NASA Is Making A Nuclear-Powered Dragonfly Helicopter Straight Out Of Dune

100 years after Robert Goddard's 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon

California drivers say ‘yes, in my back yard’ for offshore oil

Asteroid Sample Contained All Five Fundamental Units of Life's Genetic Code

The Coming Age of Space Stations

Brain Computer Interface Enables Rapid Communication for Two People with Paralysis

How to Keep Up the Economic Pressure Against Iran

California Has an Oil and Gas Problem

The Battle for the Strait of Hormuz

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

A Hidden Bone Receptor Could Open The Door To Reversing Osteoporosis

U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Easy

Researchers use sunlight to turn plastic waste into vinegar

Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction

Trump's NASA chief Jared Isaacman reveals why Pluto should be a planet in plan to make it 'great again'

OSTP taking on space policy coordination work in place of National Space Council

I read two books at the tender age of 13 that influenced my thinking in subsequent years. One was The Diary of Anne Frank which informed my knowledge of the human cost of the Holocaust and led, recently, to my alternate history story, The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted.

The other book was The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, the premise of which was that overpopulation would outstrip the world's ability to sustain human life, resulting in catastrophe. My thinking was that instead of drastic limits on growth we should seek resources beyond the Earth.

In any case, as I note in Paul Ehrlich proves the prophets of doom are wrong once again, The Population Bomb has turned into a population fizzle, with human ingenuity making up the slack of resources. Ehrlich inspired a lot of unwise policies, including China's one child policy.

in any case, Ehrlich has finally done his bit to reduced the Earth's population and has died.

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NASA “cultivates” viruses in space and, upon bringing them back to Earth, discovers that they have become more effective

The Inevitability of Self-Driving Cars

Truman, The Bomb and Free Will

Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war

A Centenary for Rocket Science

China Has a Lot to Lose in the U.S.-Israel War on Iran

Put Chuck Schumer on TSA Duty

The Real Nuclear History of Iran

Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

FAA Approves a Massive Pilot Program That Will Let Electric Air Taxis Fly Across 26 States as Early as This Summer

Climate Scientists Used the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Find Out if Middle Earth and Westeros Could Actually Exist

Scientists Want to Build Martian Homes Using Living Bacteria and Astronaut Urine

US Intel Showed Even Khamenei Thought Nepo Babytollah Was Incompetent

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed

How Congress became NASA’s partner for the Artemis return to the moon

The NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 has passed the Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). When one looks over its contents, one has to wonder what a difference 16 years makes.

The Keystone XL pipeline could come back from the dead in a new form

To save the West, remember what Romans taught us

This weird-looking humanoid robot could help China conquer the moon: scientists

Recycled human waste could turn the dust on Mars and the Moon into fertile soil for crops

China is developing low-cost lunar cargo options for its expanding moon program

Something May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds

UAE Nears Historic Moon Mission As Rashid Rover 2 Heads To US For Launch Preparations Khaleej Times

The Coming Revolution Down South

I Traveled Across The Globe To Fact-Check An Oscar-Winning Documentary. Here’s What I Found.

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan

Democrat Senator Suddenly Open to DHS Funding After Michigan Synagogue Attack

Pravda and the Democrats Are Lying: Operation Epic Fury Strategy Is Brilliant; UPDATE: Iran Opens Strait

Will apologies to General Sherman, Henry Clay Work, and my Civil War ancestors.

Marching through Iran

Starliner and Artemis: commercial label vs. commercial discipline

New strategy intercepts pancreatic cancer by eliminating microscopic lesions before they become cancer

Arm the Iranian Resistance

Boeing Starliner : Butch Wilmore Shares Exactly What Happened As He Piloted Starliner

He Coined The Overview Effect. Now Let's Send Him To Space.

Breakthrough to Strengthen Bones Could Reverse Osteoporosis

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

From Book 1: July, 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 has triumphantly returned to Earth. In this alternate history thriller, President Richard Nixon puts into a motion a scheme to ramp up the space race to pressure the Soviets into making diplomatic and military concessions. Thus begins a story of high adventure on the final frontier and of low intrigue in the corridors of power back on Earth. It will prove to be the fulfillment of a dream for Wendy Pendleton to be the first woman to walk on the moon. It will be a nightmare for Cal Lauren, a political operative determined to stop the space race at all costs to fund the social programs he holds dear.

