How green is solar energy? A particular worry is the toxicities of metals such as cadmium that goes into the new thin film PVs.

The global retailer recently announced that as of this month, IKEA US stores will no longer carry traditional bulbs.

Some have argued that such data secrecy negatively impacts public health by hampering competition and research. Others say it is a necessary trade secret that protects and promotes drug innovation.

Over the protests of environmental groups and NGOs, Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild, hoping to drive down incidents of mosquito-borne dengue fever.

Risks of cancer and creation of new pathogens should not be underplayed by regulators.

Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.

If you hate enforcing bedtime with your kids, here’s another good reason why you should. A new study suggests that younger children who get more regular sleep are less likely to be obese.

If America knew what breast milk can do for the brains of its youngest citizens, lactating mothers across the nation would be enshrined, not embarrassed.

The biggest threat to the Middle East region is the possibility that the population of Saudi Arabia may try to imitate what has been happening in the area, bringing total chaos to the established regional geopolitical and more importantly, energy structure. Who will benefit from it?

The New York Times is considering developing a system that will let anonymous leakers easily submit large and confidential files directly to the newspaper. Sound familiar?

A conservation-minded Texas mom assesses her contribution to climate change, one meal at a time.

A leading climate skeptic patronized by the oil billionaire Koch brothers faced a potential investigation today on charges that he misled Congress on the extent of his funding from the oil industry.

Canada and the U.S. are currently negotiating an agreement that would work towards establishing a perimeter approach to security.

A federal judge’s ruling Monday that the health care law that passed last year is unconstitutional leaves implementation exactly where it was: moving forward.

The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions.

The SIS employs traditional political spying and denunciation techniques, seeking to create a ‘white terror’ environment on campus — in which students and teachers fear surveillance more than arrest — to achieve and maintain influence and control.

Expectations of a better life ran high as voters in South Sudan voted overwhelmingly for independence in mid-January.

Sakhalin Energy Investment Company – part owned by Shell – has announced plans to build a major oil platform near crucial feeding habitat of the Western North Pacific gray whale population.

Raising Lazarus from the dead would be easier than reviving the Egyptian President. So Obama is on to plan B. And as it turns out, plan B looks a lot like the status-quo, minus a change of face.

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday moved to dismiss the net neutraliy challenges filed by MetroPCS and Verizon, claiming they were “filed prematurely.”

EFF’s analysis of recently disclosed documents provides new insights into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s unlawful surveillance of Americans during intelligence investigations conducted between 2001 and 2008.

When the US Air Force announced the successful test of their advanced X37B space plane, widely regarded as a next-generation super weapon that is even more dangerous than atomic bomb, China also announced the successful launching of its own space plane prototype.

A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.

Residential and commercial real-estate owners aren’t the only ones losing their properties to foreclosure. The past few years have seen a rapid acceleration in the number of churches losing their sanctuaries because they can’t pay the mortgage.

Two physicists mathematically described how a spooky effect called entanglement, wherein two linked particles can share a single fate even when they’re miles apart, could also bind particles across time.

Massive volcanic eruption, burning coal and accelerated greenhouse gas choked out life.

Believing that cholera had been brought into their country by the Nepalese troops of MINUSTAH, the United Nations Stabilization Mission, Haitians rioted against UN Peacekeepers and medical workers.

AOL’s Barry Weintraub speaks with Dave Brody of Space.com and AOL’s resident ufologist Lee Speigel, to get their perspective on the search for intelligent life in the universe.

Fresh evidence links neonicotinoid pesticides to death of the honeybee spurs calls for banning the pesticides.

Noted animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi today urged the Karnataka government to emulate the example of its neighbouring state Kerala and ban the use of endosulphan chemical by farmers.

Only in Duhmerika – A single mother was given 2 felony convictions and 9 days in jail for merely trying for to get her two daughters into a better school by claiming the children lived with their grandfather.

CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is on circus trial for immigration violations in an effort to keep his mouth shut about his real crimes on behalf of America’s sinister forces.

The aerial message “Koch Brothers: Dirty Money” highlighted the brothers’ ongoing use of their vast oil profits to push a polluter agenda through campaign contributions, lobbying, and funding fronts groups and think tanks.

Farmers are already troubled with wind-pollinated crops cross pollinating in either their own or neighboring fields. Even more so in the case of GM plants, especially Alfalfa, for several reasons.

Patients of multiple chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, can increase the risk of, and be exacerbated, by depression. Social support can be a key factor.

It’s not a big victory, but, hey, at least it’s a step in the right direction. The FDA has at last “admitted” that acetaminophen products carry a serious risk for severe liver injury.

Sprouters Northwest, Inc. has been named in a couple of lawsuits, after the company issued a voluntarily recall of its clover and clover mix products because of potential Salmonella contamination.

Many people are confused about whether they are getting enough — or maybe too much — calcium and vitamin D through their diets and supplements, writes Jane Brody.

A study published in Health Economics has assessed consumer’s willingness to pay for predictive tests that tell them whether they’re likely to develop diseases in the future.

World-famous independent scientist researching the risks of GMOs wins libel case against biotech association fronting a concerted campaign to discredit and victimize him.

Taco Bell has been sued by Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen, which claims the chain was using too little beef in its “beef.” If there’s hardly any beef, then why not go vegan?

The Cancun conference may go down in history as the decisive turning point at which the burden of saving the climate was passed on developing countries, and WTO procedures was introduced into UN meetings.

Pinky’s interview with Jeffrey Smith

A legislative bill in Peru aims to channel the fines for environmental crimes to pay for environmental repairs and other public goods directly affecting the population. Until now, the fines collected have ended up elsewhere in the government.

World business leaders attending the annual Global Competitiveness Forum were discussed on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. All of its panel speakers endorsed the view that extraterrestrial life is real.

Xinjiang city which saw ethnic violence in 2009 now watched by tens of thousands of cameras, says state media.

A Chicago artist who used a video camera to record being arrested by police is facing up to 15 years in prison. Chris Drew has been charged with Class 1 felony under the Eavesdropping Act in Illinois.

UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. And since it is hydrogen based, it produces no carbon emissions when burned.

Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between?

A host of new state and local policies to encourage community solar may be catalyzing a wave of new projects. But will the reality of community solar live up to the ideal?

Fold-out shades for solar energy, and to harvest rainwater, with filtration system, solar hot water tank, and of course a bed, kitchenette, toilet, shower, storage areas, windows, as well as a mechanical room that houses a portable septic tank. All this in a shipping container turned house.

Minnesota’s pioneering clean energy policies could be headed for major changes. Republican legislative leaders feel that the 2007 legislation is just a government interference.

Lately, the U.S. military has been busy going green. But the RAND study recommends that the military should focus first and foremost on energy efficiency.

Large wind farms operators are still searching for the most efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power.

Aimed to offer a distributed way to lessen the grid load during summertime heat spikes, Hitachi developed what it calls a Solar Activated Air Conditioning System.

A start up company has added another light bulb option other than CFL and LED — the Electron Stimulated Luminescence (ESL) bulb, which proves to be more energy efficient and eco-friendly.

A solar-powered microchip with no battery – that is to say, a chip with the solar cell integrated into it and running directly off available light – now that’s a breakthrough.

Italian scientists say they have finally discovered the fabled source of cheap power. But does their research hold water?

The backpack of the future may not just carry your laptop and MP3 player, etc.–it may actually be these things, and more. The bag even collects sun energy to power all those gadgets.

A distinguished panel of independent evaluators selected 10 finalist companies in the first Clean Energy Challenge set by the Clean Energy Trust to compete for the $100,000 early-stage business prize.

Research has proven conclusively that microwave radiation emitted by cell phones, wifi and other wireless devices causes DNA damage that can lead to cancer. But, it can take 10 years or more before most tumors are noticeable.

In 2010 the cell phone industry published the results of the widely touted ‘Interphone’ study to show that cell phones were safe, even though the data showed the opposite. Researchers have exposed the lie by doing a real analysis of the data.

A wave of mentally ill women is flooding into the Canadian penitentiary system, sparking calls for reform and the creation of treatment facilities that already exist for male offenders.

Underinvestment and market failures have trapped many countries in a vicious cycle of low productivity and exposure to price hikes, says Olivier de Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to food.

According to a lawsuit filed by California resident Amanda Obney, not much of the beef in your Taco Bell products is really “beef.” Don’t get exited, it’s not vegetarian either.

In a couple years, Smart phones could be used by soldiers for facial recognition to spot enemies, fingerprinting to identify prisoners, share intelligence and translate languages, and controlling fighter jets, tanks, missiles and machine guns.

Dubai’s the ‘World’, the ambitiously-constructed archipelago of islands shaped like the countries of the globe, is sinking back into the sea, according to evidence cited before a property tribunal.

Organisms with albino mutations are pretty weird in general, but albino plants are extra weird.

Indonesian rice farmers in Slemen, Yogyakarta, got quite a surprise Sunday morning when they discovered that overnight a large crop circle had mysteriously formed in one of their fields.

The sap from a plant known as petty spurge or milkweed – found by roadsides and in woodland – can ‘kill’ certain types of cancer cells when applied to the skin.

A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed.

The multinational crew of Russia’s Mars 500 experiment will finally leave their spaceship in the coming weeks, and venture out – into an adjacent sandpit.

Alex Tew, CEO of Popjam, has created a site, Do Nothing For 2 Minutes, that challenges you to do absolutely nothing, for two whole minutes.

Steering clear of labeling it an animal rights film, “Man on Wire” director James Marsh has returned to the documentary world by examining a chimpanzee famed in the 1970s for being raised like a human.

Mongabay talks with big cat expert Dr. Howard Quigley about the status and research implications of the elusive, enigmatic, and unique cougar.

Genetically-modified (GM), oil-eating bacteria introduced into the Gulf is reportedly causing the emergence of various other mutant bacteria, as well as increasing severe harm to humans and the environment.

Vegans and vegetarians have to take special care to get enough vitamin B12 and protein, but like anyone, they can get all the nutrients they need from a varied diet of plants and grains.

Watch out for the word “unscientific” in propaganda that’s pushing GMOs, pesticides or other dangerous chemicals onto our world.

In this award-winning animated short you’ll learn about the practice of factory farming and how it endangers our health and the health of our communities and environment.

Pesticides and insecticides are jointly responsible for spawning a new breed of mutant bedbugs that is genetically-resistant to the very chemicals commonly used to eradicate it.

A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research.

Scientists have unveiled the climate secrets of the deepest part of the ocean-the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.

For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity’s closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses?

New findings suggest that the discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet may hold the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of common planetary systems.

In Mokraya Olkhovka village of the Volgograd region, there were found strange spherical objects, which at first looked like petrified dinosaur eggs. English Russia got a chance to look closer.

The drug companies aren’t coming out with “breakthrough” drugs quickly enough, so the U.S. government plans to spend taxpayer dollars conducting research on drugs to be turned over to Big Pharma.

A new scientific study shows that debris coverage, pebbles, rocks, and debris from surrounding mountains, may be a missing link in the understanding of the decline of glaciers.

The USDA is engaged in what can only be called an avian holocaust through its Bye Bye Blackbird program that has poisoned tens of millions of birds over the last decade.

Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is being debated in Congress, the truth is little by little coming out. And it seems that the American people were deceived by the GOP after all.

A leaked document revealed that the U.S. EPA knowingly approved, and continued to allow approval for, neonicotinoids, despite the fact that they knew the chemicals killed bees.

State Sen. Leland Yee introduced clean-energy legislation that could save taxpayers millions of dollars, his chief of staff said Friday.

Legislation advancing clean energy at first glance seems like a palatable option for a divided Congress, a kind of combination plate enticing lawmakers with varied morsels.

It’s time to turn the American spirit that got us to the moon to the challenge of clean energy.

The ability to live in the clouds might one day become a reality when the innovative and ethereal zeppelin design concept from Belgian engineer and architect Lieven Standaert becomes a reality.

Should turning tree parts into electricity qualify as renewable power or is the practice dirtier than burning coal?

