Tag: Science News

NASA: Up to 5 Percent of UFO Sightings Can’t Be Explained

NASA says that somewhere between 2 and 5 percent of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings can’t be easily explained. On May 31, NASA held a 16-member panel discussion about what it described as “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), an alternative rendering of what most in the public refer to as UFOs. The discourse, led by astrophysicist…


Could Magnolia Tree Bark Rival Vaccines in the Fight Against COVID-19?

Researchers in the Netherlands have uncovered that honokiol, a compound found in the bark of magnolia trees, has the capacity to stop the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within the body. The study, published on May 22 in Microbiology Spectrum, an esteemed publication of the American Society for Microbiology, offers an innovative approach to the…


Private Flight With 2 Saudi Astronauts Returns From Space Station With Gulf of Mexico Splashdown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday night after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station. The SpaceX capsule carrying the four parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida panhandle, 12 hours after undocking from the orbiting lab. The Saudi government…


NASA UFO Research Group Briefs the Public Ahead of Final Report

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) holds a public meeting of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), events observed in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena, at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 31, followed by a media teleconference with…


LIVE NOW: NASA UFO Team Meets on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) holds a public meeting of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), events observed in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena, at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 31, followed by a media teleconference with…


LIVE NOW: NASA’s UFO Study Team Holds Public Meeting

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) holds a public meeting of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), events observed in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena, at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 31, followed by a media teleconference with…


LIVE NOW: NASA UFO Research Group Briefs the Public Ahead of Final Report

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) holds a public meeting of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), events observed in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena, at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 31, followed by a media teleconference with…


NOAA Releases Hurricane Forecasts for 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on May 25 released its forecasts for this year’s Atlantic, Central, and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons. NOAA has two hurricane centers to cover different parts of the world. The National Hurricane Center (NHC), which is based in Miami, Florida, is responsible for tropical activity in the Atlantic Ocean…


Retracted COVID-19 Papers Cited 7 Times per Paper

An Australian investigation into COVID-19 research found that among the more than 270,000 papers that have been published since the start of the pandemic, 212 retracted papers were cited 2,697 times, with a median of seven times per paper. Publishing processes were often compromised with COVID-19, according to the co-author of the investigation and director…


Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn for Not Meeting Standards of Scientific Soundness

Research journals have withdrawn well over 300 articles on COVID-19 due to compromised ethical standards and concerns about the publications’ scientific validity. Retraction Watch has provided a running list of withdrawn papers on COVID-19 ranging from “Acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19” to “Can Your AI Differentiate Cats from COVID-19?” A total of 330 research…