NASA is warning of yet another five asteroids headed our way in the first half of this week, as the agency’s leading asteroid expert claims to have solved the mystery of the ‘minimoon’ set to enter earth’s orbit. Amid a flurry of asteroidal activity as we enter the final few months of 2020, NASA’s asteroid hunters have flagged five more space rocks en route ranging in […]
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It’s open season in Grand Teton National Park. You can’t keep the meat and you can’t keep trophies, but despite prevailing conservation management practices, from Sept. 14 to Nov. 13 volunteers have been selected to head into the dramatic mountain range to scramble up jagged rocks, teeter around on exposed cliffs, and sneak around bear country in camouflage, all in the name of helping to reduce […]
In 2010, Forrest Fenn, an art and antiquities collector, published his memoir “The Thrill of the Chase”, in which he wrote about a chest containing a treasure that he hid somewhere north of Santa Fe, a city in New Mexico in the US. According to various estimates, since 2010, hundreds of thousands of people have attempted to find the stash. Treasure hunters and adventure-seekers still argue […]
The FBI’s top terrorism cops took down a different kind of alleged terrorist in a complaint filed earlier this month: an incel. In a complaint filed in federal court in White Plains, New York, an FBI agent with the Bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Force detailed a year-long campaign of harassment, rape, and death threats levied at a Long Island couple by David Kaufman, a self-described member […]
The U.S. Navy intends to issue a solicitation for the design, development, and production of the Medium Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (MUUV), also known as unmanned mine hunter. The new mine countermeasures and data collection autonomous vehicles are to be launched by surface vessels and submarines. According to an updated request for information published at the U.S. government’s main contracting website, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) aims […]
Carine Hutsebaut is a Commissioner on the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse, and the author of Child Hunters, a book about pedophilia and murderous pedophilia that makes three big points: a) the police turn a blind eye to this; b) relatives are often the greatest offenders; and c) pedophiles can be rehabilitated. The last, while controversial, has been proven. […]
They are one of the most intelligent animals in the world, with a complex form of communication, and are capable of self-awareness. Scientists know that the aquatic mammals use tools to play games and even to catch prey, something researchers think they are taught by their mothers. Dolphins teach each other how to be better hunters, says a new study conducted by an international team of […]
Michael Zamora and Ben de la Cruz/NPR YouTube Scientists have learned a great deal about how the novel coronavirus spreads. But one of the mysteries they’re still trying to untangle is where the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, came from in the first place. Scientific evidence points overwhelmingly to wildlife — and to bats as the most likely origin point. Bats are critically important for pollinating flowers […]
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Virginia-based Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems Inc. a $200,2 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver Army’s Husky hunts IEDs (improvised explosive devices), it announced on 11 May. The Husky is an effective and reliable system that has located thousands of IEDs since it has been deployed by the Army. The contract award from U.S. Army Contracting Command covers […]