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Has the lost city of Atlantis been found?

A team of scientists from Spain, the United States, and Canada believe that they have found the fabled city of Atlantis in southern Spain’s mud flats. They were able to find the supposed city using a variety of technologies such as electrical resistivity tomography, satellite imagery, digital...

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Horses Electrocuted at the Races in the UK

A mysterious tragedy happened to two horses at the Novices’ Hurdle Race yesterday. The two horses, Fenix Two and Marching song, were killed in what seemed to be some type of electrocution. There were hundreds of onlookers who saw the two horses rear up and scream, and then drop to the ground. Other...

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Sick Seals Found off the Norfolk Coast

A mysterious illness faces seal pups that live on the Norfolk beaches in the UK. The illness is destroying the species and baffling the scientists as the sickness leaves the pups weak, starving and struggling to breathe. The harbor seals, also known as common seals have needed emergency care by...

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10 Poisonous Fruit & Veg That We Actually Eat Every Day

We are always advised by doctors to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables for healthy body systems. We are further informed that these fruits and vegetables have the necessary vitamins and minerals and helps in digestion among many other benefits. They are planted and produced in the backyard gardens...

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10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Butterflies

Butterflies are some of the most gentle creatures known to us. They have been part of many cultures, both past and present. Much like the ancient cultures of Mexico and Egypt, we still see the butterfly used in art, as symbolism, and as inspiration for the creation of technology or architecture. We...

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Ancient Organisms Found Alive!

Scientists have found ancient organisms that were trapped in salt crystals 34,000 years ago. This was reported in a study published by The Geological Society of America’s open-access journal, GSA Today. These ancient organisms that were found are called prokaryotes. These are microbes which were...

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How Fleas Jump

So we all know that fleas have the ability to jump over 100 times their own height, but we have always wondered just how this is possible. To think that a creature so small could jumps so high seems almost unbelievable and yet it is very true. A flea At Cambridge, a study was given to several fleas...

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Could This be the Answer to the World’s Energy Crisis?

It’s a breakthrough indeed for the science world when claims of being able to create diesel fuel and ethanol just by using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide were made recently by Biotechnology Company known as Joule Unlimited, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company’s researchers call it...

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Good News: No More Mouldy Fruit!

Are you someone who tends to forget what’s hidden way back in the fridge? Or are you someone who accidentally tends to buy too many groceries? If so, there is some fantastic news for you! Great news - no more mouldy fruit in the fridge thanks to scientific researchers! Researched done by...

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Honeybee Colony Collapses To Save Half The World’s Crops

With the mass death of many pollinating honeybees, scientist are completely on a wire about how this will effect future food crops and the cost of food in general. This natural process, worth over 200 billion in the global economy, may come a complete holt if something is not done to protect these...

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10 Tornado Myths Debunked

You are finally on your way to visiting a piece of childhood nostalgia- Dodge City. You have your cowboy hat and Official Matt Dillon Marshall’s badge. A tumbleweed rolls across the highway. The kids are preparing to be bored to death. Everything is in order. But as you cross the great plain of...

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More UFOs spotted in the USA and Israel

Another sighting of a UFO was spotted, this time in the skies above American Fork, Utah. The sighting took place Wednesday, January 26. Those who saw the lights described them as three red lights hovering low in the skies with each red light dropping smaller white lights which then disappeared....

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UFO’s sighted over Mt Fuji in Japan

Mount Fuji, Japan, has had some UFO sightings. The last one to have been seen was in September of 2010. As you look at the video (see below), you can see that there are similar clouds in the skies, both in size and in shape. It was suggested that the UFOs were having some trouble cloaking which...

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New Noah’s Ark for the World = Floating Cities

No, this is just not another bizarre idea from a Bradbury or Verne novel. It is even better than that – simply because it is true: a viable solution that could be salutary for those cities ravaged by the whims of nature. This amazing structure has 1,200 feet in height, covering as many as 30...

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Climate Change Scientists Claim: Antarctic Ice Sheet Built From the Bottom Up

A new study is claiming that the Antarctic ice sheets are formed by water refreezing at the bottom rather than just by the snow that falls on top. Seeking to understand how the thawing of Antarctica could possibly flood low-lying coastal regions, scientists believe that their research will be able...

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Seeds of Life Came from Outer Space

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 1995 and known as the Grave Nunataks 95229 is providing evidence that may help the theory about life on Earth coming from elsewhere in the universe. Tests conducted on the rock showed that it is made of partly of nitrogen containing both DNA and proteins. Could...

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No Such Thing As A Dormant Volcano

I’m sure we have all heard about dormant volcanoes and how you should not have to worry about visiting places where dormant volcanoes lie. Well this statement is definitely about to change. The new belief is that supposed “dormant” volcanoes are not actually dormant. Volcanoes are never dormant!...

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Rejected Spider Monkey Finds Hope

Little Estela, a baby spider monkey born on January 17, holds hope for approval by none other than her own stuffed animals. After being abandoned by her own mother after birth, she clings to life at Melbourne Zoo in the south-eastern part of Australia. A spider monkey finds hope Because of Estela...

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Climate-smart Agriculture Is Needed

Giving no other course than “climate-smart” agriculture, the UK government’s chief scientific advisor, John Beddington, claims that we do not have any other choices. Fertilizers are bad for the environment Since agriculture is a large portion of our past present and future, we need to start now to...

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Fossil Shows Man Walked Tall 3 million Years Ago

So after many years of deliberation and much thought between the ages, scientists have finally stumbled upon the exact moment in time in which man started to walk upright like the people of society today. Fossil found shows man first started to walk millions of years ago This discovery comes from...

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