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Attempt to Drain Dangerous Volcano Crater

August 23, 2001
A dozen tribesmen with picks and shovels climbed the Mount Pinatubo volcano last week on the dangerous mission to drain the crater lake that threatens their villages with massive floods if the volcano explodes, as it is threatening to do.... continued

The Taos Hum is Back–But Now It’s in Germany

August 23, 2001
Hundreds of people in Germany are being driven to distraction by a mysterious hum. A similar sound has been driving people crazy in the U.S.?first in Taos, New Mexico in the mid 1990s and more recently in Indiana. Many people... continued

Parallel Universes May Be Physically Real

August 21, 2001
The September 2001 issue of Discover Magazine has an interview with physicist David Deutsch of Oxford University in English, who believes that parallel universes are real. If Deutsch?s ideas are correct, there is more than one ?you,? and you are... continued

Cosmic Rays May Cause Ozone Holes

August 21, 2001
Cosmic rays are eating away at the Earth?s protective ozone layer, according to Canadian radiation scientists Qing-Bin Lu and Leon Sanche of the University of Sherbrooke. They claim to have discovered an important process underlying the growing ozone hole over... continued

Have Crop Circles Increased as UK Quarantine Ends?

August 20, 2001
How has foot-and-mouth disease, which closed off access to the English countryside for much of the summer, affected the number of crop circles that have appeared this year? According to BBC News, the numbers have increased dramatically. Wiltshire farmer Tim... continued

Hole in Silbury Hill Under Repair

August 20, 2001
Engineers are completing repairs to a hole that appeared 2 years ago on the top of Silbury Hill in the midst of crop circle country, and hope to unlock some of its mysteries. English Heritage, which oversees the site, says... continued

Unusual Solar Storm

August 19, 2001
Earth was struck by an unexpected proton storm from the sun on Thursday, August 16. The proton count around our planet rose to 1000 times normal. Scientists were taken by surprise, both by the storm itself and by the speed... continued

Constipation May Lead to Parkinsons

August 17, 2001
It has been discovered that men who suffer from constipation are more likelyto get diagnosed with the progressive brain disease Parkinson's. Scientistsdon't know why this is the case, although some have suggested that thedisease may have some effect on the... continued

Crop Circle Masterpiece Awes Observers

August 17, 2001
What may be the most magnificent crop circle ever formed was discovered in the English county of Wiltshire on August 13. The formation is nine hundred feet across and consists of a flawlessly rendered Julia set of masterful design. Crop... continued

Ancient Prophets High On Gas

August 17, 2001
The ancient prophecies made at Delphi may have been inspired by natural gas,according to U.S. geologists. Geological surveysof the site of the Greek Temple of Apollo, where Greeks and Romans tooktheir prophesies from a mysterious female prophet, reveal that the... continued