All the Updates from Mars Courtesy of Perseverance
MARS, February 20th, 2021. PICTURED: Half of a Panorama, taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance…
Author: Andy Corbley
Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children
In a clever new study, researchers at University College Dublin put together 7 European mother-offspring birth study groups, and…
My Syrian Journey — a View Beyond the Headlines to a Land Before Time
DAMASCUS, Syria. October 2007. PICTURED: The busy Al-Nasser street in downtown Damascus, minarets and all. Ahlan wa-sahlan – Welcome…
A Dip Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf Instantly Reveals 36 Creatures New to Science
British Antarctic Survey team members gathering ice cores despaired as their drill bit struck a boulder, half a mile…
Europe’s Best Island Destination is Making A Digital Nomad Village for International Remote Workers
MADEIRA, Portugal. February 16th, 2021. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award 5 years running, the island of Madeira…
Taliban Open Letter Urges U.S. Honoring of Withdrawal While the Country Braces for Another Period of Conflict
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan. February 16th, 2021. The Taliban have published an “open letter” calling on the U.S. to honor her…
Stonehenge Was Likely Built From Other Cannibalized Stone Circles in Wales
Questions have always circled around Stonehenge, and now a breakthrough hypothesis suggests that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument…
SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the first two of four components of the Lunar Gateway into space,…
Perseverance Mars Rover Will Touch Down on the Red Planet in a Week’s Time
At 3:55pm EST on February 18th, NASA will commence its 9th Mars landing operation in an attempt to drop…
US to Let Artificial Intelligence Determine Dietary Recommendations After Gargantuan 10-Year Nutrition Study
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to embark on a 10-year multi-lateral research project to conduct the…
Spacecraft Set to Swap Toxic Hydrazine for New “Green” Propellant
PICTURED: An Aerojet Rocketdyne researcher examines a container of the Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic (ASCENT) monopropellant during preparation for…
UN USAID Assistance Moves Houthis No Longer a Terrorist Organization
PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the…
Biden Says America Will Cease Supporting “Offensive Operations” by Saudi Arabia in Yemen
PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the…
The War in Afghanistan “Should Continue” Says Pentagon, Congressional Panel, and State Dep.
WASHINGTON D.C., February 3rd, 2021. Congress’ mandated Afghanistan panel has recommended to the Biden Administration that the War in…
Who Must do What as Iran Nuclear Deal Negotiations Stall Before They Begin
TEHRAN, Iran. February 1st, 2021. As the days turn to weeks, Tehran’s back and forth regarding the Biden Administration’s…
Test Drilling for the World’s Last Great Undiscovered Oil Reserve Commences in the Okavango Basin
160 miles upstream from the Okavango Delta, a drilling rig plunges through the sand looking for oil or natural…
Harvard Astronomer Publishes Book on Extraterrestrials After Famous 2017 Oumuamua Paper
In 2017, our solar system was visited by a strange object whose origin lay far beyond the reach of…
Biden Tentatively Picks up the Afghan Peace Process Rugby Ball
DOHA, Qatar. February 29th, 2020. PICTURED: Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban negotiators put pen to paper on a pre-peace agreement.…
Biden Putin Agree to 5-Year Extension of New START the Last Nuclear Weapons Treaty
PICTURED: Presidents Biden and Putin. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/kremlin.ru CC 2.0. and CC 4.0. WASHINGTON D.C. January 26th, 2020.…
This Protein Seemingly Links Exercise Mediation and Sauna Use to Risk-Reductions of Neurological Disease
Taken from an earlier article from World at Large… A growth-factor compound produced in our brains and muscles is…