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Will This Mysterious French Town Survive the End of the World?

By Dana KennedyFeb 1st 2011 – 1:00PM
AFP./Getty Images

AFP./Getty Images

An increasing number of people who follow esoteric teachings believe a small, picturesque village in southwest France has special powers and is the place to wait out the global apocalypse they warn is coming in 2012. Among the many myths surrounding rural Bugarach, population 189, are claims that the so-called lost...

Crop Circle Found in Indonesia Rice Field

By Lee SpeigelJan 24th 2011 – 11:00AM
Tribun Jogja / The Jakarta Post

Tribun Jogja / The Jakarta Post

Indonesian rice farmers in Slemen, Yogyakarta, got quite a surprise Sunday morning when they discovered that overnight a large crop circle had mysteriously formed in one of their fields. The circle, which also includes internal geometric patterns of a triangle and smaller circles, has an overall diameter of nearly 90...

2010: A Big Year for UFOs

By Lee SpeigelDec 27th 2010 – 7:35AM
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Getty Images

Like a bad penny that keeps showing up, UFOs have been around on a regular basis from antiquity through modern day. And as 2010 unfolded, the UFO mythology was alive and well. Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, the pope's astronomer, a high-ranking Italian politician and even the late Winston Churchill...

NASA's Arsenic-Eating Bug Press Conference [LIVE BLOG]

By Steven HofferDec 2nd 2010 – 1:07PM

(Dec. 2) -- The time has finally come for NASA's heavily anticipated press conference, which has generated quite the Internet buzz since the space agency released an enticingly ambiguous press briefing previewing the announcement of an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial...

Scientists Find Arsenic-Eating Bug That Holds Clues to Extraterrestrial Life

By Traci WatsonDec 2nd 2010 – 12:25PM
Henry Bortman

Henry Bortman

(Dec. 2) -- Scientists dabbling in the toxic waters of a California lake have found a new species of bacteria that thrives on poisonous arsenic -- a discovery that opens up the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, according to a much anticipated NASA study. Arsenic is a deadly poison to many plants and animals, but the...

Background on extraterrestrial

Extraterrestrial life (from the Latin words: extra ("beyond", or "not of") and‎ ("of or belonging to Earth")) is defined as life that does not originate from Earth.

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