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Bent alkyne (left), diradical (center) and cyclobutadiene molecules under atomic force microscopy. (Leo Gross/IBM) If chemists built cars, they'd fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like. When you're dealing with car-parts the size of atoms, this is a perfectly reasonable process. Yet chemists yearn for ways to reduce the waste and make reactions far more precise. Chemical engineering has taken a step forward, with researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the University of Regensburg in Germany, and IBM Research Europe forcing a...

It's pearl clutching time for the Climate Drama Queens. Seeing the coming electoral bloodbath on the horizon (assuming we actually have an election) the CDQ's have ramped up the hyperbole over the ostensible climate change. Three years ago, AOC told us that there are only 9 years left to the planet but things are getting worse! To wit: Climate change is no longer just about the future that we're trying to protect for our children or our grandchildren; it's about the reality we're living with now. That’s why it’s more urgent now than ever before that Congress pass @POTUS’ climate...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader and top ally of Vladimir Putin, said Sunday that he is waiting on an order from the Russian president to blast Western countries to "smithereens." Kadyrov made the declaration in a Telegram post that announced the completion of a new Chechen regiment called "North-Akhmat," which was one of four that the Chechen leader announced was being formed last month to help replenish Russia's troops during its ongoing war with Ukraine. He wrote that Russia is the only country in the world to "speak out against the infernal abomination that the West spreads," and that he...

Black Hole Police Spot Extragalactic Black Hole Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own. A stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own, has been found by a team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries. “For the first time, our team got together to report on a black hole discovery, instead of rejecting one,” says project leader Tomer Shenar. Furthermore, they discovered that the star that gave rise to the black hole vanished with...

Pennsylvania has banned public officials from accepting and using money and contributions from nongovernmental entities for election purposesPennsylvania is the latest state to ban “Zuckbucks” and nongovernmental funds from using in elections, just in time for the midterms.Passed through the Republican-led legislature and signed into law by Democrat Governor Tom Wolf, it is now mandated in Pennsylvania that public officials “may not solicit, apply for, enter into a contract for or receive or expend gifts, donations, grants or funding from any individual, business, organization, trust, foundation, or any nongovernmental entity for the registration of voters or the preparation, administration or...

The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt...The oasis-like Faiyum region, roughly 130 km south-west of Cairo, was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. Yet at the end of the third century CE, numerous formerly thriving settlements there declined and were ultimately abandoned by their inhabitants. Previous excavations and contemporary papyri have shown that problems with field irrigation were the cause. Attempts by local farmers to adapt to the dryness and desertification of the farmland - for example, by...

The latest data from Canada's Manitoba Province shows that those vaccinated for covid are more likely to die of the disease than those not vaccinated. Unvaccinated persons constitute 17% of the population, but only 9% of the deaths from covid. Vaccinated but unboosted people were about 50% more likely to be hospitalized or die of Covid than unvaccinated people. People who had received boosters had roughly the same risk of hospitalization or death as the unvaccinated. Dr. Anthony Fauci said "look, I know a lot of the critics of our push for vaccination will be gloating over the healthier current...

The mother who saved her children during the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting has a message to police officers who she blames for their inaction and for holding back parents: "Turn in your badge." Angeli-Rose Gomez, placed in handcuffs outside Robb Elementary School on May 24 before hopping a fence and pulling her two sons out of the building herself, spoke with Fox News Digital last week — before a scathing 77-page report was released Sunday noting "systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making" on behalf of law enforcement responding to the active shooting situation. Despite a robust response of at...

Bastille Day, France's fête nationale, fell on Thursday, when I was off the air. Thus it went unobserved at SteynOnline, which seems a bit unfair to our many French patrons. So as I chance to find myself on French soil. So, quelques jours de retard, it seemed appropriate to pick something suitably Gallic for our chanson de la semaine. How about..? Je me lève et je te bouscule Tu n'te réveilles pas Comme d'habitude... But no: we did that just the other week. And, if we're going with anglicized franco-pop, we should at least try and pick something that retains...

Mark Milley disgraces the United States Armed Forces more every day during his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Milley has changed the military’s priorities from remaining a formidable fighting force in to using it for liberals social engineering projects.This month, the Army released a training memo that would require soldiers to shower with and use the same barracks as transgender soldiers. The memo threatened retaliation against soldiers that expressed their discomfort with the arrangement.Milley has said that he is actively studying “white rage” rather than trying to keep our military competitive with China and Russia.He also actively...

