A look at Israel's 'Iron Dome' anti-missile defense system

A look at Israel's 'Iron Dome' anti-missile defense system | Fox News: "How it works: The system detects launches of rockets and quickly determines their flight path. If it is headed toward populated areas or sensitive targets, it fires an interceptor with a special warhead that strikes the incoming rocket within seconds. Rockets headed toward open areas area allowed to land."

'Decay' Chronicles CERN's Zombie Apocalypse

'Decay' Chronicles CERN's Zombie Apocalypse : Discovery News: "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has inspired its fair share of doomsday scenarios and rumors of pending Apocalypse, mostly centering on the exceedingly far-fetched possibility of creating mini black holes that consume the universe."

Radioactive Fish in Japan Rivers: DNews Nugget

Radioactive Fish in Japan Rivers: DNews Nugget : Discovery News: "Radioactive Fish in Japan Rivers: A mountain trout from a river in the same Japanese prefecture as the Fukishima nuclear disaster contained 114 times more radioactive cesium than government limits allow, according to Kyodo."

DARPA seeking surveillance technology to predict future behavior

Surveillance | Homeland Security News Wire: "DARPA has teamed up with scientists from Carnegie Mellon University to create an artificial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a person will “likely” do in the future, using specially programmed software designed to analyze various real-time video surveillance feeds; the system can automatically identify and notify officials if it recognized that an action is not permitted, detecting what is described as anomalous behaviors"

Stargate....? What China Building Here?

What The Hell Is China Building Here? | Gizmodo Australia: "Not happy with building mysterious gigantic structures in the desert, the Chinese are now building inter-dimensional portals in the middle of their cities. I mean, come on, what is this 157m high metal structure in the the city of Fushun, in northeast China’s Liaoning province?"

Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now : NPR: "Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem."

Gene that predicts what time of day we'll DIE discovered

Gene that predicts what time of day we'll DIE discovered | Mail Online: "Scientists have discovered a gene variation that affects the human body clock so profoundly that it even predicts the time of day when an individual is most likely to die."

Alien Agenda: Return of the Nephilim

More Here: http://www.alien-agenda.com/#!vstc8=nephilim

Did a lost star knock the Earth off its orbit? New theory to explain why our planet circles the sun at an angle to the solar equator

Did a lost star knock the Earth off its orbit? New theory to explain why our planet circles the sun at an angle to the solar equator | Mail Online: "It has been a long standing puzzle to astronomers: why is the Earth's orbit tipped 7 degrees relative to the sun's equator? Now a new theory suggests that violent stage of our solar system's history, an errant young star strayed close and pulled our developing planets out of whack with the sun's equator."

Evidence indicates astronauts could survive on Mars

Evidence indicates astronauts could survive on Mars | Fox News: "Radiation levels at the Martian surface appear to be roughly similar to those experienced by astronauts in low-Earth orbit, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found."

NZ Fears 'Mount Doom' Eruption

NZ Fears 'Mount Doom' Eruption: DNews Nugget : Discovery News: "A New Zealand volcano that featured as Mount Doom in "The Lord of the Rings" movies is in danger of erupting as pressure builds in a subterranean vent, officials said on Monday."

Unwanted Visitors

Unwanted Visitors | Mysterious Universe: "Something was wrong in the apartment over the gas station. Becky Deem-Sams Codner lived in this apartment in Ohio in 1985 with her husband, their daughter, two small boys – and something else."

Shadow Banking System Larger than at the Start of the Financial Crisis

Shadow Banking System Larger than at the Start of the Financial Crisis - Washington's Blog: "One of the Main Indicators of Financial Danger Has Increased"

Playing Poker with Trillions: A Prison of Debt on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Playing Poker with Trillions: A Prison of Debt on Both Sides of the Atlantic - SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Be it the United States or the European Union, most Western countries are so highly indebted today that the markets have a greater say in their policies than the people. Why are democratic countries so pathetic when it comes to managing their money sustainably?"

