Written by Jane Wakefield
Image copyright TED/BRET HARTMANTED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) is famous for turning 17-minute talks into viral videos. This year’s conference has kicked off in Vancouver, offering a new set of thought-provoking talks under the tagline of ‘ideas worth spreading’.
Written by James Gallagher
Image copyright SUE BURRELLDoctors have used a new type of medicine called “gene silencing” to reverse a disease that leaves people in crippling pain.
The condition, acute intermittent porphyria, also causes paralysis and is fatal in some cases. The novel approach fine-tunes the genetic instructions locked in our DNA.
Written by Pierre Gosselin
German climate skepticism may have awakened, and ironically it may in large part be an unintended consequence of the “Greta demonstrations.”
Germans may be finally getting fed up with the hysteria that has emptied out schools and turned into an ambush on their industrial jobs.
Written by Joseph E Postma
I don’t know why no one ever references the data, but a global experiment was recently performed to test whether or not human emission of CO2 from the use of hydrocarbon energy was the cause of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.
Written by CNN
Spending 340 days aboard the International Space Station between 2015 and 2016 caused changes in astronaut Scott Kelly’s body, from his weight down to his genes, according to the results of the NASA Twins Study, released last Thursday.
Written by John O'Sullivan
Much interest has been generated by last week’s report of the world’s first image of a black hole (above). The Astrophysical Journal Letters reported on the experiment by Professor Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Written by John O'Sullivan
As the world’s press rush to share news of the world’s ‘First Black Hole Image‘ some skeptics are challenging the claim.
Australian researcher, Stephen J Crothers has issued a dissenting open letter to the author of the original assertion, Dear Sabine Hossenfelder. The open letter is posted below in full and we invite readers to draw their own conclusions:
Written by Larry Bell
There is nothing coincidental about common déjà vu features of a CO2 climate crisis-premised war on fossil fuels and a hysterically-hyped sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission acid rain environmental calamity a half-century ago.
Written by Tom Pappert
As the mainstream media attempts to give researcher Katie Bouman credit for the first “photos” of a black hole, it appears her role may have been mostly supervisory, and that other researchers did the majority of the leg work.
Written by Judith Burns
Image copyright KHADIJAH ISMAILAs a little girl Khadijah Ismail would spend hours watching aeroplanes through the window of the attic bedroom she shared with her sister near Manchester Airport, England.
She even wrote the airport a letter “on fancy paper and everything”, giving her address and asking them to send more planes past her house.
Written by John O'Sullivan
This helpful 3-minute Australian video puts carbon dioxide and climate change in perspective. You get the whole message in the first 30 seconds.
Using the visual aid of a pile of rice beside a grain of rice to demonstrate how little CO2 humans add to the atmosphere, Malcolm Roberts explains the utter absurdity of claims humans are dangerously altering the climate.
Written by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Breaking news: Former U.S. intelligence officers cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of the key “assessment” that Russia “hacked” Democratic emails. Newly-released memo published in full below.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
The number of companies that hoped in vain (some still do) to harness ocean power for “free energy” is steadily increasing.
One of the latest outfits not doing so well is Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) of Monroe Township, NJ, USA.
Written by Matt Agorist
On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.
Moments later, the Department of Justice released a statement charging Assange with computer hacking “conspiracy” for allegedly working with US Army soldier at the time, Chelsea Manning.
Written by Richard Cronin
Written by Arturo Casadevall
Last week, Duke University announced it would pay the US government US$112.5 million to settle claims that fraudulent data were used in dozens of research-grant applications.
This is a communal punishment for an institution where the overwhelming majority of scientists are honest, hard-working individuals seeking knowledge for the good of humanity.