A new saliva test for COVID-19 that can be completed in just a few hours has been authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test has several advantages over traditional nasal swab tests: It’s cheap,…
A polar bear treks by Kaktovik in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Trump administration announced today (Aug. 17) that it plans to open up part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a 19 million acre (7.7 million…
The biotechnology company Novavax will soon begin the second phase of human testing for its COVID-19 vaccine. The so-called phase 2b clinical trial will include a group of 2,665 healthy adults in South Africa, as well as a group of…
The Romanche Spreading Zone in the Atlantic Ocean was the site of a rare boomerang earthquake in 2016. A massive earthquake in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2016 ricocheted east then west like a geologic boomerang. Boomerang quakes…
UFO hunters claim to have found remarkable evidence of aliens visiting Earth after a pair of glowing orbs was filmed over Nevada, US. The UFOs or unidentified flying objects were filmed over Washoe Valley by an unsuspecting eyewitness. Two glowing…
The Greenland Ice Sheet has reached a point of rapid retreat that it couldn’t recover from even if global temperatures stopped rising instantly. This Arctic ice sheet is the second-largest ice sheet in the world, after the one that blankets…