Researchers have found a way to modify blood types

© Thinkstock      There's a serious supply-and-demand problem when it comes to blood transfusions: Patients are in constant need of the bodily fluid, which delivers oxygen and nutrients to the cells, but because they need a specific type, hospitals and blood banks often experience shortages. Fortunately, chemists from the University of British Columbia and colleagues from the Center for Blood Research have created an enzyme...

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Jane Goodall on GMO's: "I truly believe we're poisoning ourselves"

© ANDREA SMARDON Jane Goodall speaks in support of Steven Druker's book, "Altered Genes, Twisted Truth".      Primatologist Jane Goodall was speaking in Salt Lake City at a sold-out event Friday evening about her work and the future of chimpanzees. But in the afternoon, she lent her fame and clout to a more controversial cause. Goodall appeared with Steven Druker, the author of a book that aims to wipe out genetically modified...

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Why NATO is terrified of Russia

© RT.com      The twin-pronged attack - oil price war/raid on the ruble - aimed at destroying the Russian economy and place it into a form of Western natural resource vassalage has failed. Natural resources were also essentially the reason for reducing Iran to a Western vassalage. That never had anything to do with Tehran developing a nuclear weapon, which was banned by both the leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini,...

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Mysterious Nazca line geoglyphs formed ancient pilgrimage route

© adwo/Shutterstock.com The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified archaeologists and scientists for decades. Now researchers analyzing the style and type of geoglyphs say they were made by two different groups of people taking different pilgrimage routes to an ancient temple. Here, one of the most famous of the geoglyphs, an enigmatic supernatural creature called "The Astronaut".      San...

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.8 - 106km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

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SOTT Exclusive: What's going down? The latest batch of aircraft crashes, accidents, glitches and mishaps

Crash: The male pilot died in the crash on Autobahn 28 near Hatten, Oldenburg, Germany on April 12      This summary is a continuation of this list which detailed various aircraft accidents and mishaps that occurred recently (a catalogue of 54 such events over 16 days from the 18 March to 3 April). This latest update logs 123 incidents in 27 days from April 4 to the 30 April from across the globe. (Although no doubt some reports...

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Two strange moving objects spotted over Vancouver BC

UFOs buzzing the Canadian skies of British Columbia left residents amazed and thrilled in wonder.      A strange object has been caught on video flying across the night sky in Esquimalt, B.C., and the people who filmed it insist it's a UFO. Brian Cooper and his wife Melissa were relaxing in bed watching a movie on Monday night when all of a sudden they saw something outside their window: two strange objects darting around the...

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