GMO babies now being engineered in labs under guise of preventing incurable disease

GMO babies now being engineered in labs under guise of preventing incurable disease: "(NaturalNews) Life, whether human or otherwise, is no longer sacred to many of today's scientists, who actually believe that tampering with the genetic blueprints of living beings will somehow improve humanity and create a better world. And this disturbing reality became ever more apparent recently when genetic butchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) announced their discovery of a way to manipulate the DNA of human embryos to obstruct normal gene transfer and create genetically "superior" babies that are supposedly less prone to disease."

Top Economic Advisers Forecast World War

Top Economic Advisers Forecast World War - BlackListedNews.com: "Trillions of dollars of debts will be restructured and millions of financially prudent savers will lose large percentages of their real purchasing power at exactly the wrong time in their lives. Again, the world will not end, but the social fabric of the profligate nations will be stretched and in some cases torn. Sadly, looking back through economic history, all too often war is the manifestation of simple economic entropy played to its logical conclusion. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation."

'Super Jupiter' Discovery Dwarfs Solar System's Largest Planet

'Super Jupiter' Discovery Dwarfs Solar System's Largest Planet (Photo) | Space.com: "In a rare direct photo of a world beyond Earth, astronomers have spotted a planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter, the largest planet in our own solar system."

Signs in the sun, moon, and stars and upon Earth, a distress of nations with perplexity: massive explosion seen on the sun

Signs in the sun, moon, and stars and upon Earth, a distress of nations with perplexity: massive explosion seen on the sun | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond: "November 18, 2012 - SUN – A truly gigantic explosion happened on the sun yesterday. On Nov. 16th, magnetic fields snaking halfway across the sun’s southern hemisphere erupted in tandem, producing a prominence so big, it doesn’t fit inside this image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): “The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium,” officials with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which oversees the SDO mission, explained in a description."

USA Has Peaked as did Britain in 1914 & The Sun is Setting Rapidly on the American Empire

USA Has Peaked as did Britain in 1914 & The Sun is Setting Rapidly on the American Empire | Armstrong Economics: "The one thing on this global tour that is pouring out of the seams is just how much the United States is seen as a dictator & bully to the rest of the world refusing to respect territorial jurisdiction."

Report: Hamas Preparing Chemical Weapons

Report: Hamas Preparing Chemical Weapons: "According to Britain’s Sunday Times, Israeli special forces are already on the ground in Gaza seeking out rockets and weapons for targeting. The Times is also reporting that Hamas may place chemical weapons on its long-range missiles. “Hamas might go for a desperate attempt to launch rockets with chemical warheads if the worst came to the worst,” one unnamed source reported."

New study says U.S. East Coast faces variety of tsunami threats

New study says U.S. East Coast faces variety of tsunami threats: "November 17, 2012 – NEW YORK - Although the risk is small, tsunamis are possible on the East Coast of the United States from a variety of sources, according to new research. And as Hurricane Sandy showed, the region is completely unprepared for a major influx of water, said U.S. Geological Survey researcher Uri ten Brink. The most likely source for an East Coast tsunami would be an underwater avalanche along the continental slope, according to research presented by ten Brink and others earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, N.C. Ten Brink also outlined several other possible sources of tsunamis, including earthquakes and even collapsing volcanoes."

How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia

How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia - NYTimes.com: "On a clear morning in May, Ron Douglas left his home in exurban Denver, eased into his Toyota pickup truck and drove to a business meeting at a Starbucks. Douglas, a bearded bear of a man, ordered a venti double-chocolate-chip Frappuccino — “the girliest drink ever,” he called it — and then sat down to discuss the future of the growing survivalist industry."

Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’

Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’ | The Raw Story: "The White House on Wednesday receieved a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (PDF link) from two attorneys with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), demanding that President Barack Obama release the text of what they called a “secret” new cyber security law that appears to enable “military deployment within the United States.”"

Cloning Animals is Latest Weapon to Fight Wildlife Extinction

Cloning Animals is Latest Weapon to Fight Wildlife Extinction | Fox News Latino: "With more and more wild animals disappearing in Brazil, scientists there have come up with a new tool to bring back dozens of dying species that could become extinct: cloning."

'Mysterious Animal' Attacks Borneo Villagers

'Mysterious Animal' Attacks Borneo Villagers : Discovery News: "According to a news story in The Borneo Post, an unknown animal recently attacked two men working on a farm."

