Image copyright SOPA Images In the week that the University of Oxford announced promising results from its coronavirus vaccine trial, we are looking at claims on social media about the vaccines and misleading claims about their safety. The anti-vaccination movement has gained momentum online in recent years, and anti-vaccination activists …
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Baseball is back, and judging by the rankings, fans are happy, even if the season starts in mid-summer. But this is not exactly what baseball fans know and love. In the COVID-19 era, stadiums are mostly empty as fans are unable to attend games in an attempt to curb the …
Read More »Coronavirus: the week that everything changed for Trump
Image copyright fake pictures It is as if in January 2017 Donald Trump received a shiny new car. The best and most beautiful car the world has ever seen. And in July 2020, the President made an important discovery about it. It has a reverse gear. It was an extra …
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Photo Credit: VCG – Getty Images Of Popular Mechanics New Research Explores What Causes a Wave Wave Called “Squeak” in Plasma tokamaks. The same laboratory is studying ways to combat the effects of squeaks, such as radio waves. Squeaks are caused by changes in the frequency of the waves when …
Read More »“Phobos” – The extremely strange Mars ‘Science-Fiction’ Moon may contain clues to ancient life
Posted on July 25, 2020 in Astronomy, Science A mysterious origin and Arthur C. Clarke-level science fiction speculation about the 17-mile-wide deeply furrowed moon as an alien artifact captured in the ancient past by the gravitational field of Mars, may explain Russia’s almost mystical obsession. with Phobos. First, the Soviet …
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