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Deakin researchers have described a novel mechanochemical process that can store gases safely in powders, using very little energy, in a repeatable process.......... Australian scientists say they've made a "eureka moment" breakthrough in gas separation and storage that could radically reduce energy use in the petrochemical industry, while making hydrogen much easier and safer to store and transport in a powder. Nanotechnology researchers, based at Deakin University's Institute for Frontier Materials, claim to have found a super-efficient way to mechanochemically trap and hold gases in powders, with potentially enormous and wide-ranging industrial implications. Mechanochemistry is a relatively recently coined...

Former President Donald Trump has made the defeat of Rep. Liz Cheney a top priority, even visiting Wyoming for the first time to campaign for Harriet Hageman, his pick to unseat her. But a new Casper Star-Tribune poll found his endorsement may have little influence over voters here. Only 30% of people who plan to vote in the Wyoming Republican Primary next month say the Trump endorsement makes them more likely to vote for Hageman, the poll found. In comparison, 26% say it makes them less likely to vote for Trump’s pick, while 44% indicated it has no effect on...

It began with a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. A man was “in a lot of pain and disoriented.” He told a dispatcher he was trapped inside a downed helicopter. There were three others in the helicopter, which had crashed in a remote part of San Miguel County. “He’s just advising that it’s just him right now, but he is stating that there were four on board, including himself,” the dispatcher said over the radio, kicking off a frantic search. By 8:06 p.m. the caller had fallen silent as officers and firefighters scoured a 5-mile area for the...

(CNN) - Members of the conservative Republican Study Committee thanked former Vice President Mike Pence for his actions on January 6 and encouraged him to run for President during a private meeting on Wednesday near the US Capitol in Washington, according to multiple attendees. Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, said lawmakers offered Pence encouraging words about a potential presidential bid, saying they hope he plays a big role in 2024 and that they need more voices like his in the party. Pence responded with a smile, according to Bacon, but did not tip his hand about his plans for...

Sexual Liberation in Public SchoolsLos Angeles Unified School District adopts radical “trans-affirming” programming and instructs teachers to work toward “the breakdown of the gender binary.”Los Angeles Unified School District has adopted a radical gender-theory curriculum encouraging teachers to work toward the “breakdown of the gender binary,” to experiment with gender pronouns such as “they,” “ze,” and “tree,” and to adopt “trans-affirming” programming to make their classrooms “queer all school year.”I have obtained a trove of publicly accessible documents from Los Angeles Unified that illustrates the extent to which gender ideology has entered the mainstream of the nation’s second-largest school district....

It was an act of pluck and composure worthy of a scene in the movies. But this was real life: A heavily armed man emerged from the bathroom in a Greenwood, Indiana, shopping mall on Sunday evening and began shooting — until he was killed by an armed bystander. Mike Wright, manager of the Luca Pizza di Roma in the mall’s food court, remembers taking shelter when the firing started and then emerging when it stopped to see the bystander behind a low-slung wall with his handgun trained on the assailant he had shot to death. “He stood there maybe...

A large amount of money has been raised for a brave pizza delivery man who saved five children from a burning house. Nicholas Bostic, 25, of Lafayette, Indiana, is being recognized for his heroic actions as donors have pitched in over $460,000 on GoFundMe to help him with medical bills as he recovers from his injuries in the hospital. Bostic was driving in the early hours of the morning on July 11 in Lafayette when he noticed a house on fire. Without hesitation, he turned his vehicle around, got out, and started yelling to alert anyone inside the house was...

For two weeks, computer models teased the possibility of Britain reaching 40 Celsius (104 degrees) this week, a level unsurpassed since at least 1850 - and probably in more than 6,000 years. Meteorologists gazed at these model forecasts in disbelief, skeptical that such predictions would come true. Six days ago, the U.K. Met Office put the odds of hitting 40 Celsius at only 10%. But the seemingly unlikely model forecasts proved correct. London Heathrow was among six locations in the United Kingdom to top 40 Celsius on Tuesday, shattering Britain's all-time temperature record. This is the latest example of how...

