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The NASA owned Kepler space observatory has focused on one small patch of star-studded sky for the past six years. NASA claims it has identified 4,696 rocky planets of roughly similar size of the earth that orbit sun-like stars, and have surfaces suitable for sustaining water and life. NASA believes…

A study from Northwestern University centers on a brain wave pattern linked to memory that could be a way to tell if a person is lying. The unique electrical signal is called the P300 and electrodes show that P300 waves become measurably larger when subjects were asked about and recognized specific people,…

The odd story of a loss at sea 17 years ago provides insight into how long the impact of an event can last, and how widely it can spread. In 1997, a shipping container carrying 4.8 Lego pieces fell into the sea about 20 miles from the British coast. Ironically, many of the pieces were nautically themed,…

Researchers working on tracking the movements of birds have discovered the animals seem to have the ability to sense and flee an area before bad weather arrived. Scientists were working to see if it was possible to track the birds, when they discovered unique patterns. When a storm system produced deadly…

An Ohio judge ordered 62-year-old Edmond Aviv, a man convicted of harassing his neighbor and her disabled children to stand on a street corner for five hours holding a sign proclaiming, ”I AM A BULLY!” The sign was also required to state that Aviv picked on children that were disabled and that he was…

Social media site, Facebook has announced that they have removed the final portion of an old privacy feature that allowed users to be hidden from the site’s search feature. The feature, when enabled, allowed users to prevent their page from being located even if someone entered their name directly into…

The extremely cold weather across much of North America in early January 2014, created an odd comparison between two planets. On the first day of 2014, the temperature in Winnipeg, Manitoba was 31 below zero Celsius. In the meantime, on Mars, which is over 100 million miles further away from the sun,…

The amazing discovery of a 1880s era Winchester rifle has authorities in Nevada stumped. During an archaeological survey in late 2014, the rifle was discovered leaning against a tree. It blended in to its surrounding so well that officials say it is possible the .40-40 rifle had been there since the…

John Demjanjuk recently died. Mr. Demjanjuk had quite a life. Born in the Ukraine, he began WWII in the Russian Army. The German Army captured and imprisoned him. After that, his life story is in dispute. He migrated to the US in 1952 and lived an upstanding American life until Israel accused him of…

The latest diagnosis in the mental health industry is called the “Truman Show Disorder,” and it is defined as the pervasive belief that every aspect of your life is being filmed without your knowledge to be used on a reality television program. Canadian psychiatrists Joel and Ian Gold say the growth…

Speaking at a conference in Southern California, author and apologist Lee Strobel said there are scientists who think scientific evidence disproves the existence of a creator, but that is not true. He says three areas of science point to the existence of God and new discoveries continue to point in that…

A new NASA spacecraft has recorded and sent back a song sung by our planet. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are spacecraft designed to study the Van Allen Belts around the Earth, and are currently orbiting in the area where the song is produced. The song is known as chorus and is an electromagnetic phenomenon…

Physicists in Switzerland have announced that they have discovered a sub atomic particle that could change our understanding of the universe. Scientists using the large Hadron Collider say they have isolated the particle known as the Higgs Boson. The particle could explain why other particles have mass…

The Mars rover, Curiosity, has found another striking example of God’s creative power on the red planet. The rover took a picture of a shiny object that bears a resemblance to a door handle or hood ornament. Scientists say the unique find is not evidence of an ancient civilization on mars that took the…

The Japanese earthquake that took place in March 2011 was so big that it was “heard” by a research satellite. Scientists thought major quakes generated very low frequency acoustic waves, but had no proof because the sound would be too low for human ears to detect and no spacecraft in orbit had the capacity…

When Marion Shurtleff bought a Bible from a used bookstore in California, she planned to use it to compare with her other versions. She noticed a folded, yellowed letter inside, but was startled to find her name on it when she opened it. Shurtleff says slipped between the pages of the Bible was an essay…

A mysterious code left over from the Second World War has some of the world’s best code breakers baffled. They spend their time spying on their enemies and tracking messages through satellites and cyberspace, but admit they have no idea what the message found on the leg of a carrier pigeon means. The…

Linguists from around the world are rushing to get a recording of Gyani Sen. The seventy-five-year-old woman is the last fluent native speaker of a language that could soon disappear. Sen speaks Kusunda, a unique tongue spoken only in Nepal. The language is known as a language isolate because linguists…

Recent political upheaval in the nation of Egypt has left many believers in that country and around the world fearful of what might happen next. There are many concerns about the future of religious expression in that country after the newly elected president takes office. Despite concerns, one seminary…

Two astronomers from the University of Louisiana believe a previously undetected planet may exist at the edge of our solar system and could be discovered soon. They estimate the unknown planet, which they call Tyche, is up to four times the size of Jupiter the largest planet in the known solar system.…

500 years ago, Renaissance designer, artist, and engineer, Leonardo Da Vinci once looked at birds to inspire his sketches of aircraft-like designs. Now, an engineer form the Georgia Institute of Technology is looking at another design from nature to gain insight into better designs for robots that could…

The day before Super Bowl XLVI, many New York residents were wondering, what the New York Giants knew that no one else did. For a short time on Saturday, February 4th, 2012, the New York Giants site contained the message that the Giant were the Super Bowl Champions. Ads on the page offered shoppers the…

According to John Micklethwait, Politics is taking an active role on the two levels of human society. One level the power of presidents, kings, and would-be dictator leaders. Another level is the ideological conflicts. These conflicts between left wing and right wing, liberalism and autocracy, have been…

People use a lot of different methods to predict the outcome of events like the Super Bowl. Some use a logical approach, examining season records, reviewing games, and talking with friends. Others rely on less convention methods, such as taking advice from a camel. Princess the camel lives at New Jersey’s…

Astronomers say they have a huge cloud of water vapor deep in space. The cloud, which holds more than 140 trillion times the mass of all the water on Earth, is the largest discovery of water anywhere in history. Researchers say the vapor is contained within a distant quasar, surrounding a massive black…