Twinkie R.I.P. (1930-2012)

Twinkie R.I.P. (1930-2012) : Discovery News: "With the announcement Friday that Twinkies manufacturer Hostess will go out of business, snack cake enthusiasts streamed into stores and cleared shelves to grab what will be the last boxes of an iconic American brand."

Mayan Doomsday 'Safe Zone' Shut Down

Mayan Doomsday 'Safe Zone' Shut Down | LiveScience: "Citing fears that doomsday believers, curiosity seekers, and "above all" journalists will flood a French mountaintop on Dec. 21, the supposed day of the Mayan apocalypse, local officials are banning access to the mountain."

Rat heart cells help create walking 'bio-bots'

BBC News - Rat heart cells help create walking 'bio-bots': "Tiny biological robots that walk to the beat of a thin sheet of rat heart cells have been created by US scientists."

Pushing Human Enhancement in a Starving World

Pushing Human Enhancement in a Starving World - By Wesley J. Smith - Human Exceptionalism - National Review Online: "I am out of patience with the Utopian transhumanist would-be human enhancers. They preach a future of astonishing health and longevity–that we can gain the vision of a hawk and the memory of a computer–and want us to pour research dollars into the futile immorality project."

Un-Mainstreaming Human Enhancement

Futurisms: Un-Mainstreaming Human Enhancement: "America’s Grey Lady, the New York Times, has long been willing to take transhumanist topics seriously, perhaps in some hope that she too will be somehow rejuvenated. Indeed, a recent piece by David Ewing Duncan on human enhancement has something of the aura of a second childhood about it, with its relatively breathless and uncritical account of the various promising technologies of enhancement in the works. There follows the stock paragraph noting with remarkable brevity the safety, distributional, political and “what it means to be human” issues these developments might create, before Duncan really gets to the core of the matter: “Still, the enhancements are coming, and they will be hard to resist. The real issue is what we do with them once they become irresistible.”"

Concern over 'souped up' human race

BBC News - Concern over 'souped up' human race: "A race of humans who can work without tiring and recall every conversation they've ever had may sound like science fiction, but experts say the research field of human enhancement is moving so fast that such concepts are a tangible reality that we must prepare for."

How Science Can Build a Better You - NYTimes.com

How Science Can Build a Better You - NYTimes.com: "IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that gently bathed your brain in electrons and boosted memory and attention? Would you order one for your children?"

Recession probabilities – For the 50 million Americans in poverty the probability of a recession is 100 percent. Growing economic divide for working class.

Recession probabilities – For the 50 million Americans in poverty the probability of a recession is 100 percent. Growing economic divide for working class.: "The probabilities of the US slipping into another official recession are growing.  Don’t tell this to the 50 million people that are reportedly at the poverty level according to a new US Census report."

Total Solar Eclipse 2012 a Massive object appears between the Moon

More Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OQDOt16NDoY

Ebola may go airborne

Ebola may go airborne | Genes & Cells | Science News: "Infected pigs can transmit virus to primates without contact, study finds"

One final blaze of glory: Resurrected star's spectacular death throes show how our own Sun may one day look as it finally burns out

One final blaze of glory: Resurrected star's spectacular death throes show how our own Sun may one day look as it finally burns out | Mail Online: "This incredible picture shows a dying sun which has burst back to life for a final, doomed blaze of glory."

Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video

Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video | Space.com: "The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday (Nov. 16) in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft."

Gaza conflict: Militant rocket targets Jerusalem

BBC News - Gaza conflict: Militant rocket targets Jerusalem: "Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have launched a rocket on Jerusalem - the first time the holy city has been targeted from Gaza."

The black box that could change the world

The black box that could change the world - The Globe and Mail: "“A quantum computer is on a completely different scaling curve, where once it passes traditional computers, they can never catch up,” says Mr. Jurvetson, who sits on D-Wave’s board. “That is just unprecedented in the technology business.”"

The ends of humanity Socialism is dead, and the transhuman future looms...

