"Goseck, Germany (dpa) ­ Archaeologists digging at the place where an amazing Bronze Age disc was found in Germany have turned up a body and remains of a Stone Age building, adding to the riddle around one of the world's biggest archaeological sensations of the past decade. Andreas Northe, giving the results of this summer's dig on the remote hill in eastern Germany, said, "We found a child's grave, a cache of stone tools and some remains from a long-house."..."

"String theory is having trouble producing inflation – the rapid expansion of space thought to have occurred in the early universe – at least in some of the theory's simplest incarnations, according to a new study...."

"Space-Time According to Einstein The special theory of relativity, formulated by Albert Einstein in 1905, is based on the experimentally confirmed idea that the velocity of light is the same universal constant, c= 3x1010 cm./sec., for all observers who move uniformly in straight lines relative to each other. Consequently, Einstein's genius deduced that events which are simultaneous to one observer are not simultaneous to a second observer...."

"This paper presents a model of the universe that is based on a nonphysical independent reality: consciousness. The model is unique in that it not only provides a precise model of consciousness, but also connects consciousness with the rest of reality. The universe is shown to be a natural consequence of consciousness, beginning with a "big bang." Consciousness is identified with existence, and the relation between existence and the self is explored...."

"There are aliens among us. They have probably been a part of human psychology as long as there have been humans. An explanation based on biology and culture is that they are created anew each generation by unusual and evocative bodily experiences. These experiences arise from physiological processes, some of which are both extremely ancient and others of which are likely relatively modern, and elaborated and organized by cultural traditions. These experiences may include immobility or paralysis, felt "presences" th..."

"Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution. The broken upper jaw-bone and intact skull from humanlike creatures, or hominids, are described in Nature. Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us. Now, habilis and erectus are thought to be sister species that overlapped in time...."

"If the history of life on Earth could be rewound and replayed, many of the same innovations would reappear, although at different times and in slightly different forms. This is the conclusion of Geerat Vermeij, a paleontologist at the University of California, Davis...."