'Vampire' skeleton going on display in Bulgaria

'Vampire' skeleton going on display in Bulgaria: "Ever since archaeologists announced last week that they have found two ancient skeletons in Bulgaria with iron rods thrust through their chests, the media have been reporting how Bulgarians once did that to prevent the dead from emerging from the grave as vampires."

11 lost civilizations and how they might have fallen

11 lost civilizations and how they might have fallen: "When ancient civilizations fall, the reasons for their demise often remain a mystery. But modern science has helped us paint a clearer picture of what may have brought a few of the most famous cultures to extinction"

Were Neanderthals Europe's First Cave Artists?

Were Neanderthals Europe's First Cave Artists? : Discovery News: "Paintings on cave walls in Spain are far older than previously thought."

Latest on the Baltic Sea UFO picked up on sonar by Swedish treasure hunters

Latest on the Baltic Sea UFO picked up on sonar by Swedish treasure hunters | ufoeyes: "Update June 15, 2012. The wait is over. Swedish tabloid Expressen got hold of photos of the anomaly taken by the divers — it’s a sandstone formation."

Activist Post: Labeling GMOs Proposal in California Set to Change American Food Supply

Activist Post: Labeling GMOs Proposal in California Set to Change American Food Supply: "Soon, GM food may be labeled for consumers by mandate of the State of California legislators."

Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GM Corn

Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GM Corn | Farm Wars: "Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn kills livestock."

MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces: "Neuroengineers at MIT have created a implantable fuel cell that generates electricity from the glucose present in the cerebrospinal fluid that flows around your brain and spinal cord. In theory, this fuel cell could eventually drive low-power sensors and computers that decode your brain activity to interface with prosthetic limbs."

10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

News from The Associated Press: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds.



Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes."

Military drone mistaken for ‘UFO’ along DC highways

Military drone mistaken for ‘UFO’ along DC highways : "WASHINGTON -People in the D.C. area are buzzing after pictures began popping up online showing what many believed to be a 'UFO' in transport along the Capitol Beltway."

Biometrics Summit Confirms Six Federal Agencies

Biometrics Summit Confirms Six Federal Agencies - MarketWatch: "Although biometric identification isn't new, the September 11, 2001 attacks did change people's attitudes toward its use in three ways. First, the event dramatically lowered the general public's resistance to technology previously viewed as invasive. Second, biometric identification was given a legislative green light, and third, the imperative to create standards and new technologies paved the way for a massive infusion of government funding."

Bioethics group backs new fertility treatment

Bioethics group backs new fertility treatment: "Method would involve using eggs from two women, sperm from one man to create embryo."

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil | Danger Room | Wired.com: "The possibility of military drones (as well as those controlled by police departments and universities) flying over American skies have raised concerns among privacy activists. As the American Civil Liberties Union explained in its December 2011 report, the machines potentially could be used to spy on American citizens. The drones’ presence in our skies “threatens to eradicate existing practical limits on aerial monitoring and allow for pervasive surveillance, police fishing expeditions, and abusive use of these tools in a way that could eventually eliminate the privacy Americans have traditionally enjoyed in their movements and activities.”"

University team creates portable device that 'can see through walls'

University team creates portable device that 'can see through walls': "Want to see through walls? As superpowers go, it is one of the most lusted after.Well, the technology gets closer all the time - and now a team of students have managed to reduce the size of their machine to backpack-sized portability."

Could dead bodies soon be harvested for their stem cells? Scientists find 'miracle' cells stay alive for 17 days in corpses

Could dead bodies soon be harvested for their stem cells? Scientists find 'miracle' cells stay alive for 17 days in corpses: "Some stem cells can lay dormant for more than two weeks in a dead person and then be revived to divide into new, functioning cells, scientists revealed yesterday. The research unlocks further knowledge about the versatility of these cells, touted as a future source to replenish damaged tissue."

NASA launches X-ray telescope to scan Milky Way

NASA launches X-ray telescope to scan Milky Way: "NASA has a new X-ray eye in the sky. The U.S. space agency's latest X-ray telescope was boosted into orbit Wednesday to begin a two-year mission to search for black holes and other hard-to-see celestial objects. The telescope was launched by a rocket released from a carrier aircraft that took off from a remote Pacific island."

Italian Crop Circle Linked to Solar Eclipse - Could aliens be demonstrating their advanced knowledge of our eclipse system through spirals in wheat fields?

Italian Crop Circle Linked to Solar Eclipse: "Researchers believe a crop circle pattern that appeared in the small town of Bracciano, Italy, a few weeks ago contained a complex diagram of solar eclipses — perhaps demonstrating that its makers had an advanced knowledge of Earthly astronomy.



A woman in Bracciano was awakened May 20 by an earthquake and could not return to sleep; at dawn she noticed a spiral pattern laid out in a nearby wheat field. The crop circle drew curiosity around the world, as well as attention from so-called "cereologists" — crop circle enthusiasts — who offered various theories and opinions about the pattern's origin and meaning."

Earth Worlds Common, Pre-Earth ETs Possible

Earth Worlds Common, Pre-Earth ETs Possible : Discovery News: "Earth-sized planets may be widespread in the Milky Way, since they don’t need metal-rich parent stars to form, suggests new analysis of data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope."

Robots Learn To Work With Humans

Robots Learn To Work With Humans : Discovery News: "Many big factories have robots working in them, as well as humans, but the two don't often work together. At MIT, researchers have come up with an algorithm that may help solve that problem and make it easier and safer for humans and robots to work side-by-side."

Alien Habitable Planets May Exist Billions of Years Older Than Earth --Harvard Center for Astrophysics

Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon and oxygen - key components of rocks - had to be cooked up over time by stars. But how long did that take? How many of such heavy elements do you need to form planets?

Previous studies have shown that Jupiter-sized gas giants tend to form around stars containing more heavy elements than the Sun. However, new research by a team of astronomers found that planets smaller than Neptune are located around a wide variety of stars, including those with fewer heavy elements than the Sun. As a result, rocky worlds like Earth could have formed earlier than expected in the universe's history.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/alien-habitable-planets-may-exist-billions-older-than-earth-harvard-center-for-astrophysics.html

Flame Steals Data Even When Computers Are Not Connected to the Internet

Flame Steals Data Even When Computers Are Not Connected to the Internet "Experts specializing in malware from Bitdefender have uncovered a special capability in Flame’s code that allows the virus to steal data from computers that are not connected to the Internet or networked machines."