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Scientists Intentionally Trigger 8,000 Earthquakes Deep Beneath Swiss Alps Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Scientists at ETH Zurich university in Switzerland have deliberately induced around 8,000 seismic events deep underground in the Swiss Alps as part of an experiment called Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR-2). The team injected 750,000 litres of water into the ground via two boreholes over approximately 50 hours at the BedrettoLab facility. The quakes were too small to be felt at the surface or cause damage, with magnitudes ranging from -5 to -0.14. The researcher explained “While some seismic events occurred...

Tanker Fire Friday: Iran Claims At Least Two More Attacks In Strait of Hormuz Tensions continue to soar in the Strait of Hormuz, as Iranian military forces claimed a series of aggressive maritime actions on Friday, or what we might call another Tanker Fire Friday.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has newly announced that it intercepted and halted two commercial tankers for straying into "unauthorized routes" in the southern stretch of the strait. via Associated Press The IRGC has further said Friday that a supertanker caught fire after striking a naval...

HHS Unveils Policy To End Funding For 'Dangerous Gain-Of-Function Research' Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 28 unveiled a new policy that would end federal support for "dangerous gain-of-function research," an experiment in which scientists genetically modify an organism to enhance its characteristics. Workers next to a cage with mice inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 23, 2017. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images In a statement, HHS said the policy would prohibit federal funding for dangerous...