Weaponized Plants: Pentagon’s Synthetic Organisms Could “Militarize the Environment”
What if you were deemed a fugitive 20 years from now, for doing something such as vocally speaking out against the status quo, growing cannabis, or going against the grain of the system. Then one day, you’re walking in some rural area you escaped to in order to avoid capture by the state, and the environment recognizes your identity and … Continue reading
‘Rock’ That Crashed Through Shed Roof in a Dutch Village Identified As Meteorite
A rock that crashed through the roof of a shed has been confirmed as only the sixth meteorite to be recovered in the Netherlands. The 4.5 billion-year-old lump of stone, which weighs around 500g, landed in the village of Broek in Waterland, Noord-Holland province, in January. The owners discovered it the next morning and contacted Naturalis museum in Leiden after … Continue reading
Tiny ‘Star Chip’ Could Reach Distant ‘Earth 2.0’ in 20 Years
Can a probe the size of a postage stamp reach Alpha Centauri ? Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri. During a speech at the Starmus Festival in Norway this week, the world-famous physicist described a new type of miniature spacecraft called a Star Chip that could soon make it … Continue reading
Stargazers Left Baffled By ‘Red Mystery Fireball’ That Lit Up The Night Over Perth Australia
A ‘red fireball’ that lit up Australian skies has left locals baffled and debating the mystery object. Several Perth residents reported the sighting on Saturday saying the fireball was seen streaking across the sky for five minutes. One motorist driving on Karrinyup Road told 7 News Perth it was the craziest thing he had seen in a long time and … Continue reading
Ancient DNA Reveals How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World
Ancient DNA from 209 cats over 9,000 years tell the story of their dispersal Sometime around the invention of agriculture, the cats came crawling. It was mice and rats, probably, that attracted the wild felines. The rats came because of stores of grain, made possible by human agriculture. And so cats and humans began their millennia-long coexistence. This relationship has … Continue reading
The Phantom Time Hypothesis; Was A Period In Time Completely Made Up?
Was a 300-year chunk of world history completely madeup? According to the Phantom Time Hypothesis that’s exactly what happened. Err, didn’t happen. This conspiracy theory borders on the outlandish (which isn’t unusual for a conspiracy), but this idea from German historian Heribert Illig does have some convincing—if not just straight puzzling—points. What Year Is It? In 1986 (or was it … Continue reading
Human Brain Found to Operate in 11 Dimensions
“We found a world that we had never imagined, said Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project. “There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks, we even found structures with up to eleven dimensions.” Swiss Scientists studying the brain using an advanced mathematical system have … Continue reading
The Statistical Likelihood That We Will All Be Destroyed By An Asteroid in 10 Million Years
Scientists have spent decades debating whether asteroids and comets hit the Earth at regular intervals. At the same time, a few studies have found evidence that the large extinction events on Earth – such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago – repeat themselves every 26 million to 30 million years. Given that there’s good … Continue reading
CIA’s Secret Cyberweapon Can Infiltrate World’s Most Secure Networks
WikiLeaks’ latest release in its Vault7 series details how the CIA’s alleged ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ program is being used to penetrate the most secure networks in the world. Brutal Kangaroo, a tool suite for Microsoft Windows, targets closed air gapped networks by using thumb drives, according to WikiLeaks. Air gapping is a security measure employed on one or more computers to … Continue reading
If We Do In Fact Live in a Multiverse, Where Are These Worlds Hiding?
By some estimates, the known universe may contain as many as 2 trillion galaxies, with the average galaxy holding approximately 100 million stars and untold numbers of planets. But could there be multiple copies of the entire universe as we understand it? The concept of a multiverse — worlds that invisibly coexist alongside us, perhaps representing versions of reality that … Continue reading
