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.
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.
Norwegians have been left awestruck by a bright meteor that illuminated the night sky in the country’s south-east. Footage shows powerful flashes of light over Norway, followed by what witnesses described as loud bangs on Sunday.
The NFL’s Minnesota Vikings responded to a report that it fired a coach for his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccine by saying discussions are ongoing with the coach.
In an effort to help end the pandemic, an international coalition of medical experts is holding worldwide events on Saturday to raise awareness about the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
CNN continues its wall to wall broadcasts calling for unvaccinated people to be punished, with analysts again calling for those who haven’t gotten the COVID shots to be segregated from society and forced to pay for tests every single day.
The first reports into the terrible collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico have been published by the National Science Foundation.
The annual data on coral cover for the Great Barrier Reef, produced by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, was released on Monday showing the amount of coral on the reef is at record high levels. Record high, despite all the doom stories by our reef science and management institutions.
The United Arab Emirates uses drones that fly into clouds and deliver an electric shock to “cajole them” into producing precipitation amid dangerous heat waves regularly surpassing triple digits.
A decade ago, anthropologists shocked the world when they discovered a fossil pinkie bone from a then-unknown group of extinct humans in Siberia’s Denisova Cave. The group was named “Denisovans” in its honor. Now, an extensive analysis of DNA in the cave’s soils reveals it also hosted modern humans—who arrived early enough that they may have once lived there alongside Denisovans and Neanderthals.
“Gain-of-Function” is an obtuse term for making an existing virus deadly to humans, or “weaponizing it” by modifying it. During an interview with OAN, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul shares that gain-of-function research is happening right now in Texas and North Carolina labs.
In a move that pours cold water on the dreams of a few billionaire space explorers, the US has tightened its definition of the word “astronaut”. New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety.