A sweeping new satellite analysis shows that Antarctica has lost nearly 5,000 square miles (12,950 square kilometers) of grounded ice over the past three decades — an area roughly twice as big as Delaware — as warming ocean waters erode the continent’s most vulnerable edges. Led by scientists at the…
Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer was ‘sexual sadist’ who sent more than 500 texts to sex workers before his arrest
The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer was a ‘sexual sadist’ who used fake names and burner phones to contact sex workers more than 500 times before being arrested, prosecutors said. Rex Heuermann, 63, allegedly created a Tinder account and utilized false identities to incessantly reach out to prostitutes before he…
Pentagon identifies two additional soldiers among six killed in Kuwait drone strike
The Pentagon confirmed the identity of a soldier who died and another believed to be dead in a drone attack in Kuwait on Sunday during the US’ strikes on Iran. Army Reserve Major Jeffrey O’Brien, 45, died during an unmanned aircraft system attack at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait in the second full…
High-Speed Flight Project Overview – NASA
The High-Speed Flight (HSF) project develops technologies that make high-speed, airbreathing, commercial flight possible from Mach 1 to Mach 5 and above. HSF creates tools, technologies, and knowledge that will help eliminate today’s technical barriers to practical supersonic flight, most notably sonic boom. The project supports the X-59 quiet supersonic…
Married Congressman finally confesses to affair with aide who set herself on fire in shocking scandal first exposed by the Daily Mail
A married Texas congressman has finally admitted having an affair with a senior aide who later set herself on fire and burned to death, four months after the Daily Mail exposed the scandal. Tony Gonzales made the confession during an interview on Wednesday while also airing wild allegations that the aide’s…
‘Petulant and pacifist’ Red Ed led Cabinet revolt and ‘rejected Trump’s request to use British bases to bomb Iran’ – after discussing if it was ‘a good thing for Labour’
Cabinet ministers discussed whether cosying up to Donald Trump was a ‘good thing for Labour’ before rejecting his request to use British bases to bomb Iran, it emerged last night. Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper are said to have urged Sir Keir Starmer to have nothing to do…
60 years of ‘Star Trek’: The colorful origins of the rainbow warp effect
You’ve all seen it dozens of times, in banners, posters, trailers, and intro title sequences, that vivid rainbow-like warp field spectrum used in some capacity in nearly every “Star Trek” movie and TV series since it was first adopted for 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” The latest iteration of…
A CIA spy in his inner circle, traffic camera footage beamed to Mossad and a hacked prayer app urging Iranians to rise up minutes after the Ayatollah met his fate… DAVID PATRIKARAKOS takes us inside the most audacious assassination in world history
Saturday morning, Pasteur Street, central Tehran. Inside a vast walled compound sits Beit Rahbari – the ‘House of Leadership’ – the armoured and labyrinthine residence of Iran’s ageing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Close by are the presidential palace and several key Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) facilities, from which the repressive leadership conducts its…
GLP-1 diabetes medications lower risk of all kinds of substance use disorders, study finds
March 4, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm People who took GLP-1 drugs had lower risk of all kinds of drug and alcohol addiction A large epidemiological study of more than 600,000 veterans with diabetes suggests GLP-1 weight-loss medications may reduce drug- and alcohol-related overdoses and deaths…
Top cleric issues fatwa calling on all Muslims to avenge ‘blood of the martyr’ Khamenei prompting fears of sleeper cell and lone wolf attacks across the globe
A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to avenge the ‘blood of the martyr’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Following the death of the Supreme Leader on Saturday, Iranian religious leader Nasser Makarem Shirazi delivered a formal religious decree that claimed all Muslims were obliged to avenge him. Shirazi…