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• WHO Scientist: Jury Still Out on COVID Booster Shots
  
  As some governments and pharmaceutical officials prepare for COVID booster shots targeting more-infectious virus variants, health authorities say it is too early to tell if they will be required.
• Book: Challenger Crew Likely Survived '86 Explosion
  
  The Space Shuttle Challenger crew likely survived the explosion on board until their capsule plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new book about the 1983 disaster.
• SpaceX Ignored FAA Warnings Before December Launch
  
  SpaceX ignored multiple warnings from the Federal Aviation Administration before the launch of its Starship prototype in December, which the company was told would violate their launch license...
• UFO Filmmaker Corbell to Newsmax: Pentagon Will Reveal 'Uncomfortable Truths'
  
  UFO filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, after releasing a video clip showing radar footage of unidentified flying objects swarming near a Navy ship off the coast of San Diego, tells Newsmax that an upcoming Pentagon investigation...
• Too Much Space Junk Spark Cleanup Talks at G7
  
  Members of the G7 organized delegates from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USA, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, pledging to tackle the growing hazard of space debris orbiting our planet.
• Study: Long-Term, New Symptoms Develop for Nearly a Quarter Post-COVID
  
  Hundreds of thousands of individuals who had COVID-19, about 23 percent, later developed at least one "persistent or new" symptom four weeks after initial diagnosis.The study by Fair Health tracked the health insurance records of nearly two million people who contracted...
• Thousands Sign Petition to Bar Bezos From Returning to Earth After Blast Off
  
  More than 7,000 people have signed a petition calling for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be denied re-entry to Earth after he launches for space next month. Bezos plans to fly with his brother and two other people...
• Celltrion Trial Shows COVID Antibody Treatment Safe, Effective
  
  South Korean drugmaker Celltrion Inc. on Monday announced positive results for its experimental antibody COVID-19 treatment that it said was safe and reduced the treatment period by nearly five days in Phase 3 global clinical trials.
• Google Says It's Using AI to Design Chips Faster Than Humans
  
  Google is claiming it's developed artificial intelligence software that can design chips in less than six hours compared with the months it would take humans to make a chip. The tech giant's engineers...
• Richard Branson Aims to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space: Report
  
  Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, may have plans to beat Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos in becoming the first billionaire to fly on their own suborbital spaceship. "Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed...
• UFOs Have Put US Nuclear Sites Offline: Former Agency Head
  
  U.S. nuclear facilities have been forced to go offline at times due to UFOs, according to the former director of a government program created to investigate unidentified aerial phenomenon. Luis Elizondo, former head of...
• Global Web Outage Hits Major News Outlets, Hulu, Amazon, Target, and Others
  
  Several popular web services and news outlets were hit with a large-scale internet outage on Tuesday due to a failure of a cloud-based content delivery network called Fastly, reported UPI.
• Apple Doubles Down on Privacy in New iPhone Software
  
  Apple on Monday said it is ramping up privacy and expanding features in new iPhone operating software to be released later this year.
• Scientists Argue COVID-19 'Genetic Footprint' is Unnatural
  
  Two scientists argued in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the "genetic footprint" of the COVID-19 pathogen "has never been observed in a natural coronavirus,"...
• Next SpaceX Launch Planned for Early Sunday Morning
  
  SpaceX is planning to launch its next mission, SXM-8, from Cape Canaveral in Florida early Sunday morning, the organization posted on Twitter.
• UFO Report Inconclusive; China, Russia Tech Possible
  
  The upcoming U.S. government report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (aka UFOs) will only conclude the objects observed by U.S. military are not American origin, The New York Times reported Thursday.
• NASA Announces Two New Missions to Study the Atmosphere and Surface of Venus
  
  NASA on Wednesday announced two new missions named "DAVINCI+" and "VERITAS" to study Earth's neighboring planet, Venus...
• Study: US Blood Supply Safe From Coronavirus
  
  COVID-19 does not pose a threat to the safety of the United States' blood supply under existing donor screening guidelines, researchers report, according to UPI.
• Space Junk Damages International Space Station's Robotic Arm
  
  A piece of space junk smashed into the International Space Station (ISS) and damaged the orbiting lab's robotic arm, according to the Canadian Space Agency and NASA.
• Study Alleges Proof China Lab Created COVID, Covered It Up
  
  A new study alleges, "now beyond a reasonable doubt," Chinese scientists not only cooked up COVID-19 in a lab, but they covered it up, and silenced potential whistleblowers.
• Filmmaker: Radar Footage Shows UFOs Swarming Navy Ship
  
  A filmmaker has released an unclassified Navy video of radar showing a swarm of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) swarming the USS Omaha in July 2019. Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell tweeted Thursday...
• South African Albino Elephant Adapts, Thrives Among Herd
  
  For Khanyisa life was difficult from the start. Born as an albino, at four months old she got caught in a poaching snare in South Africa's Kruger National Park that cut through her mouth. Trapped for four days...
• Study Suggests Human Life Is Capped at 150 Years
  
  Father Time is undefeated, but a study suggests a human can extend the game of life to 150 years before nature takes its course. "We conclude that the criticality resulting in the end of life is an intrinsic biological property...
• Moon Eclipsed by Earth's Shadow Ahead of Super Blood Moon
  
  Earth's shadow crept across the moon on Wednesday night as people in New Zealand and around the world waited for a cosmic event known as a super blood moon. As the eclipse deepened, it appeared as though half the moon had vanished. The other half looked fuzzy in the center...
• Former President Trump: 'I'm Not Such a Believer' in UFOs
  
  Despite a recent report by CBS News "60 Minutes" that presented new evidence of the military witnessing unidentified flying "phenomenon" in the skies, former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he only believes "what you see."

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