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Veritas explores the nature of a mysterious gamma-ray emitter

Astronomers have employed the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) to observe a mysterious gamma-ray emitting source designated HESS J1857+026. Results of the observational campaign, published December 19 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the nature of this source.

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The moon and sun figure big in the new year’s lineup of cosmic wonders

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

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New method uses spin motion to control heat flow in magnetic materials

NIMS, in joint research with the University of Tokyo, AIST, the University of Osaka, and Tohoku University, have proposed a novel method for actively controlling heat flow in solids by utilizing the transport of magnons—quasiparticles corresponding to the collective motion of spins in a magnetic material—and demonstrated that magnons contribute to heat conduction in a ferromagnetic metal and its junction more significantly than previously believed.

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Using microwave pulses to plug leaks in quantum computers makes them more reliable

Scientists have developed a new approach to correcting common quantum computing errors, which could pave the way for more reliable systems.

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Researchers discover a new superfluid phase in non-Hermitian quantum systems

A stable “exceptional fermionic superfluid,” a new quantum phase that intrinsically hosts singularities known as exceptional points, has been discovered by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

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Flat-Earthers going to Antarctica seeking ‘truth’ about our ‘flat’ Earth

A group of people known as “Flat Earthers” actually believe that the Earth is flat, regardless of what science – or their eyes – tell them. They’ve grown so distrustful of science that they believe that planning and executing an expedition to Antarctica will help them prove that the Earth is indeed flat as they claim. These Flat Earthers believe that Antarctica is indeed where the world “ends.”

Apparently, they believe that by sailing around Antarctica, they can prove that the Earth is flat. According to Jay Decasby, a major supporter of the Flat Earth theory:

“All we have to do to shut this debate down once and for all is get the distance of the coast of Antarctica. … If we can get to the coast of Antarctica and sail all of the way around it, we will get the distance that will prove it’s the outer edges of flat earth and refuse entirely every single argument anyone can possibly try to pitch for the sun-worshipping cult of heliocentrism.”

According to the Flat Earth Society website, Antarctica’s ice shelves – an Ice Wall —  are further proof that the Earth is flat because it stops explorers from going any further. The site states:

“…Along the edge of our local area exists a massive 150 foot Ice Wall… The Ice Wall is a massive wall of ice that surrounds Antarctica. The shelf of ice is several hundred meters thick.”

A variety of Flat Earthers have planned a number of expeditions to various places across the Earth – including a cruise — in an attempt to prove science wrong. While science has been wrong before, in this case, it’s been proven time and again that the Earth is indeed round. This is the reason for the globe used in education systems across the world.

Additionally, according to the report, “dozens” of scientific teams have made it across Antarctica since the very first on December 14, 1911. Another group matched the feat a month later. The most recent trek was made by Colin O’Brady, who famously crossed Antarctica in 54 days by himself. This left “proof” for both sides of the debate.

Although in the grand scheme of things, while dozens of teams have made the trek, and thousands have gone to Antarctica, very few humans have actually made it to the South Pole in Antarctica. It’s such a treacherous trek that many who have tried have died along the way.

One problem with their expedition is the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, which states that no single entity can take possession or lay claim to any part of Antarctica. While it may make an expedition difficult, it apparently bolsters the claim of the Flat Earthers that Antarctica is the edge of the Earth, proving the Earth to be flat.

This is because, according to the Flat Earthers, the treaty restricts the type and number of expeditions to the continent to explore the area, even though the treaty allows expeditions the “freedom of scientific investigation.”

As for the cruise, there’s one thing extremely awkward about it. The ship’s captain will be using a navigational system based on a round Earth. Every single navigational system works on the FACT that the Earth is round. Period. End of story. So, by embarking on the cruise, what are the Flat Earthers really proving?

Logan Paul, a YouTube Mockumentary star who is was filing a YouTube video at the Flat Earth International Conference in Denver, Colorado, talked to Robbie Davidson, and both believe the answer is yes.

Logan believes that, as a man of truth, he wants to explore the “facts.” For instance:

“…The fact that we haven’t been to the moon in over 50 years, the fact that the moon emits its own light. Some of the best scientists can’t explain gravity; Neil Degrasse [sic] Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know? I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat-earther [sic]and if I’m going to do it I want to know the facts.”

Davidson, who is organizing the cruise, believes he has the facts already. While he’s not affiliated with the Flat Earth Society, believes that the Earth is more dome-shaped than flat, rather like a snow globe. He admits that no one is going to “fall off the edge.” Instead, he believes that squishing a dome more accurately represents what the Earth looks like and that this is the reason Antarctica is shaped the way it is at the bottom of the Earth.

The real question, especially given the treaty and the fact that their “evidence” all contradicts itself, is: Can Flat Earthers really be considered “scientific” enough to warrant an expedition to the Antarctic? Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure: Have your tin foil hats at the ready.