Ken MacLeod – Socialism and transhumanism: "But once ‘humanity’ becomes a variant set of populations rather than an invariant essence, it loses its obviousness as a standard of value. The category becomes fuzzy at the edges: some parts of the population can be written out of humanity altogether; some superhuman (but still natural) entity, such as Nietzsche’s Übermensch or the extropians’ imagined transcendent future selves, might be seen as worth sacrificing present humans for. Alternatively nonhuman beings could come to seem as morally significant as humans, as is argued by animal rights advocates."

Russia's Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says

Russia's Stealth Fighter Could Match U.S. Jets, Analyst Says | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Russia’s T-50 stealth fighter prototype, the first radar-evading warplane outside the U.S. when it debuted in January 2010, is slightly less stealthy than the American F-22 and about equal to the smaller F-35. But in several other respects the new warplane from the Russian Sukhoi design bureau is actually superior to the American models."

The Roman who towered a foot-and-a-half above his peers: First ancient skeleton of man with gigantism found

The Roman who towered a foot-and-a-half above his peers: First ancient skeleton of man with gigantism found | Mail Online: "At 6ft 8in tall, he would have been easily eligible to compete amongst those giants of sport in the U.S. basketball leagues today. In third-century AD Rome, where men averaged only about 5ft 6in, he would have been a giant the likes of which most people had never seen."

The high-tech polymer that can stop a speeding bullet in its tracks and could revolutionize bulletproof vests | Mail Online

The high-tech polymer that can stop a speeding bullet in its tracks and could revolutionize bulletproof vests | Mail Online: "Scientists at Rice University in Texas have discovered a new super polymer material that is stronger than a speeding bullet.



The dynamic new compound is able to stop 9mm slugs - a common pistol and sub-machinegun round - in their tracks and seal the holes behind them."

The artificial muscles that could lead to superstrength robots and smart clothes that becomes warmer when it gets cold

The artificial muscles that could lead to superstrength robots and smart clothes that becomes warmer when it gets cold | Mail Online: "They might not be able to make you into Superman but newly invented super-strong, artificial muscles could bring science fiction technology to life."

How the bush cricket could give us superhuman hearing

How the bush cricket could give us superhuman hearing | Mail Online: "A discovery by scientists studying insects could hold the key to developing superman-style hearing."

Walking Bio-Bot Made WIth Cells, Gels

Walking Bio-Bot Made WIth Cells, Gels : Discovery News: "Humans build autonomous robots all the time, but they tend to be made of metal, plastic and need batteries. Now a team at the University of Illinois has built an antonomous robot made from plastic and living cells. Such a device could be used to detect chemicals in water, climb walls or react to certain elements in the water like a sensor."

Government Surveillance On Citizens Rising

Government Surveillance On Citizens Rising : Discovery News: "As the inferno of the David Petraeus scandal continues to burn, the latest Google Transparency Report shows government surveillance is starting to heat up."

This Is Your Brain on Freestyle Rap

This Is Your Brain on Freestyle Rap : Discovery News: "Using brain scans, scientists try to find the hallmark of a creative process."

Excellent Idea of the Day: Turn Pages With Eyes

Excellent Idea of the Day: Turn Pages With Eyes : Discovery News: "With this new technology, you can read a book without having to lift a finger."

U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On, Promises of Transparency Already Broken

U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On, Promises of Transparency Already Broken | Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The "Copyright Alert System" – an elaborate combination of surveillance, warnings, punishments, and "education" directed at customers of most major U.S. Internet service providers – is poised to launch in the next few weeks, as has been widely reported. The problems with it are legion."

Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Spikes, Nearly 50 Million Americans Affected

Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Spikes, Nearly 50 Million Americans Affected « CBS DC: "New figures released by the Census Bureau this week found a spike in poverty numbers last year, going from 49 million in 2010 to 49.7 million last year. The numbers may come as a surprise to Congress, which estimated in September that the poverty rate would drop to 46.2 million. One of the most startling findings showed that almost 20 percent of American children continue to live in poverty."

MASSIVE RIOTS HIT MADRID, SPAIN; banks, KFC, McDonalds set ablaze, molotov cocktails used against police

MASSIVE RIOTS HIT MADRID, SPAIN; banks, KFC, McDonalds set ablaze, molotov cocktails used against police. The center of Madrid is a war area right now! | InvestmentWatch: "Over 140 people have been arrested and 74 injured, including 43 police officers, as Spanish police react swiftly to reports of property damage and disorderly behavior while mass protests that began in Spain continue to roll out across the EU."

