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Texan spiders spin 'monster web'
(Aug 31, 2007)
An enormous spider web has been found at Lake Tawakoni State Park,
Texas. It is not the work of one giant spider – rather, millions
of small ones have been spinning away and now it is twice the size
of a football field. Park rangers are not sure why the spiders have
joined forces – they describe it as a rare occurrence.
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more. Source: BBC |
'Massive' gem dug up in S Africa
(Aug 29, 2007)
A small South African mining company has claimed to have discovered
the world's biggest-ever diamond. A shareholder in the unnamed mine
told the BBC the stone had been unearthed at their operation in the
north-west province on Monday afternoon. He said the giant gem was
about 7,000 carats – which would be twice the size of the Cullinan
Diamond, centre-piece of the British crown jewels.
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more. Source: BBC |
Out-of-body experience recreated
(Aug 23, 2007)
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers.
The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific
explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people. Two
teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking
the body was located elsewhere. The visual illusion plus the feel
of their real bodies being touched made volunteers sense that they
had moved outside of their physical bodies.
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more. Source: BBC |
Fisherman catches 'living fossil'
(Aug 2, 2007)
An extremely rare "living fossil" caught by a fisherman in Indonesia
is being examined by scientists. The 1.3m-long (4.3ft), 50kg (110lb)
coelacanth is only the second ever to have been captured in Asia and
has been described as a "significant find". An autopsy and genetic
tests are now being carried out to determine more about the specimen.
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more. Source: BBC |
US cat 'predicts patient deaths'
(Jul 26, 2007)
A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home's residents
are about to die is baffling doctors. Oscar has a habit of curling
up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their
final hours. According to the author of a study in the New England
Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be
correct in 25 cases so far.
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more. Source: BBC |
Saucers in the sky
(Jul 4, 2007)
It's 60 years since the term flying saucer was coined and the most
celebrated "extraterrestrial" episode – Roswell. Alien believers
are dismissed as cranks, but even the earthly explanations of objects
in the sky are fascinating. Sixty years ago Kenneth Arnold saw something
which changed his own life, the life of millions of others and impacted
on popular culture like a shockwave.
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more. Source: BBC |
Siberian window on the Ice Age
(Jul 2, 2007)
A Russian biologist has been trying to recreate a fully fledged Ice
Age eco-system in a remote corner of Siberia, complete, if possible,
with woolly mammoths. From the plane, the landscape was green –
thousands of kilometres of seemingly empty tundra, forest and scrubland,
punctuated by oxbow lakes, meanders and intricate waterways. But from
the small boat driven by Sergei Zimov along the Kolyma River, everything
was blue.
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more. Source: BBC |
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