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‘An Extinction-Level Event’: NASA and NOAA Expect To Drop Vital Services and Missions Due To DOGE-Mandated Funding Cuts
March 21, 2025As a result of the broader campaign by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to dramatically clear-cut the funding of dozens of federal agencies, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have... continued
New Evidence Renews the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 11 Years After Its Disappearance
March 19, 2025Eleven years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a new search for the aircraft and the 239 souls it carried has been announced. Armed with new information on where its crash site might be, the search expedition may... continued
Humans May Have Been Using Primitive Vehicles in North America as Far Back as 22,000 Years Ago
March 14, 2025Archaeologists have discovered the trails of what may be the world's earliest vehicles, having etched their tracks in well-preserved mud around 22,000 years ago. Additionally, the primitive conveyances weren't being pulled by someone from an Old World culture, but instead... continued
Can We Get To Mars Using a Spacecraft Powered With Ordinary Water?
March 10, 2025The demand for a more sustainable and accessible fuel for spacecraft has prompted a research team, led coordinated by the University of Bologna, to adapt a fuel that is at once readily abundant, not only on Earth but throughout the... continued
Chernobyl Containment Facility ‘Lifetime is Now Compromised’ by Armed Drone Strike
March 5, 2025The damage caused by a drone strike on the massive structure that contains the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in mid-February may be worse than initially feared, with the detection of numerous small fires still burning in between the outer shell's... continued
Your Daily Dose of Existential Dread: The Universe Could Collapse on the Way Down the Quantum Roller-Coaster
February 28, 2025While the very concept of the fabric of space and time may seem like the only stable constant left in our modern lives, a recent study has confirmed that the energy state of the very vacuum that spans the cosmos... continued
Rapidly Melting Permafrost Has Tipped the Arctic Into Being a Net Greenhouse Gas Emitter
February 25, 2025Global warming's disproportionate effect on the planet's polar regions has turned the Arctic into a net carbon emitter, with one-third of the region's forests, tundra and wetlands now emitting more greenhouse gases than they absorb as the previously-frozen permafrost thaws.... continued
‘Age Against the Machine’: Like Humans, AI Suffers Cognitive Decline as it Ages
February 19, 2025One of the strengths of artificial intelligence is that the structure of the coded neural nets that make machine learning possible is based on the layout of the neurons of our own brains, a branching, neurological-like network capable of learning... continued
A Long-Lost Interview Details Albert Einstein’s Involvement with the Roswell UFO Crash
February 13, 2025As part of their attempt to address the puzzle presented by the debris and bodies recovered from the 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, the U.S. government enlisted the expertise of renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, according to a previously-lost... continued
‘City-Killer’ Asteroid has a Small—but Non-Zero—Risk of Striking Earth in 2032
February 5, 2025 A sizable "city-killer" asteroid that was discovered late last year has been calculated to have a one in 77 chance of striking the Earth just eight years from now, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Although the chance of... continued