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A new Chinese hypersonic engine could cut long-haul flights to under an hour, pushing aircraft to unprecedented speeds. This breakthrough in propulsion technology might reshape global travel and military strategy. China Unveils an Engine Capable of an Astonishing 20,000 KM/H, That Can Circle the Globe in Just 2 Hours | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ========================================================================= A new hypersonic engine developed in China could revolutionize air travel by reducing long-haul flight times to mere minutes. Capable of reaching Mach 16—approximately 20,000 km/h (12,250 mph)—this propulsion system represents a significant leap in aerospace engineering. Developed at the Beijing Power Machinery...

2:32 VIDEO AT LINK.............. In this episode of the SITREP, Paul discusses the current projections for 2026 VA disability rates of compensation. Remember, these projections are from The Senior Citizens League, and not official numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA will announce official numbers later this fall. For additional information and to see which benefits you or your family may qualify, visit the web links below. To view all our content, visit / @vamadesimple To view or listen to podcasts, visit • #theSITREP | Veterans Benefits Made Simple Need an immediate answer or help with a situation regarding...

A new drug prevents weight gain and fatty liver by controlling magnesium in cells. It made mice stay slim despite lifelong exposure to an unhealthy diet. Credit: Stock Scientists have unveiled a small-molecule drug that blocks weight gain and liver damage in mice forced to live on sugary, high-fat food. The compound works by limiting magnesium inside mitochondria—the cell’s power plants—so energy keeps burning instead of stalling. Treated mice quickly slim down and show no signs of fatty-liver disease, hinting at a future therapy against obesity, heart trouble, and cancer tied to poor diets. Breakthrough Drug Fights Fat and Liver...

The Air Force sees external pylons as key to increasing the B-1's ability to launch standoff strikes ahead of the arrival of the B-21 Raider. ================================================================ The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead to add new external pylons onto its B-1B Lancer bombers after years of experimentation. The pylons will enhance the B-1’s already significant ability to carry large and diverse payloads, with a particular eye toward future hypersonic weapons. It is also a hedge against potential delays in the arrival of stealthy B-21 Raiders, which are set to replace the remaining Lancers. In its recently released proposed budget for...

New evidence from a Pleistocene site in southwestern China reveals the oldest known use of intricately crafted wooden tools in East Asia, dating back over 350,000 years. Credit: Liu et al., 10.1126/science.adr8540. ====================================================================== Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in East Asia. Researchers working at the Pleistocene-era Gantangqing site in southwestern China have uncovered a diverse set of wooden tools dating from approximately 361,000 to 250,000 years ago. This discovery represents the oldest known example of advanced wooden tool technology in East Asia. Analysis of the tools suggests they were not...

NATO jets were scrambled overnight as Russia carried out its largest drone attack yet on Ukraine, launching more than 700 drones, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the "new massive Russian attack on our cities" involved "728 drones of various types, including over 300 Shaheds, and 13 missiles – Kinzhals and Iskanders. "Most of the targets were shot down. Our interceptor drones were used -- dozens of enemy targets were downed, and we are scaling up this technology. Mobile fire groups were also active – they downed dozens as well. I thank all our warriors for their precision," he...

I'm going to show you this video but I will warn you that the drunk man who before the video starts was too obliterated to even tee up his ball gets exactly what's coming to him and it's pretty ugly. It's now being reported that this was former NHL enforcer Nick Tarnasky and his group that were catching up to the slow twosome in front of them. They asked to play through (go ahead of them), and this started an argument which led to Tarnasky beating the daylights out of the drunk guy. [Warning: Violence] 1:07 VIDEO AT LINK................. Dude...

Criminal Illegal immigrant at Alligator Alcatraz complains about the mosquitoes being the size of ELEPHANTS.. Monitored phone call, translated from Spanish. 1:19 VIDEO at link................

Case Western Reserve University chemist Divita Mathur was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant for her research in synthetic DNA nanoparticles, which have potential applications in gene therapy. Divita Mathur ================================================================== The grant will support Mathur’s work in synthesizing nanoparticles and studying how they behave inside cells in a laboratory. She will use single-cell injections and a microscope to track the nanoparticles and watch what happens to them over time inside individual cells. The CAREER award is considered the agency’s most prestigious grant to junior faculty members “who have the potential to serve...

Enlargement of the silicon nitride membrane. The colors represent the measured motion of the membrane in the out of plane direction. Red means that part of the membrane moves upward, and blue means that part moves downwards. Credit: Albert Schliesser and Xiang Xi When a drummer hits a drum, the surface vibrates and creates sound—a signal we recognize as music. But once those vibrations stop, the signal disappears. Now imagine a drumhead that’s incredibly thin, only about 10 millimeters wide, and covered in tiny triangular holes. Scientists have created exactly that, and it does something extraordinary. Researchers at the Niels...

