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

4 hours 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 ... 1

Consciousness: The Bridge Between Science and Religion

7 hours 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 ...

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

10 hours 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

21 hours 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

22 hours 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 ...

Physicists create quantum link between photons that don't exist

23 hours 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 ...

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

1 day 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 ... 1

IAEA Report on Iran just out: Major nuke advancements revealed

1 day 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?

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day 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 ...

Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers

1 day ago - On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang — the paper ...

Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories. Really?

1 day ago - Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor at BoingBoing, ponders why so many “normal” people believe in what she deems “crazy” conspiracy theories, for the New York Times: In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and ... 3

Is our universe merely one of billions?

2 days ago - London - Scientists believe they have found the first evidence that other universes exist after analysing the data gathered by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft. Theories that our universe could be just one of billions -- perhaps an infinite number - have been ...

Vatican denies video shows exorcism by Pope Francis

2 days ago - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. “The Holy Father did not intend to perform any exorcism,” Vatican spokesman ...

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