On Sept. 26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will slam headfirst into a small asteroid in the name of planetary defense. “[S]cientists hope that should a dangerous asteroid threaten the planet in the future, a mission like DART could avert the disaster,” reports Space.com. From the report: The Read more…
“Scientists have uncovered how air pollution causes lung cancer,” reports the Guardian, “in groundbreaking research that promises to rewrite our understanding of the disease.” The BBC is calling it “a discovery that completely transforms our understanding of how tumours arise.” The team at the Francis Crick Institute in London showed Read more…
Climate change confronted African farmers with back-to-back seasons of drought. The director of agricultural development at the Gates Foundation says that’s one reason they’ve fallen short of their goals of helping the continent achieve a “green revolution”. But while the foundation contributed much of $1 billion spent to date on Read more…
“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…