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Inside One of the Most Controversial UFO Conspiracy Stories Ever Told • Latest UFO Sightings

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UFOs

Inside One of the Most Controversial UFO Conspiracy Stories Ever Told • Latest UFO Sightings

Few alleged UFO narratives have generated as much fascination, skepticism, and debate as the story of Project Serpo, sometimes referred to as Project Crystal Knight. Presented by former Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent Richard Doty, this extraordinary account claims that the United States secretly participated in an interstellar exchange program with extraterrestrial beings from the Zeta Reticuli star system. According to the story, the origins of Project Serpo trace back to the infamous 1947 Roswell incident. Doty describes not one but two alleged UFO crashes near Corona, New Mexico. In this version, U.S. military forces recovered advanced alien craft technology and, more significantly, a surviving extraterrestrial biological entity, nicknamed “Ebe.” The Roswell...

NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

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Science

NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

Software produced by the National Health Service is usually open to the publicMareks Perkons/Alamy NHS England is hurriedly withdrawing all the software it has written from public view because of the perceived risk of hacking from cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Security experts say the move is unnecessary and counterproductive. Software produced by the National Health Service has previously been made open-source and listed on GitHub because it is created with public money. This allows other organisations to build upon it and make better services more cheaply without duplicating effort. But NHS England has issued new guidance to staff, which has been shared with New Scientist, that demands existing and future software be pulled from public view and kept behi...

Tough Fungi Could Survive the Trip to Mars

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Astronomy

Tough Fungi Could Survive the Trip to Mars

NASA and other space agencies spend a lot of time and money considering the cleanliness of their missions. Billions of dollars are spent in and on cleanrooms every year, with the express effort of ensuring both that the equipment operates without interference, but also that we don’t accidentally contaminate our exploration target with life from Earth itself. So far, we have primarily focused on bacteria in our efforts to stop this contamination, but according to a new paper by Atul M. Chander of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and his co-authors, we might be missing an entirely different threat - fungi. Typical cleanroom protocols, which include “bunny suits” for engineers and 50+ hour baths in 110℃ temperatures (known as Dry-Heat Microbial Reduction, DHMR), are designed to kill ba...

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Star Wars

‘Andor’ Wins a Peabody Award

Andor has won a Peabody Award, one out of 34 other winners across different categories. Presumably it was the second season specifically that was awarded after it released last year, though the award simply states “Andor“. It won the award under the “Entertainment” category, alongside ten other series. The full list of winners for “Entertainment” is as follows:AdolescenceAndorCommon Side EffectsDying for SexForeverHeated RivalryJimmy Kimmel Live!Mussolini: Son of the CenturyThe PittPluribusThe Rehearsal Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody, had the following to say about the winners, and you can see why Andor might have been selected: “The winners of the 86th annual Peabody Awards reflect Peabody’s mission to honor storytelling that has the potential to change culture, whether i...

Creation Announces First Philadelphia Star Trek Convention For November – TrekMovie.com

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Creation Announces First Philadelphia Star Trek Convention For November – TrekMovie.com

Following up on last week’s tease, today Creation Entertainment announced a second Trek Tour convention for 2026 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. The lucky city is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has never been home to a Star Trek convention in all of Creation’s 55-year history. We have the first details (including a 1-day 10% off deal), plus a major guest has been announced for STLV 2026. ST-PHL in NOV Creation Entertainment is close to selling out their big STLV event in August in Las Vegas, but now fans on the east coast have another chance to see some of their favorite stars on stage during the 60th anniversary year. The Trek to Philadelphia convention will be held on the weekend of November 14th and 5th, with a preview night and welcome party on Friday, November 13...