Written by Mac Slavo
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot. This shot would be a DNA-based vaccine that will literally change your body’s DNA.
Written by Jim Allison
In 2018, Dr. Jim Allison was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering an effective way to attack cancer through immunology.
In his lab, Allison urges researchers to get rid of the idea that they can prove something with science. All they can do is fail to disprove.
Written by Valerie Richardson
An inspector general’s report released Tuesday found Interior Secretary David Bernhardt committed no wrongdoing during his work as deputy secretary on a scientific assessment evaluating the impact of pesticides on endangered species.
Written by Andrew Montford
Environmental correspondents make a good living from scare stories. In the case of the BBC’s Matt McGrath (pictured), doubly so: as well as his BBC salary, he was recently the recipient of a €100,000 ($110,677) award from the green blob for his work.
Written by Elias Marat
In a historical first, a massive floating device designed by conservationists to clean up plastic from the ocean has successfully collected trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The machine, which was invented by 25-year-old Dutch inventor and engineer Boyan Slat, consists of a huge line of cork floats holding a huge skirt that traps the garbage below.
Written by Arjun Walia
Mainstream media outlets and political organizations have been predicting doom and gloom, what seems to be end of the world type of scenarios when they bring up the topic of global warming and climate change.
Written by Roger Pielke Jr PhD
In recent years, the issue of climate change has taken a decidedly apocalyptic turn.
Earlier this week United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned, “If we don’t urgently change our way of life, we jeopardize life itself.”
Written by mybroadband.co.za
Electric cars will not be able to compete in the same price range as fuel-driven vehicles while they rely on lithium-ion batteries.
This is according to a report from the MIT Energy Initiative, which argues that the price of electric vehicles batteries will not be sufficiently reduced for more mainstream adoption in the coming years.
Written by bBrain
Leonard Nimoy (‘Spock’ of Star Trek fame) narrates a popular documentary from 1978 representing the widespread scientific consensus of an impending ice age. The same grant-chasing scientists who warned us then of global cooling are the same doomsayers preaching global warming today. Little has changed.
Written by Dustin Mulvaney, Morgan D. Bazilian
The solar economy continues its dramatic growth, with over a half-terawatt already installed around the world generating clean electricity. But what happens to photovoltaic (PV) modules at the end of their useful life?
Written by James Taylor
There they go again. A new paper relying on modeling rather than real-world observations, claims global warming is creating a food production crisis.
The media are breathlessly promoting the doom-and-gloom paper, even as global food production reaches yet another new record.
Written by Jonathan Lange
When newspapers are under threat of lawsuit for any opinion that a jury might find objectionable, what remains of freedom of the press? How will public pursuit of the truth be advanced if anyone can sue for defamation to shield himself from honest critique?
Written by Jade Boyd Rice University
Earth’s breathable atmosphere is key for life, and a new study suggests that the first burst of oxygen was added by a spate of volcanic eruptions brought about by tectonics.
Written by Susan J Crockford PhD
The media are so gullible. So eager are they for a sympathetic polar bear victim that news outlets everywhere carried a story earlier this week about a Russian polar bear that had ‘T-34’ spray-painted on its side.
Written by Michael Clarke (Logician)
Rocket Launches are critically dependent upon Rocket performance! Rockets are notoriously variable thrust devices, not always when required to deliver more or less boost!
Written by Cécile Barbière translated by Daniel Eck
Disagreement on the inclusion of nuclear power in the EU’s upcoming green finance taxonomy has revived long-standing divisions between France and Germany over the energy transition. EURACTIV France reports.
