Progressive Democrats on Tuesday re-introduced their signature climate change fighting blueprint, this time in the form of a Senate resolution, with Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) proclaiming at a press event in Washington that “the Green New Deal isn’t just a resolution, it is a revolution,” while Republicans denounced it as a “socialist super-package.” First introduced in 2019…
Green New Deal Gets a Reboot: Democrats Say ‘It Is a Revolution’ While GOP Blasts It as ‘Socialist Super-Package’
NASA Scores Wright Brothers Moment With First Helicopter Flight on Mars
LOS ANGELES—NASA’s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet, the U.S. space agency said. The twin-rotor whirligig’s debut on the Red Planet marked a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment for NASA, which said…
Double Quasars Reveal Galactic Collision in Ancient Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has spotted rare “double quasars” in the distant universe, implying a catastrophic galactic collision in ancient times. Peering back 10 billion years into the universe’s history, astronomers found a pair of quasars that appear to be a single object. But with the crisp view provided by the HST, the pair…
American, 2 Russians Return to Earth From Space Station
MOSCOW—An American astronaut and two Russians have returned to Earth after six months aboard the International Space Station. A Soyuz space capsule carrying NASA’s Kate Rubins and Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov landed at 0455 GMT (12:55 a.m. EDT) Saturday in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos,…
Chinese Leader Xi to Attend Climate Change Summit Video Conference With France, Germany: State Media
April 15, 2021
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend a climate change leaders summit video conference on April 16 with France and Germany, said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, according to a report by state media Xinhua news agency. Xi will attend at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the report. Meanwhile, U.S. climate…
For the Record: ‘Antipathy Toward Others’ Is Not a Tenet of Christianity!
Commentary Over Easter, The American Catholic published a photographic illustration of just how much things can change in a single lifetime. In the photo, enormous crosses formed by lighted windows blazed above New York’s skyline as part of the 1956 Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This was Easter in the year of my tenth…
Expert Says Lab-Grown Meat May Be in Stores in Five Years
Australians may see lab-grown or ‘cultivated’ meat on supermarket shelves within the next decade, according to a food and health expert. “Our goal is to see products dominate supermarket shelves within the coming 5-10 years,” Professor Johannes le Coutre from UNSW School of Chemical Engineering said. “The ambition is to get the cost down to below…
4 Dead Whales Wash Ashore on San Francisco Bay Area Beaches
Four dead gray whales washed ashore on San Francisco Bay area beaches in nine days, with experts announcing that two of the giant aquatic mammals died from ship strikes and an investigation is ongoing Saturday on the other two. Biologists with the non-profit Marine Mammal Center in California said in a release Saturday that two…
Famed Egyptian Archaeologist Reveals Details of Ancient City
CAIRO—Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times at the site of the 3,000-year-old lost city. It dates back to Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty, whose reign is…
First Polarized Image of Black Hole Hints at Its Magnetic Field Structure
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have produced the first-ever polarized picture of a black hole. In 2019, the same team obtained the first-ever image of a black hole. Both images were taken of the same object in the center of the M87 galaxy. The 2019 image, which shows a bright ring-like structure…
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