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New research suggests that panic attacks and phobias may be linked to an unusual genetic abnormality. Dr. Xavier Estevill, of the Duran I Rynals Hospital in Barcelona, has discovered a new genetic mechanism for your fears.

Estevill has discovered that, among a random sampling of people with anxiety disorders, 97 percent had a duplication of genetic material on chromosome 15, as compared with 7 percent in a comparison group of healthy people. Phobias afflict about 10 to 20 percent of the human population.
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More evidence has been found proving that those sweet little birds, hopping and chirping about in your yard, are related to the dinosaurs of the distant past. A 130-million-year-old fossil of a feathered dinosaur has been discovered by farmers in China. It turns out that the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t kill off all of them-it left a few smaller ones behind that were covered with feathers.

Dr. Mark Norell, of the American Museum of Natural History, said the fossil was about 2 ? feet long, the size of a duck with a long tail. “It shows us that these creatures looked more like weird birds than giant lizards,” he said. Despite being small, this dinosaur is related to the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
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A fragment of 99.9% pure silica said to have come from the Roswell crash has been proved to be of manufactured origin. Earlier tests have shown that the material is coated with a thin film of metals that display non-earth isotopic ratios, meaning that their origin is almost certainly another planet.

The new study, using a sophisticated instrument to measure and extrapolate the curvatures of the intact surface of the material, has revealed that it was a curved lip or leading edge about five inches thick. The back side of the object is extremely flat, suggesting that it was once placed in some kind of structure.
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Scientists at the University of Toronto are convinced that earthquakes, volcanoes, shifting continents and even climate change are driven by a type of heat engine working deep beneath the earth’s surface. They have developed a model of the inner workings of the earth that will help solve the mystery of why and how features on the surface of the planet are constantly changing.

“In effect, we have found that the solid earth is being churned by a four-piston heat engine with two immense sinking cold slabs and two equally large rising hot plumes,” says Alessandro Forte.

“We have discovered something grandiose in size and yet remarkably simple and symmetric,” adds co-researcher, Jerry Mitrovica.
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