2019-03-01
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The Most Severe Heat Wave in History is Currently Taking Place in China
August 27, 2022A two-month-long heat wave affecting large portions of China, declared the most severe in recorded history, is causing widespread drought across the country, drying up both rivers and crops, with hundreds of regions reporting record-breaking temperatures in excess of 40°C... continued
Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Cosmic Evolution After James Webb Revelations
August 25, 2022The data being gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is upending the scientific community's theories of galactic formation and evolution, with the incoming images showing that both the number of galaxies and their relative complexity—amongst other conundrums—were much... continued
A Legendary Photograph from the Calvine UFO Case Appears to Have Been Recovered
August 18, 2022One of the highest-quality photographs known of a UFO has been recovered, after having disappeared during a government investigation that took place into the sighting more than three decades ago. Described as "by far the best UFO photograph I have... continued
Paradoxically, the Loss of Key Vocal Structures Spurred the Evolution of Human Speech
August 15, 2022Researchers have identified the evolutionary changes to our larynx that enables humans to produce the complex sounds necessary for the development of speech, while our primate relatives are unable to do so, despite having similar physical vocal structures. Paradoxically, the... continued
Global Warming has Stolen Precious Milliseconds from Our Days
August 11, 2022If it seems like the days are running by faster than ever before, that's because they are... June 29 of this year was the shortest day on record, with the Earth having spun 1.59 milliseconds faster than the 86,400 seconds... continued
James Webb Space Telescope Has Possibly Imaged the Oldest Known Star and Most Distant Galaxy
August 8, 2022With the ability to peer deeper into the universe—and by doing so deeper back in time—than its predecessors, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what may prove to be the oldest known star, and also what might be the most distant... continued
UK Scientists Declare Nessie ‘Plausible’ After Freshwater Plesiosaur Fossil Discovery
August 7, 2022A new discovery regarding the nature of ancient plesiosaurs has prompted several scientists to declare that the existence of the legendary Loch Ness Monster is "plausible", at least in regard to the elusive cryptid's chosen freshwater habitat. The discovery in... continued
This Month’s Heatwave Melted 18 Gigatons of Greenland’s Ice Sheet
August 3, 2022The recent heat wave that baked both Europe and North America also had a major impact on the world's largest island: temperatures across Greenland spiked during the same time period, causing a major melt event that released 18 billion tons of water... continued
The New Level of Quantum Computing: A 9,000-Year Computer Problem Solved in Just 36 Microseconds
August 1, 2022Another milestone has been reached in the realm of quantum computing, with a Canadian company reporting that they have run a complex benchmarking problem through their new equipment that produced a solution that would have taken a conventional supercomputer 9,000... continued
The Pentagon and Congress Expand the Military’s UAP Investigative and Reporting Powers
July 29, 2022The Pentagon has established a new office tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The AARO will replace the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), established just last November, and is intended to expand... continued