The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. This has been revealed in a study by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).

Researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United States have determined that the increase in the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic over the past several years is NOT related to global warming.

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The American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association have joined up with over 50 other health care organizations to call for mandatory vaccinations in their own industries, citing rising COVID cases and their trust in the vaccine.

A survey of astronomers and geophysicists has unveiled a “systemic bullying problem” which is “disproportionately worse” for women and members of minority groups, already under-represented in the field.

The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.

Could this be why flu virus deaths decreased by 99 percent in 2020?

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is investigating an outbreak of the plague that reportedly claimed the life of a 10-year-old child.

An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall made a “close” approach with Earth on Sunday July 25th, according to NASA calculations.

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering.

The entire western world is living in a strange kind of Greek tragedy. In ancient Greece, the rulers for a period decided they would deceive their people by building grand temples to the gods.  They would then encourage their citizens to choose a god of their liking and then go their gods temple to worship them, and witness their power at the temple.

Typhoon In-Fa made landfall in eastern China with high wind and torrential rains as other parts of the country were cleaning up from last week’s historic flooding.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better on the global health landscape, along comes one of those pesky drug-resistant superbug fungi.

Astronomers have for the first time spotted what appears to be a moon-forming ring of matter around a young exoplanet, and described their findings in a paper published on Thursday.

More than 100K pages of FOIA documents referenced here have been condensed into 173 pages of the most relevant selections in my appendix Prometheus Shrugged. It was here, last February, that the role of Dr. Fauci in ongoing academic censorship of COVID’s origin was first exposed.