2019-03-01
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Record Setting Barometric Pressure in Alaska and Siberia Trigger Massive Storms, Extreme Cold
January 4, 2021A large storm in the Pacific Ocean struck Alaska's Aleutian Islands has setting a record as the lowest land-based pressure reading ever measured in the state. This was recorded at 921mbar just after midnight on December 31, 2020. The storm... continued
They’re Dancin’ Machines: Boston Dynamics’ Robots Cut a Rug To Ring in the New Year
January 1, 2021Atlas is back, and is wondering if you love Boston Dynamic's anthropomorphic android, now that it can dance? The robotics design company recently posted a video titled "Do You Love Me?", named after The Contours 1962 hit song. The video shows off... continued
Korea’s KSTAR Fusion Reactor Sets a New Record: 100 Million Degrees for 20 Seconds
December 31, 2020On November 24, the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research fusion reactor (KSTAR) set a new operating record, running at over a million degrees Celsius for twenty seconds. While this might seem like a less-than-useful amount of time to have run the high-tech... continued
Early Humans May Have Endured Harsh Ice Age Winters by Hibernating
December 28, 2020A new study suggests that some ancient humans may have had an ability that many of us would like to have at the end of each year: to be able to hibernate through the cold winter months. This new theory... continued
Santa Knows Who’s Naughty or Nice—and Can See Your Christmas Lights From Space
December 25, 2020Throughout the centuries that Santa Claus has been conducting his annual round-the-world aeronautical adventure, cities have grown and the technology to light them has improved, resulting in a marked increase in the brightness emitted from our collective communities. But what... continued
Astronomers Detect a Radio Transmission From Proxima Centauri – “The First Serious Candidate Since the ‘Wow! Signal”
December 24, 2020Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project have intercepted a mysterious radio signal that appears to have originated from our Solar System's closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri. According to the astronomers studying the strange transmission "it is the first serious candidate since the... continued
Whitley’s New Book Jesus: A New Vision Now Available as a Kindle Pre-Order
December 21, 2020Whitley Strieber's new book, Jesus: A New Vision is now available as a Kindle format pre-order on Amazon.com. The Kindle version will be published on January 15 and audio, hardcover and softcover editions will follow shortly. To pre-order the... continued
The UK’s Recent COVID-19 Surge is Driven by a Newly-Mutated Coronavirus Strain
December 21, 2020A new, faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus has been identified in the United Kingdom, one that appears to be 70 percent more transmissible than the original virus. Although researchers have found no evidence that the new mutation has any impact... continued
France Okays the Development of Super-Soldiers, but With Strict Ethical Restrictions
December 18, 2020Citing the need to keep pace with the military development of other countries, a military ethics committee in France has released a report that allows French researchers to begin developing new technologies to enhance the performance and effectiveness of soldiers on the... continued
Physicists Have Figured Out How To Remotely Project a Magnetic Field Into Open Air
December 16, 2020In 1842, mathematician and physicist Samuel Earnshaw laid out a theorem that states that it's impossible to project a magnetic field into empty space: any magnetic field found in nature will always be centered on the physical object that's producing it. But a... continued