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An Asteroid Impact May Have Destroyed a Major Bronze Age Civilization
September 26, 2021Archeologists studying a site in the lower Jordan Valley have discovered that a major Bronze Age city shows evidence of having been destroyed by a Tunguska-like asteroid impact 3,600 years ago, an impact that may have devastated the entire region... continued
Ancient Bone Tool Cache Upends Our Understanding of Early Humans
September 23, 2021The discovery of a large cache of bone tools dated to 400,000 years ago may change how paleontologists view the evolution of tool use amongst early humans. Discovered at a site called Castel di Guido near Rome, Italy, the collection... continued
New Ultra-White Paint Could Eliminate the Need for Air Conditioning
September 21, 2021Researchers at Purdue University have invented the world's whitest paint, a substance so reflective it has been entered into the 2022 edition of Guinness World Records, and might one day be used to greatly reduce—and in some cases possibly even eliminate—the... continued
With Funding Boost: Researchers May Produce Hybrid Woolly Mammoth Clones Within Six Years
September 18, 2021The push to have woolly mammoths cloned and reintroduced into the wild has received a $15 million boost, with the project's lead scientist saying that the reintroduction of a hybrid of the currently-extinct creatures and Asian elephants would be used... continued
An Internet Apocalypse Could be Triggered by a Solar Superstorm
September 14, 2021While the danger posed by major solar storms to our civilization's power grids is well documented (such as Whitley's must-read 2012 ebook on the subject, Solar Flares), the potential effects of such storms on another network vital to the functioning of... continued
A Sad, Special and Powerful Anniversary (and Much Unfinished Business)
September 11, 2021On this day 20 years ago, the United States experienced the worst attack since December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Since 911, the country has changed profoundly. There is still much that is not known about what... continued
Celestial ‘Treasure Map’ Narrows Down Where Planet Nine Might Be Hiding
September 8, 2021New research from the California Institute of Technology has narrowed down the area of the sky that the elusive Planet Nine might be hiding in. The new data includes a more succinct estimate of the planet's mass and orbital characteristics, offering ongoing... continued
US Intelligence Community Unable to Determine COVID-19’s Origin
September 7, 2021The US intelligence agencies tasked with uncovering the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are divided on the so-called "lab leak" hypothesis, with four of the five agencies drawing a conclusion saying that the virus was transmitted from an infected animal... continued
With Double the Wind Power and Torrential Rainfall; Hurricane Ida Walloped the Gulf Coast and the Northeast
September 2, 2021Hurricane Ida's destructive appearance marks the first Category-4 hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, causing massive damage and flooding across the state of Louisiana. The storm's impact was compounded by the resilience of its powerful Category-4 winds, a tempest... continued
Former Intelligence Officer Announces a Scientific Expedition to Secret Alien Base
August 31, 2021Retired intelligence officer and contactee Angelia Schultz has announced that she will be heading a scientific expedition to an alien base hidden beneath a mountain in the Mojave Desert. Schultz says that she communicated with the inhabitants of the mountain... continued