Children of Apollo: The Space Race Gambit continues with Children of Apollo: The Hard Road to the Stars and concludes with Children of Apollo: The First Woman on the Moon.

Energy Security for U.S. Allies, Courtesy of Alaska

An Easy Fix to a Clinton Energy Error

Opposing Trump Isn’t a Global Strategy

Trump deploys space technology in Operation Epic Fury

Jared Isaacman Is Launching NASA into a New Era

Energy Secretary Backs Restart of Indian Point Nuclear Plant in NY

Pentagon Eyes Cislunar Space As Next Strategic Frontier

How to build a moon base

Nasa plans to have a permanent base on the Moon by 2030 – how it can be done

NASA clears its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts following repairs

Trump’s Energy Triumph

Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices

Partisanship on Iran Is Dangerous for America

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

On a December day in 1967, a pilot whose jet fighter is in the process of cracking up ejects a moment sooner and therefore lives when he otherwise might have died. A life that would have ended on the tarmac at Edwards Air Force Base continues on. Six years later, Major Robert Lawrence, United States Air Force, becomes the first black American to walk on the Moon.

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

Having survived World War II and returned to America, General George S. Patton is given a new assignment by President Harry Truman. He is to travel to the British Mandate of Palestine, where a bloody war is brewing between Jews and Arabs, and give his evaluation to the President. But Patton's tendency to exceed his orders may prove a problem for the United States government. Moreover, a dark secret from his past will threaten to derail his mission entirely.

A stunning work of alternate history that places one of the 20th Century's greatest soldiers in the midst of the founding of the State of Israel.

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Tom Fischer thought he had seen every horror imaginable while covering the war in Europe. Embedded with British and Canadian troops, he had seen the effects of battle from Normandy to the abortive Operation Market-Garden to the final assault on Nazi Germany.

But when he entered the newly liberated Bergen Belsen concentration camp, Fischer knew that he had come to a new kind of man-made hell that was unimaginable in the history of the world. Thousands of people had been left to die of starvation and disease. Despite the best efforts of the allies, thousands more would die during the days after the liberation. A month later, Fischer decided to interview one of the survivors of Bergen Belsen, a young, teenage girl who had been found on the brink of death but was now on the road to recovery.

Her name was Anne Frank.

In this work of alternate history, the girl whose diary gave a voice to the Holocaust survives to put her mark on history from war-torn Europe to an ancient land convulsed in the birth pangs of a nation both ancient and modern called Israel.

Exxon Joins the Texas Corporate Migrants

Keeping Up With the Jones Act

Will Trump ‘Fight to Win’ in Iran?

SpaceX’s Enters a new era with Booster 19 Testing on Pad 2

Israeli Drones Striking IRGC Goons in the Streets

NASA Trials AI Medical Imaging Aboard ISS to Reduce Reliance on Ground Support

Curing Cancer Would Produce A $185 TRILLION Economic Windfall

Firefly Aerospace Successfully Launches Alpha Flight 7

Johns Hopkins Scientists Engineer Nanoparticles Able to Seek and Destroy Diseased Immune Cells

Don’t Bank on a Texas Blue Wave

To Squeeze Iran, Trump Reaches Into the Geoeconomic Toolkit

Khamenei Cemented the U.S.-Israel Alliance

America’s Strategic Oil Exports

A Dog Once Sniffed Cancer in the Husband. Years Later, it Saved the Wife too

Straight to the Point: NASA’s Administrator Jared Isaacman and the launch of Artemis II

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

From Garbage to Groceries: Giant Dome in Britain Uses Landfill Gas to Grow Food All Year

“Father of AI” Yann Lecun Raises $1 Billion With Startup Betting That the Industry Is Wrong

Does Red Light Therapy Actually Work? This “Biohacker Fad” May Have Something to It

William Shatner To Undergo Surgery After Horrific Fall Off Horse All prayers for William Shatner. He was great in Boston Legal, not to mention that now little known space opera franchise that I'm sure everyone has forgotten about.

