Category: Storm Chasers
China trade war creates “rare” opportunity
Oct. 8 – Quest Rare Minerals CEO Peter Cashin says China’s ban on exporting rare earth minerals creates an opportunity for his company, which specializes in heavy rare earths used across multiple industries.
Chinese hackers infiltrated a national security network used to control nuclear codes
(CNN) — When a group halfway around the world, without setting foot on American soil, can claim responsibility for preventing a man in Wichita, Kansas, or a woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, from gaining online access...
Lawmaker wants probe of EPA experiments on humans
A powerful lawmaker is calling for Senate hearings following a lawsuit charging the Environmental Protection Agency conducted illegal human experiments, including some that exposed asthmatic patients to known carcinogens. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., called...
US performed Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis: Biological Weapons Program
ST. LOUISDoris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer. After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical...
4 dead from rare meningitis, more cases expected
Health officials are expecting to find more cases of a rare and deadly form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five states. Four have died. All received steroid injections,...
Songs from space reach ears on Earth
Oct. 4 – If you thought it was quiet in space, you were wrong. Instruments aboard NASA’s orbiting Radiation Belt Storm Probes have picked up audio from the phenomenon known as “chorus” radio waves...
World’s Most Human-Like Robot Has Tendons
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — On “Hot Shots” Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton reports on today’s most compelling images. (Source: Bloomberg)
L.A. repeals its ban on pot stores
The 11-2 vote to rescind the measure approved in July leaves the city with no law regulating about 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries. After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles...
The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth’s mantle
(CNN) — Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may...