Ontario Energy Minister Brad Duguid is calling the provincial Tory leader Tim Hudak “hypocritical” in opposing the province’s Clean Energy Act.

If we were to sit down today and design, from scratch, an energy system for Hawaii, it’s unthinkable that we’d choose one that relies on a steady supply of Middle Eastern oil and Indonesian coal.

Despite sitting on one tenth of the world’s oil, the emirate is trying to promote itself as a pioneer for of clean energy.

High school students who have experience with the Youth Energy Summit! program are “ahead of the curve’’ in their quest for careers.

A website that compiles Massachusetts’ academic and training programs for clean energy careers launched this week, with the goal of bolstering the state’s growing clean energy sector.

What if all the body heat from about 250,000 travelers in a train station will be recycled as clean, renewable energy? Impossible? Guess again.

The CEO of a global leader in the testing and certification of non-GMOs, talked about the challenges of GMO testing and future trends.

The first laboratory for analyzing genetically modified organisms, or GMO, in Turkey was recently opened at Ege University’s Agriculture Faculty in the Aegean province of İzmir.

The Montana organization sees whole grains as logical choice in school cafeterias.

Because Monsanto controls the plants and the seeds, outside of their own labs there has been little if any research related to the safety of the foods produced by their genetically modified seeds.

The consequences of growing GMs has been the emergence of pesticide- and herbicide-resistant superweeds, which farmers now have trouble controlling.

Staying physically fit may reduce your time spent sick during cold and flu season by nearly 50 percent, according to a study.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, an elderly Minnesota woman, claims she developed nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) after being injected with Omniscan as part of MRI procedures.

If you should have the urge to snack, grab some almonds instead. They do a lot to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Leeches were approved as a “medical device” in 2004 by the Food and Drug Administration and have been marketed as such ever since.

Whether they are braised or roasted, or blended into a gratin, purée or soup, winter root vegetables are rich in flavor and an excellent source of fiber, antioxidants and other nutrients.

The types of fat found in avocados and in olive oil boost levels of HDL (“good”) cholesterol without raising levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, according to a study.

Sorry to disappoint but Skittles is not the new diet craze. Eating colorful fruits and veggies is though!

NaturalNews honors Jack Lalanne, the fitness guru who motivated America to exercise. Lalanne passed away January 23rd at the age of 96, probably with a barbell in his hands.

The mayor insisted the state’s impending battle to control the city’s high-tourism areas is not a fight against him, but against God.

The people can’t help but suspect whether this is an “induced” leak or a legitimate one. Who knows if this may just be a ploy so the public would agree when the rest of the world suddenly invades Iran.

George Lucas seriously talked about how he thinks the world is going to end in 2012.

Flying robots that can build structures, just by the flick of a wireless control. Let’s just hope the control doesn’t fall on sinister hands, and that the robots stick to just that — building structures.

In the leaked document, all embassy staff were told to “never discuss under any circumstance, the concerns DOD has with UFOs entering orbit.”

A ground-trembling incident has left residents in a market town asking whether a meteorite had landed nearby.

We have two eyes, yet, each eye sees a slightly different world. Our brains decide what we see. In an experiment, Kokichi Sugihara shows exactly how our eyes and brain deceives us.

This new discovery provides astronomers a glimpse into how black-hole pairs and their host galaxies merge — a crucial part of understanding the evolution of the universe.

Spooky lights in a night sky have left one Hamilton resident asking if there is something extra-terrestrial out there.

Tidal and wave-powered generators may possibly interfere with the internal compasses of sea creatures, which rely on the earth’s magnetic fields to navigate vast distances.

A tiny NASA satellite once teetering on failure has successfully unfurled its solar sail while orbiting the Earth, the space agency announced Friday.

Scientists in Japan have used moth eyes as their inspiration for a new type of solar cell.

Nobody really knows what the real effects of GMOs are or will be in our future. Always there will be speculation from those that want to benefit from their uses and from those that are wary of perfunctory claims.

Another case of one bad and rotten tomato amongst the lush and healthy one. Romania’s National Federation of Farm Producers has urged the European Union to introduce genetically modified (GMO) crops.

Alaska health officials are warning North Pole residents to avoid using well water on their gardens after tests showed traces of an industrial chemical.

A Utilities Kingston team is testing water in local houses to ensure no one ends up like Sir John Franklin, who may have died of lead poisoning from cans of preserved food.

A new bird disease has arrived in Canada’s Arctic, one so lethal it can kill thousands of ducks in a dense colony in a lightning-fast outbreak.

An international research team has suggested for the first time that mercury cycling in the flora and fauna of the Arctic may be linked to the amount of ice cover present.

They may be small and cute but in the Arctic food web, lemmings are a mighty keystone species whose future depends on snow — and plenty of it.

The United States of America is, in reality, a one-party corporatist state whose very existence is, more than ever, perpetuated by a conscious deliberate denial of reality.

As the House voted to repeal Obama’s healthcare bill that enriches the medical mafia, the state of Vermont is taking matters into its own hands and is trying to develop a sane and affordable program for the people, not the crooks.

The cell phone industry knew back in 1994 that their phones caused DNA damage, but chose to ignore the facts and continue to lie about cell phone hazards.

Despite industry and govt. claims to the contrary, microwave radiation from WiFi and cell phones causes DNA damage that can result in cancer, headaches, heart arrhythmia, nausea and and a host of other serious ailments.

A Mom’s experiment in communications tech deprivation helped her kids regain their focus and enjoyment of life.

Corporate criminals and other anti-freedom firms are lobbying the Feds to give them control over the Internet. Now you have a good list of companies to boycott.

“Wikileaked” diplomatic cables revealed that Bush administration officials were doing everything in their power to undermine the E.U.’s ban on genetically modified (GM) crops.

The parliamentary committee on agriculture is issuing an alert over what it claims is a plot to bring in genetically modified maize into the country.

Some call it frankenfood. Others call it playing God. But at the core of the matter, genetically modified food and crops are at the center of a debate between government, science and humanity.

An Alaskan senator plans to reintroduce a bill to ban the sale of genetically altered fish — which he calls “Frankenfish” — for human consumption.

