The Curious Case Of Immortal Putin

Have you come across these images before? It’s not the first time that a conspiracy theory claims that a world leader is either a time traveler or immortal. This time it seems that the internet has taken a particular interest in Russian President Vladimir Putin, who some claim is the ultimate time traveler.

This […]

Fisherman hears heavy wood knocks 1 mile below Trinity Dam (Report 79360)

Class B; November 2022; California, Trinity County

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173-mile Calif. pursuit ends with driver crossing into Mexico

Attempts to stop the vehicle using spike strips failed as police pursued the van for more than two hours

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Ill. police pursue stolen ambulance with medic inside

A man escorted out of Loretto Hospital stole an idle ambulance, triggering a police pursuit that included gunfire and ended in multiple crashes and several injuries

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Flat-Earthers Explain Why We Don’t Fall Off The Edge Of Earth

The notion of a flat Earth refers to the idea that the inhabited surface of our planet is, in fact, flat, instead of being spherical or curved. Thousands of years ago, some authors and philosophers argued that the Earth was flat and others that it was cylindrical.

Among the Greek philosophers, Thales of Miletus […]

Border Patrol invites retired agents and officers back to the badge

The initiative now welcomes retired CBP officers and Border Patrol agents with full pay and pension, aiming to boost leadership and operational capacity

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Okla. buffer law takes effect, requiring bystanders to stand back 25 feet from LE activity

House Bill 1597 creates a misdemeanor for bystanders who fail to back off at least 25 feet when ordered to do so by a first responder performing their duty

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Ancient Maya Calendar Contains ‘Secret Code’ To Unlock Time Portals, Claims ‘Researcher’

The Ancient Mayan Calendar is a system of calendars used by the ancient May civilization in pre-Colombian America.

The Mayan calendar details the existence of various ‘cycles,’ so it describes the sacred calendar (tzolkin or bucxok, with a 260-day count), the solar cycle (Haab, composed of 365 days).

The Tzolkin calendar was combined with […]

Cosmic dust bunnies: Why the universe might be fluffier than we thought

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks like, especially in terms of its “porosity” (i.e., how many holes it has) has been an area of debate for astrochemists for decades. A […]

Within a second after the Big Bang, particle interactions may have created black holes, boson stars and cannibal stars

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson stars, and so-called cannibal stars. This is the conclusion of a new study just published in Physical Review D, conducted by a team […]

China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter spots 3I/ATLAS

The interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS just flew past Mars, and China’s Tianwen-1 mission managed to snap some pics with its high-resolution camera. According to the China National Space Agency (CNSA), the orbiter’s high-resolution camera captured images of the comet from a distance of about 30 million km (18.6 million mi). This makes the Tianwen-1 […]

Habitable zone planets around red dwarfs aren’t likely to host exomoons, simulations suggest

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but none have passed the threshold and been accepted as confirmed. But they must exist. Moons are common in our solar system, so it would be extremely weird if they didn’t exist elsewhere.

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Harnessing intricate, self-organized plasma patterns to destroy PFAS

Increasing the surface area when plasma and water interact could help scale up a technology that destroys contaminants such as PFAS, detergents and microbial contaminants in drinking water, new research from the University of Michigan shows.

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Developers and expert users benchmark three leading open-source thermal conductivity calculation packages

Mechanical Engineering Professor Alan McGaughey of Carnegie Mellon University recently coordinated the Phonon Olympics, bringing together developers and expert users to benchmark three leading open-source thermal conductivity calculation packages.

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Stable molecule trapped with deep ultraviolet light for the first time

Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical trap of a stable “closed-shell” molecule: aluminum monofluoride (AlF). They were able to cool AlF with lasers and selectively trap it in three different rotational quantum levels—breaking new ground in ultracold physics.

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