Tag: Science

1000 Australian Schools Introduce ‘Eco-Friendly’ Chips Made From Edible Insects

Australian school children have been offered chips dusted with a cricket protein made by the edible bug company Circle Harvest. The company says the products are helping the planet address man-made climate change. The Western Sydney company began selling its insect chips to schools this year and expects to increase this number sixfold before mid-2023….


US Returns Looted Ancient Jewish Coin to Israel

JERUSALEM—American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The quarter shekel silver coin, made in the year 69, is one of just two confirmed to exist. The other has been…


‘E’ in ESG Is a Trojan Horse for Radical Social Ideologies: W. Virginia’s Treasurer

West Virginia’s status as a coal-producing state has pitted it against the “E” in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement. Yet, the “S” and “G” may cause problems too, according to West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore. Moore spoke with EpochTV’s Jan Jekielek on Sept. 12 at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) in greater Miami….


Bill Gates Touts ‘Magic Seeds’ to Fight Food Shortages, Warns ‘Progress Has Stalled Amid Numerous Crises’

Billionaire Bill Gates is pushing for the use of “magic seeds” as a way to combat food shortages, citing examples of crops that are genetically modified organisms (GMO) used in Kenya and India. “Magic seeds” is a term Gates gave to a new type of maize that was developed by a group of African crop…


Space Diamonds From Dwarf Planets May Be the Future of Mining and Manufacturing

Tiny folded diamonds that fell to Earth from an ancient dwarf star may sound like something from an intergalactic feature film, but researchers from Australia and the United Kingdom have proven the existence of the rare gems after examining a stony meteorite. Scientists from Australia and the UK have established the existence of lonsdaleite, a rare…


States to Ban Gas-Powered Cars Despite Human and Environmental Cost of Electric Vehicles

In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, locals watch helplessly as their ancestral lands wither and die, their precious water resources evaporating in salar brines. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, hope for a better life dissolves as well-funded Ugandan-led extremist groups force children as young as six into cobalt mines. Closer to home, Nevada’s Fort McDermitt…


Joey Survives Rare Paused Wallaby Pregnancy

Rangers at a Australian conservation sanctuary in the state of New South Wales have been shocked by what appears to be a natural miracle with the appearance of a brush-tailed rock wallaby after its mother decided to hit the pause button on her pregnancy. The joey, the rangers believe, was conceived in October at the…


Kyrgyzstan’s Ancient Buddhist Temple Will Be Opened to the Public

The unearthed remnants of an ancient Buddhist temple in Kyrgyzstan will be opened to the public in mid-September as part of UNESCO’s Krasnaya Rechka world heritage site, according to reports. The ancient Buddhist temple, which was built over 1,000 years ago, was the second temple discovered near the northern part of Krasnaya Rechka (City of Nevaket)…


Bezos Rocket Crashes After Liftoff, Only Experiments Aboard

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety. No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers…


Israel Acquires Rare Ancient Papyrus With Hebrew Inscription

JERUSALEM—Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country’s antiquities authority said Wednesday. The scrap of papyrus—scarcely larger than a postage stamp with four lines of angular script—is one of just a few from…