A physicist named Alan Kostelecký and a graduate student named Jay Tasson recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters (vol 102, p 10402) which suggests that gravity may change seasonally, one of several extremely unlikely-seeming scenarios that may underlie an emerging ultimate theory of the Universe.

The paper explores the premise that relativity and the standard model of particle physics are both incomplete, a well known and frustrating aspect of contemporary theoretical physics. General relativity fails to compute in situations where gravity is extremely strong, such as during the Big Bang, or at the singularity of a black hole. Also, the standard model falls apart when contemplating fundamental particles of…

Those astronomers were just checking out the cosmos one day when they stumbled upon a bizarre human hand formation reaching out to grasp our consciousnesses. They captured it in color, and it offered it up to us as a peculiar specimen. What we’re observing here is a pulsar, known to us as PSR B1509-58. The image depicts an X-ray nebula, and it measures a modest 150 light years around the waist.

According to NASA, “The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand.”

Those spectral fingers are brought to…

On the evening of April 6th, a ferocious earthquake rocked Italy, causing devastation, chaos and a significant loss of life. The earthquake measured in as high as 6.3 on the Richter scale, rocking the Earth near the city of L’Aquila in the Abruzzio region, which is just east of Rome. At least ninenty people fell victim to the natural disaster. One resident, Angela Palumbo, stated that she “woke up hearing what sounded like a bomb. We managed to escape with things falling all around us.”

Adding an element of shock to the dismay borne of the wreckage is a report of at least one well-lit, triangular UFO that was spotted over…

Represents from Mitsubishi confirmed today that the i-MiEV electric vehicle will definitely be making an appearance in the United States. The company has been suggesting its appearance in the form of sweaty, mumbled rumored for a few ticks of the clock now, but this is the first official confirmation that we’ve heard of the super-popular “electric jellybean” making it stateside.

For now, all we know is that car is likely to show up sometime before 2012; any further details are few and far between. This thing runs on a special lithium battery, so the manufacturers are waiting carefully to ensure that supplies of the fuel cell will be readily available. Mitsubishi…

Alien Looking People on a Roof of a Building

We’re taking a long, bleary-eyed, skeptical look at a video that purportedly depicts some extraterrestrials doing extraterrestrial things atop a roof of a several-story building in an unidentified city. The bizarre sighting was captured on a nausea-inducing, shaking hand-held camcorder, and the images it depicts are startlingly creepy. We see humanoid-like figures hulking around below the lip of the rooftop, pacing back and forth and doing nefarious things to keep their giant, cosmic-sized brains busy. Also bizarre is the depiction of one alien-guy seemingly emerging from some type of vehicle or shell-structured apparatus.

We’re not too keen on spreading hype around the Internet,…

Coming in fresh is another UFO report from China, this time from the Guangzhou University area. The UFO seemingly hovered amidst some pretty heavy cloud cover above the university and its surrounding environs. A reporter in the area managed to get off a low-resolution shot of the activity, but it’s hard really to discern anything significant from his vantage point.

At approximately 7:58 in the evening, a number of students in the dormitories to the south of Shandong at the Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies noticed a number of objects fluorescing in the clouds, producing strange halos and moving in and out of visibility. At around 8:40, the reporter who snapped…

Another shocking report from the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the People’s Republic of China, ran a story of a UFO sighted by government officials, a bunch of journalists, and a handful of assorted other passengers on a flight in February of this year.

Passengers saw the phenomenon from the plane’s window while cruising on a Southern Airlines flight – the 6 pm to Nanjing, to be exact. Whilst socializing and relaxing during the trip, a group of journalists were amazed to see a baffling luminous object keeping pace with the plane just outside the window after one of the group made the sighting. A group of security…

Independent scientists and researchers have found “red/gray bi-layered chips” in dust sampled from the proximity of the World Trade Center immediately after its destruction, according to a paper published today in The Open Chemical Physics Journal. In the study, the authors write that “the red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.” What these conclusions amount to is renewed support for the demolition theory proposed by groups who do not fully embrace the official reports of how the World Trade Center buildings came down.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology was tasked with determining the cause of the buildings’ destruction. Officials with…