Despite Fukushima, nuclear energy is probably here to stay. Can we make it safer by changing to a new fuel? It turns out there could be an entirely new type of nuclear reactor, that could not only be operated safely without generating long-lived radioactive waste, it could even consume the toxic waste generated by conventional nuclear reactors.
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NASA has provided an explanation of the solar prominence that has caused so much speculation about UFOs near the sun. As NASA claims, it may simply be an ordinary form of solar prominence that happened to briefly emerge into an unusually regular shape, or it may represent an aspect of the sun’s behavior that we have not seen before. In this video taken from YouTube, it can be seen abruptly breaking up, except for one problem: the frames of tape in which the breakup actually takes place are missing. Even the timecode is missing.read more

The flash of light that appeared in Phoenix on March 8 has now been explained by Arizona Public Service as a breaker opening on an electric line. In other words, it was an electric arc. However, our experts are not so sure that this is an explanation for the flash, or a matter of explaining it away.

"I can say with fair certainty that this was NOT a strobe flash, electric arc or lightning flash, any of which would have started and ended much more abruptly. This one started very brightly but then faded out over a period of four or five frames (about 1/5 – 1/8 second) which is MUCH too long for any of those. No rolling shutter effects are visible in this clip, but this camera probably has a CCD imaging chip which would not be susceptible to these effects."read more