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NASA administrator talks to Science about studying the Moon, Mars—and Earth

How Jagged Moon Dust Could Support Future Astronauts

This SpaceX veteran says the next big thing in space is satellites that return to Earth

The First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched 100 Years Ago

Humans Probably Weren't the First Life Forms to Land on the Moon

26 States to Begin Electric Aircraft Trials This Summer

Blood Test Predicts Dementia in Women as Many as 25 Years Before Symptoms Begin

The Forgotten 444 Days in Tehran

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Listening to Music Could Slash Your Dementia Risk by Nearly 40%

Large Veterans Study Shows How GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Could Treat Addiction

Astrophysicist Has a Plan to Launch a Chip-Sized, Laser-Powered Spacecraft Toward a Nearby Black Hole and Wait 100 Years for It to Send a Signal Home

NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

Developing Robust Electronics That Can Withstand Harsh Conditions on Cold Planetary Bodies

Vladimir Putin plotting 'ambitious' space missions to Venus and Moon

China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a 'geological museum' on the lunar near side

How Nasa contractors are pressing on to bring humans to the moon with Artemis

How America’s Oil and Gas Dominance Has Weakened Iran

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

Mojtaba Khamenei Brings Monarchy Back to Iran

Iran’s Lionesses Roar With Silence

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Zoox starts mapping Dallas and Phoenix for its robotaxis

Researchers Reverse Symptoms of Autism in Mice

Scientists Shot Bacteria With a Gas Gun to See if Life Could Survive Being Flung From Mars. It Barely Flinched

Endless Void Studios Unveils Launch Party Ahead of NASA's Artemis II

What is best in life? King Conan, at last.

Accelerating Artemis

The Man Who Loves To Tax

How Giant Freakin’ Lasers Can Save The World

Is It Time for a Second “Small Step” Act?

How Former NASA Boss and ULA Tried to KILL SpaceX - But FAILED Miserably

Is Iran on the Brink of Another Revolution?

AI in Trump’s 3-D Chess Match

How America’s Oil and Gas Dominance Has Weakened Iran

Trump Can Win Something Greater Than the Nobel Peace Prize

The Medicaid Autism Racket

Hybrid ‘super foam’: tunable, lightweight and ultra-durable

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

These robots are born to run — and never die

MIT’s “Satellite Livers” Can Be Injected Directly Into the Belly and Save Patients Needling Transplants

Physicists Simulate Legendary Ideal Glass for the First Time: It’s Hard Like a Diamond But Looks Like a Liquid

Isaacman makes his mark by revamping the Artemis return to the moon

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently announced a revamping of the Artemis program that will take Americans back to the moon. The new plan includes a new mission to take place between the upcoming Artemis II voyage around the moon and the eventual first crewed moon landing in over 55 years.

Chinese scientists use AI model to crack mystery of moon’s far side

This Company Is Launching A Hypersonic Rocket That Could Actually Compete With SpaceX

NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

Honest Real Time Answers From NASA

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Exclusive-Iran spent years fostering proxies in Iraq. Now, many aren’t eager to join the war

Cracks in Iranian Regime Becoming Chasms

US and Venezuela reach historic agreement to re-establish diplomatic ties

Vast wraps $500 million funding round as company vies for NASA space station contract

Unlike past presidents, Trump delivered on his promise to eliminate our enemies

The billionaire tax — wrong solution for California’s spending problem

You Can Probably Breathe Easier About Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions Now

Is Iran on the Brink of Another Revolution?

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

America Wins at the National Civics Bee

Hezbollah Pays for Doing Iran’s Bidding

Eco-friendly tree-free toilet tissue made from bamboo

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

"Come to work": Fight between House Dems turns nasty

Waymo robotaxi blocks EMS responding to Austin mass shooting

Iran War Proves Trump Was Right on Space Force

Musk Is Enticed by the Lunar Siren

Can SpaceX Help NASA Reach Uranus Before It’s Too Late?

NASA says asteroid won't hit the moon as predicted

Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End

Stem Cells From Younger People Can Help Older Adults Gain Their Mobility Back

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Boeing’s Contribution to NASA’s Moon Program Just Took a Major Hit

Russia fixes launch pad damaged by Thanksgiving astronaut launch to the International Space Station

Can the Iranian Regime Survive?

No Arguments Left Against School Choice

Would Gavin Newsom Deny Arms to Israel?