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Woman believed to be a reptilian alien faces murder charges after her boyfriend ‘asked her to kill him’

A Pennsylvania couple broke away from an alien/reptile, Christianity-based “cult” led by a woman who believed she was the “Daughter of the Most High” and the “granddaughter of King David.”

Days later, Barbara H. Rogers, 43, shot her boyfriend, Steven Mineo, 32, in the head. She claims he asked her to pull the trigger. He was overcome with stress as the followers of the self-described prophet, Sherry Shriner, attacked the couple for leaving the group, according to Rogers.

Shriner believed that reptilian humans, the New World Order, aliens, the elite, the US government, and NATO were working together to end the world. She warned Mineo that his girlfriend was a “Vampire Witch Reptilian Super Soldier” who was trying to kill her and who would harm him. She claimed that she had seen Roger’s reptilian eyes and teeth appear in her pictures, signs she was possessed and had super strength.

“When the demon manifested in her, if it was the demon or a lizard, if she had both, a human’s no match for that kind of supernatural strength,” Shriner said.

On Monday, Rogers went to court to face murder charges in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Police say Rogers shot Mineo in the head at a home near Tobyhanna in July of 2017.

According to NJ.com:

“Rogers reportedly told police that Mineo was upset with members of Shriner’s following, and had asked to be killed. She also told police that Mineo said Shriner was ‘reptilian’ and pretending to be human, according to a police affidavit obtained by the Associated Press.

In the opening statements of the trial, the prosecution says the night of the shooting, Rogers, and Mineo went to a nearby bar until 2 a.m. She claimed they were not drunk, but later that night they practiced shooting his gun in the woods around their home at his suggestion. Then they went back inside, where Rogers claims Mineo held her hand on a gun as he pointed it at his head. Then she claims he told her to pull the trigger.

In a call to 911 at 2:25 a.m. on Saturday, July 15, 2017, Rogers said:

“My boyfriend had a gun. He told me to hold it here and press the trigger. Oh my God, he’s dead!”

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Barbara H. Rogers with Steven Mineo via Facebook

She claimed she didn’t know the gun was loaded and says it was an accident, but the prosecution says it was murder. Rogers could have avoided killing Mineo. He was shot in the forehead at close range, possibly directly against his head, according to court records.

Rogers declined to accept a plea deal from the judge to accept third-degree murder charges.

The couple’s falling out with the Sherry Shriner followers began in April 2017, when Shriner noticed a Facebook post by Rogers. In the post, Rogers talked about having a craving for raw meat and steak tartare. Shriner and her followers immediately saw it as a sign that Rogers was not human but a reptilian alien.

“This is the best thing ever with cut up minced garlic,” Rogers wrote. “I just crave raw meat all the time for some reason. I know some are grossed out by it. But its a delicacy for me.”

Shriner said she tried to warn Mineo about his girlfriend, but Mineo was offended. After all, he had purchased “orgone” from Shriner, a superpowered substance she claimed would ward off reptilian humans. If Rogers were a reptile, then surely the orgone would have protected him.

“’Orgone kills them,’ Mineo wrote of the mystical substance that supposedly destroys reptilians. ‘The heavenly father knows that she’s not a reptilian. We’ve been friends for a long time and I always supported you. Out of all due respect, I do take offense to this.’”

The dispute started a rift with the Shriner group, and afterward, Mineo decided he would expose Shriner as a fraud. He uploaded videos to YouTube, in which he claimed: “Sherry Shriner Supporters Are Mentally Sick.” In his final video, four days before his death, Mineo said angry Shriner followers were attacking them.

After Mineo’s death, Shriner created a new video explaining she did not believe she was leading a cult, and that she had tried to protect Mineo.

“I warned Steve Mineo she was a Vampire Witch Reptilian Super Soldier… and now he’s DEAD because he wouldn’t listen.”

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Sherry Shriner via Facebook

According to Rogers, her boyfriend believed it was Shriner who was a reptile.

“The Defendant explained that the cult centers on ‘Aliens and raptures’. Recently they became upset with Shriver. The victim believed that contrary to her appearance, Shriver was actually ‘reptilian’.”

The Daily Beast reported that Mineo was the second person from the cult-like group to be killed at a young age. Five years before Mineo’s death, 22-year-old Kelly Pingilley died after swallowing 30 sleeping pills. Shriner claimed that a “NATO death squad” killed Pingilley because she believed in the god Yahuah.”

Pingilley had given up going to college to work as a transcriber for Shriner’s radio show Aliens in the News. After going on expeditions with Shriner to save the world from the New World Order, Pingilley committed suicide at an isolated wildlife park. Hunters found her body the next morning. She wore a pendant of orgone.

