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JAPANESE ASTRONAUT NOGUCHI TO RETURN APRIL 28
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and three U.S. astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the commercially...

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Mar 30, 20211 min read


TURKEY DIG PROVES FARMERS OVERCAME ARID WEATHER 5,000 YEARS AGO
Humans are remarkably adaptable, and our ancestors have survived evolving challenges like the changing climate in the past. Now, research...

By The Financial District
Mar 27, 20212 min read


EARTH SAFE FROM APOPHIS ASTEROID FOR 100 YEARS: NASA
Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.

By The Financial District
Mar 27, 20211 min read


OLD-GROWTH FOREST CARBON SINKS OVERESTIMATED, DANISH STUDY SHOWS
The claim that old-growth forests play a significant role in climate mitigation, based upon the argument that even the oldest forests...

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Mar 27, 20212 min read


ANIMAL TESTING USELESS IN DETERMINING COVID VACCINE EFFICACY: EXPERT
A neurologist and preventive medicine expert, claims that animal testing is useless in determining the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines...

By The Financial District
Mar 25, 20212 min read


JAPAN’S FIRST LEADING-EDGE U.S.-MADE QUANTUM COMPUTER TO BE SET UP
Japan will be getting its first leading-edge quantum computer this year from the United States.

By The Financial District
Mar 25, 20212 min read


SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY CHEMICAL PROCESS BEHIND LANDSLIDES IN AUSTRIA
Mass movements such as landslides and hill-slope debris flows cause billions of euros in economic damage around the world every year.

By The Financial District
Mar 25, 20212 min read


COVID VIRUS JUMPED FROM BATS TO HUMANS WITHOUT MUCH CHANGE: STUDY
Since December 2019 and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been very little 'important' genetic change...

By The Financial District
Mar 24, 20212 min read


AFTER COVID-19 JAB, BIONTECH SEEKS TO DEVELOP ANTI-CANCER VACCINE
The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and...

By The Financial District
Mar 20, 20212 min read


PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN SAVANT: MALE-TO-MALE REPRODUCTION POSSIBLE
“I estimate that within a few years, unless we encounter an unexpected obstacle. And from there the way will not be long to something...

By The Financial District
Mar 19, 20213 min read


BIBLE FRAGMENTS FOUND NEAR DEAD SEA FIRST SUCH FIND IN 60 YEARS
Fragments of an ancient biblical scroll have been discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea in Israel, the first such find in decades.

By The Financial District
Mar 17, 20212 min read


ASTEROID TO PASS BY EARTH NEXT WEEK
A large asteroid around 0.9 kilometers (.56 miles) wide will pass close by the Earth on March 21, US space agency NASA said.

By The Financial District
Mar 16, 20211 min read


CERN SCIENTISTS DISCOVER 4 NEW PARTICLES
The discovery of four new particles by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva may lead to more questions...

By The Financial District
Mar 16, 20212 min read


SINGAPORE TURNS TO WATER TO HOUSE SOLAR PANELS
It may be one of the world's smallest countries, but the island-state of Singapore has a big emissions problem.

By The Financial District
Mar 15, 20211 min read


SYDNEY NOW RUNS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY
Central Sydney, Australia is now entirely powered by renewable energy...

By The Financial District
Mar 15, 20211 min read


DEEPFAKING AIs INVENTING FACES, BRINGING THE DEAD ‘BACK TO LIFE
The website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, developed by Phil Wang, showcases fake faces - computer-generated images of people who simply do...

By The Financial District
Mar 14, 20211 min read


INDONESIA’S MT. SINABUNG EJECTS GAS, ASH IN NEW ERUPTION
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province erupted on Thursday, ejecting a stream of hot gas, ash, and rock debris three...

By The Financial District
Mar 12, 20211 min read


HACKERS EXPOSE WEAKNESS OF SECURITY CAMERA SYSTEMS IN U.S.
Hackers aiming to call attention to the dangers of mass surveillance said they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories...

By The Financial District
Mar 11, 20212 min read


SEA SLUG SPECIES THAT CAN DECAPITATE SELF, REGROW ENTIRE BODY FOUND
Scientists in Japan have discovered that a species of sea slug can decapitate itself and then regrow an entirely new body, complete with...

By The Financial District
Mar 9, 20212 min read


BRITAIN 1ST COUNTRY TO INFECT VOLUNTEERS WITH COVID VIRUS FOR STUDY
Britain has become the first country to infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus as part of a so-called human challenge study.

By The Financial District
Mar 8, 20212 min read


ESSAY ARGUES FOR NUKE POWER VS CLIMATE CHANGE
Nuclear power may have a lot of drawbacks, but well-regulated nuclear power plants are supposedly safe...

By The Financial District
Mar 6, 20212 min read


SPACEX’S BIGGEST MAKES FIRST LANDING, THEN EXPLODES
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s newest and biggest rocket pulled off its first successful landing, then exploded.

By The Financial District
Mar 4, 20212 min read


ENERGY-RELATED EMISSIONS RISE IN DECEMBER 2020 DESPITE PANDEMIC
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared with the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop...

By The Financial District
Mar 3, 20211 min read


RARE-EARTHS FOR GREEN POWER THREATEN GREENLAND
Greenland, the world’s biggest island has huge resources of metals known as “‘rare-earths," but its ice sheet and glaciers are receding...

By The Financial District
Mar 3, 20212 min read
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