Written by Abigail Beall
What if your own immune system could defeat cancer? This year’s Nobel prize for medicine, awarded to James Allison and Tasuku Honjo, shines a light on one of the most promising efforts in the fight against the disease.
Written by Richard Speed
Interview A British startup has proposed combining the “maybe one day” technology of fusion power with the “slowly, slowly” tech of ion propulsion to create an engine capable of sending humanity to the stars.
Written by Belle Dumé
Radioactive potassium could be a significant source of heat in the Earth’s core. V Rama Murthy from the University of Minnesota and colleagues have shown that potassium-40 can exist in the core of the Earth and provide heat via its radioactive decay.
Written by dezwijger.nl
The debate on nuclear power has been pretty quiet in the Netherlands, as elsewhere, in recent years. Plans for the construction of new plants have been canceled. And the new Climate Agreement doesn’t even mention the nuclear option.
Written by Dr Tim Ball
Written by John Eidson
In comments that laid bare the hidden agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the U.N.’s real purpose in pushing climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world:
Written by James Murphy
The climate alarmists just can’t catch a break. NASA is reporting that the sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age and Earth’s atmosphere is responding in kind.
So, start pumping out that CO2, everyone. We’re going to need all the greenhouse gases we can get.
Written by Kazunori Takahashi, Tohoku University
Written by Martin Armstrong
The sun is entering perhaps one of the deepest Solar Minima in thousands of years. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018. This is really alarming. Since the start of 2018, there have been totally spotless days for weeks. The sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply declined and this is not going to end well.
Written by John O'Sullivan
CIA operative and alleged sex assault victim, Professor Christine Blasey-Ford walked right into the perjury trap set for her by prosecutor Rachel Mitchell on Capitol Hill.
Ford lied to the US Senate last Thursday to hide her expertise in how to beat a lie detector test. She now likely faces prosecution and up to five years in federal prison.
Written by Dr Tony Phillips
Many people think that only astronauts have to worry about cosmic radiation. Not so. Ordinary air travelers are exposed to cosmic rays, too. On a typical flight over the continental USA, radiation dose rates in economy class are more than 40 times higher than on the ground below.
Written by Paul Driessen
Dr. Brian Wansink recently resigned from his position as Columbia University professor, eating behavior researcher and director of the Cornell “food lab.” A faculty investigation found that he had misreported research data, failed to preserve data and results properly, and employed dubious statistical techniques.
Written by Rand Clifford
Written by Paul Rincon
Image copyright UNI WATERLOOThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years.
Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third woman winner of the award, along with Marie Curie, who won in 1903, and Maria Goeppoert-Mayer, who was awarded the prize in 1963. Dr Strickland shares this year’s prize with Arthur Ashkin, from the US, and Gerard Mourou, from France.
Written by Richard F Cronin
More unbelievable guesswork in the linked article on gyroscopic wobble of the earth. This whole blame game starts with the premise that man is the cause of every change on earth, and it’s all bad. Now the pseudo-scientists go out to find evidence in support of their premise.
Written by deepcarbon.net
Lab experiments and observations of high-pressure minerals from a subduction zone suggest that when ocean crust sinks into the mantle through subduction, the carbonates and water react to form light hydrocarbons.