The State of Bioprinting

The State of Bioprinting: "The developing technology of bioprinting, producing tissue structures using inkjet or other print technologies, has a promising future"

Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'

BBC News - Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain': "A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain."

Random Alien Brain Droppings: From There to Here

Random Alien Brain Droppings: From There to Here: "On September 8, 2012 I was invited to be a presenter at Experiencers Speak, a conference in Gorham Maine that focused on experiencers telling their stories about their lifelong abduction experiences.  I never thought that I would even be considered to talk publicly about these things, as those who normally spoke at these events were usually well known authors, scientists, philosophers and those with the letters P, h and D after their names."

US military invests in 3D printing on the frontline

US military invests in 3D printing on the frontline: "News: the US military is developing its own 3D printers for the frontline which will enable soldiers to quickly and cheaply produce spare parts for their weapons and equipment."

George Orwell was right: Pigs really ARE almost identical to humans

George Orwell was right: Pigs really ARE almost identical to humans | Mail Online: "When George Orwell wrote in his classic novel Animal Farm that man and pig are almost identical he was closer to the truth than he realised, according to a new study. Scientists have undertaken the largest ever study of the pig genome have found that swine are adaptable, easy to seduce with food and susceptible to domestication - much like humans."

Looking death in the face: The amazing exhibition of over 300 items showing mortality across the globe

Looking death in the face: The amazing exhibition of over 300 items showing mortality across the globe | Mail Online: "Try as we might, there's no escaping death. Art collector Richard Harris has decided to embrace it instead - and wants the rest of us to do the same.



The retired Chicago print dealer has spent years acquiring works imbued with mortality, from 18th-century anatomical drawings to Tibetan skull masks and papier-mache skeletons from Mexico."

Star wars? Scientists fight over invisibility cloak, deflector shield claims

Star wars? Scientists fight over invisibility cloak, deflector shield claims | Fox News: "Invisibility cloaks and deflector shields, once a staple of popular science-fiction, are now the real deal, researchers say."

One Step Closer To Efficient Robotic Limbs

One Step Closer To Efficient Robotic Limbs : Discovery News: "A device that would allow paralyzed people to use their thoughts to move robotic limbs fluidly and realistically is now one step closer to reality.



A team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital led by Ziv Williams have found two groups of cells in one area of the monkey brain that allow the animals to remember a sequence of two movements at once. The team was then able to program a computer to interpret those brain patterns, in turn moving a cursor on a screen in the planned sequence."

Paper-Thin Super Material Stops Flying Bullets

Paper-Thin Super Material Stops Flying Bullets : Discovery News: "Bulletproofing for soldiers and law enforcement officers has lightened up considerably in recent years, but it promises get insanely thin with new nanotechnology coming out of MIT and Rice University."

Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari

Exploring the Crumbling Soviet Oil Platform City of Neft Dashlari - SPIEGEL ONLINE: "In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie."

Posthuman: The Endgame?

Posthuman: The Endgame? Posthuman: The Endgame?: "Why doesn’t everyone get excited about transhumanism? Why aren’t all people fascinated by augmented and virtual reality, radical life-extension, brain-uploading, and The Singularity? This essay is the first in a series of articles, entitled “The Casual Transhuman” – it will examine H+ topics from the layman’s perspective and give suggestions on how transhumanists can spread their ideas without looking like crackpots to the world-at-large."

W.H. Petition Calls for Stripping Citizenship and Exile for Anyone Who Signs Petition to Secede

W.H. Petition Calls for Stripping Citizenship and Exile for Anyone Who Signs Petition to Secede | The Weekly Standard: "A White House petition gathering force calls for citizenship to be stripped and exile for anyone who signs a petition in favor of a state's secession."

SECESSION MOVEMENT EXPLODES: WHITE HOUSE ‘SECEDE’ PETITIONS REACH 675,000 SIGNATURES, 50-STATE PARTICIPATION

SECESSION MOVEMENT EXPLODES: WHITE HOUSE ‘SECEDE’ PETITIONS REACH 675,000 SIGNATURES, 50-STATE PARTICIPATION | InvestmentWatch: "Less than a week after a New Orleans suburbanite petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede from the United States, petitions from seven states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama administration."

