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Russian Far East Hit By 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake

19 hours ago - A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East region, sending tremors across the country and sparking a short-lived tsunami warning. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, whose epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan, was a ...

Water fluoridation DEFEATED in Portland

19 hours ago - Voters in Portland, Oregon solidly defeated a city-wide water fluoridation measure yesterday, with 60% of the voters saying "NO!" to the practice of adding toxic fluoride chemicals to the water. The result is a huge victory for ... 1

Earthquakes create global-scale GPS errors

1 day ago - Twelve years of supersized earthquakes have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds. The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites and ground stations that provide location information anywhere on Earth. Except for spots in Australia, western Europe ...

Ant studies to aid design of search and rescue robots

1 day ago - A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search-and-rescue robots, according to US scientists. A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology found fire ants can use their antennae as "extra limbs" to catch themselves ...

2 FBI Agents Involved in Tsarnaev arrest "FALL" Out of Helicopter

1 day ago - Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and ... 2

Consciousness: The Bridge Between Science and Religion

1 day ago - Science and religion often seem poles apartand in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will eventually, be united, and their meeting point will be human consciousness. That we are conscious beings is the most obvious fact of our existence. Indeed, all we ever know ... 1

The Hidden Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water and How to Remove Them

1 day ago - Water has amazing healing properties and it is one of the most powerful manifestation compounds. When water is charged with certain frequencies that harmonize well with our body, it can increase our frequency when we drink it. In theory, if we can keep our bodys frequency above 62 MHz, ...

Polish study: No historical benefit in vaccines

2 days ago - The evidence continues to mount. That vaccines are doing a great deal of harm is well beyond denying. Worse, though, the evidence that vaccines have had little or no effect on infectious diseases is clear, as documented in new graphs. The precautionary principle, which is enshrined in ... 1

First human-engineered 'meat burger' to be consumed in London

2 days ago - Starting with a very particular cell extracted from dead cows necks at a local slaughterhouse, a select team of scientists are now close to serving up the world's first human-engineered, cultured meat burger. That's right. A whopping 5 ounce burger will be freshly made from lab grown ... 3

Physicists create quantum link between photons that don't exist

2 days ago - Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of another particle -- even ... 1

"Truly shocking" London attack leaves 1 dead, 2 injured

2 days ago - Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured. While details were scant, Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing "truly ... 2

IAEA Report on Iran just out: Major nuke advancements revealed

2 days ago - Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so. Three diplomats said Tehran now has installed close to 700 high-tech centrifuges in an ...

Neanderthals: Extinction by BBQ?

3 days ago - Humans today eat gorillas and chimpanzees, so why would our prehistoric ancestors flinch at sitting down to a nicely roasted Neanderthal? That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in ... 1

Exploding meteorite may have sealed fate of the mammoths

3 days ago - Researchers have found evidence that a large meteorite broke apart in the atmosphere around 12,800 years ago at around the time when mammoths died out. Studying deposits at 18 archaeological sites around the world they found tiny spheres of carbon they say are characteristic of ...

Accidental find shows Vitamin C kills tuberculosis

3 days ago - Scientists said Tuesday they had managed to kill lab-grown tuberculosis (TB) bacteria with good old Vitamin C - an "unexpected" discovery they hope will lead to better, cheaper drugs. A team from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York made the accidental find while ...