A steroid called dexamethasone reduced the death rate among hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infections in a large clinical trial, U.K. researchers announced today (June 16). One caveat: The trial data have not been published and have not undergone scientific…
END OF THE WORLD fears are being stoked this week as conspiracy theorists claim Nibiru, or Planet X, could arrive on June 21 – the supposed end times date predicted by the Maya. The doomsday Planet X or Nibiru has…
How many intelligent alien civilizations are out there among the hundreds of billions of stars in the spiral arms of the Milky Way? According to a new calculation, the answer is 36. That number assumes that life on Earth is…
A SOLAR ECLIPSE this week will turn the Sun into a beautiful ring of fire – but how often does an eclipse occur? The Moon will pass in front of the Sun this Sunday (June 21) and obscure all but…
Wormholes, or tunnels in the fabric of space-time, are ferociously unstable. As soon as even a single photon slips down the tunnel, the wormhole closes in a flash. But what if the problem was that our imagined wormholes weren’t quite…
END OF THE WORLD fears are on the rise as Christian evangelists and doomsday preachers predict brimstone and fire will signal the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Doomsday prophets who await the Second Coming of Christ, have bizarrely claimed biblical…