“A vital offsite electricity supply to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been destroyed by shelling,” the Guardian reported Friday, “and there is little likelihood a reliable supply will be re-established, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog chief has said.” Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Read more…
In 2007, the U.S. Congress mandated the blending of biofuels such as corn-based ethanol into gasoline. One of the top goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But today, the nation’s ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries, according Read more…
The U.S. Navy says that releasing any additional UFO videos would “harm national security” and told a government transparency website that all of the government’s UFO videos are classified information. In a Freedom of Information Act request response, the Navy told government transparency site The Black Vault that any public Read more…
When they examined decades-old blood samples from 14 NASA astronauts who flew Space Shuttle missions between 1998 and 2001, researchers found that samples from all 14 astronauts showed mutations in their DNA. While these mutations are likely low enough not to represent a serious threat to the astronauts’ long term Read more…
A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. The Thwaites Glacier — dubbed the “doomsday glacier” because scientists estimate that without it and its supporting ice shelves, sea Read more…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank is squarely focused on bringing down high inflation to prevent it from becoming entrenched as it did in the 1970s. From a report: “It is very much our view, and my view, that we need to act now forthrightly, strongly, as Read more…
The Treasury Department will warn the White House that cryptocurrencies could pose significant financial risks that outweigh their benefits unless the government rolls out major new regulations, Washington Post reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Through four separate reports this month, Treasury is expected to make clear Read more…