The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.

The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

"Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.

The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).

The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).

A Canadian researcher managed to take a picture of the face of the legendary hairy giant – the mascot of the Winter Olympic Games 2010.

Randy Brisson, a well-known Canadian cryptozoologist, shared hot information with his Russian colleagues. The researcher sent a photograph of the North American Bigfoot to Igor Burtsev and Dmitry Bayanov, the directors of the International Center for Hominology. The Canadian took the picture of the creature in Vancouver, the capital of Winter Games 2010.
Brisson assured his Russian colleagues that it was a photo of the legendary Bigfoot, or Sasquatch. The popularity of the mythical creature has won it the honor to become a symbol and a mascot of Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Mr. Brisson’s photo may mean that the mascots ramble somewhere in the woods of the Olympic city.

According to civil registry documents, she was born on February 2, 1885, in the village of Santa Rosa, where she continues to live. This makes the Cuban woman, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, 125 years old, perhaps oldest person on Earth.
A party marked the occasion of her 125th birthday last weekend in the city of Bayamo in Granma province, attended by Rodriguez's family, including 15 great-grand children and four great-great-grandchildren.

Senora Rodriguez is known affectionately as "Candulia," In a phone interview with Cuban media, she said she was happy and looking forward to many great years ahead.

The Guinness Book of World Records claims to have never heard of the case. Supposedly some sources are not certain if she is really that old, even though official records have been located.

Man continues to unravel mysteries of the universe, the macro and the micro worlds. Modern science has achieved incredible progress in many fields, but it seems that a human being still remains the biggest mystery of all.
The human brain is an extremely complicated organ. Scientists are only about to unravel just a few of its functions. It seems that the keys to these mysteries are not going to be found soon.

Dreaming

If you ask a group of people, where their dreams come from, you will most likely hear a variety of theories. It will not mean that those people never follow any news in the world of science. Scientists simply do not know anything about the nature of dreams. No one knows where dreams come from and how they appear. One of the theories says that the human body checks connections in the brain during sleep, which produces images in the head of a sleeping person. Other scientists say that when a person sleeps, the brain processes the information, which it failed to process during the day. We only know that people see dreams only during the Rapid Eye Movement phase.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev believes that US President Barack Obama still has the support of the electorate despite opinion polls showing his support slipping. Gorbachev had positive comments and words recently when discussing nuclear disarmament treaty negotiations.
The election of Obama was not an accident," Gorbachev said. "It is true however that there has been some slippage in support for him." While he said that he liked Obama "a great deal," Gorbachev acknowledged that Obama faces considerable difficulties as he attempts to change his country's policies.

"US policy is changing, but it's a difficult process," he said. Gorbachev feels that the United States had missed "many opportunities" in the past, but chances are better with Obama. "I am very pleased that now Obama has changed course and has gone back to dialogue and the process of nuclear arms control," said Gorbachev, speaking through an interpreter.

Some have said they see Barack Obama as the US version of Mikhail Gorbachev. When the United States found itself in the midst of a global economic crisis, the administration decided it was time to launch the dialogue and discussion idea for peace in the world spoken about in the campaign. This is what Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to do during his leadership of the Soviet Union. During his trip to Moscow, Obama met with Mikhail Gorbachev.