow algae.

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Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)


We were the only car on a long stretch of rural highway between Paris and McKenzie, Tennessee. It was a Sunday night and my roommate and I were returning to college. We were talking and listening to the radio. Suddenly, we saw streaks of light coming from the top of our windshield. There was no noise. From inside the car, we could not see the source of the light. There were no other cars coming in either direction. We stopped the car on the road and got out. Directly above our car was a round disc-like object with windows. It had a raised dome "cock'pit" in the center of the top half. It was hovering and spinning effortlessly about 200 feet directly above us. It made a quiet whirring noise. The sparks of light had stopped. There were lights flashing on and off around the edges of the object. We watched for approximately two minutes as the object stayed right above us and our car. Suddently, the object went from standing still to a startling speed in 1 or 2 seconds. It was several miles away and made a 90 degree turn to the east without ANY loss of speed. My roommate and I got back in our car to finish our journey to school. We were speechless for about 10 minutes. That night on the 10 o'clock news, it was reported that there were identical sightings of the same object in six different states.


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Online Game Addiction


According to research firm DFC Intelligence, Asia is the leading region for onlinegames. In all 114 million pwopleworldwide play online games such as Everquest, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft. Most worryingly, online game has been an addiction which has brought the tragic consequences. In South Korea, a 28 year old man reportedly collapsed and died after playing an online game for 50 hours straight. The online game market is worth $1.39 billion in Asia and is expected to grow to $3.6 billion by 2010.


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