“One week before her death in December 2012, Pingilley said the apocalypse was near. Yahuah had shown her a strange symbol, which foretold invasion by an alien race that would eat and enslave humans, she wrote.”

Pingilley’s brother said he worried his sister may have suffered from undiagnosed schizophrenia. Shriner said that Kelly had been trying to kill her on orders from the Obama White House, but Kelly had refused to carry out orders.

“’Obama is on the march folks if you’re not with him and the Alien New Age you’re against them,’ she warned in the dark eulogy. ‘They have their lists, and they’re going to work on them… Kelly’s death is a wake-up call that they are after Yah’s people.’”

Steve Mineo posted Shriner’s bizarre eulogy to the Truth Seekers Blog on behalf of Sherry Shriner. A few years later he would denounce the group and end up dead himself. Mineo had been a follower of Shriner since 2004.

In January 2018, social media posts suggest that Shriner passed away. Her followers have suggested her death involves conspiracy theories after her work to expose Vice President Pence.

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ALMA datasets elucidate nearby galaxy NGC 1266’s massive molecular outflow

By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected the outflow of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1266. Results of the new study, presented Dec. 11 on the arXiv pre-print server, could help us better understand the nature of this galaxy.

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Ultra-hot lava world has thick atmosphere, upending expectations

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our solar system. Their work, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, used NASA’s JWST to reveal an alien atmosphere in an unexpected place—an ancient, ultra-hot super-Earth that likely hosts a magma ocean.

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Conn. officer’s swift action spared stabbed colleague from more serious wounds, IG says

The suspect had stabbed Bridgeport Officer Marie Cetti in the neck and shouted threats before he was shot by another officer, bodycam video shows

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National Geographic Documentary proclaims “Aliens exist on the moon” ahead of moon landing 50th anniversary

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/cTFnyeCM7lU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1

As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, National Geographic will release documentaries to commemorate the occasion titled, “Apollo: Missions to the Moon.”

“As the world prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Tom Jennings uses his signature style of first-person storytelling to create an immersive account that spans the breadth and depth of NASA’s Apollo Space Program.”

This will be something to look forward to for sure.

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In the meantime, another documentary claiming to be affiliated with National Geographic has been released with a shockingly certain title:

“Aliens Exist On The Moon.”

The video features photographs which it claims were taken by the Apollo astronauts themselves and asks the obvious questions: Why hasn’t NASA returned to the Moon in all these years? What did they find out?

What is hiding on the Dark Side of the Moon? After all these years, we’re only now seeing the pictures taken by the astronauts?

The narrator calmly asks for answers.

“…there are many mysteries about man’s first Lunar landing that remain unsolved. What did the astronauts actually encounter there and what made NASA stop going back to the Moon after Apollo 17? Is there evidence of an alien presence on the Moon and perhaps all around us?”

Looking at photographs, we see gigantic artificial-looking structures that seem to be clear signs of advanced alien life. They have never been shown on television before, the documentary claims.

In one of the photographs, we see an enormous cylinder standing inside a crater-like formation. It’s smooth perfect shape is nothing that could have been created by nature. In another shot, we see an enormous satellite dish, strange vehicle tracks, and objects that glaringly stand out. They are clearly artificial, unnatural in the lunar landscape.

In addition the photographs from NASA’s official archives, we see pictures taken by British videographer, John Lenard Walson. With a homemade telescope, Walson found what looks like a giant perfectly-formed cube on the Moon. Walson has found numerous strange-looking objects, including a fast-moving doughnut-shaped disc.

The documentary also features commentary by Amy Shira Teitel, spaceflight historian, popular YouTuber, and Canadian-American science author.

In addition to focusing on the Moon, there are videos of strange orb-like objects which seem to be harnessing the power of the Sun. We see video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Instead of a typical solar flare, we see a dark object hovering over the Sun with a long dark pipe-like trail leading into the surface of the corona. Then it quickly moves away abruptly.

“I can’t explain what that is, but I can definitely see why aliens may be interested in taking plasma. A lot of these UFOs seem to be encircled with plasma-type energy,” says paranormal investigator, Joshua P. Warren.

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Lee Speigel, author for the Huffington Post, shares insight into what appears to be an alien space station or base found by ordinary means: the Google Moon app. Why was there a perfect triangular object on the surface of the Moon? The perfect spacing appears similar to a pyramid surrounded by light. Critics dismiss it as a digital artifact, but others say it appears to be a constructed installation.

Author and researcher, Nick Redfern, explains:

“Is it an installation? We really don’t know other than the fact that it has these angles, has these bright lights, and it really does appear to be man-made in some form at least.”

Object found with the Google Moon app
Object found with the Google Moon app

In another spectacular image, a huge oddly-shaped structure captures imaginations all over the world. The object was discovered shortly after the launch of the Chinese Chang’e 2 Lunar Orbiter on October 1, 2010. Rather than just one structure, it seems to be made up of smaller ones, resembling what could be an entire complex or factory.