In Brief: 🚁 A tour helicopter crashed at Destin Executive Airport last month due to a loose bolt, according to a new NTSB report. 🧰 Investigators found other bolts were only hand-tight, and the helicopter suffered major damage, though all passengers survived. 🕵️ While the operator wasn’t named, officials confirmed Timberview Helicopters is the only tour provider based at the airport. ========================================================================== The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its report on the crash that occurred at Destin Executive Airport involving a tour helicopter last month. In the report, the investigator stated that a bolt from the cyclic servo...

A Pair of Lawsuits Promise to Expose the Truth Behind the July 1996 Disaster. On July 17, 1996, TWA 800, a Paris-bound 747, blew up ten miles off Long Island’s south shore, killing all 230 souls on board. In the days leading up to the anniversary, I will share some fresh insights on this tragedy and the much too successful cover-up that followed.After 25 years investigating the destruction of TWA Flight 800, I have learned to temper my enthusiasms. That said, I continue to take heart when I see signs of life. Perhaps the most promising development in the case...

A tired canard is surfacing again in the era of wokery: “Estimates suggest that only about a third of the colonial population actively supported independence.” This misconception originates from misreading an 1815 letter written by John Adams. Adams referenced Americans’ attitudes toward the French, not the American Revolution. English tyrannies weren’t welcome here by 1776. Straightforward facts tell the story, beginning with the Revolution’s impetus, the Stamp Act, effective Nov. 1, 1765, long before Boston’s December 1773 Tea Party. It was indeed a relatively modest tax. What enraged colonists was its purpose; namely, subsidizing British continental wars that had stretched...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government. A $210 million USAID public health program...

By reconstructing a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment, scientists have uncovered new significance in an early observation of deuterium-tritium fusion that still shapes nuclear science today. (Artist’s concept). Credit: SciTechDaily.com Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully recreated a significant yet largely overlooked physics experiment: the first recorded observation of deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion. Their updated version of the 1938 experiment, recently detailed in Physical Review C, reaffirms the pivotal role of University of Michigan physicist Arthur Ruhlig. Ruhlig’s original work likely...

The laser weapon uses a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) module to ascertain the location of objects. =============================================================== Laser weapon for killing mosquitoes - Photon Matrix. Indiegogo It is a dream for many to get a lightsaber used in Star Wars movies, or a military-grade drone, missile-zapping laser weapon being tested by armies globally. However, a low-powered laser weapon could be their best bet, and it can do wonders against a global enemy – mosquitoes. A Chinese firm has come up with a laser weapon design that it claims can kill up to 30 mosquitoes every second. The gadget –...

A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship that famously sailed thousands of miles backwards to avoid sinking, historians say. The nearly 100-foot long section of the USS New Orleans was found Sunday, July 6, by the Ocean Exploration Trust as it searched the seafloor near Guadalcanal with a remotely operated vehicle. A positive identification was made with the help of paint fragments still clinging to the hull, along with an engraved anchor, the trust reported. The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet,...

The accidental reaction was quietly reported within the company and then forgotten for nearly two decades. ack in the early 2000s, engineers working for the Techint Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Italy and Argentina, were trying to fine-tune a new electric arc furnace at a steel plant. But something strange happened. The carbon electrodes in the furnace weren’t breaking down as expected. Instead, they were getting bigger. What the engineers had unknowingly triggered was a chemical process called pyrolysis, burning a material in the absence of oxygen. In this case, the furnace was splitting methane into two valuable byproducts:...

Scientists have unraveled how light and a previously unknown form of certain nickel-based catalysts together unlock and preserve reactivity. A team of scientists across several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories has claimed that their research could potentially advance the use of abundant nickel in place of more expensive palladium in industrial chemistry. “Pharmaceuticals is the only area that has commercialized light-driven nickel catalysis so far, but nickel-based catalysts can also potentially replace palladium catalysts for a variety of other industrial processes, including in the agricultural industry and the manufacture of electronics,” said Max Kudisch, first author of the...

It was U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan's first mission as a member of the Coast Guard, and he led triage coordination for most of the operation. A member of the U.S. Coast Guard is being hailed as a hero for rescuing over 160 people during the catastrophic flash floods in Central Texas on the Fourth of July. U.S. Coast Guard Heartland, which is headquartered in New Orleans and serves multiple states, said on Facebook that U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan assisted in the evacuation of 169 people. It was Ruskan's first mission as a member of...