Torrential rains in Japan, record-breaking heatwaves in Europe, and recurring droughts in the western US. For the second year in a row the start of summer in the northern hemisphere has been marked by extreme weather. To what extent is global warming to blame? These extreme weather events happing at almost the same time in multiple locations around the world are “absolutely not a coincidence", says Pascal Yiou, climatologist and researcher at French research centre le Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement. Yiou says global warming is to blame. “It is disrupting the whole dynamic of the atmosphere,”...

Prince Harry has waded into US politics again in his keynote speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, blasting the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan Markle arrived hand in hand ahead of his speech to delegates on climate change and poverty during the two hour meeting. The 37-year-old attacked American politics during his keynote speech at the United Nations event in New York City today. During his speech he said: 'The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many. 'And from the horrific war in Ukraine to...

The announcement comes after two unrelated patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana, both of whom later died, tested positive for the virus. The patients had shown symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea, and vomiting, WHO said, adding that more than 90 contacts are being monitored. Marburg is a highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as the better known Ebola virus disease and has a fatality ratio of up to 88%, according to WHO. "Illness begins abruptly, with high fever, severe headache, and malaise," it stated. The virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and can...

Justin Trudeau - Jim Carrey Justin Trudeau - Jim Carrey — THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld/© New Line/courtesy Everett Collection Justin Trudeau debuted a new look this week, trading the long hair and beard he’s sported for the past few years for a close-cropped haircut with clean-shaven face. Trudeau’s new haircut was on display on Friday, July 15 when he spoke with children during a visit to Chelsea, Quebec. The Canadian PM’s new ‘do, however, immediately invited comparisons to another similar look: the iconic bowl cut sported by Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) in “Dumb and Dumber.” The similarity became the subject...

Governor Doug Ducey-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial primary candidate Karrin Taylor Robson has been caught and exposed for scamming elderly voters across the nation in a deceitful fundraising scheme.Trump-Endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake discovered that Robson uses phone messaging alerts that purport to back conservative causes to trick conservative senior citizens into donating to her failing campaign.Not only is she endorsed by Doug Ducey, but the Arizona Democratic Party recently published a statement thanking Robson for her support and thousands of dollars donated to Democratic Candidates “up and down the ballot” as recently as 2020.However, some of the messages from her campaign...

Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 12:38–42 Friends, today in our Gospel, some Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign. And Jesus replies, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet,” who was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. Jonah was called by God to preach conversion to Nineveh, which is described as an enormously large city. It took, they said, three days to walk through it. I can’t help but think of Nineveh as one of our large, modern cities,...

On Sunday, Margaret Brennan interviewed Joe Biden’s Energy Security Coordinator Amos Hochstein about the trip to Saudi Arabia. Hochstein spun a lot, trying to make this disastrous, embarrassing trip a success. Nothing during this interview was honest. It was a propaganda moment with insufferable Margaret Brennan pretending she’s asking decisive questions. From this conversation, you’d never know Biden has dementia and has done nothing but hurt this country. Hochstein pretended there were accomplishments. We haven’t seen them yet, but he assures us they’re coming. He took credit for the cease-fire in Yemen that he had nothing to do with. Hochstein...

Trump-Endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Trump-Endorsed State Senator Wendy Rogers totally triggered Biden endorser Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Senator John McCain, and sent her on an unhinged Twitter rant late last week. After randomly calling Kari a “bi*ch” for no reason, McCain continued her attacks by calling both of them, “hags.”Kari Lake always calls out the RINO McCain establishment in Arizona. Because of this, Meghan McCain, who can’t get over herself, hates her.The Fake News Media in Arizona was quick to defend Meghan McCain, claiming that this all stemmed from a Wendy Rogers tweet and attacking Kari...

President Joe Biden is facing bipartisan flack for his humiliating ‘fist bump’ with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MBS, during the course of his groveling to persuade the Middle Eastern nation to significanly increase its oil output. MBS smirked during bilateral talks on Friday in a knowing display of how embarrassing the U.S. president’s kow-towing was to the Saudis. “President Biden, is Saudi Arabia still a pariah?” a reporter shouted. The reporter was quickly ushered out of the room. Both President Biden and the Saudi crown prince ignored the question. Biden later dismissed a...

Firefighters doused the flames and pictures from the scene show the plane, a Fokker 50, upside down. It belonged to Jubba Airways and it was an internal flight from the city of Baidoa to the capital. The passengers and the crew were all rescued, according to the airport authorities who were quoted by state media. The cause of the crash is not yet clear.