Ukraine Is Iran’s Drone Training Range

European Engineers Scraped SpaceX Flight Data to Design a Wild Winged Rival to Starship

A New Type of Immunotherapy Drug for Prostate Cancer Shows Up to 99% Drop in Cancer Biomarkers

The Coldest Stars in Our Galaxy Might Be Dyson Spheres Harvesting Energy for an Alien Civilization

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

New AI Drone Can Spot Hidden Land mines Ten Times Faster Than Humans to Save Thousands of Lives

GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people

With lunar missions looming, scientists grow chickpeas in 'moon dirt'

Is the Iranian Regime Cracking? Police, Soldiers, and Even IRGC Members Not Showing Up to Work

See it: First-of-its-kind NASA rotorcraft nearly ready to explore Saturn's moon in 2034

NASA finds source of Artemis II problem that forced rollback from the launch pad

Hydrocarbons, Nuclear, And The Future Of American Power

Some (very weird) weapons are being launched in space. And that's only the beginning

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Die, Die Again

The New Israeli Rules of Engagement

Jared Isaacman on rebuilding, Artemis and what he’s learned during his first months as NASA administrator

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Ancient Pottery Reveals the Secret Recipes of Stone Age Chefs: Meat, Plants, and Diverse Combinations

US issues first commercial construction permit for a nuclear reactor in years to a Wyoming project

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.

The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

The Radical Left’s Green Scam Is Running Out of Fuel

The Coldest "Stars" in the Galaxy Might Actually Be Alien Megastructures

Europe’s global censorship threat, spare us the moral posturing, lefties and other commentary

Do You Believe in California Miracles?

Iran and a New Middle East Alliance

Two ‘Emergency’ Wins at the Supreme Court

Hybrid Solar Panel Turns Raindrops into Electricity

A Routine Vaccine For Shingles Could Be The Secret To Slashing Your Dementia Risk By 51%

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

New Laser That Slices Through Bone Could Replace Bone Saw in Operating Rooms

Talarico wins Texas Senate Democratic nomination while Cornyn and Paxton head to Republican runoff

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester”

Accelerating Artemis

Why is NASA's plan to return Americans to the moon facing 'systematic challenges?'

Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell discloses cancer diagnosis, assures fans he's 'a tough old son-of-a-bitch'

Bruce Campbell scenes as Sam Axe from Burn Notice

Observations of Operation Epic Fury

How Does Earth's Economy Work in Star Trek?

Harvard Poll: Democratic Supermajority Rejects Socialist Policies

Khamenei’s Unforced Errors Proved Fatal

Iran Expands the Trump War Coalition

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

U.S. LNG Exports to the World’s Rescue

Pope Leo XIV Urges Priests Not to Use ChatGPT to Write Their Sermons

Painless skin patch offers new way to monitor immune health

Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding or Jim Bridenstine goes to the Dark Side

AI Can Help Deliver America’s Next Phase of Energy Dominance

California’s green policies destroy blue-collar jobs

New Ozempic-Style Pill Outperformed Oral Semaglutide in Major Trial

Europe's Answer to Starship

Trump’s Doctrine in Iran and Beyond

A Tech Tax Revolt Against Democrats

Trump Enforces His Red Line on Iran

Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Energy Lasts for 100,000 Years but Particle Accelerators Could Slash That Timeline to a Few Centuries

First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe, study finds

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345 million in North Dakota oil pipeline case

3 killed, 14 injured in Sixth Street mass shooting, FBI says there are ‘indicators’ of terrorism

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86

Apollo-era space colony dreams inspire Musk’s moon transport plan

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to build something called a mass driver on the lunar surface to deploy AI data centers into Earth orbit. These facilities would be built on the moon before being launched into space using the device.

Trump’s Doctrine in Iran and Beyond

Dr. Robert Zubrin: Can We Build Homes on Mars by 2035? Exciting New Discoveries & The Real Plan

3D printed moon dust structures could be the future of lunar construction

Intuitive Machines raises $175 million in stock sale

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Harnessing the Sun to Extract Oxygen on the Moon

Not NASA, Not SpaceX: This Company Wants To Create The ISS Replacement

NASA is sending its first Black and first female astronauts to the moon