Hamas military chief killed in Gaza air strike

Hamas military chief killed in Gaza air strike - Telegraph: "The military wing of Hamas said in a statement that the assassination "has opened the gates of hell"."

Angry Aliens? Call Obama

Angry Aliens? Call Obama : Discovery News: "Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much, but here's something that apparently brings people together -- more than two-thirds of a U.S. poll say President Barack Obama would be better suited than Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion."

The Ghosts of Hazel Ridge Cemetery

The Ghosts of Hazel Ridge Cemetery | Mysterious Universe: "Hazel Ridge Cemetery sits atop a hill in Chariton County, Missouri, off a rural blacktop highway, and at the end of a tree-shrouded gravel road. Tina and her boyfriend Randy stepped out of their car at the entrance of the cemetery, and into horror. “My boyfriend and I have been checking out old cemeteries in Linn and Charlton County,” Tina said. “We have had a few experiences, but nothing like I had at Hazel Ridge.”"

22 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham

22 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham: "The following are 22 signs that voter fraud is wildly out of control and the election was a sham…"

Exposing the Roots of Genetically Modified Crops: The Monsanto Factor

Exposing the Roots of Genetically Modified Crops: The Monsanto Factor - BlackListedNews.com: "Anti-genetically modified (GM or GMO) crops advocate Jeffrey M. Smith wrote a persuasive book about the perils of genetically modified crops a few years back: Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods."

How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Brief Journey

How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Brief Journey | Doomsday Preppers | LiveScience: "Every night the world ends, and every morning it begins anew. Or so the ancient Maya believed."

The secret behind James Bond's priceless Aston Martin DB 5 stunts: 3D printed models were used for Skyfall's most dangerous scenes

The secret behind James Bond's priceless Aston Martin DB 5 stunts: 3D printed models were used for Skyfall's most dangerous scenes | Mail Online: "James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 was put through a series of huge explosions and stunts during the filming of Skyfall, including one scene which saw the priceless vehicle explode in flames. However, producers have revealed the secret behind the stunts - if they lost a car, they could simply print another. Three replica cars, a third of the size of the real thing, were created using a large scale 3D printer."

CERN finds dramatic particle reshaping that could push back the frontiers of physics

CERN finds dramatic particle reshaping that could push back the frontiers of physics | Mail Online: "A particle was seen reshaping into two others inside the Large Hadron Collider in an observation that could be crucial pushing back to frontiers of physics, CERN researchers said yesterday. The never-before-seen mutation - in a process known as decay - was predicted under the so-called Standard Model (SM) of physics, which describes the universe at its most fundamental level."

Synthetic skin: The artificial material that can heal itself (and could be used on fragile mobile phone screens)

Synthetic skin: The artificial material that can heal itself (and could be used on fragile mobile phone screens) | Mail Online: "Scientists have invented the first artificial skin that can both sense subtle pressure and heal itself when torn or cut - and could one day be used for the screens on mobile phones."

Could the next generation of killer diseases come from the family pet? Scientists say cats and dogs 'large potential source' of human diseases

Could the next generation of killer diseases come from the family pet? Scientists say cats and dogs 'large potential source' of human diseases | Mail Online: "A new generation of killer diseases set to hit mankind could come from cats and dogs, a study has found. Scientists say human beings will soon be infecting serious illnesses which have spread from their domestic pets. A report found the risk to humans from animal-based 'emerging diseases' has increased as pets have moved 'out of the barn' and into homes."

Entering the Matrix: The groundbreaking microscopic thread that could let us plug our brain into a computer

The groundbreaking microscopic thread that could let us plug our brain into a computer | Mail Online: "It may look like any other thread, but this thin, flexible electrode could help radically improve our knowledge of the brain - and create far better interfaces between humans and computers.



It is a thread of highly conductive carbon fiber, coated in plastic, and is so small it can be placed next to individual neurons to 'listen' to them."

