By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All things being stable, the United States of America will launch a rocket to the moon this Wednesday for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, 50 years ago. While many critics say the billions of dollars being spent on this Artemis moon mission that…
When the Brook Trout Leaps – By Anonymous – The slender dew-tipped grasses are trembling in the breeze, The east is blushing rosy red beneath the Sun’s caress, The wild rose bends to kiss the stream—but only Nature sees, And the reed-harps play weird music just above the water cress. The quail is calling loudly…
NASA to Stream Artemis I Rollout, Briefings on Science, Tech Payloads – Staff Report – It’s true. No BS, according to NASA. We are going back to the Moon, and setting up a base to launch the trip to Mars. NASA will hold three media teleconferences the week of August 14 to preview the science…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If I was going to hop aboard a worm hole jumping space ship to travel back in time to visit another galaxy, I think I would pick the Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years from Earth. I figure if there is a heaven in the expanding universe for…
Will the American People Be Told the Truth About Who is Responsible? By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mysterious Havana Syndrome, called an “alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel,” is so mainstream now that it has its own Wikipedia page. So…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a story lurking in the woods near here that may be a very real on the ground test of whether humans have a chance to save the planet, whether the United States will play a very real key role in this effort, and whether Democrats are…
Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — Early on Christmas morning, when many Americans were just waking up wondering if this would be the Christmas when Donald Trump would end up behind bars, the good scientists at NASA were busy at work as the new James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST on an…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vice President Kamala Harris is taking a leadership role in guiding United States policy in space, signaling that the focus of the Biden-Harris administration is going to be on the peaceful exploration of space and using our best minds in science, technology, engineering and math to help tackle the…
Staff Report – The International Space Station went on high alert on Monday when a Russian anti-satellite test destroyed a satellite in space, creating a sufficient debris field to pose a threat to the station and its crew, according to a statement by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Earlier today, due to the debris generated by…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A proposal for a new space telescope that will study the recent history of star birth and death along with the chemical elements that formed the Milky Way has been selected by NASA and is expected to launch in 2025. The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a gamma-ray…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – New scientific research conducted at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has uncovered the oldest known human footprints in North America. The discovery reveals evidence of human occupation in the Tularosa Basin beginning at least 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The fossilized human…
By Glynn Wilson – While a theory of a possible leak from a government science lab in Wuhan, China has dominated the news coverage especially on social media on the origin of the novel coronavirus that led to the global Covid-19 pandemic and how the strain SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans, and this was…
By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — Think about the picture in your head when someone mentions the word “slavery.” What comes to mind? Maybe you think of a black man or woman picking cotton in the American South, with a huge, white columned mansion in the background. That would be a “stereotype,” as Walter…
Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — The U.S. Postal Service issued forever Sun Science stamps this week at a special dedication ceremony at the Greenbelt Main Post Office. They are now for sale at Post Offices nationwide. The Stamps highlight stunning images of the sun that celebrate the science behind the ongoing exploration of our…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have seemed like a Biblical plague of locusts in May, 1715, when the Reverend Andreas Sandel of Philadelphia’s “Gloria Dei” Swedish Lutheran Church first described the emergence of billions of brown and black cicadas with bugged-out red eyes. But in 1732, botanist John Bartram wrote a…
The vaccine rollout was meant to prioritize vulnerable communities, but four months of data shows healthier — and often wealthier — counties have been faster to vaccinate. By Ryan Gabrielson Vaccinating America As the U.S. rushes to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus, most counties with the sickest residents are lagging behind and making only…
Staff Report – It’s being billed as a “Wright Brothers” moment on another planet. A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history on Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the air of the red planet, the first flying machine from Earth to become airborne on another planet…
By Glynn Wilson – After a year of federal confusion over the coronavirus pandemic and 500,000 deaths in the United States in large part because of the lack of a plan by the Trump administration, it’s only taken the Biden administration a month in office to come up with a national website to help Americans…
By Glynn Wilson – A half a million dead. So far, more Americans perished from COVID-19 than on all the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. And before it’s all over, maybe near the end of summer, the number will most likely surpass the number of dead in…
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
