http://www.unmuseum.org Strange Science News from the Museum of UnNatural Mystery Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:04:35 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Is every ancient extinct reptile a dinosaur? Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:04:11 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/quantum2.htm Last month we started our expedition into the weird world of quantum physics. A place where things do not exist unless you look at them, where cats can be both dead and alive at the same time. This month we will focus on how some interpretations of quantum physics suggest that everything in the universe is instantly connected with everything else, no matter how distant apart they are. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:03:07 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0310.htm In this issue... <br> <br>-Dwarf Dinos on Island <br>-Roses that Smell Like Root Beer in Future <br>-Mummy Case to be Returned to Egypt <br>-King Solomon's Wall Found <br>-Thunderstorm Gama Rays may Threaten Airliners <br>-Jacko Spotted in Polymer Droplet <br>and more... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:02:01 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm How does a gun silencer stop the loud sound of a gunpowder explosion? Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:03:06 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/quantum1.htm The mystery at the heart of quantum physics strikes directly at our perception of whether the universe and everything in it, including ourselves, is real. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:02:07 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0210.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Statistics Help Find Fraudulent Art <br>-Alligators' Lung Works Like Birds <br>-Pyramids Not Built by Slaves <br>-Chinese Dino Venomous <br>-So Long and Thanks for All the Fish <br>-ISS Moves into the 21st Century <br>-See an Asteroid <br>and more... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:59 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm When I look up at the night sky, how many of those stars are really stars and how many are galaxies? Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:30:39 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/ball_lightning.htm I write a lot about people who have encounters with anomalous things, but rarely do I just stumble across someone in my everyday life that tells me they encountered a rare electrical phenomenon called ball lightning. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:29:15 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0110.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Is New Exo-planet a Waterworld? <br>-Revolutionary Paper Battery May Have Many Applications <br>-More of the Dino Warm/Cold Blooded Debate <br>-Recently Found Fragments Open Questions about Shroud of Turin <br>-HARPS Finds 32 Planets <br>-Cloud-like UFO? <br>-Quadrantid Meteor Shower <br>and more... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:27:51 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm I have a thermometer hanging on the wall that also has a humidity gauge. The humidity gauge is just a round strip of metal. How can a strip of metal tell how much humidity is in the air? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:45:31 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/electric_xmas.htm Today one can hardly find a street in North America during the month of December where the majority of houses are not lit up with a dazzling display of hundreds or even thousands tiny electric lights. Where did these traditions come from and when did Christmas become electric? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:44:08 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over1209.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Crack Will Become New Sea <br>-Researchers find Supersize "Cosmic Web" <br>-Crash Shows That Water is On Moon <br>-Brothers Claim to Have Found Mysterious Missing Army <br>-Super Volcano Eruption Destroyed Forests 3,000 Miles Away <br>-Intra-Mercurial Planet <br>-Snails: Better than Beef <br>-Blue Moon <br>and more Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:42:54 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm What does the moon's unusual orbit tell us about Earth's past? Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:51:36 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/apop2012.htm Books, internet sites and now even a major motion picture suggest that bad things are going to happen on December 21, 2012. Is any of this craziness based on scientific fact? Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:01 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over1109.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Group Tries to Debunk Shroud of Turin <br>-New 4.4 Million-Year-Old Human Remains Found <br>-Researchers Find Dinosaur Stampede <br>-Ida Not Our Relative <br>-New Leonardo Work Found <br>-Earhart Died on Nikumaroro <br>and more... Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:44:01 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Is there any way to resolve the Biblical Story with Science? Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:53:14 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/ghosts.htm They are called phantasms, specters or spirits. Most people just call them ghosts and are either fascinated by them, or are terrified of them, or sometimes both. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:49:21 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Massive Wall Discovered in Jerusalem <br>-Rat as Big as Cat <br>-Super Subs will Open Ocean Floor to Amateur Explorers <br>-Rat Eating Plant Found <br>-Tiny T-Rex. Startles Scientists <br>-Teenagers Kill Alien-like Animal <br>and more... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:48:21 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm What is a "vitamin", and how can sunlight make vitamin D? Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:07 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/league_art.htm A do-it-yourself way to commemorate your favorite book or movie and add a conversation piece to your home. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:04:18 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0909.