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  • Goodbye Comet Elenin!

    Comet Elenin, or to be precise, its debris, made its closest pass by Earth on Oct. 16, 2011 without causing any earthquakes, tsunamis, or high tides and it didn’t collide with Earth, either. Strangely, but here was no brown dwarf or Mothership hidden in the

  • When will the 7 billionth human be born?

    On 31 October, a newborn baby somewhere in the world will become the 7 billionth member of the human race. Or so says the UN – alternatively, this date could be at least a year too early. Behind the UN’s patina of certainty may lie outdated and unreliable census data.

  • 25 people killed, 272 wounded in Egypt protests

    At least 25 people were killed when troops crushed a protest about an attack on a church in the worst violence since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.Armored personnel carriers sped into the crowd late on Sunday to break up the demonstrators near the state

  • Highlights of The Electric Universe Theory

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