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On a remote Plateau, in Central Peru, hundreds of enigmatic figures and faces have been found in the living rock. Figures that should not be there at all. An Egyptian Pharaoh with headdress and beard looks almost identical to the death mask of King Tut. A gigantic face called "The African Queen"...

The latest startling revelation to come via documents leaked to Julian Assange's muckraking website and published by The Guardian should give pause to every suburban SUV-driver: U.S. officials think Saudi Arabia is overpromising on its capacity to supply oil to a fuel-thirsty world. That sets up...

Photo Gallery: 22 Photos University of Bristol / Lorraine Field The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent...

As rancorous debate rages over the effects of the Obama administration's cancellation of the Constellation program, there is no shortage of plans to attempt to—once again—develop a coherent American space policy. Two interesting plans have been developed by two very different space visionaries...

What californiaasanisland.org is All About "Some time in the past, before the ice age, most of western North America (and probably the whole world) was accurately mapped by a technologically advanced people. Who these people were and what technology they used is lost to us, but their...

Back at the dawn of the dinosaur era, a quick-moving predator set the stage for the famous and fearsome giants that followed in its footsteps, according to new research. "It was a little dinosaur, but it carried a big evolutionary stick," said Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago, a...

It's a tale that has all the trappings of a cult 1960s sci-fi movie: Scientists bring back ancient salt crystals, dug up from deep below Death Valley for climate research. The sparkling crystals are carefully packed away until, years later, a young, unknown researcher takes a second look at the...

With gas prices skyrocketing and President Bush and other politicians calling to lift a ban against offshore drilling, a polarized debate has again flared up over the true risks and rewards of this approach to oil prospecting. "There are extremes on both sides," said Judy Penniman of the...

About 375 million years ago, the diversity of species in the Earth's oceans plummeted — not because more species were going extinct, but because fewer new groups of organisms were forming. A new study identifies a culprit: invasive species. The crisis of the Late Devonian Period is typically...

SEATTLE — Astronomers announced the discovery today (Jan. 10) of the first "unquestionably rocky" alien world — a planet called Kepler-10b. Scientists have announced other rocky exoplanets in the past, but Kepler-10b earns its title, researchers said, because they're sure of its composition...

SEATTLE — Astronomers announced the discovery today (Jan. 10) of the first "unquestionably rocky" alien world — a planet called Kepler-10b. Scientists have announced other rocky exoplanets in the past, but Kepler-10b earns its title, researchers said, because they're sure of its composition...

The question: Did Miniature Humans Populate Earth 12,000 Years Ago? In 2003, a team of Australian-Indonesian archaeologists made a remarkable discovery in Liang Bua Cave, which is located on the Island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The group was searching for evidence of the...

hauntingthelibrary Jan 6, 2011 Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly stoop any lower . . . Sick global warming advocate Cameron Scott of the San Francisco Chronicle’s ‘Thin Green Line’ blog has plumbed new depths of ruthless opportunism by trying to link Haiti’s horrific earthquake...

Mark Sircus IMVA Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Yes, but how can that be? Global warming is in full swing so how can an Ice Age creep or crash in on us?If you are really paying attention to what is happening all around us in the world you will see the shaping story and a tragedy of staggering...

The American Dream Jan 4, 2011 What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now?* Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are...

P Gosselin No Tricks Zone Thursday, December 30, 2010 As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. Reader Matt Vooro has compiled a list (see below) of 31 prominent scientists and researchers who have words that governments ought to...

Posted on: Thursday, 23 December 2010, 06:35 CST A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on the...

Los Angeles – Of the many dangers posed by the torrential rains socking southern California this week, mudslides and their accompanying debris flows probably pose the biggest threat – and people living in the region's many hillsides and canyons need to be alert, officials here warn. Short...

Blake Snow Fox News Dec 4, 2010 Blam! Kapow! Smack! The bell has rung for the latest round of climate talks, but the battle continues among climate scientists too, making only one thing truly clear — the science of global warming simply isn’t settled. Climate science suffered a black eye over...