This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp | US Sen Angus King (I-ME)

U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) official portrait 113th CongressSenator Angus King is the latest in a long line of thoughtful Maine lawmakers. He talked to us about the Russia probe. June 18, 2017 (Bloom ...

Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known | Michael Riley & Jordan Robertson

Image from: money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/technology/internet-attack-election-day/index.html Attackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama Whi ...

Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offsh ...

CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations | Stephen Tsang and Laszlo T. Bito

CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (white) from Staphylococcus aureus based on Protein Database ID 5AXW. Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) May 29, 2017 (Phys.org) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 ...

If China Can Fund infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We | Ellen Brown

May 17, 2017 (Web of Debt) -- May 15th-19th has been designated “National Infrastructure Week” by the U.S. Chambers of Commerce, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and over 150 affiliate ...

Pufferfish and humans share the same genes for teeth | Alexandre P. Thiery et al.

By Brocken Inaglory - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2219327 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the bizarre beaked t ...

Special Counsel Can Examine Trump From All Angles | Noah Feldman

Robert S. Mueller IIIHistory shows that Robert Mueller's investigation might not end up where it starts. May 17, 2017 (Bloomberg) -- Former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s appointment by the Department ...

Stars as random number generators could test foundations of physics | Lisa Zyga

By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8788068 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Stars, quasars, and other celestial objects generate photons in a random way, and now scie ...

Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana Tren ...

US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker | Paul Handley

From: incapsula.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- U.S. authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrest ...

Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers | Tomasz Nowakowski

This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/R. Saito/VVV Consortium. March 13, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of as ...