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Teleporting atoms and molecules, and maybe even larger objects, has become a real possibility for the first time, now that physicists have suggested a method that in theory could be used to ?entangle? any kind of particle.

Quantum entanglement is the property that allows two particles to behave as one, no matter how far apart they are. If you measure the state of one particle, you instantly determine the state of the other. This could eventually allow us to teleport objects by transferring their properties instantly from one place to another.
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Two deadly radioactive devices, left over from a Soviet-era generator, were discovered by three men gathering wood from a forest in Russia. The objects had melted the surrounding snow, and the men dragged them back to their camp for warmth. Exposure to the cylinders? high levels of the radioactive element strontium-90 left the men nauseous, and they suffered radiation burns. One of the men is now in very serious condition, and may be transferred to a hospital in France.
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Carol Kaesuk Yoon, in the February 12 New York Times, reports that millions of Monarch butterflies lie dead in piles on the ground in their winter reserve in the mountains of Mexico. During a recent severe winter storm, between 220 and 270 million frozen butterflies fell from their roosts in the trees and now lie in piles more than a foot high.

?It was really macabre,? says butterfly biologist Dr. Lincoln Brower. ?I?ve been going down there for 25 years, and I?ve never seen anything like it.? This is the largest known die-off of Monarchs, but the loss is not expected to threaten the survival of the species, because other, smaller populations of Monarchs that do not migrate to Mexico can be found in the western United States.
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Stephen Moss interviewed British author Graham Hancock recently in The Guardian newspaper. Graham Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books saying that everything we know about ancient history is wrong: civilization didn?t start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC — it began 10,000 years before that in great cities which were destroyed by a cataclysm.

?We have 600 flood myths around the world,? he says. ?Archeologists tell us these are meaningless; all they represent are psychological archetypes — memories of birth, in the case of the flood — or exaggerations of local river floods. I thought, OK, we can say that, but suppose they are true — that they are our memory of what happened at the end of the Ice Age?
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