Researchers Incorporate Silicon into a Living Organism: is this the Building of a Bridge between Man and Machine?

December 2, 2016
Silicon is the second most common element in the Earth's crust, after oxygen. However, aside from its non-organic use by certain sea sponges and microorganisms, very little silicon is used by Earth's biology, despite making heavy use of other common... continued

Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice are at Record Lows, and are Shrinking Fast

December 1, 2016
Sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctic are growing at a record-slow pace this season, according to multiple sources. While this year's summer low for the northern hemisphere wasn't as bad as the current record, set in 2012, the... continued

Big Oil Announces their Endorsement of Taxation on Carbon Emissions

November 30, 2016
In late October, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson announced that his company is backing the concept of a carbon tax, saying that climate change brings real risks, and serious action is required to mitigate them. “We have long used a... continued

Regional Canadian Airliner Dodges UFO over Lake Ontario

November 29, 2016
While on approach to Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport in the early morning of November 14, the crew of a Porter Airlines Dash 8-400 turboprop encountered an unknown object that required them to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid colliding with it.... continued

Google’s Translation AI Created its Own Secret Language — All On Its Own

November 26, 2016
Google recently announced that its new AI-based translation software, Neural Machine Translation (NMT), has developed an internal language of its own to facilitate its translation of certain languages -- and Google can't explain how it did it. Neural Machine Translation... continued

Trump Plans to Cut NASA’s Earth Science Budget

November 24, 2016
There are serious concerns over the fate of NASA's Earth science programs, in light of planned policies being released by president-elect Donald Trump. The Trump campaign's space policy advisor, Robert Smith Walker, has stated that they plan to “redirect NASA... continued

Are the Laws of Physics Actually an Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

November 22, 2016
There's a growing body of evidence that suggests that the structure of our universe is not as cold and mechanistic as science once thought it was: Many scientists have begun to question whether this reality is an artificial product, with... continued

Seven WWII Shipwrecks Disappear from the Bottom of the Java Sea

November 20, 2016
The wrecks of several warships that were sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942 have mysteriously disappeared, after marking the graves of their respective sailors for nearly three-quarters of a century. Officials are blaming commercial scrap metal... continued

Whitley Strieber on Unknowncountry and the Election

November 18, 2016
In his new journal entry, Whitley Strieber discusses the recent US presidential election in light of what he has learned from the visitors about their aims, and the ways in which president-elect Trump's stated positions conflict with those aims, and the ways... continued

Earth is Drowning: Global Sea Level Rise Grossly Underestimated

November 16, 2016
Global sea level rise has been assumed to have been rising at an average rate of 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) per decade since 1900, as measured by NOAA. However, a new study has cast that figure into doubt: after having... continued