Scientists equipped with giant lasers have blown up gold at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, heating it to 14 times its melting point. For a chilling second, they thought they broke physics, but they fortunately did no such thing. That said, they broke something else: a decades-long model in physical chemistry having to do with the fundamental properties of matter. In …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued another major blow to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, ruling that it’s unconstitutional and upholding a nationwide block against the controversial policy. The 2-1 ruling from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is significant because the Supreme Court late last month ordered lower …
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The US will quit the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco, the US state department said on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to pull out of international institutions. “Unesco works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our …
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If you’re a woman or assigned female at birth, chances are you know how misunderstood, under-researched, and straight-up dismissive women’s healthcare can be. Maybe you’ve even lived through it firsthand. SeventyFour / Getty Images From pain being downplayed to conditions being ignored for years and years, the learning curve in just understanding the correct information about our bodies can be …
Read More »‘Definitely playing favorites:’ Interior memo could strike dire blow to wind and solar projects Politico Trump targets solar and wind with tighter federal permitting in another blow to renewable industry CNBC Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects The Washington Post Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review The New York Times Trump Orders New …
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NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter photographed this region in the northern latitudes of Mars on July 25, 1976, while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 lander. The image shows a mesa that resembles a human face (centre), which helped to spawn a cottage industry of pseudoscientific claims about ancient Martian civilisations. Further high-resolution images from later missions revealed …
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The premiere for the 27th season of South Park later this month is in serious doubt amid wrangling between series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Paramount Global and incoming studio owner Skydance, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. At the heart of the dispute: A new 10-year, $3 billion overall deal for Parker and Stone that would more than triple …
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