French Drones, Jets, Commandos, Kill Terror Mastermind

TONGO TONGO, NIGER — French special forces tracked down and killed the ISIS terrorist who masterminded the 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four American Green Berets. The Washington Post reports that the French government claimed on Thursday..

Radical ‘Green’ Alternative to Burial or Cremation Made Legal in Colorado

LAFAYETTE, COLORADO — Body composting could become a ‘green’ alternative to burial or cremation after Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow the process last week, according to The Associated Press. One beneficiary of..

Climate Change Pushing North Atlantic Jet Stream Northward

TUCSON, ARIZONA — Scientists found that Earth’s northernmost jet stream is in trouble. They say that if this weather-controlling air current migrates northward, the U.S. and Europe are in for centuries of nasty weather. Here are the..

U.S. Hands Nuclear-Powered Submarines to Australia

WASHINGTON — The U.K., U.S. and Australia have announced a security pact aimed at confronting China, whereby Australia will be provided with the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, according to the BBC. Australia..

North Korea Test-Fires New ‘Nuclear-Capable’ Ballistic Missiles

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA — North Korea has successfully tested a new long range, ground-launched cruise missile which may be its first of this kind to have nuclear capabilities, according to the country’s state media outlet KCNA, cited by The..

The ‘Flying Bum’ Airship Gets a Cool Job

BEDFORD, U.K. — Futurism reports that a giant airship called the Airlander has been selected to take tourists on luxury air cruises over the North Pole. The tour company that plans to operate the cruises, OceanSky Cruises, recently announced..

Science’s ‘Most Important Tool’ Finally Ready to Launch

WASHINGTON — The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to launch after NASA spent billions of dollars to fix the design of its giant sun shield’s deployment mechanism. Now everyone’s holding fingers crossed that the $10 billion..

Scientists Resurrecting Woolly Mammoth to Fix Climate Change

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Geneticists led by Harvard Medical School's George Church are seeking to bring the woolly mammoth back to life 4,000 years after its extinction, and have secured $15 million of investment, according to CNN. Supporters..

Earth’s Core is Growing Lopsided

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Earth’s inner core grows 1 millimeter in radius per year, but its east side, beneath Indonesia, is growing faster than its west, beneath Brazil, because it is cooling at a faster rate, causing more iron crystals to form,..

World’s Largest Carbon-Sucking Machine Switched On for First Time

HELLISHEIDI, ICELAND — The world’s largest carbon capture plant has opened in Iceland and its manufacturers say it will capture 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per year. Its fans draw air towards a filter which carbon dioxide..

The Five Most Insane Scientific Studies of the Year

CAMBRIDGE , MASSACHUSETTS — The 2021 Ig Nobel awards, rewarding ‘research that first makes people laugh and then makes them think,’ has seen 10 Ig Nobel prizes handed out, including one to a study suggesting men evolved beards to protect their..

Walmart Billionaire to Build $400 Billion City in Desert

UNITED STATES — Walmart billionaire Marc Lore has launched a jaw-dropping project to build a $400 billion utopian city in the middle of the American desert. Here are the details: CNN reports that recently retired Walmart billionaire, Marc Lore,..

U.S. Defies New Chinese Law With Military Operations in South China Sea

SOUTH CHINA SEA — A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group and a destroyer operated in the South China Sea on Wednesday, days after China introduced a law requiring foreign vessels to give notice before entering waters it claims as its own.

Russia Testing Doomsday Torpedo, Nuclear-Powered Missile

MOSCOW — A cruise missile with a nuclear warhead at the front and a nuclear engine at the rear. Plus, a massive underwater drone designed to cause radioactive tsunamis. These are just two of the new weapons that Russia is testing right now. Here are..

Man Who Killed Pluto Says Evidence for Replacement Ninth Planet Increasing

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Evidence of the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system is unlikely to be a fluke, according to a pre-print of a California Institute of Technology study co-authored by Michael Brown, the astronomer who led the..

China Plans to Build Kilometer-Long Ships in Space

HONG KONG — China plans to build massive space structures that could be more than a mile long and spaceships that would dwarf SpaceX’s giant Starship. And it plans to manufacture these giant structures piece by piece — in Earth orbit. Here are..