It was shocking to see the editorial advocating the planting of genetically modified sugar beets before the U.S. Department of Agriculture study is complete.

Just like the debate on mosquitoes and DDT, I still find it strange that a scientific fact, such as the harm that GMOs bring, is subjected to ‘social’ debate. – Amon Mbekiza

The European Parliament meeting was yet another chance for EFSA to listen to the views of other scientists and sectoral groups on GMOs.

The U.S. EPA recognized six landfill methane capture projects and partners for their innovation in generating renewable energy and protecting the climate and people’s health by reducing GHG emissions.

UK now leads the world in offshore wind power after official figures revealed a huge leap in the amount of clean energy generated off the nation’s coastline.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said up to $10 million was available under a tribal energy program that would help develop energy efficiency and renewable energy programs on tribal lands.

NASA has been working on futuristic aircraft design specifications, working with big aviation makers to design aircraft for service in 2025 that use less fuel, less polluting and are quieter.

Four Loko—that high-octane alcohol and caffeine-fueled malt beverage that drew the ire of federal authorities late last year has found a new and appropriate role in the energy cycle: automotive fuel.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states.

The New York politicians who are stoking anti-Walmart fervor are not to be taken seriously for as long as the city’s pension system is a major shareholder in the retailing giant.

The diversion of the money has county officials and some environmentalists vowing to fight the renewal of laws authorizing the fees.

Vermont boosts of scenic vistas and unspoiled natural assets. But there’s also plenty of hazardous waste and pollution, according to a group that released a town-by-town listing of the state’s toxic threats.

Peter Bostock and his wife, Jo-Anne, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He believes they loved each other in past lives working on an estate in 1880s Derbyshire, England.

Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed by debris from a comet, startling new archaeological and astronomical research suggests.

The sun has just experienced a storm—not of explosive flares and hot plasma, but of icy comets.

The federal government is making good on a promise to ban a toxic chemical additive in soft plastic toys and other children’s products.

In a new study, results show that test subjects who were more conscious of their heart rates were more likely to “trust their guts” when making decisions—and in some cases that intuition paid off.

As some Americans push ever harder to leave a smaller carbon footprint on the environment, the funeral industry is taking a new step to help us go even more gently into that good night.

The once formidable addition to our diets has become a shadow of its former self because apples no longer have the nutritional value of their chemical-free predecessors.

Even an ordinary junk food lists its ingredients on the packaging. So, why don’t pharma companies list the ingredients of a flu vaccine? You’ll be shocked to find out why.

Balance rapidly declines as people age, it’s obvious that cultivating good balance should be a must for them. The good news is that several things can help with this including exercising to music.

Risks for developing childhood leukemia are increased by diagnostic X-rays, said Science Daily, citing a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

Eating blueberries can guard against high blood pressure, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Harvard University.

Repeatedly giving a baby Tylenol or other acetaminophen products could be putting the child at risk for liver injury, including acute liver failure.

New research suggests that cigarette smoking creates damage in the body just minutes after a smoker inhales for the first time.

A “super food” is something high in essential vitamins and nutrients proven to assist in fighting diseases, and aid the body’s organs to function properly. Super foods all have one thing in common, they are all natural.

United Food Group, of Vernon, California, is recalling approximately 7,875 pounds of ready-to-eat Angus Beef patties that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Your liver is the “brain of your body” and its healthy function is required for your ongoing well being. For the first time, a process by which your liver can regenerate itself has been identified.

Guilty of killing 73 in an airline bombing, and countless others, CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is charged in the U.S. with immigration violations, not terrorism. He was only charged because in his old age he had been openly bragging about his crimes and had become a liability.

A man trying to expose environmental crimes of the State of Florida is being targeted by State Police.

The former psycho-dictator of Haiti has returned to the country and is facing charges for his crimes. What few are aware is how much support the mass murder had from the Vatican and Mother Teresa.

A new reactor can produce fuel from sunlight and process CO2

Dreaming could have begun as a form of survival in the wild, according to evolutionary psychologists. Some people credit their dreams for helping solve real-life problems.

A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive “superstorm.”

Kuwait plans to launch a project to clean up what it calls “oil lakes”, referring to ground contamination resulting from crude spills during the Iraqi invasion of the Gulf Arab state in 1990.

The efforts of the police to undermine democratic protest expose the ugly political realities of Britain today.

A device maker has created a headset that “can sense and detect human brainwaves, interpret them and connect it to everyday technology.” And one might ask which government agency this technology originally came from.

UK scientists have created the world’s first genetically modified chickens which they say do not spread bird flu.

You want to eat healthy but it costs too much. Fruits, vegetables, and whole foods are generally pricey. But you’ll be surprised to find that some of the healthiest foods in the world are really cheap.

Not all volunteers want to go dumpster diving. The ones that do, though, will help provide critical medical supplies to hospitals in the developing world.

Playgrounds, parking lots and driveways are coated every spring and summer with coal tar, a toxic byproduct of steelmaking that contains high levels of chemicals linked to cancer.

Every year, the average American swallows 200 pounds of meat, 33 pounds of cheese, and nearly 60 pounds of added fats and oils.

A research study conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found nursing facility residents with normal levels of zinc were about fifty percent less likely to develop pneumonia.

How many times have you heard or read that the key to losing weight lies in eating a solid breakfast? Well, a recent study found just the opposite.

It’s no secret that we all respond to color, and each of us responds differently to different shades. Color has a profound effect on us, influencing our moods and energy with the simple flick of a hue.

We all know that Israel kills anyone it deems a potential threat, so are they behind the deaths of Iranian professors?

Think you are safe on Facebook? Think again. Stalkers can use a new App to access your phone number and home address.

The value of the cosmological constant suggests that the laws of nature could not have been fine-tuned for life by an omnipotent being, says a cosmologist.

Music can have profound effects on the brains of listeners.

Recently obtained documents show that Irish Bishops had planned to help police identify pedophile priests but the Vatican stopped the plan and implemented a far-reaching coverup.

Most people have heard the same old reasons used for eating more vegetables since they were kids. Eat veggies to grow big and strong, to be healthy or simply “because they’re good for you.”

