Hundreds of times every month, a British scientist sitting in a high-tech control room in an industrial park in the Thames Valley near Didcot clicks his computer mouse. Each time he does so, a high-energy beam of subatomic particles is fired into a dark, swirling cloud of superheated hydrogen gas, known as a plasma, contained within a spherical steel tank about 6 ft in diameter.

July 15, 2021—The Rockefeller Foundation is announcing $13.5 million in new funding to strengthen Covid-19 response efforts in the U.S., Africa, India, and Latin America to counter health mis- and disinformation – confusing, inaccurate, and harmful information that spreads at an unprecedented speed and scale and threatens the health and wellbeing of communities around the world.

Irish Ice Hockey star Niall McEvoy has resigned over COVID vaccine passports. McEvoy had been part of Ireland’s Ice Hockey team for the last 13 years. His contribution was significant when the Irish team won silver in 2017’s Development Cup in Andorra.

If you want people to tow the line, make them afraid. It’s worked a treat for the anti-economic progress crowd in their campaign against nuclear power. It’s the same insidious force that has millions of Australians constantly locked down, cowering under their quilts, thanks to the threat of a virus that’s on a par with the common cold for lethality in a country with first world and first-rate hospitals and healthcare.

 

Five times more children and young people committed suicide than died of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic in the United Kingdom, according to a study, which also concluded that lockdowns are more detrimental to children’s health than the virus itself.

Lockdown restrictions in the UK may have to be re-imposed in the autumn, as the reopening of society on Monday leads to a “long and drawn-out” third wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has been warned.

We can officially confirm that the number of people who have died due to the Covid vaccines within the past 6 months in the UK is almost double the amount of people who have died of Covid-19 since March 2020.

Last month NASA’s Juno spacecraft approached Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, closer than any probe in more than twenty years.

Vaccine hesitancy is a big problem, according to the Biden administration.  Less than half the public is fully vaccinated while about 56 percent have received at least one jab. The goal of fully vaccinating the American public appears to have stalled. This should not surprise us.

A collaborative research team, led by the University of Liverpool, has discovered a new inorganic material with the lowest thermal conductivity ever reported. This discovery paves the way for the development of new thermoelectric materials that will be critical for a sustainable society.

Police in Germany and Belgium have told ‘disaster tourists’ coming to take pictures of devastating floods that has killed more than 160 people to stay away because they are hampering rescue efforts.

ALMOST 300 double-jabbed Scots have been admitted to hospital with Covid over the past month, official figures show.

As the UK Covid-19 vaccine roll out has gathered pace, and the use of “vaccine passports” continue to be debated, an increasing number of social media users are voicing their opposition to these moves and claiming they are an infringement of their rights under the Nuremberg Code.

Astronomers in New Zealand have spotted the first activity on the megacomet C/2014 UN271, perhaps the most massive comet discovered in recorded history.