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Will Mad Cow Disease Come to the US?

January 29, 2001
Europe is in a panic over Mad Cow Disease, to the point that long-time meat eaters have become vegetarians and zookeepers in Germany are surreptitiously slaughtering zoo animals for food. In humans the mad cow prion produces Kreutzfield-Jacob Syndrome. It's... continued

100,000 Thought Dead In India Quake

January 29, 2001
After an aerial reconnaissance of the area devastated by last week's earthquake, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes says that one hundred thousand people may be dead and two hundred thousand or more injured. In scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of... continued

UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport

January 27, 2001
An airport in Siberia was shut down for 1 ? hours Friday when a UFO was detected above its runway. The crew of a cargo plane spotted the luminous object hovering over the runway and refused to take off. The... continued

Return of a Vanished Disease

January 26, 2001
We are told not to over-use antibiotics, especially for minor problems like a sore throat, or else our bodies will become resistant to them. But this new medical policy may have caused the return of a potentially fatal disease that... continued

New Way To Eliminate Tornadoes

January 26, 2001
We've seen movies about "storm chasers," who chase tornadoes in battered pick-ups, risking their lives in order to learn more about these destructive whirlwinds. We don't expect the problem to be solved by a scientist brainstorming from his home in... continued

Search For Nuclear Bomb Lost in 1958

January 26, 2001
Somewhere beneath the shallow waters near Tybee Island, 12 miles east of Savannah, lies a 7,600 pound unexploded nuclear bomb that was dropped by a crippled Air Force plane in 1958. It's lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound, the place where... continued

Blood Clots May Kill Thousands of Airline Passengers

January 25, 2001
More than 2,000 airline passengers may die from blood clots in Britain aloneevery year, an English doctor claims. An Australian surgeon agrees, sayinghospital reports indicate that up to 400 people arrive at Sydney airportsuffering from blood clots every year. In... continued

Earth Could Sustain Life Much Earlier Than Thought

January 25, 2001
Scientists have discovered the oldest mineral ever found on Earth, provingthat the Earth had oceans and continents just 50 million years after a giantimpact melted the entire planet. An asteroid the size of Mars broke off apiece of the Earth... continued

Jesus in Japan?

January 25, 2001
Shingo, a tiny farming community in Japan, claims that Jesus raised a familythere, and they say they can prove it. They call themselves Kirisuto noSato, meaning "Hometown of Christ." There are legends from sources like the Knights Templar of Jesus... continued

By Searching For Life on Mars, We May Destroy It

January 24, 2001
The harsh conditions that now exist on the surface of the planet mean that any remaining traces of life will be far beneath the surface, and Martian soil is too unstable for conventional drills. Holes bored the usual way are... continued