A radar view of Lavinia Planitia, on Venus, where the planet’s rocky outer layer has broken into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow)

This week it was announced that a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, Laurel Hubbard (pictured), will compete in the women’s category at the Olympics. Depending on your point of view, this is either a stunning victory for trans rights; or a woeful betrayal of women’s.

Trust the science: The phrase has echoed across the world throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a supposed safeguard against questioning what mainstream “science” feeds us — or even injects into us.

Florida Senate Bill 2006, passed by the Florida legislature and signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 3rd of this year, famously banned vaccine passports statewide in a much-touted triumph of the state government over its own power.

An e-mail allegedly from British epidemiologist and pandemic planner Neil Ferguson, explains that the lockdowns and restrictions in place since last spring were only the first part of the plan.  The second phase will see the UK permanently locked down and for much more severe measures, including bracelets, to be put in place, starting on July 15th.

In 2018, a team of astronomers reported that a galaxy appeared to have no dark matter, the invisible, mysterious stuff that is known only from its gravitational effects.

The brain inflammation and impaired “brain circuitry” seen in people who die of COVID-19 look a lot like what doctors see in the brains of people who die of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, researchers reported on Monday in the journal Nature.

Things aren’t looking too good for a certain American-produced rocket engine, according to the US Government Accountability Office – and it isn’t SpaceX’s Merlin.

Cummins points out how childishly simple it is to demonstrate the statistical falsity of the fake news being foisted on the public.

NASA and SpaceX have sent dozens of baby squid into space. The animals, taken from Hawaii, will spend some time at the International Space Station before coming back down again.

Cookie-cutter sharks are a small species of shark about the size of a domestic cat that will attack predators several times their size, biting off conical chunks of their flesh, and even the soft parts of nuclear submarines.

Some 26.5 million years ago, a newfound giant rhino species roamed the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Based on its skull anatomy, the rhino’s discoverers think it had a short, prehensile trunk like a modern tapir.

In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and islands we see today, and humans have quickly and irreversibly changed the world we live in.