Kenneth Taylor, an American pilot who is portrayed in Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, allegedly called the movie “a piece of trash; over-sensationalized and completely distorted.” To turn a historical event into entertainment is hard enough, but then filmmakers must also…
THE jokey Facebook event set up to storm top security US Air Force base Area 51 in September has been panned as “terrible” by an intelligence expert who questioned its potentially nefarious source. Thornton D. Barnes, who actually spent time…
NASA never took astronauts to the Moon and the Apollo 11 mission was a complete hoax, according to a man who helped on the Saturn V rocket. In 1969, NASA made history when it sent Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and…
A solar wind proton approaches Mars at high speed; it steals an electron from an escaped Martian hydrogen atom and passes through a magnetic field surrounding Mars. The now-neutral atom then enters the planet’s atmosphere and collides with gas molecules,…
Two black holes merge, generating gravitational waves. Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe. I am…
Female orcas go through menopause, living up to 90 years—a longstanding mystery. Now, a new study suggests there’s a reason why. The orca is one of only a handful of mammals known to go through menopause. The reason has remained…
An indigenous community in Colombia considers the white-spotted amphibian sacred. Recently, they allowed it to be reintroduced to the world. A TOAD THOUGHT extinct for 30 years has again seen the light of day, scientists have announced: Meet the starry…
Hatched in local ponds and living among garden plantings, these cousins of the dragonfly captured the photographer’s attention and imagination. First they were looking at him—and then he started looking back. Photographer Remus Tiplea noticed the damselflies perched on foliage…
An American biotech company has launched clinical trials in Colombia to test a new therapy designed to reverse the aging process, and in turn, treat age-related diseases, according to news reports. But to steal a sip from this purported fountain…
