Sci/Environment

Taiwan was hit hard when Typhoon Soudelor made landfall this month.  The mega-storm brought with it sustained 120 mph winds with some gusts topping 145 mph at the time it reached Japan.  Videos of a China […]

Last winter, America experienced superstorms, blizzards, and generally terrible weather.  Anyone who was hoping for some relief this coming winter may be disappointed to hear the The Old Farmer’s Almanac, one of the oldest and most […]

Video footage of the Northern Lights during sunrise from a NASA astronaut’s perspective. A time-lapse video footage has emerged on social media showing amazing images of earth enveloped by the Northern Lights, also known as […]

A CME blast from the sun is expected to hit the earth a day earlier than anticipated, and its impact will be a strong G3-class solar storm, likely to cause geomagnetic disruption on Earth.  The […]

A group of 40 army students were struck by lightning while going through a lightning safety training. According to GeoBeats News: Lightning has a habit of defying expectations. Forty Army Ranger students and four instructors […]

The man who authorised Nestle’s ability to use federal land in California to extract water for commercial use, Gene Zimmerman, has now been hired by the company as a consultant.  Theantimedia.org reports: An ongoing investigation by The […]

The beloved banana may be at risk of becoming extinct, as crops worldwide have been hit by a deadly fungus which is causing irreparable damage.  The Cavendish species of banana is being killed off by […]

Scientists at Stanford University have created strains of yeast that can produce narcotic drugs. A new study shows that by altering the genetic code of yeast the researchers were able to produce synthetic opioids, a […]

The mystery of where Queen Nefertiti of Egypt was buried is finally being unearthed by Egyptologists. 100 years after one of the greatest finds in history, when Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the […]