Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe

As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"A new NASA study has found that the Sun's activity is ramping up, reversing the trend and surprising astronomers.The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.Humans have known about sunspots since around 800 BCE, when ancient Chinese astronomers recorded observations of them...

130-Year-Old Butter Additive Discovered In Danish Basement Contains Bacteria From The 1890sIn a basement in Frederiksberg, Denmark, two bottles had been collecting dust for over a century. Last year, in a stroke of luck, researchers from the University of Copenhagen stumbled upon them once more, and found a suspect white powder lurking within. This residue, they would go on to uncover,...

New fan-made Fallout New Vegas remaster is the game I wish Bethesda would make There are only a handful of games that I believe need remasters at present. Dragon Age: Origins is the first. BioWare's seminal fantasy romp had so many brilliant, original ideas that deserve another chance to shine. Besides, I've still never played the human prologue and it's a real pain to get to work on...

Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the species so that we can bring it back at any point if it dies out.

A new comet approaching from sunward could make a fine dusk appearance in October. There was chatter on the boards this past Friday September 12th, about a comet seen in the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) images near the Sun. Tentatively named SWAN25B and now formally designated as C/2025 R2 SWAN, this comet could put on a brief show in late September into October if it holds up.

There are plenty of theories about what dark matter is and how it might be gravitationally affecting the universe. However, proving those theories out is hard since it hardly ever interacts with anything, especially on small scales like galaxies. So when a research team claims to have found evidence for dark matter in our own galaxy, it's worth taking a look at how. A new paper from Dr. Surkanya Chakrabati and her lab at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) does just that. They found evidence for a dark matter sub-halo in the galactic neighborhood, by looking at signals from binary pulsars.

Best Apple iPad deal: Save $150 on 13-inch Apple iPad Air at Amazon SAVE $150: As of Sept. 16, the 13-inch Apple iPad Air (M3, WiFi, 128GB) is on sale for $649 at Amazon. That's $150 off its list price of $799. Following the latest Apple event, there have been some really great discounts on some of Apple's best devices. Even iPads have received...

Xiaomi 's iPhone 17 killer has a secondary display on the back Xiaomi has big plans for its upcoming Xiaomi 17 Pro flagship. The sheer fact that the company skipped the Xiaomi 16 Pro altogether and went from number 15 to 17 shows that Xiaomi's ambitions are to compete with Apple's iPhone 17. However, while the name change is all too predictable,...

Spotify's free users can now search and play songs with ease Spotify free users can now search and play specific songs with an actually decent update announced Monday.Detailed in a company blog post, the audio streamer now lets non-paying users play any track or podcast by searching directly for it, a feature previously only available with the...