Supervolcanoes Can Erupt More Often Than We Thought

SUMATRA, INDONESIA — Supervolcanoes stay active and dangerous even in the period after supereruptions, according to a new study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The largest eruptions at these sites, known as supereruptions,..

Supervolcanoes Can Erupt More Often Than We Thought - But That Means Something Quite Specific

SUMATRA, INDONESIA — Supervolcanoes stay active and dangerous even in the period after supereruptions, according to a new study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The largest eruptions at these sites, known as supereruptions,..

Solar Storm Could Kill Global Internet for Months — Study

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — In 1859 a massive solar storm hit the Earth, turning the night sky into an eerily beautiful version of daytime. But the storm also caused significant damage to Earth’s primitive communication system of the time, the telegraph..

Climate Change in Arctic Leads to More Extreme Cold Weather Events

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Accelerating Arctic warming as a part of global warming is likely responsible for severe winter weather like powerful snowfalls and abnormal cold spells in the northern hemisphere, according to a new study. The study, in the..

New ‘Grand Canyon’ And Meteor Craters Found Under Ice Sheet

GREENLAND — In recent years, scientists have used advanced technologies like airborne radar to see how Greenland looks under its three-kilometer deep ice sheet. They found that the world’s largest island is hiding quite a few fascinating..

Monstrous Centipedes Devour Birds on Hellish Island

NORFOLK ISLAND GROUP, AUSTRALIA — If you were to take a plane from Brisbane on Australia’s east coast and fly for 1,400 kilometers east, into the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean. And if you had a good navigator, you would find a small island..

China’s ‘Game-Changing’ New Carrier Almost Ready to Sail

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China is almost ready to launch a powerful new aircraft carrier that is more modern than U.S. carriers in some important capabilities. Analysts say that if it works like it could, this new carrier would pose a serious threat to the..

Alien MEGASTRUCTURES Could Be Harnessing the MASSIVE Energy of Black Holes

HSINCHU CITY, TAIWAN — Scientists are considering whether Dyson Spheres, hypothetical megastructures built to surround stars and harness their energy for alien civilizations, could also be built around black holes. A study published in the..

Possible ‘Havana Syndrome’ Attack Delays V.P. Harris’ Flight

SINGAPORE — Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Vietnam was recently delayed after suspicions that a case of Havana Syndrome had been detected in the Vietnamese capitol of Hanoi. Havana Syndrome is a mysterious illness most experts believe..

MASSES of Weapons Left in Hands of Taliban as U.S. RUSHES to Exit

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — As the U.S. has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, it has left behind vast amounts of equipment. Citing a U.S. Government Accountability Office audit, The New Statesman reports that thousands of land vehicles,..

‘ARMS RACE’ With COVID Coming FAST as Virus May Be Heading for More SUBSTANTIAL Mutations

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA — SARS-CoV-2 will continue to evolve in various directions, beyond the mutations seen in its delta variant, according to Hamish McCallum, Director at the Center for Planetary Health and Food Security at Griffith..

Rockets Fired at Airport and U.S. Drone Attack Kills Civilians as U.S. Completes Exit

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The Taliban have taken over Kabul airport following the departure of the final U.S. flight on Tuesday morning, according to the BBC, but only after a rocket attack on the airport on Monday. As many as five rockets were..

Japanese Court Sentences Yakuza Boss to Death

FUKUOKA, JAPAN — A Japanese court delivered a major blow to the yakuza when it sentenced to death the boss of one of the yakuza’s most violent syndicates. The case comes after multiple murders and vicious attacks against ordinary civilians..

Horrific Bomb Attack on Kabul Airport in Afghanistan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — At least 95 people were killed and 150 others wounded as a bomb was detonated by IS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group, at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport last Thursday, according to the..

Where the Giant Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From

BOULDER, COLORADO — About 66 million years ago, an object estimated to be 6 miles wide — that’s almost 10 kilometers wide — slammed into the Earth, triggering a cataclysmic series of events that resulted in the demise of non-avian dinosaurs...

Tibetan Plateau Found to Provide Ideal Conditions for Observatories

QINGHAI, CHINA\ — The world’s most powerful astronomical observatories are currently almost all located in the Western Hemisphere, but a new Chinese study in the journal Nature proposes that the Tibetan Plateau in China provides ideal conditions..

