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Longest Footbridge In Alps

WORLD’S LONGEST SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE FOUND IN ALPS

If you are an adventurer be sure to check out the longest suspension footbridge – 1621 feet long and 26” wide - in the world.  Located in Switzerland, 279 feet above the ground between Zermatt and Grachen.  The previous bridge ...
Canada Unveils ‘Dinosaur Mummy’

Canada Unveils ‘Dinosaur Mummy’

While some miners were digging in Northern Alberta, Canada they came upon a skeleton of a perfectly preserved dinosaur from over 110 million years ago.  This dragon-like armor plated dinosaur was suggested to have been over 3000 pounds was discovered ...

Resurrecting an ancient virus

French researchers have revived a dormant and previously unknown virus from a 30,000-year-old sample of Siberian permafrost. The pathogen poses no threat to humans, but its zombie-like return to an infectious state demonstrates the remarkable durability of microbes and raises ...
Big Sugar Deception

Big Sugar Deception

Researchers have found that some scientific findings regarding the health benefits of sugar were very misleading and is the major factor in most Americans becoming overweight/obese. We have been taught to read nutrition labels regarding how much sugar is in ...
Sleep Deprivation and Your Heart

Sleep Deprivation and Your Heart

If you want to keep your heart healthy be sure to get enough sleep at night, about 6 to 8 hours if possible.  A study in Spain of 4,000 people showed that the less sleep or if your sleep is ...
Capitalism

Capitalism – Confronting and Constructing a Culture

By Evo Morales, President of Bolivia - Jan 24, 2013 Sisters, brothers: The world is being hit by a world-wide multiple crisis that is manifested in a climate, financial, food, institutional, cultural, ethical and spiritual crisis. This crisis indicates to ...

Pesticides and IVF

Women who are trying to get pregnant through IVF (in vitro fertilization) are finding that if they eat too many fruits and vegetables that are sprayed with pesticides might be the reason they can’t conceive. A study of Pesticides and ...
Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'

Stephen Hawking: ‘There are no black holes’

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' - Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has declared that black holes do not exist - at least not in the way we normally think about them. In a new paper, he tackles a scientific ...

How Addiction Affects Offspring

When laboratory rats abuse cocaine, they produce offspring that are less susceptible to addiction, according to the Los Angeles Times. This surprising genetic twist emerged from a study done at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which found that ...

Dark matter is (probably) more complex than you think

Scientists typically believe that dark matter behaves in a simple way: if one clump encounters another, the two interact solely through gravity. However, researchers have published findings which suggest that there's more involved. They've noticed dark matter (the blue lines ...