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Pigeons may ‘hear’ magnetic fields | Science News. [VIDEO] Nasa sends rubber chicken into space | Science News. [VIDEO] The Hubos Come Together | Science News. Is That an Elephant on Mars? : Discovery News | Science News. [VIDEO] How a boa strangles its prey | Science News. Q&A: The Surprising Phenomenon of Exercise-Induced Orgasms | Science News. Video: The Navy's 'Shoulder-to-Shoulder' Firefighting Robot's First Trial By Fire | Science News. Holy crap, this Martian dust devil is enormous | Science News. [VIDEO] - Carnivorous plant digested the mouse - teeth and bones!!! | Science News. Your supermarket may affect your weight | Science News. Programming computers to help computer programmers | Science News. New Insight on Moon’s Origins | Science News. Are We the Reason for the Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered | Science News.

The dolphin jetpack that lets you swim like one | Science News. Did You See This? Ancient British Porn | Science News. This robotic baby crawled out of your nightmares | Science News. [VIDEO] - 30 Japanese Giant Hornet Kill 30,000 Honey Bees | Science News. Thinking Underwear for Warriors : Discovery News | Science News. Violin and subatomic particle duet set to be performed at leading UK particle physics lab | Science News. Arts-and-science-philosophy-tattoo.jpg (580×488) Contact lenses upgrade your eyes to enable true immersive VR | Science News. How sunlight, sex, and sneezes are all connected | Science News. Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off Keiichi Matsuda’s Vision of the Future | Science News. The Costa Concordia Shipwreck Viewed from Outer Space | Science News. Snakes know when to stop squeezing because they sense the heartbeats of their prey | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine | Science News.

Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations : Discovery News | Science News. Unusual 'tulip' creature discovered | Science News. The Beetle ‘Poo Dance’ | LiveScience | Science News. Microsoft Does Minority Report | Science News. G-Spot: Science Can't Find It After 60 Years, Study Says | Science News. Tiny Invisible Galaxy May Be Made Completely of Dark Matter | Science News.

Serial killing follows predictable pattern based on brain activity | Science News. IBM scientists create the smallest 3D map of planet Earth | Science News. Impatient Futurist: Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science | Science News. 'Spooky action at distance' in particle physics? | Science News. Superstuff: When quantum goes big | Science News.

Meet the Invincible, Invisible Soldiers of 2001 | Science News. Next-Generation Surveillance Robots Can Analyze Their Environment | Popular Science | Science News. Synthetic biology and the rise of the 'spider-goats' | Science News. Zoologger: Unique life form is half plant, half animal - life - 13 January 2012 - New Scientist | Science News. 3D Printed Eco-Friendly Houses: The Future Is Now | Science News. Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole | Science News. This Web-Connected Robot Gives Your Tweets and Facebook Comments a Smell | Science News. Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. [VIDEO] Making A Computer From Bubbles | Science News. Bootylicious Fly Gets Named... Beyoncé | Science News. Real Farmville: iPad Game Would Let Pigs Play with Humans | Science News.

The man who can transform any vegetable into a musical instrument. This Cute Sea Snail Can Swallow a Fish Three Times Its Size and Kill Humans. Glass harp-Toccata and fugue in D minor-Bach-BWV 565. Ten 100-year predictions that came true. 11 January 2012Last updated at 00:09 By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Magazine John Watkins predicted Americans would be taller, tanks would exist and C, X and Q would no longer feature in our everyday alphabet In 1900, an American civil engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made a number of predictions about what the world would be like in 2000.

How did he do? As is customary at the start of a new year, the media have been full of predictions about what may happen in the months ahead. But a much longer forecast made in 1900 by a relatively unknown engineer has been recirculating in the past few days. In December of that year, at the start of the 20th Century, John Elfreth Watkins wrote a piece published on page eight of an American women's magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, entitled What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years. Watkins was a writer for the Journal's sister magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, based in Indianapolis. It was picked up and caused some excitement on Twitter. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Study Shows Facebook is an Animal Instinct | Science News. For 25 Euros, you can be a (mildly) tortured Soviet political prisoner in Lithuania.