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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off on epic journey to ‘touch the Sun’

| August 12, 2018 | 27 Comments
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off on epic journey to ‘touch the Sun’

Fox News repotrs NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force station, home of the of the United States Air Force Space Command’s 45th Space Wing, on its historic mission to the Sun. The probe lit up the night sky as it blasted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT. “It was a very […]

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Jason Seaman saving the world

| May 26, 2018 | 19 Comments
Jason Seaman saving the world

The Chicago Tribune reports that Jason Seaman, a 29-year-old science teacher disarmed a gunman at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Ind.; Seventh-grader Ethan Stonebreaker told The Associated Press that when the alleged gunman, also a student at the school, entered the classroom and opened fire, “Our science teacher immediately ran at him, swatted a […]

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Astronomers Release Stunning Images of Nearby Galaxies

| May 19, 2018 | 33 Comments
Astronomers Release Stunning Images of Nearby Galaxies

Newsweek reports astronomers released images from the most wide-ranging ultraviolet light survey of nearby star-forming galaxies to date. The project, known as LEGUS (Legacy Extra Galactic UV Survey), researchers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, and the Advanced Camera to capture both ultraviolet and visible images of 50 neighboring galaxies, which lie within a 60 […]

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China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks

| March 6, 2018 | 56 Comments
China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks

Live in northern China, the Middle East, central Italy, northern Spain or the northern states of the US, New Zealand, Tasmania, parts of South America and southern Africa? Then I have some bad news for you. The Guardian reports China’s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth within weeks, but scientists […]

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Exploding Stars and Climate Change

| December 19, 2017 | 109 Comments
Exploding Stars and Climate Change

Although the article claims that they just tested this concept, this theory has been around for a while. It had also been proven in the laboratory and observed in nature. Exploding stars are influencing our weather, scientists find Increased cosmic rays, in our atmosphere, result in increased cloud formations. Increased cloud formations reflect more heat […]

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Ebola doctor dies after he tests negative

| November 17, 2014 | 38 Comments
Ebola doctor dies after he tests negative

The Washington Post reports that Doctor Martin Salia has died from the Ebola virus, just a few weeks after he tested negative for the disease; When Martin Salia’s Ebola test came back negative, his friends and colleagues threw their arms around him. They shook his hand. They patted him on the back. They removed their […]

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How Earth avoided the Stone Age–Maybe

| July 26, 2014 | 23 Comments
How Earth avoided the Stone Age–Maybe

Jonn mentioned to me the other day he’s had a number of folks contact him about a story from the Washington Post Capital Weather Gang which discussed how a massive Coronal Mass Ejection narrowly missed the planet in July of 2012: On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely […]

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Prostituting Science

| February 10, 2014 | 13 Comments
Prostituting Science

Over at Forbes, Patrick Michaels, Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and a senior fellow in research and economic development at George Mason University, has written a serious and thought-provoking piece regarding the deleterious impact of the fraud of global warming on the world scientific community. Michaels, citing […]

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