Will US Patent Office end gene patent enslavement of the human race?
This is one of the most important issues for the future of human civilization: Who owns your genetic code? Based on existing U.S. law, the corporations own it. Right now, over 20% of your genetic code is owned by biotech corporations (this is a fact). But the U.S. Justice Department has just issued a “friend [...]
Read More →France, UK to do simulated nuke tests
The French presidency has announced that France and Britain will sign a deal to share nuclear warhead research and to set up simulation centers to test the safety of their nuclear warheads. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will sign the treaty in London on Tuesday, which will also include the [...]
Read More →Aerial video of Giant Crater: Massive sinkhole opens up in Germany (Video)
A giant crater some 20 metres deep has opened up in a residential area of an eastern German town, swallowing a car and parts of a garage, but causing no injuries. Emergency services were called to the scene in Schmalkalden on Monday night by a resident who reported hearing unusual noises. Six houses and 25 [...]
Read More →What the UN ban on geoengineering really means
Last week’s conference of the UN Convention on Biodiversity appeared to ban any future efforts to “geoengineer” the planet to counter the effects of climate change. But did it? And why was the decision made at the UN’s biodiversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, rather than at next month’s climate conference in Mexico? Campaigners such as [...]
Read More →Revealed: how deep-sea mining could destroy the ‘cradle of life on earth’
As Papua New Guinea gives go-ahead to a Canadian mining company to dredge its coastal seabed for minerals, critics say environmental assessments have been inadequate, local objections ignored and new species of life could be extinct before they have even been discovered .It was perhaps only a matter of time before mining the deep seas took [...]
Read More →Remembering What Never Happened
What if your most treasured memories from childhood were false? A shocking new study finds that one in five people fondly recall events that never actually happened. When I was seven -years-old my family and I had a black and gray cat named George Washington. I thought George was a boy, but then one day [...]
Read More →Two-mile-high mountains discovered in Saturn’s rings (w/ video)
At the edge of Saturn’s B ring, the Cassini spacecraft has spotted a huge mountain range of debris stretching up over two miles above the ring plane. In this picture you can see the mountains’ long shadows. And below, you can see the motion of the B ring, in a series of photos taken every [...]
Read More →Researchers discover how to erase memory
Researchers working with mice have discovered that by removing a protein from the region of the brain responsible for recalling fear, they can permanently delete traumatic memories. Their report on a molecular means of erasing fear memories in rodents appears this week in Science Express. “When a traumatic event occurs, it creates a fearful memory [...]
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