Large Earthquake Occurs During Largest Magnetic Storm in Two Years
The largest magnetic storm in two years, which hit Earth on Tuesday, is no joke, Russian scientists warned, saying that increased solar activity threatens electronics and people’s health. The phenomenon may divert spacecraft from their orbit and create problems for satellite communications and GPS navigation, the Laboratory of X-Ray Astronomy at the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Science … Continue reading
Famed UFO Researcher, Stanton Friedman, Dead at 84
Stanton Friedman, the famed UFO researcher credited with bringing the Roswell Incident to mainstream conversation and based in Fredericton, has died. Friedman was returning from for a speaking engagement in Columbus, Ohio, when he died suddenly at the Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday night, according to his family. He was 84. A nuclear physicist by training, Friedman had devoted his … Continue reading
“HAL” A.I. System Being Built by NSA, Facebook Developing Brain-Machine Interface
“Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL.” – NSA researcher In a little noticed bombshell report by James Bamford in 2009, it was revealed that the NSA’s massive database of information, including social media, was being used to create … Continue reading
Simulation Shows Terrifying Effects of Large Asteroid Impact
Terrifying video shows a simulation of an asteroid of 500 km diameter colliding with Earth! Earth was born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, the moon was created by a single giant impact event. Then, Earth’s size attracted huge meteorites, which slammed into it, causing super-high-temperature rock vapour to cover the entire surface and evaporate all ocean water. The … Continue reading
Unexplained Arial Phenomena – The Aliens Among Us
An uptick in UFO sightings by military pilots raises all sorts of interesting questions. For the last several years, the U.S. military has observed an increase in what it calls “unexplained aerial phenomena.” The rest of us may know them by their more common name — unidentified flying objects — and we should all strive, as the Navy is doing, … Continue reading
Study Names New Cradle of Human Civilisation
Having started with pearl millets last year, the same research group has continued their exciting journey of examining the roots of plant domestication on the African continent, but this time looking into the genomes of a wealth of wild and cultivated yams, an African staple vegetable. Having investigated the domestication of African yams, a key crop in early African agriculture … Continue reading
Reward Offered for Solving Mystery Rock Inscription in Remote French Village
A strange message carved in to a rock in a village in France has led to an offer of a cash reward to anyone who can decipher it. unexplained-mysteries Situated on a remote beach near the village of Plougastel, the enigmatic inscription features a peculiar combination of reverse, upside-down and foreign lettering that nobody has been able to decipher. One … Continue reading
Loud Boom Heard in Kingman, Arizona May Have Been a Meteor Strike
Residents all over Kingman heard a very large boom last night about 9:15 p.m. Reports poured in from Facebook with people saying the boom shook their house, their windows and scared their pets. Anise Wight, from Kingman, said on Facebook that the loud explosion was sometime after 9 p.m. “I live near Ames and Melody,” said Wight. “I checked to … Continue reading
Experiment Conducted Aboard the Space Station Could Hint at a Cure to Aging
Like every other living creature on the planet, our bodies are slaves to the endless march of time. There’s nothing we can to do stop it — at least not yet — and eventually we’ll fall apart just like everything that has come before us. But what if we didn’t? What if scientists could slow down, or even prevent the … Continue reading
A Black Hole Jet Wobbles Due To Space-Time Being Dragged Around It
An international team of researchers has discovered a curious feature of the jet of material produced by V404 Cygni, a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. The jet wobbles in periods that can be as short as a few minutes. This happens because the black hole’s gravity is dragging space-time around the jet. As reported in Nature, such a … Continue reading
