Most people think there has never been a successful vaccine for corona viruses, due to a problem unique to corona vaccines called pathogenic priming. In animal trials for previous vaccines, the animals were vaccinated and seemed to have a good antibody response, but upon exposure to the wild virus, developed a paradoxical immune enhancement, leading to…
Curbing the world’s huge and increasing appetite for meat is essential to avoid devastating climate change, according to a new report. But governments and green campaigners are doing nothing to tackle the issue due to fears of a consumer backlash. The global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains and ships…
A retired Israeli general has claimed humanity has already made contact not just with aliens, but with a "Galactic Federation".Speaking to one of Israel's most popular news outlets, Yediot Aharonot, 87-year-old Professor Haim Eshed claimed that the majority of humanity had been kept unaware of the contact as the world was not deemed to be ready for…
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, authorities around the world implemented lockdown measures that have brought much of global economic activity to a halt.Many businesses have been forced to reduce operations or shut down, and an increasing number of people are expected to lose their jobs.Companies in the services industry, a major source of growth…
The coronavirus news cycle runs 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Every website, every channel, every newspaper is currently filled with data, graphs, and projections. It’s overwhelming and exhausting. You don’t have to look further than Facebook to find conspiracy theories warning the science and data is false. Here are five of the most bizarre…
We can't dig to the center of the Earth, but that hasn't stopped us from trying. Whether explicit efforts to dig through the Earth's mantle or some of the world's wildest open-pit mines, humankind has done some serious digging. We explore some of the craziest manmade holes out there through both ice and land. Kola Superdeep…
Famed scientist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, confirmed his family. The British theoretical physicist and cosmologist was best known for his work on black holes, relativity, quantum physics and the philosophy of science. His book, A Brief History of Time, is one of the best-selling science books of all time. Professor Hawking’s children Lucy, Robert…
[paypal_donation_button] The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award has been handed to a photojournalist who captured a criticially endangered black rhino lying dead with its horn cut off. Brent Stirton’s “Memorial to a species” was taken on South Africa’s Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve and is one of thirty such scenes he captured as he covered…
In order to malign India, Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi used a fake image of a "pellet gun victim" in the UN General Assembly for alleged atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir. The move backfired as it was later emerged that the image was that of a 17-year-old Gazan woman named Rawya abu Jom, who…
In 2007, a group of astronomers spotted something strange—a powerful burst of radio waves that vanished as quickly as it appeared. They called the strange event a "fast radio burst," and ever since then scientists have been trying to figure out what these things are. Here's what we do know: Fast radio bursts are high-energy radio…