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Daily paranormal news and headlines covering the world's greatest unexplained mysteries, from ghosts and hauntings to conspiracies, UFOs and the wonders of the ancient world.

Sealand skull photos released
Anton Spangenberg: Anton Spangenberg introduces the mysterious Sealand skull and explores what it could possibly be. An alien...
The 51% minority
Phillip Tilley: Phillip Tilley investigates the classification of women as a minority by the U.S. Census Bureau commerce...
Paranormal phenomena - is it real ? - part one
Daren McAlester: Daren McAlester takes a look back at his younger years and recalls some unusual encounters with...
Alien predators - would you put our eggs in their basket ?
Nigel Kerner: Nigel Kerner investigates the possibility that if an alien race were to reach us here on...
Woes of a doomsday well
Peter Fotis Kapnistos: Peter Fotis Kapnistos explores the idea of a doomsday well and other apocalyptic concepts deep...

Space X-Ray Images

The latest images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Chandra Views the 'Heart of a Rose'
Chandra helps pinpoint more than 160 youthful stars at the heart of the Rosette formation.
Cluster Collisions Switch on Radio Halos
Chandra sees huge radio halos generated during collisions between galaxy clusters.
Galactic Super-Volcano in Action
A galactic "super-volcano" in massive galaxy M87 is erupting and blasting gas outwards, as seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's...

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Earth & Sky

Cassiopeia the Queen in northeast after sunset
Cassiopeia the Queen has the distinct shape of a W, or M.
Polar ice loss rates may need to be lowered, say scientists
Ice sheets at the poles might be losing ice half as fast as previous high-end estimates. Scientists say this doesn't yet change projections of...
When nanotubes are dangerous
Nanomaterials can be just as carcinogenic as asbestos – but identifying the bad actors is challenging.
High tide alert! Closest new moon of 2010 on September 8
Today - September 8 - features the closest new moon of 2010. Look for higher-than-usual tides along coastlines throughout the world.
Two asteroids to pass within moon’s distance on September 8
Two asteroids - in unrelated orbits - will pass within moon's distance on September 8. They were discovered on September 5. Neither...

Stone Pages Archeo News

Prehistoric 'bone hats' found in Mongolia
Recently, archaeologists found prehistoric hats from an ancient tomb site at Tongliao City of Inner Mongolia....
Unearthing the secrets of an Iron Age settlement in England
Archaeologist Derek Hurst recently disclosed the secrets of a Iron-Age settlement near Bewdley (Worcestershire, England). His...
Mass dismissal at Çatalhöyük dig
Researchers finishing the dig season at Turkey's Çatalhöyük - a 9500-year-old site famed for its art...
Bronze Age gold bracelets found in Kent
Two Bronze Age gold bracelets almost 3,000 years old have been discovered during excavations along the...
Mysterious Bronze Age oak road discovered in Ireland
Irish archaeologists are puzzled as to the exact purpose of an ancient oak road unearthed on...
Moabite temple unearthed in Jordan
Joint Jordanian-US excavations at Khirbat 'Ataroz (Jordan), have revealed 'the largest and most complete' Iron Age...

Megalithic Portal

Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites News Feed

Huaca de la Luna
Ancient Temple in Peru.The smaller of two adobe stepped pyramids, or temple complexes, at the capitol city of the Moche State (1...
Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable
To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial...
Bir Al Safadi
Moti writes: Last Saturday I visited the Remains of several Chalcolithic settlements dating to the 4Th millennium BCE on the banks of...
Indian Mound Park
Artificial Mound in Franklin County, Ohio.This was farmland under the plow before the public park was created. It contains a much reduced...
Bougon Tumulus
A magnificent site not far from the town of St-Maixent-l'Ecole, and signposted for miles around. It was about 4 to get in...

Encyclopedia Mythica

The online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and religion.

Ancient Science and the Science of Ancient Things

AlunSalt: Ancient Science and the Science of Ancient Things

How do you date a garden?
While browsing the article archive for work, I found a technique for dating meadows. It could have applications...
More on an inscription about Zeus Epopsios
I briefly discussed a solsticial marker a few years ago. A new post about the same inscription has...
You too can have an ass like Cleopatra
@Simon_Perry on Twitter has pointed out a website of someone who’s a rather aggressive salesman. I’ve had to...
How I published a book, thanks to The Open Laboratory
I’ve been busy in August, and one of the things I’ve been working on has been out for...
This could be optimistic, I’m very inventive at getting things wrong.
I’ve sent across another press release to OUP, with a stunning photograph to go with it. Or so...

NewScientist.com

Today on New Scientist: 8 September 2010
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: BP's report on...
Cosmic spiral created by whirling stars
A ghostly vortex in the constellation Pegasus is caused by a dying...
Today on New Scientist: 7 September 2010
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: leaking oil tankers,...
Bird's-eye view of the rainforest, indoors
The Eden Project conservation sanctuary has just built a 55-metre-high viewing platform...
What's Google's mysterious doodle?
Google's latest doodle is causing no end of head scratching on the...
Did hairdryer stymie launch of human cannonball?
The first rocket-launch attempted by the non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals didn't leave the...

Current Archeology

Daily archaeological news, plus abstracts and full-length articles from the current issue and back issues with exclusive online articles, interactive excavations, links, and more

Earth and Sky Tonight

Psychology Stories

The Psychology of Storytelling
[M]ost scientists are starting to agree: stories have such a powerful and universal appeal that the neurological roots...
Top Psych Blogs from The Guardian
The Guardian's "Internet Picks of the Week" highlights psychology related blogs, including Malcolm Gladwell, Mind Hacks, and Neuromarketing.
NASA research on Zero Gravity Sex? Hoax
She took us into the world of cadavers and examined the anatomy, physiology and psychology behind sex. Now,...
Smokers Exhibit Behavioral Rebound After Thought Suppression
Blocking thoughts of cigarettes helps reduce smokers’ intake at first, but means they smoke more than usual when...
The Art of Peeing in Space, according to Author Mary Roach
Mary Roach took us into the world of cadavers and examined the anatomy, physiology and psychology behind sex....

New Dawn Magazine

New Dawn : The World's Most Unusual Magazine

New Dawn 121 (July-August 2010)

Ancient Civilisations: Six Great Enigmas
By WILL HART...
Healing is Not the Same as a Cure: A Philosophy of Holistic Medicine for the Compound Human Being
By JOHN WHITE...

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Microscopic Universe

An interesting read in the self-proclaimed "weird science" realm admits the intrigue of a deeper abstraction of space and time. According to the work of Geoffrey F. Chew in the 60's, a so-called "bootstrap hypothesis" was conjured up; through the study and experimentation with the S-matrix theory. Though the S-matrix theory has been all but abandoned by scientific study, it remains the best accepted approach to the problem of quantum gravity.