Building Kills COVID With Dozens of Hi-Tech Gadgets

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — Disinfection robots, thermal body cameras and virus-killing air-con systems — welcome to the Covid-free office of the future. A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new normal in..

Afghan Commandos, Northern Alliance Prepare to Fight Taliban

PANJSHIR VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN — Ancient enemies of the Taliban and elite Afghan commandos who were trained by the SAS and U.S. Special Forces are regrouping in a part of Afghanistan that had always hated the Taliban. They are preparing for a..

Double-Whammy for Doomsday Glacier Spells Big Trouble

ANTARCTICA — Climate change is not the only factor melting the Thwaites Glacier, the Earth itself may also be warming the massive block of Antarctic ice colloquially known as the ‘Doomsday Glacier.’

Twenty Years Later: Why the 9/11 Twin Towers Collapsed

NEW YORK — In a few days it would have been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks killed thousands of people and brought down two of the world’s tallest office towers. Here is the official theory on how and why the towers collapsed: The structural..

China Forced WHO Team to Say Lab Leak ‘Extremely Unlikely’

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — A shocking TV interview with a top W.H.O. official indicates that Chinese officials put immense pressure on W.H.O. investigators to stay away from the hypothesis that a lab leak could have been the cause of the COVID..

Banning CFCs Saved Us From Apocalyptic Climate Change

MONTREAL, CANADA — If the world hadn't banned the chemicals that destroy the ozone layer with the 1987 Montreal Protocol, climate change would have significantly worsened global warming by the 2040s, according to a new study in the journal..

China Starts Huge Project to Beam Power From Space

CHONGQING, CHINA — China has broken ground on a project that aims to put miles of solar panels in space and use them to power a massive microwave emitter that will hang 23,000 miles up in the sky. Here’s hoping that the giant microwave beam..

China Runs Military Exercises in Taiwan

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Chinese fighter jets and warships exercised off the southwest and southeast of Taiwan on Tuesday, with the People’s Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command saying it carried out ‘joint fire assault and other drills using..

Hated Giant ‘Murder’ Hornet Spotted Alive in the U.S.

BLAINE, WASHINGTON — They're back! The first live Asian giant “murder” hornet of 2021 has been spotted in Washington state — and it was caught in the act of living up to its name, attacking a wasp nest. The news has scientists worried..

Massive Earthquake Hits Haiti, Kills Hundreds

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday has killed at least 1,297 people, according to Reuters, with the search for survivors ongoing. Haiti sits in an area where several tectonic plates transition from..

September 11 Anniversary: Timeline of Events

NEW YORK CITY— On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four passenger jets were hijacked by terrorists in what the Encyclopedia Britannica refers to as “the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history.”

NASA Says Asteroid Bennu Now More Likely to Hit Earth

WASHINGTON — If you manage to develop an anti-aging diet, or create a time machine, or in some other way manage to be alive and on Earth on the Tuesday afternoon of September 24, 2182, then there is a chance that you might be looking up to see a big..

NASA Searching for Life on Titan

WASHINGTON D.C. — NASA’s Dragonfly mission to the surface of Titan will be its first since 1976 to explicitly incorporate the search for signs of life into its mission goals, according to a new report published by its scientists in The Planetary..

How to Stop Global Warming in Five Easy Steps

MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM — On Monday, August 9, the U.N.’s science panel published a study that shows how humanity is running out of time to do something about the steady increase in global temperature. On Tuesday, a professor published a..

Japanese Startup Delivering UAE’s Rover to the Moon in 2022

TOKYO, JAPAN — A Japanese startup is speeding up moon exploration by getting investors to buy into three lunar missions that are on schedule to start launching next year already. Next year’s moon mission will deliver Dubai’s first lunar..

Iran Versus Israel — How Their Forces Compare

MIDDLE EAST — The recent deaths of two ship workers in a mysterious drone strike on an oil tanker highlighted a shadow war between Iran and Israel that could escalate into a real war. We compared the militaries of the two sides and found that..

U.N. Says ‘Code Red’ for Humanity on Climate

NEW YORK CITY — Global warming is close to spiraling out of control, according to the sixth report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called “a code red for..

Supervolcanoes Aren’t Our Problem, These Volcanoes Are

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Several smaller volcanoes located next to key infrastructure should be our main priority when planning to combat the effects of volcanic activity, according to a new study published in the Nature Communications..