Mars has been hitting the headlines lately as scientists reveal more and more about the Red Planet’s past. But could this latest piece of evidence really be it? Have scientists really found solid proof of life on Mars?

Strange methane emissions have been detected by NASA researchers in data collected by one of the rover Curiosity’s instruments, and scientists believe that they are being caused by life forms, most likely bacteria. On Earth, life forms are the primary producers of methane, although there could be other possible explanations.
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A stationary camera aboard the International Space Station recorded a flash of red laser light being fired, apparently toward Earth but more probably toward something in orbit above the atmosphere that cannot be seen. The reason is that the atmosphere would most likely diffuse the laser pulse, rendering it unreadable on the ground.

This appears to be an authentic piece of video. What we are probably seeing is not a UFO firing a laser pulse at Earth, but a satellite using a laser communications system that is classified by whatever country owns the two satellites involved.
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An inexplicable sleeping sickness is affecting one in ten residents of a village in Kazakhstan in Russia.

Villagers in Kalachi have been affected by the mysterious disease for the past two years, but to date, no cause for the illness has been determined and, despite teams of virologists, radiologists, toxicologists and doctors collaborating to solve the mystery, they have been unable to find a cure.
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Despite the fact that it is believed to make up around eighty per cent of the matter in the universe, so-called "dark matter" remains an enigma to scientists. It is totally invisible as it neither absorbs or emits light, and its presence has so far been determined only via its gravitational interaction with visible matter.
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