What if I told you that the Department of Defense and the CIA spent four decades researching extrasensory perception and psychokinesis — i.e., bending spoons with your mind?

The United States will revive the long-dormant National Space Council, a group meant to coordinate space policy among government agencies and departments. Vice-president Mike Pence, who will chair the council, announced its reinstatement on 7 June at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Our solar system is teeming with simple carbon-based molecules, the basic building blocks of life. If the conditions are right, these simple molecules can go on to form more complex, biologically interesting molecules, such as amino acids and proteins.

It is remarkable how often we hear the claim that “the solar industry now employs twice as many Americans as coal”. And, more often than not, as a cause of celebration.

Filed under the category “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up,” the headlines today highlight California’s “Endless Winter.”

Richard Muller says he used to be a skeptic, and that he can convert President Trump to the climate religion in less than two hours.

Trump Calls Global Warming a ‘Hoax.’ This Converted Skeptic Could Change That

“[T]he absorption of incident solar-light by the atmosphere as well as its absorption capability of thermal radiation, cannot be influenced by human acts.”  – Allmendinger, 2017

A key feature of scientific theories is that they make successful predictions, which we can use to determine whether they’re likely to be right. For general relativity, one of its key predictions had to wait for an eclipse of the Sun.

Modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, researchers reported Wednesday.

New discoveries at a rich site in Morocco show modern humans were hunting and probably cooking game animals 300,000 years ago — 100,000 years earlier than scientists have believed until now.

A scientist claims to have debunked what’s considered the best evidence of intelligent alien life, presenting findings that an undiscovered comet produced a 1977 deep space radio signal.

Over the past century, the percent of the US affected by hot weather on June 7 has declined. The five hottest June 11ths were 1933, 2011, 1952, 1963 and 1988.

On June 7, 1933, almost the entire eastern half of the US was over 90 degrees, and much was over 100 degrees.

Fresh technology developed in Japan may be about to swing the global energy pendulum back toward coal, by turning the old fossil fuel into a much cleaner energy source. 

Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the powerful gusts of a Category 5 hurricane, creating the potential risk for any such turbines built in hurricane-prone areas, new University of Colorado Boulder-led research shows.

Tyrannosaurus Rex had scales, not feathers, said a study Wednesday which rescues the giant lizard’s reputation as a fearsome killer with a rough-and-tough hide.

“Global warming” is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.