Written by CNN
Spending 340 days aboard the International Space Station between 2015 and 2016 caused changes in astronaut Scott Kelly’s body, from his weight down to his genes, according to the results of the NASA Twins Study, released last Thursday.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
The number of companies that hoped in vain (some still do) to harness ocean power for “free energy” is steadily increasing.
One of the latest outfits not doing so well is Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) of Monroe Township, NJ, USA.
Written by John O'Sullivan
Much interest has been generated by last week’s report of the world’s first image of a black hole (above). The Astrophysical Journal Letters reported on the experiment by Professor Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Written by Matt Agorist
On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.
Moments later, the Department of Justice released a statement charging Assange with computer hacking “conspiracy” for allegedly working with US Army soldier at the time, Chelsea Manning.
Written by John O'Sullivan
As the world’s press rush to share news of the world’s ‘First Black Hole Image‘ some skeptics are challenging the claim.
Australian researcher, Stephen J Crothers has issued a dissenting open letter to the author of the original assertion, Dear Sabine Hossenfelder. The open letter is posted below in full and we invite readers to draw their own conclusions:
Written by Richard Cronin
Written by Larry Bell
There is nothing coincidental about common déjà vu features of a CO2 climate crisis-premised war on fossil fuels and a hysterically-hyped sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission acid rain environmental calamity a half-century ago.
Written by Arturo Casadevall
Last week, Duke University announced it would pay the US government US$112.5 million to settle claims that fraudulent data were used in dozens of research-grant applications.
This is a communal punishment for an institution where the overwhelming majority of scientists are honest, hard-working individuals seeking knowledge for the good of humanity.
Written by BBC
A new sensitive survey of the Red Planet’s atmosphere has detected no methane – a gas that on Earth is strongly linked to life.
Written by Megan Gannon
European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica, where they will drill more than 1.5 miles (2.7 kilometers) below the surface of the ice.
Written by Paul Rincon
Image copyright FLORENT DETROITThere’s a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that’s been found in the Philippines. It’s known as Homo luzonensis, after the site of its discovery on the country’s largest island Luzon.
Written by Cap Allon
Pakistan set snowfall records this winter, with chief meteorologist of the PMD, Khalid Malik, saying more regions than ever before received 50+ inches (4.2 feet) of powder. And there’s still no sign of spring.
Written by Hilary Whiteman, CNN
Written by Martin L.Pall
We are all familiar with the concept of sending and receiving data wirelessly via our smart phones and computers.
But this convenient and increasingly popular technology appears to have a hidden downside on human health, according to researchers.
Written by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at images of the Sun — all day, every day.
Written by John O'Sullivan
As climatologists increasingly, albeit grudgingly, concede climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide approaches zero, a top Australian scientist exposes gross errors in the UN IPCC’s claims about ‘greenhouse gases.’