Weird-looking, meat-eating sponge found in deep sea

Weird-looking, meat-eating sponge found in deep sea: "A new carnivore shaped like a candelabra has been spotted in deep ocean waters off California's Monterey Bay."

Oak Ridge's new Titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world

Oak Ridge's new Titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world | Fox News: "The Energy Department’s new supercomputer has been named the fastest in the world. According to the Top 500 list, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s latest flagship computer Titan leapfrogged other ultra-fast machines to the top spot, clocking in 17.59 sustained petaflops on Linpack's benchmark scale."

Energy Independence in '35 for U.S.

Energy Independence in '35 for U.S.: DNews Nugget : Discovery News: "U.S. Headed for Energy Independence: The United States will be nearly energy independent by 2035, reports the AP."

UFO Conferences: “They” Are Watching

UFO Conferences: “They” Are Watching | Mysterious Universe: "Some people will tell you it’s totally untrue. It’s not. Others will say it’s unfounded. Dead wrong. And probably more than a few will claim it’s nothing but paranoia run rampant. Wrong again. What is it? Well, I’ll tell you: it’s the claim that Intelligence agencies not only monitor UFO activity, but carefully take note of what is being said on the subject at conferences around the world, too; even to the extent of sitting in the audiences and carefully making notes or recording every word that comes out of the mouths of the speakers."

Poltergeists: Teen Angst & Telekinesis

Poltergeists: Teen Angst & Telekinesis | Mysterious Universe: "Is poltergeist activity, those unexplained noisy bangings and rappings on walls and inanimate objects like furniture, toys and stones flying through the air, levitating or materialising from nowhere, the result of troublesome ghosts or evil spirits?"

Divided States Of America: 20 States Petition To Secede

Divided States Of America: 20 States Petition To Secede | StratRisks: "To date, citizens of 18 states have petitioned the White House for consideration of a peaceful withdrawal from the United States. That’s right, thousands of Americans have already signed petitions at whitehouse.gov asking President Obama to allow them to peacefully secede from the union."

Obama Is The King God Has Given To Reign Over America In The Last Days

Obama Is The King God Has Given To Reign Over America In The Last Days: "All through the bible we see God set up kings for a purpose, and take them down for a purpose. Sometimes God raises up a ruler to bless His people, like He did with King David. And sometimes He sets up a ruler by whom the people will be judged, as He did with Saul. But God does not only set up kings over His own people, He sets up kings over all people."

U.S. Drought Worsening, Wheat Crop Suffering

U.S. Drought Worsening, Wheat Crop Suffering - CleanTechnica: "As the East Coast is still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, hot and dry conditions throughout middle America have been deepening, worsening the ongoing drought there..."

Controversial study suggests human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and we've been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since

Controversial study suggests human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and we've been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since - Science - News - The Independent: "Is the human species doomed to intellectual decline? Will our intelligence ebb away in centuries to come leaving our descendants incapable of using the technology their ancestors invented? In short: will Homo be left without his sapiens?"

'Doomsday Preppers' stock up, expecting and preparing for the worst

'Doomsday Preppers' stock up, expecting and preparing for the worst: "Braxton Southwick is convinced a weaponized smallpox terrorist attack, or something similarly horrible, is inevitable."

Cryptozoology: The hunt for "hidden" animals

Cryptozoology: The hunt for "hidden" animals - CBS News: "In Jefferson, Texas recently, a group of like-minded (or should we say, like-obsessed) people gathered to swap stories of strange sightings ... mysterious animals and elusive creatures lurking in the deep woods."

Nuclear hit 'Israel's best plan for Iran'

Nuclear hit 'Israel's best plan for Iran' | The Australian: "ISRAEL'S military planners have been forced to conclude that a conventional assault on Iran's nuclear facilities might fail after evidence emerged that Tehran has hidden far more of its uranium enrichment capacity beneath a mountain than previously suspected."

DARPA Sponsors Surveillance Technology to Predict Future Behavior

DARPA Sponsors Surveillance Technology to Predict Future Behavior: "The dizzying speed of the growth of the surveillance state and the increasing sophistication of the tools used to build it are paid for in large measure by funds doled out by the Army’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."

