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© Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizon ================================================================= A blue dune captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has raised new questions about wind, sediment, and geological diversity on the Red Planet. Though the coloring is artificially enhanced, the unique features of this formation, located in two distinct craters, are anything but ordinary. NASA scientists recently released two detailed images taken by the MRO’s HiRISE camera, showing separate dune fields inside Lyot Crater and Gamboa Crater. These images don’t just offer stunning visuals; they open a rare window into the complex interactions between Martian winds and surface materials. The unusually shaped and...

NASA's X-59 just made history with its first flight, and it could revolutionize the future of air travel by making supersonic flight quieter than ever! On October 29, 2025, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet made its long-awaited first flight, soaring above the Mojave Desert from Palmdale Regional Airport in California. This experimental jet, developed by NASA in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, is designed to break the sound barrier without causing the disruptive sonic booms that have long hindered supersonic travel. The success of this flight is a crucial step towards a future where supersonic flights over land might become commonplace....

The recent appearance of gubernatorial candidate Democrat Abigail Spanberger at the Virginia NAACP's annual convention set off a predictable online firestorm. Given that her GOP opponent in the race, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, is a black woman, several right-leaning commentators took time to point out the obvious: The recent appearance of gubernatorial candidate Democrat Abigail Spanberger at the Virginia NAACP's annual convention set off a predictable online firestorm. Given that her GOP opponent in the race, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, is a black woman, several right-leaning commentators took time to point out the obvious: That line stings precisely because it...

Both leaders complimentary to each other at the start of their meeting.

UFC heavyweight Tom Aspinall’s vision has been severely impacted after he suffered an injury Oct. 25 in a match-up against Ciryl Gane at UFC 321. Andy described his son’s troubling condition. “His right eye can’t — still can’t see anything. Said it’s just gray. [Doctors] tested him on words and he just couldn’t see anything,” he said. “His left eye 50%. He went about four letters [down the chart] and then couldn’t see letters. So, one’s really, really blurry — and one’s still not working.” Andy told ESPN on Sunday that Tom narrowly avoided “bone damage” to the region but...

Republicans in Congress enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda are on the verge of approving a sweeping tax-and-spending cuts package that creates a new, higher hurdle to receive food stamps for tens of thousands of former foster youth. Under the provision, those as young as 18 and living in poverty would have to prove they were employed, training or enrolled in school to be eligible for more than three months on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. In interviews late tonight, three former foster youth who are leading national voices for their peers — two of whom once relied...

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A New Jersey officer has been charged with misconduct after prosecutors say he didn't quickly respond to and properly investigate reports of a shooting that turned out to be a double murder, instead stopping at an ATM and pizzeria. Franklin Township Police Sergeant Kevin Bollaro was the on-duty officer on the evening of Aug. 1, when police received 911 calls reporting gunshots and screaming in Pittstown, about 60 miles from Manhattan in central New Jersey, according to Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renee Robeson's office. But rather than responding immediately, prosecutors say, Bollaro drove nearly two miles in...

A small-town girl, Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), attends a party – against the wishes of her father (William Demarest) – held to entertain soldiers on leave. After a night of dancing and carousing, she remembers little, but later discovers she is pregnant. Her adoring childhood friend, Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), agrees to marry her. Her wisecracking teen sister, Emmy (Diana Lynn), is her only other ally. It has always been considered amazing that Sturges was able to produce a mainstream studio movie in Hollywood about “pre-marital” pregnancy during a period when a tight Production Code was being heavily enforced....

As the measles outbreak in the Upstate has grown to 30 people, including eight new cases this week, South Carolina public health officials addressed disinformation and myths contributing to lower vaccination rates, including that it is better to be infected and get immunity that way than get the shot. And as the measles outbreak in the Palmetto State continues to grow and one in Utah and Arizona takes off, the U.S. is closer to losing its status since 2000 of having eliminated measles from circulating in the country. Even before the first cases were confirmed in South Carolina in July,...

The jailing of a failed asylum seeker for randomly murdering a restaurant owner is only the latest serious crime by an illegal migrant to come to public attention in recent days. Today, an Afghan refugee was also charged with a triple stabbing in Uxbridge which caused the death of a dog walker. MPs and campaigners today described the cases as further proof of the damage caused by the government's failure to control Britain's borders. Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and possession of an offensive weapon. During the rampage a 45-year-old...

Switching permanently to either standard time or daylight saving time would disadvantage either early risers or night owls, according to experts. The current system provides each group with benefits for half the year. Now, the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time is calling for change. The group contends abolishing seasonal time changes and adopting permanent standard time, follows science and prioritizes public health, safety and efficiency. A survey by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) found that half (50%) of Americans support legislation to eliminate seasonal time changes, while only one-fourth (26%) are opposed. Currently, more than 60% of countries...

Parents, please show this movie to your teenagers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFy_Ezt0r-4

JD Vance gave a great speech and question/answer session. It ended a few minutes ago. Vance's appearance starts at 1:45:10.

The account "EBT of TikTok" has dozens of videos of entitled Americans complaining that YOU, the taxpayer, aren't feeding them in addition to your own struggling family. Let's start with a woman who says she would have aborted her kids if she knew she wouldn't get food stamps. Look at this next guy, who is wearing a nice hoodie in a nice car while he threatens violence if he can't get some of YOUR tax dollars to shove food down his gullet. [Warning: Language] ALL VIDEOS AT LINK................... Dude looks like he drives a newer car than me! Next, there's...

Below is a comprehensive, no-BS checklist for a solo, unguided, no-O2 climb of Mt. Everest from the Nepal South Col route (the only realistic solo option today). Reality check first: Solo Everest is illegal without a permit (you still need the $11,000 Nepal permit + liaison officer). No commercial operator will support a true solo climb; you’ll be self-sufficient from BC upward. 99.9% of “solo” claims used fixed ropes, camps, or O2 left by teams. Death rate for solo attempts is >50%. If you’re asking this question, you’re not ready.

Dutch voters appeared to have shunned far-right leader Geert Wilders in favour of a centrist party, exit polls suggested Wednesday, after a snap election closely watched in Europe where extremists are gaining ground. FRANCE 24's Fernande Van Tets reports from Leiden in the Netherlands.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis. The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a “huge success.” “For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Great View From The “Office”! U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II’s prepare for re-fuel from a KC-46A Pegasus assigned to the 334th Air Refueling Squadron, McConnell Air Force Base, KS, during exercise Cope North 22 on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 15, 2022. Participants exercise Agile Combat Employment, or ACE, concepts during Cope North 22. ACE is Pacific Air Forces’ model to project combat power via a network of distributed operating locations throughout the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Amy Picard) Canteen Mission StatementShowing...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears‘s campaign is having to carry on without her, with less than one week before Election Day, after Democrats’ surprise redistricting move called her back to Richmond.The move from Democrats, the latest in a string of redistricting efforts from both parties, set off a wave of Republican outrage and confusion among voters gathered to see her at a campaign stop in the central part of the state. At a coffee shop in Charlottesville, where Earle-Sears had been scheduled to campaign Tuesday afternoon, her husband Terence Sears took the stage in her place, joined...

Red Command members respond with gunfire after ‘biggest ever’ police assault on city’s drug traffickers Gang members in Rio de Janeiro bombed police with drones in retaliation for their deadliest raid on the city’s drug traffickers. In scenes akin to a war zone, residents of the city’s poorest northern neighbourhoods scrambled for cover as 2,500 armed officers engaged in an exchange of fire with Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of Brazil’s most powerful crime groups. Few could have anticipated the scale of the operation: 64 people killed, more than 80 arrested and 12 hours of gunfire. Members of Red...