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Space Elevator Getting Closer? <br>-Cave System Found Under Egyptian Pyramids <br>-Egyptian Tombs Could be Gone in 150 Years <br>-Giant Pandas in Trouble <br>-Pterosaurs Unlike Anything Else <br>-Book Review - Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life <br>-Florida Muck Monster <br>and more... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:02:35 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Why do scorpions fluoresce under a UV light? Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:00:09 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/rogue_shark_2.htm In twelve days in the summer of 1916 shark attacks along the New Jersey shore had left four dead and one maimed with the rogue shark still on the loose. Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:58:26 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0809.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Cats Developed Special Purr to get Human Attention <br>-Scientists Hunt Giant Worm <br>-Long Nailed Dinosaur <br>-Hubble Back in Service for a Day <br>-Purple Blobs <br>-The Perseid Meteor Shower <br>-Blue in M&amp;Ms Could Save Spine <br>and more... Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:56:43 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Is it possible to channel a pipe from Earth to Moon and pump in some of earth's atmosphere so as to support free life? Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:16:32 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/rogue_shark_1.htm Four are dead and a fifth maimed in the America's worst shark attack incident in the history of the nation. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:14:33 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0709.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Sharks Operate Like Serial Killers <br>-Find Makes Dino-Bird Connection More Likely <br>-Topless Mona Lisa-like Painting Exposed <br>-Warp Drive Might Create a Black Hole <br>-New Flying Car to be on Market <br>and more... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:12:25 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm I'm wondering if it's possible to use the principles of magnetism for travel. For example, could a ship with a highly focused electromagnet aim and pull itself to a planet's magnetic field, or to the heavy metal core of an asteroid? Could this same idea be used to create a flying car, by pushing or pulling off more than one point at the same time? Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:29 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/scitoday.htm Our page of breaking science news stories gets an update with more news categories and articles! Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:26:18 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0609.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-Komodo Dragon: Venom or Toxic Bacteria? <br>-Cat-sized Primate Significant Fossil <br>-Island "Hobbits" New Species <br>-Meteorite Hit Created Dangerous Gas <br>-DNA Could Tell if Lincoln was Already Dying <br>-E.T. Search Going for a Decade <br>and more... Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:23:21 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Is it true that for a satellite to hold the same position over the earth it can only be over the equator? Sat, 02 May 2009 00:40:33 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/bluebook.htm After investigating over 12,600 incidents the military's 22 year-long effort to crack the mystery of UFOs ended with anger, suspicion and claims of a cover up. Sat, 02 May 2009 00:38:42 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/press/index.htm A new book from the author of the "The Martain Who Looked Like a Dog Series." <br> <br> When Mike, Melissa and Hector ordered a submarine from an ad on the back for a comic book, they got less, and more than the expected. Robots, flying saucers, space aliens, sunken treasure and pirate looters were in the package too! <br> <br>Paperback $5.49. Ages 8 - 13. Available from the UnMuseum Press or Amazon.com Sat, 02 May 2009 00:37:06 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0509.htm In this issue: <br> <br>- Drying Salt Lakes May have Caused Extinction <br>- "Drowned" Spiders Comes Back to Life <br>- Researchers Search for Cleopatra and Antony Tombs <br>- Long-necked Stegosaur Found <br>- Knights Templars Guarded Shroud <br>- Astronaut Believes in UFO <br>and more... Sat, 02 May 2009 00:32:20 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/press/index.htm From the Martian Who Looked Like A Dog Series <br>From the author of the "Bunny Stories." <br> <br>Zebop, the last Martian, finds living on Mars very lonely. So he takes this saucer and flies to the planet Earth. There he disguies himself as a dog. Zebop comes to live with Jeffrey and together with their friends, Brenda and Rex, they have many adventures. Zebop has much to learn about the ways of planet Earth! <br> <br>Book#1 "Zebop Finds A Friend" - Zebop travels 36 million miles to Earth, but will anybody want to be a friend to a fuzzy alien? <br> <br>Fiction Ages 6 - 8 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:12:44 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/press/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:21 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/askcur.htm Was Bruce Lee Assassinated? The story behind his mysterious death. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:35:08 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/magicteaching.htm Magic &amp; Teaching- Can a book about the history of magic tell us something about education? Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:32:22 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/soearch/over0409.htm In this issue: <br> <br>-NASA Telescope Looks for ET's Home <br>-Dinosaurs on the Way Back to Life <br>-Oldest Evidence of Upright Walking <br>-Dead Sea Scroll Authors - The Essenes - Did Not Exist <br>-Smallest North American Dino Found <br>-British Release "Dog Walker" UFO Report <br>-Death of Dr. J. Allen Hynek <br> <br> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:29:57 GMT http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm The Museum of UnNatural Mystery announces the addition of an RSS feed to publish changes to the site and make its popular Science Over the Edge feature more widely available. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:02:32 GMT