Biometric Data-Gathering Sets Off a Privacy Debate

Biometric Data-Gathering Sets Off a Privacy Debate - NYTimes.com: "“PLEASE put your hand on the scanner,” a receptionist at a doctor’s office at New York University Langone Medical Center said to me recently, pointing to a small plastic device on the counter between us. “I need to take a palm scan for your file.”"

Researchers find undersea gas leaks off Israel's coast

Researchers find undersea gas leaks off Israel's coast -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net: "The terms "gas" and "sea" for many will invoke associations of reserves, business, and a lot of money. Whatever the association, most of the efforts in Israel's energy field are being directed at gas buried deep under the Mediterranean seabed. Now a new geophysical study, the first of its kind in Israel, has uncovered a system of active gas springs in the Haifa Bay seabed, at relatively shallow depths, only a few dozen meters below the surface."

WWIII tripwire? NATO to defend Turkey, British troops may deploy to Syrian border, Israel fires on Syrian positions

WWIII tripwire? NATO to defend Turkey, British troops may deploy to Syrian border, Israel fires on Syrian positions: "November 12, 2012 – SYRIA – NATO will defend alliance member Turkey, which struck back after mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside its border, the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting in Prague on Monday. “NATO as an organization will do what it takes to protect and defend Turkey, our ally. We have more plans in place to make sure that we can protect and defend Turkey and hopefully that way also deter so that attacks on Turkey will not take place,” he said. Rasmussen also welcomed a weekend agreement by Syrian opposition groups to put aside differences and form a new coalition. A Syrian fighter jet on Monday bombed an area near the Turkish border, causing several casualties, officials and witnesses said."

70% of Venice slips underwater in the worst flooding in 140 years

70% of Venice slips underwater in the worst flooding in 140 years: "November 12, 2012 – VENICE - Tourists attached plastic bags to their legs or stripped off to take a dip in St Mark’s Square in Venice on Sunday as rising sea waters surged through the lagoon city."

Fungus that controls zombie-ants has own fungal stalker : Nature News & Comment

Fungus that controls zombie-ants has own fungal stalker : Nature News & Comment: "A specialized parasite fungus can control ants' behavior. But that fungus also faces its own deadly, specialized parasites."

Chopra: Reinventing the brain is closer than you think

Chopra: Reinventing the brain is closer than you think - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- We're living in a golden age for brain research, which could revolutionize how we think, feel and behave."

The Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents

Robert Hastings • Articles -- The Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents: "UFOs Disabled American ICBMs"

Scientists reveal the 'perfect' invisibility cloaking device (although admit a Harry Potter cloak is still some way off)

Scientists reveal the 'perfect' invisibility cloaking device (although admit a Harry Potter cloak is still some way off) | Mail Online: "It has long been the dream of both scientists and Harry Potter fans, but researchers at Duke University have revealed a new version of a real-life invisibility cloak.



The team, which first showed off a prototype in 2006, believe the latest version is the best ever made."

From Weird to Really Weird!

From Weird to Really Weird! | Mysterious Universe: "Sometimes, as a writer of mysteries of the paranormal kind, I end up being the recipient of tales that are not just bizarre; they’re actually beyond bizarre! And what is without doubt one of the absolute oddest, and potentially most disturbing, stories I have ever heard came from a family who, in an October 2000 interview with me, maintained that, in 1979, while driving near the site of the 1643 Battle of Hopton Heath, Staffordshire, England, they came across a shocking sight: namely, the badly damaged body of a very strange-looking young woman sprawled at the side of the road “that looked like a hit-and-run.” The woman, says the resolutely-anonymous family, was naked, had a head of long, dark hair, a mouth full of elongated teeth, and a pair of legs that were fused together below the knees, “like a seal.” Yep, distinct shades of mermaids, no less."

Sandy refugees say life in tent city feels like prison

Sandy refugees say life in tent city feels like prison | Reuters: "No one is allowed to go anywhere without showing their I.D. Even to use the bathroom, "you have to show your badge""

Personal details of eight million children are on secret database without their parents knowledge

Personal details of eight million children are on secret database without their parents knowledge | Mail Online: "A huge 'Big Brother' style database containing details of around eight million schoolchildren is being compiled without the knowledge of their parents."