This is a monumental time in the history of our food system. Even while corporations like Monsanto are attempting to patent the seeds we plant, more and more citizens are bucking up and saying not so fast.

Sustainability is on the rise worldwide, and schools are no exception.

The clever fruit has been identified as the source of numerous low-cost, value-added products by researchers at Texas’ Baylor University.

Thanks to celebrity converts and more restaurant and food choices, veganism has made its way to the mainstream, at least according to a recent article in the Washington Post.

It’s a fact. Kids love dinosaurs. And according to a new study, the vast majority of dinosaurs were actually vegetarians. Perhaps this can help convince your kid to eat green.

Alicia Silverstone is pregnant, and if her latest blog posts are any indication, she and husband Christopher Jarecki are going to show the world how a vegan pregnancy works.

Geekazoids at Harvard have created genetically engineered worms that they remotely control. Which is nothing compared to the US military’s super-secret remote controlled genetically engineered cyber super-soldiers that have been seen in Iraq and a few other places.

Vending machines in Taiwan can tell you what to purchase based on your appearance and communications devices and then track what you purchase.

The people of Tunisia are struggling to liberate themselves from corruption, oppression and usher in an era of true democracy.

The Feds consider those who defend nature and animals to be enemy #1.

A new study in Singapore on three thousand children in grades third, fourth, seventh and eighth claims that one in ten are video game addicts and almost all of those suffer mental health problems. The percentages in other countries may be much higher.

An undercover policeman who infiltrated eco-activists was exposed after he resigned from the force and began working for a private security firm.

The Japanese whaling fleet’s supply vessel led Sea Shepherd into a storm to try and shake the Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin off its tail.

NASA’s Levine says that, with the proper funding, humans could be on the way to Mars within the next 20 years. But he isn’t convinced that a mission to Mars involves a no-return ticket.

Ancient starlight have provided deep insight into the universe’s past. They have also, surprisingly, provided deep insight into the nature of the future, which as the data suggest, is particularly disquieting — because of something called dark energy.

Wine makes superconductors better at their jobs. And apparently, it makes some scientists better at their jobs too.

The media is lapping up the Pentagon’s claim that it is making painful “cuts” in spending–even as the military budget continues to grow.

Loughner’s posts on YouTube gives a general sense of his mental impairment, there are statements he wrote that more directly help to make the case that he may be a victim of mind control.

On Thursday morning, a conservative website that features the work of prominent rightwing commentators sent out an email ad to its readers revealing the latest Obama conspiracy: he wants to steal your retirement account. Literally.

An article just published in Scientific American says that American pig farms are virtually “flu factories.” Industry results of pig flu tests are kept confidential, and the pork industry is reluctant to share data with health officials.

The slow insidious displacement of home cooked and communally shared family meals by the industrial food system has fattened our nation and weakened our family ties.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away–but orange juice cures cancer. At least that’s what researchers at the National Institutes of Health are reporting.

Many foods positioned as “healthy” are no more healthy than their “unhealthy” cousins we often label “junk food.”

Astonishingly one of the best ways to fight fatigue is with a good old-fashioned Epsom-salt bath. Yes, your grandmother was indeed onto something there.

If you care about your health or the health of your family, don’t feed them McVomit’s Chicken McNuggets.

Despite a Supreme Court decision to regulate genetically engineered, Roundup Ready alfalfa for widespread commercial use in June 2010, the USDA is again poised to release this potentially harmful crop for national use.

A study, on why a Japanese island’s elderly have long lives, revealed an interesting secret: They eat edible plants from the sea.

Farmland is better gold than gold for speculators. This is why many were still hungry in 2008 despite a record high in wheat harvest. The global food system is designed to generate profits not feed people.

There is sufficient data in favor of legislation to ban smoking when in cars with children, said Science Daily, citing a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

When given the opportunity our body has the amazing capacity to thwart many diseases and illnesses including the common cold and influenza.

Dr. Thomas E. Levy discusses how he became interested in vitamin C, and the positive effect it can have on your body.

Cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, which attracted worldwide attention from the movie ‘Erin Brockovich,’ was found in tap water from Chicago and more than two dozen other cities.

Multaq (dronedarone), a drug used to treat atrial fibrillation, has caused severe liver injury, according to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Find out what Ayurvedic medicine is and learn about how it treats the root cause of the disease rather than just the symptoms.

New York State’s Department of Agriculture and Markets announced that MS Fish Corporation located in Brooklyn, is recalling its Ossie’s Schmaltz Herring due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

Canada, which failed in a public-relations campaign to convince Europe that the seal hunt is humane, will also flop in its “insulting” attempt to find consumers in China, animal rights groups said.

A new study identifies 163 environmental chemicals — such as PCBs and even the long-banned DDT — that pregnant women might be carrying along with their fetuses.

How much do you REALLY know about ketchup? Natalie gives you the inside scoop on America’s number one condiment and why it’s on her “Worst Foods Ever” list.

Living at a higher altitude may be a risk factor for suicide, a recent study.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling to raise the nutrition standards for school meals for the first time in 15 years.

Researchers suggested in a study that weaning can begin as early as four months and that waiting to wean babies leads to higher incidences of food allergies and vitamin D deficiency.

Apple is trying to work out a way to reliably and stably charge the rechargeable batteries for their mobile devices.

You might not like how it looks, but perhaps its impressive 55 miles per hour speed using just minimal power might convince you.

Let’s be brutally honest. If the suspect’s name was Jamil or Mahmud, America’s reaction might have been different.

As if the wireless phones are not already very dangerous to your health, Smartphones double the risk now that these allow users to manage their finances, and their social lives through it.

If there’s one thing that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her attacker Jared Lee Loughner shared in common, it would be that they both own a Glock pistol. The company that made their guns has a secret itself.

Like many, many others, a Catholic Diocese in Connecticut avidly supported priests who sexually abused children and then blocked the victims and parents when they tried to stop the abuse or seek justice.

The patriot movement is being high-jacked by sinister forces and steered so far to the right that members are losing sight of what it means to be a patriot.

America’s so-called ‘war on drugs’ is in reality a global drug business with taxpayer’s money being used to take out the competition.

