US Navy’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Just Spent Hours Circling a Nuclear War Command—Why?
The Boeing E-6B Mercury took off from Oklahoma on Monday, carved eerie loops over Nebraska, and then returned home like nothing ever happened. Seven hours in the sky. Three full circles over Omaha. A flight path that looked less like routine training and more like...
The Galactic Mystery That Could Rewrite Everything We Know About Dark Matter
The universe is bad at keeping secrets, but dark matter? It’s been playing the long con. Supposedly making up 85% of the cosmos’s mass, this shadowy substance refuses to interact with light, sound, or human curiosity. Scientists have been chasing it for decades, armed...
Enjoy Watching People Suffer? Science Says You Might Be a Psychopath
If watching others squirm gives a little thrill, science has some bad news. A new study suggests that enjoying the suffering of others—whether through trolling, video games, or even squashing insects—might be a red flag for psychopathy. Turns out, sadism isn’t just...
The Quantum Rule That Stops the Universe from Imploding
What stops matter from collapsing into a chaotic soup of electrons and nuclei? Why do atoms behave as they do, forming everything from diamonds to DNA? And why hasn’t reality disintegrated into a shimmering haze of undifferentiated energy? Physicists in the late 19th...
This Handheld Sensor Sniffs Out Airborne Bird Flu Before It Strikes
Bird flu isn’t just a problem for poultry farms—it’s a ticking time bomb for global health. The H5N1 virus has a talent for jumping species, and with enough mutations, it could make the leap to humans in a way we’re not ready for. Testing for it has been slow,...Recent News
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