A Winter Weather Flux Brings Extreme Temperatures to Europe, as a Major Storm Deluges California

January 11, 2023
A winter heat wave has been baking Europe in summer-like temperatures in the days following the winter solstice, and despite suffering the worst drought in 1,200 years California is under a state of emergency due to flooding caused by record-breaking rains and... continued

Humans Travelled the Seas 450,000 Years Ago, According to New Maps of Ancient Shorelines

January 7, 2023
Ancient humans may have been navigating the world's seas as far back as nearly a half-million years ago, according to a new analysis of the ancient shorelines of the Mediterranean Sea. Evidence of human habitation on the Aegean Islands that... continued

A New Experiment Shows That Entangled Particles Might Be Connected via Wormholes

January 5, 2023
While one team of physicists is devising ways to recognize wormholes that might be hiding in plain sight, another team has been studying the properties of Einstein-Rosen bridges in the lab using entangled particles in a quantum computer. The researchers believe that... continued

Happy New Year and May 2023 be Extremely Uninteresting EXCEPT FOR…

December 31, 2022
Unknown Country would like to wish everybody the joy of the season and offer the hope that 2023 will be one of the most uninteresting years on record, EXCEPT for UFO information. The Defense Authorization Act just passed opens the... continued

Continued Debates Worldwide as China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy Ends

December 30, 2022
The spread of COVID-19 in mainland China has become "impossible" to track, according to the country's top health authority, with case numbers rising precipitously since the end of October, prompting local health authorities to abandon their recording of asymptomatic cases... continued

Ghostly Glow from an Unknown Source in the Milky Way May Reveal a Previously Unidentified Galactic Component

December 29, 2022
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons spacecraft have unveiled the presence of a mysterious glow that permeates the solar system. This unexplained glow was discovered by the SKYSURF survey, an effort to catalogue the various sources... continued

We All Might Be Ancient Martians that Survived a Megatsunami

December 26, 2022
There is the possibility that life on Earth may not have originated here, but rather travelled to our planet on meteorites after first coming into being on the surface of Mars, according to a new study of Martian meteorites that... continued

Scientists Propose Using Gravity Wave Observatories to Search for Extraterrestrial Craft

December 22, 2022
"Gravity waves may not be the communication mode of choice for intelligent beings, but they will eventually give us an entirely new way to study the cosmos..."  –Seth Shostak, Astronomer A team of scientists has proposed using existing gravitational wave... continued

Elon Musk’s Neuralink under Federal Investigation for Alleged Animal Cruelty Violations

December 19, 2022
Elon Musk's neurotechnology company Neuralink is facing a federal investigation involving animal welfare violations, with numerous staff members alleging that the company has caused needless suffering and death amongst its test animals due to rushed studies. The investigation was started at... continued

Glacial Melt May Release Ancient Diseases Locked in the Ice, Are They Still Infectious?

December 16, 2022
                      While one of the main concerns regarding the ongoing melt of Arctic permafrost is the release of greenhouse gases such as methane previously trapped in the frozen soil, there are other... continued