Roads and bridges have been destroyed in the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where smoke from Russian ordnance was visible to satellites Monday. The city lies on the front line of Ukraine’s year-long resistance to the Russian invasion that began in February of 2022. It has been the site of some of the most […]

Our planet is a ocean world and we are water people. Precisely 70.8% of the surface area of Earth is oceans, which contain 97% of Earth’s water. About 55%-60% of our bodies consist of water. Where did water originally come from? It probably first arrived here on asteroids and icy comets from the icy outer […]

Pentagon efforts to develop new missile propellants and explosives waned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the Chinese have made big strides. In1987, U.S. Navy researchers discovered a new explosive with fearsome capabilities. Named China Lake Compound No. 20 after the Southern California base where it was developed, it boasted up to 40% […]

Researchers on Monday announced promising results for a tuberculosis vaccine that can be freeze-dried and safely stored at higher temperatures for months, hailing a major breakthrough in the fight against one of humanity’s biggest killers and a major step towards overcoming one of the big barriers to vaccine distribution in poorer parts of the world. […]