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Space Corps

from Roll Call House Defense Panel Would Create Space Force Next stop for the military, outer space? (CQ Roll Call File Photo) A House Armed Services panel intends to create a new fighting force called Space Corps within the Air Force to improve the U.S. military’s ability to address threats in space, according to a […]

Climate Change Killing Coffee

from BBC Coffee under threat Will it taste worse as the planet warms? By Nassos Stylianou Coffee drinkers could face poorer-tasting, higher-priced brews, as a warming climate causes the amount of land suitable for coffee production to shrink, say scientists from London’s Kew Gardens. Coffee production in Ethiopia, the birthplace of the high quality Arabica […]

The Original Banksy

from The New York Post The epic rise and disgusting flameout of the artist who ruled 80s New York By Raquel Laneri Richard Hambleton / Courtesy of Storyville Films and Motto Pictures In the early 1980s, a series of shadowy street paintings — life-size monsters and cowboys — loomed large over the East Village. Anticipating the works of […]

Lonely Cities

from The Week Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely? by Jessica Brown Maciej Bledowski / Alamy Stock Photo Humans are inherently social animals, and our health suffers if we’re cut off from social ties. So it’s no wonder the so-called loneliness “epidemic” is being called a public health crisis. But as we sit on […]

Mo’ Bartiromo

Buy a dose, get a brain…

from The Independent First evidence found that LSD produces ‘higher’ level of consciousness, scientists claim However the increased brain activity detected is not actually ‘better’, according to the researchers by Ian Johnston The cover of the Incredible String Band’s second LP, released in 1967, showed psychedelia’s influence on music and art Jeff Morgan/Alamy Scientists claim to have […]

Asteroid Time Machines

from New Scientist Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system’s turbulent youth By Sophia Chen Shutterstock A MAN with a Stetson perched on his head reclines in his chair, […]

Maria Bartiromo Massive Cleavage

Negative Mass Created

from UPI Physicists create fluid with ‘negative mass’ “What’s a first here is the exquisite control we have over the nature of this negative mass, without any other complications,” said researcher Michael Forbes. By Brooks Hays Scientists created a liquid with “negative mass.” The experiments could help scientists investigate astrophysical phenomena like black holes and dark […]

Droppin’ The Gloves