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The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in our galaxy. Stellar-mass black holes are created when a large star runs out of fuel and...

Interesting data on which US states have the highest percentage of Christian and other religious believers. Christians as a whole are the largest group. But they're broken down among the various Christian denominations, i.e., Catholic, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, Historically Black...

In a medical first, surgeons at Mass General hospital have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62 year old renal failure patient. The organ is from a genetically altered strain of pigs that is less likely to incite rejection. Pig kidneys are also very similar in size and shape to human kidneys...

The active duty U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy has died of his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed on Monday. Aaron Bushnell, 25, of San Antonio, lit himself on fire in front of the embassy on Sunday afternoon. First responders...

This could be posted in the Music forum. But Feb. is designated to remembering the contributions to American society made by African-Americans. So I'm posting it here. Jamesetta Hawkins, better known as Etta James, was a recording artist from the 50s, up to the 2000s. She died in 2012 at age 73...

Undeterred after three decades of looking, and with some assistance from a supercomputer, mathematicians have finally discovered a new example of a special integer called a Dedekind number. Only the ninth of its kind, or D(9), it is calculated to equal 286 386 577 668 298 411 128 469 151 667...

I was in the 7th grade on Nov. 22, 1963, when JFK was assassinated in Dallas. 16 days from today is the 60th anniversary of that tragedy. The Warren Commission report, released in Sept., 1964, found that the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone. And that Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald 2 days...

Anyone like trumpet music? Rafael Mendez was born in Mexico, and lived from 1906 to 1981. The music he could get from a trumpet is extraordinary. A few examples: The Virgin of Macarena is a centuries old wooden image of Mary in the Basilica of Macarena in Seville, Spain. She's considered to be...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A majority of Ohio voters said they would vote for Issue 1, the proposed abortion rights amendment, if the election was held today, according to a newly released poll by Baldwin Wallace University. The poll released Wednesday showed 58.2% would vote yes, 33.5% would vote no...

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Her comments to Newsmax commentator Eric Bolling: Sarah Palin responded to Donald Trump's arrest in Georgia on Thursday night by talking up the possibility of civil war. Speaking to Eric Bolling as the former president was booked at the Fulton County Jail on election interference charges, Palin...

When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps... Molecular tests confirmed it was Ophidascaris robertsi, a...

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey's assertion that an amendment to the state constitution that would legalize elective abortion would cost billions was rejected by the MO Supreme Court. The amendment will be on the 2024 ballot. Which is how it should be. Let the voters decide. (KMOV/AP) -- The...

Linda Ronstadt turned 77 yesterday. One of my favorite singers. 10 years ago, she was misdiagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Which is not a diagnostic failing. She actually has Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. The early symptoms of PSP are very similar to Parkinson's. But PSP is worse. It affects...

Today is the national festival in France. On July 14, 1789, a crowd of partisans stormed the Bastille in Paris, intending to free political prisoners. Though only 7 low level prisoners were released, the event is celebrated in France as the opening shot of the French Revolution, and the...

July 4, 1776 was the day the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. Which, in reality, was just a statement of political propaganda. It was a list of grievances perpetrated on the American colonies by King George III and Parliament. And though it said that the colonies...

The Oort Cloud is a vast region in the far outer solar system composed of billions of comets and other icy objects. Most of this icy debris is quite small, but could there be something lurking there, like … a planet? Last month, an international team of researchers said that’s indeed a...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. There are very few symptoms in the earliest stages when surgery would be most effective. PDAC has claimed the lives of many well-known people--Alex Trebeck, Steve Jobs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Aretha Franklin, Luciano...

Pres. Biden and House Speaker McCarthy have agreed to a bill that will prevent a government default. Details in the link: Debt ceiling deal: What's in, what's out of the bill to avert US default Of course, it's a compromise. Neither side gets everything it wanted. That's as it should be. It...

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - The founder of the far-right militant Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for seditious conspiracy in a failed bid to keep Donald Trump in the White House, marking the longest sentence handed down to date in connection with...