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The International Space Station (Photo: NASA)

Close Call for ISS; Threat to Polar Bears; Binary System Cannibal

July 18, 2015

ISS Crewmembers Back to Work after Close Call with Space Junk Fear that a floating piece of space junk could impact the ISS sent astronauts the station’s crew scrambling onto a docked Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on Friday (07/17). Luckily, the debris passed the station harmlessly, and the crew was back at work. Houston’s Mission Control […]

Have Researchers Debunked Idea of “Sixth Sense” ?

January 15, 2014

There are people who claim to have a sixth sense or extrasensory perception (ESP), the ability to acquire or “see” information about the future through means other than normal human senses. Researchers at the University of Melbourne have looked into the matter and say their findings help debunk the belief that a sixth sense actually […]

Your Body Odor Can Reveal Your Age

May 30, 2012

People can tell how old you are by how you smell, according to new research published in the journal PLoS One. It appears that “old person smell” some people complain about is for real, that elderly people emit a unique identifying odor. An elderly individual’s “old person smell”  is actually acknowledged and accepted in cultures […]

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