Questions about the Death and Dumping at Sea of Osama bin Laden Remain

Questions about the Death and Dumping at Sea of Osama bin Laden Remain

Vic sadot | The Truth Troubador Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?  If he is dead, when did he die? Was he really the “mastermind of 9/11″, or not? How can we know the truth? One thing we know is that Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset used to recruit Muslim fundamentalists to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. [...]

New lighter-than-air material may be Holy Grail for batteries

German scientists have almost accidently created the world’s lightest material. A cubic centimetre of aerographite weighs just two ten-thousandths of a gram, six times lighter than air and 75 times lighter than Styrofoam. “You can hold it,” Dr. Rainer Adelung told the Star. “Although it has almost no gravity.” Adelung and other scientists at the [...]

Legislator claims one in 10 darted polar bears die – 60 times the number reported by scientists

ShareThis Legislator claims one in 10 darted polar bears die – 60 times the number reported by scientists 23 Mar 2013 On March 1, in response to the state losing its appeal of the threatened-species designation for polar bears, Rep. Eric Feige (D) said the federal government itself was responsible for the deaths of many [...]

Scientists Control Monkeys’ Brains with Light

Technology Review | For the first time, scientists have been able to affect the behavior of a primate using optogenetics—a technique by which genetically modified neurons are made to fire with light.              

Ancient life-size lion statues baffle scientists

Two sculptures of life-size lions, each weighing about 5 tons in antiquity, have been discovered in what is now Turkey, with archaeologists perplexed over what the granite cats were used for. Both archaeological and ancient written records indicate that the Asiatic lion, now extinct in Turkey, was still very much around, some even being kept [...]

Higgs Boson hunt over: CERN scientists at Large Hadron Collider find ‘God particle’ – Or Did They?

Stereotypes of scientists as stern-faced and emotionless were tossed aside on Wednesday when physicists reacted with joy and tears to CERN’s announcement about the Higgs boson. The new find is “consistent with (the) long-sought Higgs boson,” CERN declared in a statement. He and others cautioned, though, that further work was needed to identify what exactly [...]

CDC considers having U.S. Army scientists check on bioterror labs

ShareThis CDC considers having U.S. Army scientists check on bioterror labs 26 Jun 2012 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering having U.S. Army scientists or another outside agency inspect its bioterror labs in the wake of a USA TODAY report this month. USA TODAY reported that the agency’s $ 214 million Emerging [...]

Swedish scientists reveal findings of ’deep-sea UFO’

Swedish explorers have put to rest speculation of a spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic — but they’re adding fuel to the ‘what is it’ mystery of this deep-sea object anyway. Odd for a seemingly natural formation, the main object is disc-shaped and “appears to have construction lines and boxes drawn on it,” Lindberg [...]

Swedish scientists reveal findings of ’deep-sea UFO’

Swedish explorers have put to rest speculation of a spaceship at the bottom of the Baltic — but they’re adding fuel to the ‘what is it’ mystery of this deep-sea object anyway. Odd for a seemingly natural formation, the main object is disc-shaped and “appears to have construction lines and boxes drawn on it,” Lindberg [...]

Scientists discover virus that kills all grades of breast cancer ‘within seven days’

The virus, known as adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2), is naturally occurring and carried by up to 80 percent of humans, but it does not cause any disease.