2019-03-01
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Levels of Powerful Greenhouse Gas Methane Increased at a Record Rate Last Year
June 28, 2022The concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere rose at a record-breaking rate in 2021, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), jumping by 17 parts per billion (ppb) over the course of the year, beating 2020's precipitous... continued
High-powered Lasers Could Cut the Half-life of Nuclear Waste From “A Million Years to 30 Minutes”
June 23, 2022Nuclear waste: the radioactive material left over from numerous medical, industrial and military applications can persist for millions of years before its atomic structure decays into a more stable element. Although the long-term storage of toxic byproducts can mostly keep... continued
China’s ‘Sky Eye’ Might Have Intercepted a Radio Signal from Space
June 20, 2022Radio astronomers in China have observed what they believe to be an artificial radio signal from another star system, a system that is home to an exoplanet with characteristics extremely similar to that of the Earth. The research team that... continued
A Mirror Universe That Balances Our Own May Exist
June 15, 2022The particles that make up the Universe around us are out of balance, and physicists are searching for a cause. Following the Big Bang, there should have been an equal number of particles that mirror one-another. I.e. there should be... continued
NASA to Launch an Independent Investigation Into UFOs
June 14, 2022The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that they will be launching an independent study of the UAP phenomenon later this year, focusing on "identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that... continued
A Novel Cancer Study Begins, While Another Concludes With “Happy Tears”
June 10, 2022A Phase I clinical trial of an experimental anticancer drug has begun, using a specialized virus designed to selectively attack the cells that make up the targeted tumor. A separate cancer study has also produced the unprecedented—yet very welcome—outcome of... continued
Global CO2 Levels Continue to Rise, Now More Than 50% over Pre-Industrial Levels
June 7, 2022The annual peak in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels hit a new record high this May, averaging 421 parts per million (ppm), an increase of nearly 1.9 ppm over this time last year, and more than 50 percent higher than the... continued
A New Spin on a Classic Experiment Confirms Quantum Superposition
June 4, 2022For decades, scientists researching quantum mechanics have studied the effect of quantum superposition, a state where a single particle can be in two places at the same time. Unfortunately, there has always been a problem when trying to measure the... continued
James Webb Space Telescope Is Getting Ready To Study Two Alien ‘Super-Earths’
June 1, 2022The James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from commencing its gathering of scientific data in earnest—already, the high-flying observatory has discovered a handful of distant galaxies while it was merely being calibrated—a mission that will allow astronomers to peer... continued
The Worldwide COVID-19 Death Toll is Nearly Three Times Higher than the Official Count, According to the WHO
May 30, 2022The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the true worldwide death toll from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic was 14.9 million, nearly three times the official count, based on the number of excess deaths reported up to... continued