A researcher has ‘discovered’ what leading scientists have known for decades – DNA is electromagnetic and can transmit its information.

NASA claims 2010 is in a tie with 2005 as the warmest year on record.

According to European news sources, people in Greenland are reporting that the sun has returned to the Northern sky 2 days earlier than ever before.

Sea Shepherd is formally asking Greenpeace to fulfill its promises and actually help save whales instead of simply raising money on the promise that it might take some action.

Greedmart’s Love, Earth jewelry line was supposed to meet a new level of environmental and human rights standards—from mine to factory. But an investigation reports that the reality doesn’t quite match up. What? Wal-Mart caught lying again?

The reality is that homosexuals or perceived homosexuals are by far the group most targeted in America for violent hate crimes, according to an Intelligence Report.

The “buy American” provision robs the taxpayer twice: by being forced to prop up industrial losers, and being forced to pay extra through the government procurement process in order to prevent failure among government subsidized companies.

Obama is drafting an executive order that would enable him to imprison anyone indefinitely with no evidence of wrong-doing.

Homeland Security, when it’s not busy seizing domains of hip hop blogs, is apparently on a campaign to enlist Walmart shoppers in a creepy attempt to get people to spy on their neighbors.

The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe.

Cracked.com looks down at those who spread urban legends and conspiracy theories, but has to sometimes stop and point out the downright terrifying historical precedents for even the craziest of claims.

According to National Geographic, common mosquitofish show roughly the same numerical skills as college students in some laboratory tests.

A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by researchers.

Brace for the worst. Scientists say your zodiac sign may be wrong.

An astronomical phenomenon that appears to show three suns appears above Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province in northeast China.

The spy’s bravery has long been recognised in France, where there are two memorials and a ceremony held each year to mark her death. But in Britain, her courage has since been allowed to fade in history.

Because Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, is not a servant of US corporations, America’s media slanders him and tells big fat lies about Venezuela.

The ’empire’ now has more than 1,000 military bases around the world.

Four of Canada’s biggest record labels have agreed to pay songwriters and music publishers $47.5 million in damages for copyright infringement and overdue royalties to settle a class action lawsuit.

The Obama Administration has been planting toxic genetically modified plants in wildlife refuges. A lawsuit has stopped the insane practice in some but not all refuges.

Ralph Nader tells Obama like it is. Washington serves the interests of corporate criminals, not American taxpayers.

A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter.

New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in Earth’s atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3000.

Among Rep. Giffords’ alleged shooter’s “revolutionary thoughts”: Paper money not backed by gold is “illegal.” — James Ridgeway

The bill is “the first of its kind to deal with young trafficking victims domestically.” But when the Senate attempted to pass the bill by unanimous consent, Sen. Jeff Sessions put a hold on the bill.

WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill—sort of.

The Arizona shooting is sparking an intense debate over whether incendiary political talk across the country is a real danger, or merely vivid political rhetoric.

Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend.

The Miami Herald reports that several nonprofit organizations that pledged to help Haiti recover from its devastating 2009 earthquake have recently come under fire for their use of donated funds.

Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet outside our Solar System, and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth.

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic where no trees now grow, a newly unearthed mummified forest is giving researchers a peek into how plants reacted to ancient climate change.

Scientists have proffered plenty of theories to explain the mass bird die-offs in Europe and the US, but two stand out; the rapid shift of the Magnetic North Pole and a US military test of poison gas.

There is evidence that central banks in several regions of the World are building up their gold reserves. What is published are the official purchases.

Global food shortages have forced emergency meetings at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization where they claim “urgent action” is needed. Large GMO food companies, it seems, found the perfect opportunity to force their products into markets.

As Egyptian Coptic Christians attended their Christmas eve mass at their churches, thousands of Muslims acted as “human shields” to protect them from terrorist attacks by extremists.

Scientists claim to have created a new generation of genetically modified pigs which they say are “greener” and fit for human consumption. Another frankenstein creature. How stupid can they get?

It might be possible to use the sun as a long-distance telephone to reach out and talk to aliens, some scientists believe.

Body heat is not an energy source that normally springs to mind when companies want to keep down soaring energy costs.

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been a flesh-eating terror but many of his closest relatives were more content with vegetarian fare, a new analysis by Field Museum scientists has found.

Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the average Canadian income earner, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Bone to undergo DNA tests after being found alongside 1930s artifacts on Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro.

“When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!” says African-American comedian and activist Dick Gregory.

New research has suggested that Pluto may be warm enough to contain an ocean beneath its miles-thick ice shell.

Hundreds of previously classified reports detailing claims of UFO sightings and alien encounters have been released by the New Zealand military. Here are some examples.

What happens to Christmas when there are not one, but two, three or 40,000 civilizations across the universe? Can the baby Jesus and ET share the holiday?

With U.S. Senate ratification of the New START treaty on December 22, supporters of nuclear disarmament won an important victory. But making further progress on nuclear disarmament will not be easy.

Author Elliot Cohen says that there’s evidence for thinking that we’re moving in a direction of a controlled society, a controlled culture.

In order to maintain its spying edge over the Russkies, the CIA considered the benefits of hypnosis.

On December 25, the Organization of American States removed their special representative, Ricardo Seitenfus, from Haiti. The reason was very simple. He told the truth.

The military machine will go to any length to maintain public silence over the issue, but the numbers of victims of sexual assault are at epidemic proportions.

Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species.

Self-declared witches in Romania are preparing to curse the country’s rulers publicly for taxing their profession under an amended labour law.

Regularly drinking green tea could protect the brain against developing Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, according to new research.

A study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago.

While presidents and military leaders have never successfully bridged or solved the political and cultural problems of the Middle East, can UFOs and zombies bring Israelis and Palestinians together?

Using Mars-like soil taken from Atacama Desert, a new experiment has confirmed that Mars has organics, and Viking found them.

The publication by one of psychology’s most respected journals of a paper presenting strong evidence for extrasensory perception, delighted believers in so-called paranormal events, but is mortifying scientists.

The “missing link” between the Big Bang and the evolution of the universe has been uncovered by a team of international scientists.

It probably makes sense to be a lot more prudent about paying so much attention to those who would call for an end to the only home we have.

