Hypersonic weapons are the military buzzword of our time. Many crave them, some claim they’ll “acquire them soon”, others insist they “already have them” by manipulating blurry definitions, but only a handful truly possess the resources and know-how to actually develop and field these remarkable weapon systems. The deliberate confusion and disinformation surrounding these missiles mostly stem from the desire to gain prestige, as fielding such weapons indicates that a country is among the most advanced, richest and most powerful on the planet.
In the midst of all the earth-shaking events occurring in the planet at the moment, there is a major political crisis that revolves around an individual which has serious implications for humanity as a whole. This is the imperiled situation confronting the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan who has been a political prisoner in his country since August 2023. He is languishing in the Adiela jail in Rawalpindi. It is now medically confirmed that his eyesight has been deteriorating in recent months. He is left with 15 % vision in his right eye.
With ten approved influenza vaccines, on the U.S. market right now, across three main production methods — eggs, cell cultures, and recombinant protein, do we need a genetic mRNA product?
The annual influenza vaccine campaign led by the CDC has become a major public health failure with minimal efficacy and rising concerns of the shots causing more colds and flu while raising the risks of serious conditions like paralysis from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. This story was outlined by Alter AI.
For years, the public was told that COVID-19 mRNA injection-induced cardiac injury in children was rare. That reassurance formed the backbone of adolescent vaccination campaigns across the world. But what if the underlying safety data were never fully processed or disclosed?
Remember Susan Linn? She was the puppeteer for Audrey Duck on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood….
Today, she’s a child psychologist — still focused on nurturing children’s emotions and imagination, while writing books warning parents about the dangers of screen time.
Parece cada vez mais claro que os países ocidentais participaram ativamente, ao lado do regime de Kiev, de um plano de sabotagem para destruir os gasodutos Nord Stream. Agora, a mídia alemã divulga evidências de que a CIA já havia discutido um plano para tal operação com a Ucrânia. Tudo isso deixa claro como as autoridades russas e analistas internacionais independentes estavam certos desde o início ao apontar a responsabilidade ocidental pelo incidente.
The oldest known wild clouded leopard – a female – captured on camera trap in Malaysian Borneo. This individual is estimated to have been 8.5 years old – Credit: Panthera, Sabah Forestry Department, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Newly released camera trap footage from a recent study captures the oldest Sunda clouded leopard ever recorded in the wild.
This 8.5-year-old female in Borneo's rainforests offers a new and exciting glimpse into the life of one of the world's most elusive wild cats. (See the video below…)
The research is the first to document a female's lifespan in the wild, and the data also confirmed that these leopards are far more mobile than previously assumed, with some individuals traveling up to 19 miles between forest reserves.
It also found that females were 68% harder to detect than males. Camera trap data demonstrates why: females spend far more time in the trees, and their slender bodies and fluffier tails help them balance there.
Males, by contrast, spend much of their time on the ground patrolling and re-marking territory, which is why they turn up on camera more often.
10 years ago today, Ichiro Suzuki joined the "3,000 Club" of collecting 3,000 hits across an MLB career in style, hitting a triple off the right-field wall of Coors Field against the Colorado Rockies. In doing so he also became the 7th player in MLB history to hit 3,000 and steal 500 bases in a career—such was his excellence. READ more… (2016)
Ichiro Suzuki in 2011 – CC 3.0 Keith Allison
On the 15th of June in the same season, Suzuki surpassed Pete Rose for hits as a professional baseball player at 4,257. Pete Rose didn't appreciate that, noting that soon Japanese fans would be "counting his high school baseball hits," and arguing that the 1,278 hits he collected during his career in Nippon Professional Baseball shouldn't count because they came against pitchers of a lower caliber.
Arizona Diamondbacks assistant hitting coach Mark Grace told USA Today he thought it didn't matter.
"You're talking about breaking Pete Rose's record. I couldn't care less if he got some of those hits in Japan or in Antarctica. You're getting hits at high professional levels. That's huge. I'm in awe of the guy."
Beluga whale arrives at SeaWorld San Antonio – courtesy SeaWorld
SeaWorld San Antonio recently welcomed 7 rescued beluga whales, following a nearly 2,000 mile journey, as part of an urgent, unprecedented international effort to relocate 30 belugas from a closed marine park in Canada that can no longer support their care.
They join 2 rescued male belugas who arrived on July 21st as part of the first transport, and set a national record for the largest movement of captive cetaceans ever undertaken by a zoo or aquarium.
"Given this is the largest number of belugas being moved at one time, we are so happy that all went well and the second transport of this huge rescue effort is complete," said Steve Aibel, Vice President, Animals and Conservation for SeaWorld San Antonio, who accompanied both transports.
"All seven female belugas are now at SeaWorld San Antonio. They are receiving veterinary care, nutrition and attention as they acclimate to their new environment."
GNN reported on the previous group of belugas to depart captivity in Ontario towards 'bluer' pastures stateside, when 4 female belugas flew to Chicago via a Qatar Airways Boeing
Little plasma whirlpools on the Sun's surface – credit, NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS
Scientists using Earth's most powerful solar telescope have snapped a picture of the Sun's surface that helped explain—for the first time—foundational physics about our dear star.
Situated atop the summit of Haleakalā, a volcano on the island of Maui, the Daniel Inouye Solar Telescope peered down onto the surface of the Sun. Captured in the data is proof that the plasma thereupon is subjected to the same physical force that causes waves to break and whirlpools to form down on Earth's seas, or among Jupiter's clouds.
Published in the journal Nature, the authors of a paper on the discovery said it carries "far-reaching implications for our understanding of the creation and dissipation of magnetic fields," on the Sun's photosphere.
"The vortex formation on the Sun has long been a central question in solar physics. For the first time, we have identified both their origin and their driving mechanism," lead study author Dr. David Kuridze, assistant astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, wrote to CNN in an email.
The phenomenon is known as Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.
A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania – credit, Joel Sartore / National Geographic, released
National Geographic calls it the ocean dweller who struts about more like a rock &roll frontman than a fish.
No bigger than a human thumb and sporting a red-lipped frown like a moody punk rocker, the Critically-Endangered red handfish is also the extraordinary 18,000th species in the National Geographic "Photo Ark," just in time to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
National Geographic Explorer, photographer and Photo Ark founder Joel Sartore photographed this handfish while visiting the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania.
It's all part of Sartore's now 20-year effort to document all species living in human care to show a world worth saving.
"I started the Photo Ark in 2006 with the idea that if we can illuminate species of all sizes — especially the little ones that don't get a lot of love — then we might be able to ignite connection and compassion for all of the living things we share this planet with," Sartore said in
Kazakhstan has taken a massive step towards its long-held goal of re-establishing the tiger in the country by releasing a female Amur tiger into the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve.
Established in 2018 for this exact purpose, what followed was a truly generational effort of reforestation and replenishing prey species of deer and antelope that the Caspian tiger, now extinct, once relied on.
"Today, we witnessed a truly historic event," Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Yerlan Nyssanbayev said at the ceremony which saw the female tiger named "hope" in the Kazakh language, leap from the container on the back of a truck into the reserve.
"For the first time since the tiger disappeared from Kazakhstan more than 70 years ago, the first tiger has been released into its historical range. This is the result of many years of work by the state, our Russian colleagues, scientists, and international partners," he said.
The extinct Caspian tiger, also called the Turanian tiger, was most closely related to the Siberian, or Amur, tiger, and so Russian collaboration was essential to the project.
