Fracking, the increasingly controversial method of extracting gas from underground reserves, is now getting a boost from a change in trespassing laws in the United Kingdom.

The 2014 Queen’s Speech has announced today that an infrastructure and competitiveness bill will change trespassing laws, allowing shale gas exploration firms to drill on private land without the owner’s permission.
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This world is full of things that are out of place and time. Incredibly, we take things like the Baghdad Battery for granted. Established archaeology prefers to ignore them. In fact, the Baghdad Battery disappeared during the Iraq War and, as Whitley Strieber comments here, "it will soon disappear from the textbooks, too."

From strange artifacts to time travel, Marie and Whitley discuss the fascinating evidence. Is there evidence that people from the past could see into the future? There are some things out there that seem to have no other explanation.
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Behind every myth, fairy tale and legend–hidden within the art, song and structures of ancient times–is an encoded layer of wisdom, science and truth. In this interview, Marie D. Jones explains how ancient cultures conveyed cutting-edge scientific knowledge in their origin stories and myths. She also tells us why this knowledge was hidden by such groups as the Templars and the early Freemasons, and explains how she and her co-author Larry Flaxman have decoded these hidden messages.
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Fans of space sagas Star Wars and Star Trek will be very familiar with "tractor beams," the projected force-fields utilised by spaceports, planetary bases, space stations, and star-ships to lock onto crafts and guide them to a safe designated landing site.
New research conducted at Dundee University in Scotland has now used ultrasound energy to create a "tractor beam" with properties similar to its science-fictional equivalent.

During the study, which was published in the journal APS Physics, scientists managed to remotely pull a hollow triangular object towards the energy source, push it away and also rotate it.
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