The Seattle scientist who wants to test a controversial prediction from quantum theory that says light particles can go backward in time is, himself, running out of time. It's not a wormhole or warp in the space-time continuum. The problem is more mundane -- a black hole in the time-and-money continuum spawned by today's increasingly risk-averse, "performance-based" approach to funding research...
(Also read: "Time Travelers")
Frogs rain down on Serbia
Traffic came to a halt and locals fled inside after thousands of frogs fell from the sky onto a Serbian village. Residents in Odzaci told local daily Blic they thought the world was coming to an end. Aleksandar Ciric said: "I saw all these small frogs just start raining down. There were thousands of them." Another villager, Caja Jovanovic, added: "This huge 'cloud' seemed to come out of nowhere and its shape and colour looked very strange...
(Also read: "Weird, Weird Rain")
Dreamed up phone number leads man to a bride
A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided to contact it, sending a message saying "Did I meet you last night?." Random recipient Michelle Kitson was confused and wary at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love...
Ghost-hunting team
Ghost-hunters have identified two more Bridlington pubs which they believe could be haunted. The team from East Coast Ghost Nights are planning to spend a night at the Londesborough in Albert Street this month followed by a trip to the Mermaid on West Hill later in the year...
The flying saucer snapped up by US army
Half of French UFOs remain unexplained
For three decades, an arms length branch of France's national space agency quietly gathered reports of strange apparitions in the skies over the republic, from bright lights zig-zagging in the dark night to calls about flying saucers...
Loony and loving it
Any researcher who explores controversial topics like Bigfoot and UFOs hears the same refrain over and over from people both anonymous and named. It goes something like this: You're crazy! Yes, that kind of eloquent statement truly stabs at the heart of the paranormal researcher...
An ur-universe produces UFOs?
Professor Benford’s suggestion is that evolution may have created a panoply of universes, with intelligence, and “Our universe may have arisen from selection for intelligences that can make fresh universes…and [an] Ur-universe that had intelligence could make others,” thus selection would be amenable to forming new life, and “Once life-forms realized this, they could make smart universes” whereby if that “did occur, then we are an inevitable consequence of the universe mirroring intelligences who came before, in some earlier universe…”..
UFO and Bigfoot sightings: faith has nothing to do with it
Ghost hunting aboard the Queen Mary
What's big, white, historic and lights up at night while offering ghostly tours? Give up? Of course you don't, because the obvious answer is none other than the Queen Mary, the formerly royal flagship of the sea, which has become the flagship symbol for the city of Long Beach...
