Researchers believe that new “thinking caps“, could help provide super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry.
Daily Archives: April 2, 2012
Deepest Terrestrial Animal Discovered in Cave
Scientists have discovered four new species of primitive eyeless insects, one of which they described as the deepest land animal ever found.
These animals are springtails (Arthropoda, Insecta, Collembola), a minute primitive wingless insect with six-legs and without eyes that commonly live in total darkness in caves, where they feed on fungi and decomposing organic matter.
Solar storms could crash computer systems this year, says space expert
Earth is being battered by clouds of particles this week but more severe storms later this year could cause life to ‘grind to a halt’.
Extraordinary story of Appalachia’s ‘Blue Family’
In the Appalachian Mountains rests a medical oddity so unusual that it at first seems a massive hoax.
Dating back to the early 1800s, an isolated family in eastern Kentucky – who can trace their roots back to a French orphan – started producing children who were blue.
As a result of a coincidental meeting of recessive genes, intermarriage and inbreeding, members of the Fugate family were born with a rare condition that made them visibly discoloured.
Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany
A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years.