Researchers at Wofford College discovered that a border collie comprehends the names of over 1,000 objects, differentiating between names of objects and orders to fetch them.

A Nazi expert said that months before Nazis launched their attack on the Soviet Union, they had nothing better to do than to obsess about this dog.

This legendary tribe of the old Amazon were thought to be Atlanteans, Extraterrestrials, and many others. One title fits them well though — the giants of the Amazon.

In Seattle, a group of “superheroes” have taken to the streets to fight crime.

Scientists attribute declining sperm counts to a variety of environmental and lifestyle factors, including chemical exposure, hard drinking and unhealthy diets.

The US has ordered Twitter to turn over all records on people who openly supported Twitter, including foreign politicians.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has survived a shooting that left at least 5 others dead.

New research suggests that the moon may have a core similar to Earth’s.

Despite proposed modest budget cuts, US military spending has been growing rapidly and will continue to do so.

America’s jobless rate is much higher than officially reported and not getting better.

Most states lack uniform, enforceable standards governing wind turbine siting, leaving regulatory decisions to local governments.

A resident from Canada’s British Columbia province asks why B.C. let so much of the water in its rivers pour out into the sea without making any effort to harness the energy first.

An initiative on solar-powered satellites and space-based solar power is in the offing, according to India’s former President A P J Abdul Kalam.

Two programs being offered by NYSERDA encourages New Yorkers to go green. This was announced by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor).

Massachusetts announced its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020: it lays out how the state will achieve its targets under its Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008.

A clean energy company in North Andover, a Boston investment firm driven by social responsibility and a 1,450-student school district might seem like unlikely partners in a multimillion-dollar solar energy project.

A Reno, Nev., geothermal developer plans to start talks with banks to finance the construction of a utility-scale project, which is set to go online in California over the next two years.

With its first commercial scale wind energy farms operating since last month, Maryland will inaugurate next its largest solar power installation — a 2.2MW facility.

National Clean Fuels President and Chairman Maurice Stone said that the company’s Mississippi biomass project is progressing as expected.

Plutonic Power Corp., in concert with GE Energy Financial Services, is acquiring a 50 MW portfolio of three yet-to-be built photovoltaic solar facilities in the Ontario, Canada.

With the 112th Congress, we could see a new age where “clean energy” becomes increasingly “dirty.” Growing calls are not for a national renewable portfolio standard (RPS), but an energy standard that includes “clean” coal and nuclear power.

The argument that solar energy projects should be sited in the desert where there is more sun does not hold water. Conrad Kramer enumerates the reasons why.

A research group is developing a compact low-cost device for converting wind vibrations into electricity. Someday, the lowly wind chime will someday power your light bulbs.

There are cars that run on gas, electricity, vegetable oil, even human waste, and now there is a car that runs on air.

A team of architects have created a ‘transparent cement’ that lets light pour into a room so that the walls look like giant windows.

Ibn al-Haytham’s 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton’s Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very little is known about the writer, considered by many to be the father of modern optics.

Citing alleged health effects from electromagnetic waves, a county in the North San Francisco Bay Area has criminalized the installation of “smart” electric meters. Now, we ask, how about cellphones?

Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, and whose conditions very similar to the conditions on Europa and Enceladus, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit.

Dolphins have been declared the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans, with scientists suggesting they are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”.

A close look at Arkansas’ history of earthquakes and drilling reveals a shocking surge in quake frequency due to advanced drilling method called Fracking.

Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility’s role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname “Spy Center.”

The steady and rapid movement of the Magnetic North Pole may be responsible for the recent, sudden and mysterious death of thousands of birds and millions of fish in the US.

In the first article in a series on “Socialism and Black Liberation,” Lance Selfa explains the origins of slavery at the dawn of capitalism and the ideology of white supremacy.

When Barack Obama took office in 2009, conservationists expected him to end the outgoing administration’s policy of blocking, delaying, and politicizing endangered-species listings. What became of their expectation?

Researchers have found evidence for “chronesthesia,” which is the brain’s ability to be aware of the past and future, and to mentally travel in subjective time.

Hail, lightning and gales came through the state’s eastern region this summer thanks to scientist-puppetmasters.

Happy Meals just got a little more expensive for McDonald’s: the fast food chain has been sued by California mother Monet Parham for using toys to make her two young daughters want nutritionally unsound Happy Meals.

Bloodwork, mechanical inspections and multiple rounds of air tests have failed to identify what caused at least 16 people to become dizzy or sick Sunday morning at a Bucks County church.

An influx of invasive species can stop the dominant natural process of new species formation and trigger mass extinction events, say research results published December 29 in the journal PLoS ONE.

The rapid shifting of Earth’s magnetic pole is causing problems for airports and navigation.

The battle to save the whales is in full swing and so far Sea Shepherd is winning.

Vegans seek to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose – and their numbers are growing.

Medicare will not reimburse doctors for discussions about end-of-life care. The original proposal was criticized by conservatives who believed it would lead to the creation of “death panels.”

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland say that the effects of gum disease don’t end in the mouth. Believe it or not, taking care of your gum disease can help alleviate arthritis pain in completely different areas of your body.

Although many organic growers tend to be skeptical about the feasibility of growing food on a large-scale without the use of any animal products, there are many sites around the world where veganic farming is occurring on a commercial basis.

The Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers not to use a weight-loss product called Fruta Planta because it has been associated with several heart attacks and one death.

The number of emergency room visits resulting from misuse or abuse of prescription drugs has nearly doubled over the last five years, according to new federal data.

Nanotechnology, the process of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular level, has no place in organic food. Like genetic modification, it is the antithesis of the organic concept.

Can regular exercise avert or undo some of the harm associated with binge drinking? Perhaps even better, could exercising beforehand pre-emptively reduce your urge to overindulge in alcohol later?

The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C—despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch.

Is it possible that eating in today’s sweet and salty fast-food world is actually somewhat, well, addictive? Could people with a predilection to abusing alcohol and drugs just as easily abuse food?

The Alliance for Natural Health-USA is running an online petition to ensure that all genetically modified foods be labeled as such at the point of sale, like the “franken fish”.

