Facebook has unveiled a new “Fact-Checker” feature­ that’s now being used to supposedly combat misinformation about vaccines, but which is actually being used to propagandize. A “Fact-Checker” showing up on a popular video by Del Bigtree, host of the show The HighWire, claims that the video is presenting false information.

NASA says it is finally opening up the vault containing untouched samples from the Apollo missions to the Moon, some three months after it granted nine teams of experts the unique chance of studying the extraterrestrial rock samples.

Discussions on global warming often refer to ‘global temperature.’ Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

New mapping has been carried out of hidden underground valleys around Scotland.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has published data it hopes other geologists will study to help develop their understanding.

They said work now needs to be done to find out what is in the valleys.

The latest numbers from the CDC on the flu vaccine show that this year’s shots were only 9% effective against the current strain that popped up mid-season.

Every year, the Centers for Disease Control releases its data on how effective the flu vaccine has been for the previous season, and nearly every year, the numbers are disappointing.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported the month of May was the second wettest and temperatures were in the bottom-third for its 125-year US history.

The Earth’s climate is a very complicated subject, but you would not know that when listening to most media personalities and  politicians.

The history of climate scientists adjusting data to try to make recent warming look greater than it really is goes back quite a long way – it’s a regular topic at Paul Homewood’s blog for example.

But climate scientists continue to do it, giving the skeptics plenty of ammunition.

In the past few years, thrill-seekers from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond have been travelling to South America to take part in so-called Ayahuasca retreats.

Their goal: to partake in a brewed concoction made from a vine plant Banisteriopsis caapi, traditionally used by indigenous people for sacred religious ceremonies. Drinkers of Ayahuasca experience short-term hallucinogenic episodes many describe as life-changing

“The search for a better animal model to stimulate human disease has been a ‘holy grail’ of biomedical research for decades,” Yale University researchers write in a new book on the science and ethics of chimeras.Getty Images

The monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.

They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered lab mates is the elevated level of a specific human protein implanted inside their brains — proteins that accumulate in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease.

I met Christopher Booker briefly at the Climate Fools Day Event at the UK Houses of Parliament in 2010 and was struck by his humility and keen eye for detail. Having followed his work for a decade, it was very saddening to learn of his death.

A behavior control research project was begun in the 1950s, coordinated by the British psychological warfare unit called the Tavistock Institute, with the Scottish Rite Masons, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other British, U.S., Canadian, and United Nations agencies.

Scientists have discovered how plants create networks of air channels – the lungs of the leaf – to transport carbon dioxide to their cells.

There is an intellectual orthodoxy being imposed by political figures, abetted by much of the news media. Certain viewpoints are forbidden — not simply regarded as wrong, but not permitted to be considered.

Abstract.  Speculation has long abounded that the Biblical Ark of the Covenant may have been an electrical device, perhaps a capacitor, given its construction as precisely described in the Bible.

Its potential association as a container of monatomic gold, recently (re?)discovered accidentally as a potential superconducting powder with seemingly mystical properties, renders this as a possibility.