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module.The iconic images of the Eagle Lunar Module’s descent to the Moon rank among the most incredible footage ever recorded.The black-and-white film was shot from a 16-mm time-lapse camera mounted in Buzz Aldrin’s window on the right side of the Eagle Lunar Module. However, there is no record of what Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong saw from his window. “Due to the small size of the LM windows and the...

Jurors found Tesla negligent for deactivating a speed limiter that the Rileys had installed to keep their son Barrett from driving too fast. Barrett Riley was driving at 116 miles per hour (187 kph), on a curve with a posted 25 mph speed limit, on May 8, 2018, when he lost control of his 2014 Model S while trying to pass another vehicle... Another passenger also died while a third occupant survived. Though jurors found Barrett Riley 90% responsible and his father 9% responsible for the crash, it awarded James Riley $4.5 million and Jenny Riley $6 million. Riley's parents...

Gun control activist and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg was escorted out of a hearing on firearms by security after interrupting it on Wednesday. Video footage shows the activist and left-wing provocateur standing up during the hearing and delivering an impassioned plea against guns before security ushers him out. AR-15 AND AK-47 SALES SURGE TO 24M Hogg interrupted a markup of bills H.R. 2814, the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act, and H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, according to the House Judiciary Committee's weekly schedule. "Guess what? Those guns are coming from...

While speaking Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering (D) suggested an armed citizen engaging the July 4 parade attacker would have meant “more carnage.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked Rotering, “How much can we count on a good guy with a gun to stop a mass shooter when the mass shooter has an AR-15-style ‘assault weapon’ that can empty a 30-round magazine in about as many seconds?” Rotering responded, “A good guy with a gun would have had no impact on the shooter.” She went on to describe witness testimony of the sounds of bullets...

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District officials on Monday, July 18 put off consideration of a contract with Planned Parenthood to operate a health clinic at John Glenn High School in Norwalk but that didn’t prevent more than 100 ant-abortion activists from gathering at the meeting to protest the idea.The contract, which was to have been part of an unspecified grant from Los Angeles County, called for services relating to “reproductive health,” but neither abortion or gender reassignment were included in the proposal.District officials before the meeting put out a statement saying discussion of the proposal would be postponed. “We chose...

140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged sex crimes against studentsAt least 181 K-12 educators, including four principals, were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first six months of 2022, ranging from child pornography to raping students. An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of principals, teachers, substitute teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher. The analysis found that at...

Kylie Jenner is a lot of things: a reality star, a makeup icon, a businesswoman, a billionaire and now, apparently, a “climate criminal.” “The Kardashians” star hit some rough air for taking her private jet on a 17-minute flight from Camarillo, Calif., to Van Nuys, Calif., last Tuesday. The roughly 40-mile jaunt could have taken about 45 minutes by car — or more, depending on L.A. traffic. The turbulent statistics about her air travel were compiled by @CelebJets, a celebrity jet tracker on Twitter, which posted about Jenner’s route from Ventura County to L.A. County. (An initial post sparked the...

Pope Francis will travel to Canada Sunday, kicking off a week-long trip he has described as “a penitential pilgrimage” that will include a formal apology to Native Americans on behalf of the church and a meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau.Mr. Trudeau and others called for such an apology tour in June 2021, following the discovery of apparent mass graves for nearly 1,000 children on the grounds of two Catholic residential schools for Native Americans.“I have spoken personally directly with His Holiness Pope Francis to press upon him how important it is not just that he makes an apology but that...

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday began debating legislation to ban certain assault-style rifles such as those used in recent mass shootings, and another bill allowing lawsuits against firearms manufacturers.The bills face slim odds in the Senate, where they would need at least 10 Republicans allowing them to be brought up for debate. Republicans in the past have rejected similar bills, citing the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution dealing with the right to bear arms.

"And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the...

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found that using immunotherapy alongside a drug that blocks a common gene mutation in lung cancer could be a promising new combination therapy for certain types of lung tumors. Their work, published today (20 July) in Science Advances, could help select patients for clinical trials to confirm whether this combination therapy is effective in people. Around 1.8 million people die from lung cancer each year, making it the leading cause of cancer death globally. While some people are effectively treated with immunotherapy, this does not work for most patients. With only a quarter...