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Human Sciences

3,400 Year-Old Bronze Age City Emerges from a Drought Stricken Reservoir in Iraq

June 10, 2022

PICTURED: An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq. PC: Universities of…

Here’s What the James Webb Telescope Will Look at First When Operational In Late June
Space

Here’s What the James Webb Telescope Will Look at First When Operational In Late June

May 31, 2022June 28, 2023

PICTURED: Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. PC: ILLUSTRATION:…

Amazing Discovery in Southern Amazon Reveals Details of Urban-Agrarian Society as Never Before
ArchivesHuman Sciences

Amazing Discovery in Southern Amazon Reveals Details of Urban-Agrarian Society as Never Before

May 25, 2022October 28, 2023

If one searches “Casarabe Culture” in a search engine, they won’t find much. Maybe they will see a Wikipedia…

“Out of the Shadows” Comes the First Congressional Hearings on UFOs—Everything You Need to Know
Technology

“Out of the Shadows” Comes the First Congressional Hearings on UFOs—Everything You Need to Know

May 18, 2022

PICTURED: A jet fighter passes by a strange spherical object—an example of UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena, that was…

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away
ArchivesEarth Sciences

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away

May 16, 2022October 28, 2023

If you go to a national park in one of America’s deserts, you may see signs on the hiking…

James Webb Space Telescope Fully-Focused—Ready for First Images
Space

James Webb Space Telescope Fully-Focused—Ready for First Images

May 3, 2022June 28, 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope has finally finished aligning its giant gold mirrors which will ensure that all the…

Perseverance Captures Video of Martian Solar Eclipse While Beginning Exploration of River Delta
ArchivesSpace

Perseverance Captures Video of Martian Solar Eclipse While Beginning Exploration of River Delta

April 22, 2022February 19, 2024

On April 13th, following 31 days and 3 miles of travel, NASA’s Perseverance Rover arrived at an extinct river…

Pentagon Blocked Release of Data a Study Needed to Prove the First Identified Interstellar Object
Space

Pentagon Blocked Release of Data a Study Needed to Prove the First Identified Interstellar Object

April 12, 2022

In 2014, an object around 1.5 feet across came screaming into the skies above Papua New Guinea before blowing…

Inside SPHEREx, NASA’s New Space Telescope that Will Map the Whole Universe Four Times
Space

Inside SPHEREx, NASA’s New Space Telescope that Will Map the Whole Universe Four Times

April 8, 2022

PICTURED: The soon-to-launch SPHEREx space observatory. PC: Caltech. Story at a glance… A telescope that will map the entire…

Science Marks Milestone of 5,000th Exoplanet Discovered
ArchivesSpace

Science Marks Milestone of 5,000th Exoplanet Discovered

March 22, 2022November 29, 2023

Story at a glance… 5,000 planets outside of our solar system have been discovered. The science has advanced rapidly…

Are We About to Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Merger?
Space

Are We About to Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Merger?

February 4, 2022

PICTURED: Edited Hubble Space Telescope montage (created by NASA) of various galaxies with growing black holes due to collisions…

Space

China Releases its 5-Year Plan for Space

January 31, 2022

BEIJING, China. January 28th, 2022. The Chinese government released a 5-year plan for the future of its space exploration…

Gene Roddenberry’s Wife’s Ashes to Be Launched into Space Alongside Experimental Moon Lander
Space

Gene Roddenberry’s Wife’s Ashes to Be Launched into Space Alongside Experimental Moon Lander

January 28, 2022

PICTURED: Majel Barrett Roddenberry poses with her husband, Gene Roddenberry. PC: Roddenberry Archives. HOUSTON, Texas. January 26th, 2022. When…

Super Light Carbon Found on Mars Points to Life or Annoyingly, Other Processes
Space

Super Light Carbon Found on Mars Points to Life or Annoyingly, Other Processes

January 19, 2022

PICTURED: Curiosity rover taking a selfie. PC: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS Story at a glance… Curiosity rover has discovered samples of sedimentary…

2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut
Space

2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut

January 6, 2022

Exponential growth in the public and private space sectors are increasing the number of launches yearly, and 2022 promises…

A Christmas Miracle: James Webb Space Telescope Was Launched and is Working
Space

A Christmas Miracle: James Webb Space Telescope Was Launched and is Working

December 30, 2021

PICTURED: Ariane 5 with the James Webb Space Telescope launches from ELA-3 in French Guiana. PC: ESA. Story at…

2000 Year Old Tomb Confirmed as Belonging to Celebrated Han Emperor
Human Sciences

2000 Year Old Tomb Confirmed as Belonging to Celebrated Han Emperor

December 23, 2021June 28, 2023

PICTURED: Pottery figurines lie on the floor of the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.…

Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around
Earth Sciences

Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around

December 22, 2021June 28, 2023

PICTURED: Adolescent elephants bothering some hippos. PC: Connie Allen, Univ. of Exeter. Released. New research has found that the…

Fossilized Footprints Show Cretaceous Hunting Dinosaurs Were Fast and Surprisingly Agile
Earth Sciences

Fossilized Footprints Show Cretaceous Hunting Dinosaurs Were Fast and Surprisingly Agile

December 9, 2021

PICTURED: One of the La Torre 6A trackway footprints from La Rioja, Spain. PC: Pablo Navarro-Lorbés. Spanish paleontologists studying…

To Nudge an Asteroid NASA to Rely Not on a Missile But a DART
Space

To Nudge an Asteroid NASA to Rely Not on a Missile But a DART

November 23, 2021

PICTURED: Illustration of the DART spacecraft flying into the asteroid Dimorphos. PC: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. Can slamming an…

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July Tariff Revenues Generate a Meager One-Fourth of Deficit Spending Increase

Andy Corbley September 8, 2025

Despite year-over-year revenue from import duties growing 252% compared to July of last year, government inlays were dwarfed by…

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Israel’s Destruction of Palestinian Olive Trees: Security Meets Environmental Warfare

Suzanne Latre August 28, 2025

At dawn on Monday, Israeli military bulldozers entered the Nablus area. They began uprooting thousands of olive trees, which…

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US Has Bombed Somalia Over 50 Times This Year

Andy Corbley August 21, 2025

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab southwest of the city of Bariire in central Somalia last…

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