2019-03-01
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Mystery Creature found on Indonesian Beach turns out to be a Dead Whale
May 14, 2017The massive corpse of an initially unidentified sea creature washed up on the shore of Indonesia's Seram Island, prompting worldwide speculation as to what the mysterious creature was. Initially called a giant squid by the Jakarta Globe, the 15-meter (50-foot)... continued
A Global Ransomware Attack is Currently Underway
May 13, 2017A large-scale ransomware attack was initiated worldwide on May 12 at around 7:00 PM UTC, crippling portions of a hospital information network in the UK and Spain's Telephonica telecommunications firm. The ransomware, called "Wanna Decryptor", is alleged to be exploiting... continued
The USAF’s X-37B Spaceplane Returns after its 718-Day Secret Mission
May 12, 2017The United States Air Force's experimental X-37B unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth on May 7, 2017, after a record-breaking 718-day stay in orbit: However, little is publicly known about the craft's secret mission. Initially created by NASA in 1999, the... continued
A New Archaeological Find may mean Humans have been in North America Ten Times Longer than Previously Assumed
May 11, 2017Mainstream science's assumption that human habitation of the North American continent began toward the end of the last ice age, about 13,000 years ago, when the ice sheets that covered the northern end of the continent began to recede, allowing... continued
SETI’s Breakthrough Listen Project has found 11 Signals that may have come from Extraterrestrials
May 6, 2017A researcher with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that their Breakthrough Listen project has discovered eleven new signals that are being investigated as transmissions that may have originated from intelligent sources. In addition, the data from these... continued
New Breakthrough may make Consumer-Grade Solar Cells Four Times More Powerful
May 5, 2017An engineering research team in Japan has developed a new solar cell that may be able to raise the efficiency of photovoltaic cells above 50 percent, and theoretically as high as 63 percent under certain conditions. This is important as... continued
What Does the Fox Say? Astronomical Carvings on Göbekli Tepe’s Megaliths Indicate a Major Comet Impact 13,000 Years Ago
May 4, 2017Continuing its persistent tradition of being a thorn in the side of mainstream archaeology, the ancient megalithic site at Göbekli Tepe has offered researchers what may be documentary evidence that the Earth was struck by a comet 13,000 years ago,... continued
A New El Niño may be Warming Up for Later in 2017
May 3, 2017The World Meteorological Organization is forecasting a possible return of the El Niño phenomenon to the Pacific Ocean later this year, hot on the heels of the 2015-2016 back-to-back El Niño events, with only a short-lived, milquetoast La Niña cooling... continued
A Solar Storm may have Caused This Month’s Power Failures
April 30, 2017A series of power outages across the continent that occurred on April 21 may have been caused by a geomagnetic storm. Coordinated cyberattacks were initially blamed for the events, although a fire caused by an overloaded circuit breaker in one... continued
The Surprise Discovery of Antarctica’s Massive Meltwater Network, and the Increasing Instability of its Largest Ice Shelf
April 29, 2017The results of two new studies regarding Antarctic glaciers have been released, and the results of each shocked the researchers conducting them, including the first on-site survey of the Totten Ice Shelf, and the first large-scale survey of the Antarctic... continued