No matter what you’ve heard or ever rationalized, it’s never too late to begin the journey to better health and optimal fitness.

If your goal for the new year is to break a bad habit or cut back on food and shed a few pounds, then a simple but overlooked trick could come in handy: go for a walk.

Remember how fun it was when you were a kid — jumping up and down, swinging your hips and rolling around on the floor? It can still be just as fun for adults with the help of some exercise gears.

Anne Hill, made a discovery that if we obsessed about the calendar and what we had expected to do, we would only make ourselves feel miserable.

When tumors start growing in children or adolescents, they can result in gigantism because they make the gland churn out growth hormone, prodding bones to keep growing.

Why do so many men go bald? What exactly changes on their heads?

The mysterious deaths of fish and birds has gone global but no one seems to have any plausible explanations. Anyone remember the movie “The Core”?

People hoping to hitch a ride off Earth on a UFO are congregating in a French Village ahead of 2012 in the hopes of securing a seat on an alien space ship.

Be it Democrats or Republicans, Congress is extremely unlikely to diverge from its path of ever increasing Pentagon expenditures unless a massive public movement pressures it to do so.

On every key issue of public concern –from protecting Social Security, to climate change issues, the government in this supposed democracy has gone against the wishes of the majority of the public.

Activists in the Bay Area have come together to form the Coalition for a Safe San Francisco, a grassroots alliance of individuals and organizations working to protect civil rights that are being shredded in the name of “national security.”

Dwight Eisenhower’s warning 50 years ago about the threat to democracy due to the growing fusion between corporations and the armed forces, actually understates the scope of our modern system and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on.

Activist, author and attorney Robert Meeropol explains why progressives should unite to defend Julian Assange against attempts to prosecute him for espionage for his work on WikiLeaks.

As a rogue nation that thumbs its nose at the law, Israel kills anyone it doesn’t like anywhere and is never held accountable.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s belief that women have no protection under the constitution could herald the return of officially-sanctioned gender discrimination, a prominent Washington lawyer says.

Holding your breath for a speedy resolution to the landmark federal case that argues California’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional? Stop it; you’ll turn blue.

Netanyahu sends letter to Obama regarding American man given life sentence in 1987 for spying on US for Israel.

The good news—and the bad news—for America is that the nation’s own super-elite is rapidly adjusting to the perspective where American businesses that don’t internationalize aggressively risk being left behind.

Leaked documents reveal that the Japanese govt. views Sea Shepherd as a very serious threat to their illegal whaling activities.

The group Food Not Bombs wants everyone to consider organizing a free vegan meal and rally outside your countries U.S. Embassy, U.S. federal courts or U.S. military bases on February 14, 2011.

A liquid biopsy? That’s what developers are calling a new blood test for cancer that’s been getting a lot of buzz lately.

In all the spin from fossil fuels and nuclear industries, it is easy to start believing that renewable energy can’t get us out of the climate change hole. Think again – not only is an Energy [R]evolution happening, it’s already underway.

A risky strategy experimented on humans without informed consent, and based on data from unpublished studies.

Scientists have found evidence of a “drastic” shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said.

Maybe the Mayans were on to something? This surely is what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas.

The facts clearly show that infant vaccinations can pose a much greater long-term risk than the diseases being vaccinated for.

From Silicon Valley to China to media, video games are leading the next productivity revolution. So hug a geek today.

Former Project Seagate whistleblower and Project Camelot witness Aaron McCollum has exposed an attempt into making him a manipulator between purported extraterrestrials that would ‘decloak’ over the Festival and child participants in the Festival.

In an effort to prove one theory or another, physicists,have constructed ever more powerful particle accelerators, imagining that they will soon reach some final truth. But, over and over, there have been more questions and problems than answers.

Whether it is religious Rapture, or the fulfilment of the Mayan 2012 prophecy, or the Messianic Second Coming, Joseph Farrell asks why anyone would be engaged in making such repeated – and violated – expectations.

A book recently published in Switzerland, detailed experiments that demonstrate how a changing electric field can alter gametes so much that new species are created.

Recently, a retired LAPD detective and Vietnam War veteran named Robert L. Pollock told of his team’s experience of a whirling cloud like mass inside their military plane while en route to a mission.

While hiking through Mill City’s old logging camp, JD Adams and his wife heard an eerie sound that was bestial and somehow human.

Dr Karl Shuker, one of the best known cryptozoologists in the world, blogs about his experience of finding a sheaf of Roc feathers — from inside a fancy goods shop in Birmingham, UK.

Children can learn to enjoy healthier foods if they grow them with their parents. It’s easier than you think.

A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor’s office.

Heartburn drugs – especially proton pump inhibitors – may increase the risk of pneumonia.

Our enemies are not people in far away countries but our own criminal corporations and their govt. minions.

We are all affected by the efforts to shape our thoughts and feelings.

Over the past decade, as genetically modified crops have failed year after year, 200,000 farmers in India have killed themselves.

Federal agents are using their broad new powers to terrorize American citizens who try to stand up for what is right.

China claims to have developed a way to re-use spent nuclear fuel.

The political puppet-show goes on with the corrupt promising to investigate the corrupt.

Colonialism has evolved over the years and grown stronger and more destructive yet more seductive at the same time.

Leaked documents expose how the Bush crime family were involved in massive bank fraud.

Brazil has made history with the swearing-in of its first female president.

Besides all of the corporate sponsored junk science pretending to be real science, real scientists lie, lie often and lie well.

If you have a Windows 7 Phone – get rid of it. I can secretly send data that quickly runs up bogus charges.

Many people can’t control their behavior and are turning to technology to keep themselves out of trouble.

The US actively recruited thousands of the worst NAZIs and embedded them deep into the military for research and paramilitary operations. The NAZI influence is still present.

The USDA now permits a more toxic version of aspartame called neotame to be added to organic food without any labeling.

Sea Shepherd has found and engaged the Japanese whale killing fleet before it had a chance to start the slaughter of the sacred beings.

Another leaked cable reveals that the Pope secretly is behind genetically modified crops even though they amount to bio-weapons and result in lower crop yields, disease and death.