“It kind of looks like an aerial photograph of something along the lines of a North Pole installation or outpost,” says Redfern. “Clear angles, right angles, seeming to show something like an intelligently built structure. The question is: What is it? What’s it being used for?”

Strange complex structure on the Moon found in photograph by astronauts
Strange complex structure on the Moon found in NASA archives

Although the image was thought to come from the Chinese probe, it was then discovered to originate from the NASA archives. There has never been a definite explanation for what the strange group of objects is.

As strange as all of these photographs are, one of the strangest is of the Mare Crisium region of the Moon. Mare Crisium is also known as the “Sea of Crises,” a lunar mare, or dark flat plain 345 miles in diameter. The Apollo Astronauts photographed a bizarre cylinder standing in a dish-shaped bowl, with another protruding tube-like object with a ball on the end jutting out of the landscape nearby.

The NASA photo was partly the basis for a book, “Somebody Else Is On The Moon” by George Leonard. The book was published in 1977.

“George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts’ tapes. ”

Mare Crisium Lunar objects
Mare Crisium Lunar objects

Don Ecker, researcher and broadcaster comments:

“Not only was this spar jutting out at apparently a 45-degree angle with a ball-appearing object on the very end of it; There have been estimates the structure could be as much as a mile in diameter and width,” says Ecker.

The area also has what has been described as a “castle wall” surrounding it. Speculation abounds about what this could possibly be, from a fortress to a nuclear power plant, to an alien military base.

Ecker goes on to discuss “the smoking gun” of activity on the Moon. The video goes on to encompass a wide variety of strange phenomena and evidence from around the solar system. With so many examples of bizarre and unexplained photographs, is it any wonder it appears that the government seems to have tried to keep any explanation a secret?

Have we finally reached a time when our civilization is ready to hear and accept the answers?

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St. Louis County PD chief may seek secondary job as pay incentive ends

Currently, about 450 of the 872 St. Louis Police Department’s commissioned officers have an application on file to work a second job

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New Find Says Man Never Actually Left Earth’s Atmosphere

In Brief: Earth’s Atmosphere extends far beyond what was believed until now, according to a recent study by Russian researchers based on scientific observations that remained tucked away in archives for more than 20 years, waiting for the day someone would take a look at them.

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Image: Where Earth’s it merges into outer space, there is a cloud of hydrogen atoms called the geocorona. Image Credit: ESA.

Not that we didn’t go to space, or land on the moon, but mankind never actually left Earth’s atmosphere according to a recently published study.

How?

Well, simply put, we’ve just found out that Earth’s atmosphere is actually humongous.

It’s so massive that scientists say it extends beyond our moon.

Thanks to data compiled by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Russian scientists have found that the borders of the Earth’s atmosphere spread out a stunning 630,000 kilometers–almost twice the distance to the Moon.
This means that the Moon, the only place outside the earth’s surface is within this limit. In other words, we’ve set foot on the moon but without ever leaving Earth’s atmosphere.

It also shows that between 1996 and 1998 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a group of scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, headed by Igor Baliukin, managed to establish that the borders of the atmosphere of our planet are, in reality, 630,000 kilometers, a distance equivalent to 50 times the diameter of the Earth.

“The Moon flies through Earth’s atmosphere,” says Baliukin.

“We were not aware of it until we dusted off observations made over two decades ago by the SOHO spacecraft.”

This means that the Moon (which is situated at an average distance of 384,400 kilometers) is not outside its atmosphere, but right in the middle.

In fact, the only natural satellite of our planet orbits within Earth’s that range, as do its many artificial satellites.
SOHO casually obtained the revealing information while it was mapping the geocorona or terrestrial exosphere, the luminous part of the outermost region of its atmosphere formed by a cloud of hydrogen atoms that glow under the influence of ultraviolet radiation.

As noted by the European Space Agency, where it merges into outer space, there is a cloud of hydrogen atoms called the geocorona

However, this layer is very thin and can be observed only from space, so it is very difficult to measure.
In fact, the very first telescope on the Moon, which was placed by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972, managed to capture an evocative image of the geocorona surrounding Earth and glowing brightly in ultraviolet light.

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Evidence of a quantum spin liquid ground state in a kagome material

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not settle into an ordered pattern and continue to fluctuate, even at extremely low temperatures. This state is characterized by high entanglement, a quantum effect that causes particles to become linked so that the state of one affects the others’ states, even over long distances.

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‘Getting ahead of the action’: Inside LVMPD’s fight against youth crime in Vegas

The Juvenile Task Force works in plainclothes to mentor at-risk teens, connecting them with services and jobs before they reoffend

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