by Frank Bergman‚ Slay News: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on governments to ban the general public from growing their own food at home by arguing that they are causing “climate change.” According to so-called “experts” behind a recent WEF study‚ researchers apparently discovered that the “carbon footprint” of home-grown food is “destroying […]

125 years ago today‚ President William McKinley signed into law a bill creating Mount Rainier National Park‚ the fifth in the nation‚ in order to protect what John Muir described as some of the finest alpine meadows he ever saw‚ enveloping the slopes of an extinct stratovolcano that happens to be the highest peak in […] The post Good News in History‚ March 2 appeared first on Good News Network.

This week a megalith discovered on a mountain in Peru is older than Egypt's pyramids‚ a tiny 12-millimeter-long fish makes a sound comparable to a human hearing a jet plane take off‚ and the mighty blue whale reclaims its spot as the Earth’s heaviest animal to ever live. Finally‚ we discover the bizarre behind-the-scenes story of the first-ever detection of gravitational waves.Subscribe to the IFLScience newsletter for all the biggest science news delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday and Saturday. First-Ever Photos Of Humpback Whale Sex Involve Two MalesFor the first time‚ photographers have recorded two humpback whales copulating. When they showed their footage to a marine mammal expert‚ she confirmed both participants were males‚ confirming once again that same-sex sexual behavior is widespread among animals. There are‚ however‚ questions about whether in this case‚ both whales were happy about the situation. Read the full story here4‚750-Year-Old Megalith Older Than The Pyramids Discovered On Peru MountainAn ancient ceremonial megalith dated to 4‚750 years ago has been discovered in the Peruvian Andes. The find is older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt and represents one of the oldest circular plazas in the region. Unearthed at an archaeological site in northern Peru’s Cajamarca valley‚ the plaza features concentric walls of large‚ free-standing‚ vertically placed megalithic stones‚ the likes of which have never been seen before in the Andes. Read the full story here12-Millimeter Long Small-Brained Fish Can Make Sound As Loud As A Jet PlaneWhen you think of the loudest noises made by the animal kingdom‚ maybe the first thing that comes to mind is the roar of a lion or the trumpeting of an elephant. It probably isn't the noise made by a tiny translucent fish native to the shallow waters of Myanmar – but new research has revealed they can make a noise so loud it is comparable to a jet engine taking off. Read the full story hereNASA Hit An Asteroid So Hard It Completely Changed Its ShapeIn September 2022‚ NASA performed the first serious test of planetary protection in space. The DART mission was sent to smash into asteroid Dimorphos‚ the small moon of asteroid Didymos. It was the first time humanity moved a celestial body. DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test‚ and as tests go it did very well. Maybe too well. Dimorphos might have experienced global deformation from the event. Read the full story hereBlue Whale Back On Top As Heaviest Animal Ever To Live On Planet EarthThe blue whale was knocked off the top spot for the heaviest animal ever to live on Earth back in 2023‚ but now‚ the almighty slab is back reigning supreme thanks to a brand new study. It argues that the recent claim the ~39-million-year-old Perucetus colossus – an ancient whale – was heavier than the blue whale is false‚ putting ol’ Balaenoptera musculus back on top. Read the full story hereTWIS is published weekly on our Linkedin page‚ join us there for even more content.Feature of the week: The Bizarre Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The First-Ever Detection Of Gravitational WavesImagine you have just observed something that is going to revolutionize science. The first thing you’d do is probably check everything multiple times – is this correct; is it really happening? And if you were in a big international collaboration‚ you might even want to ask around to check if this is a prank or a test. Or maybe‚ you might consider something more sinister: someone has created a fake. Read the full story hereMore content:Have you seen our free e-magazine‚ CURIOUS? Issue 20 March 2024 is out now. Check it out for exclusive interviews‚ book excerpts‚ long reads‚ and more.PLUS‚ the entire season 3 of IFLScience's The Big Questions Podcast is available now.

Visitors to California’s Yosemite National Park have been told to leave immediately with intense blizzards forecast throughout the area. Releasing a statement on Thursday‚ February 29‚ the park announced that it would be closing at midnight and would “remain closed at least through Sunday at noon (possibly later).”The sudden warning comes with an atmospheric river looming over California‚ threatening to dump massive amounts of snow on elevated areas. Situated in the Sierra Nevada mountains‚ Yosemite is right in the firing line and is expected to see massive snowfall throughout the weekend. IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.“The National Weather Service is forecasting several feet of snow throughout the park (Badger Pass may receive over seven feet!) with very high winds‚” continued the announcement. “Visitors currently in the park should leave as soon as possible‚ and no later than noon tomorrow‚ March 1.”Atmospheric rivers are long streams of moisture in the atmosphere that evaporate from the central Pacific ocean and are carried towards the western US by tropical weather systems. Upon making landfall they tend to unload huge amounts of rain and snow‚ and are thought to provide roughly half of California’s annual precipitation.Given the current drought that has been afflicting the Golden State in recent years‚ atmospheric rivers and the water they bring are largely welcome‚ although they can occasionally get too big and ruin people’s weekends.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out in the wild for players everywhere to enjoy! We loved the game so much that we gave it a 9.5 in our review! There's a lot to appreciate about Rebirth‚ from dynamic characters to beautiful locations‚ you can spend hours just wandering the open world. Plus‚ the combat system has never been better!

A new fresco has emerged from the House of Leda in Pompeii. Like the fresco that gives the domus its name and the one of Narcissus found in the atrium‚ this panel also depicts a scene from Greek mythology‚ the twins Phrixus and Helle fleeing their persecutors on the back of the famed ram with the golden fleece. Phrixus and Helle were the son and daughter of the king of Boeotia and the cloud goddess Nephele. Their evil stepmother Ino bribed an oracle to demand the sacrifice of the twins. Nephele intervened‚ sending the ram to rescue them in the nick of time. Alas‚ Helle fell off the ram and drowned. The straight where she plunged to her death was named the Hellespont after her. (It’s the Dardanelles now.) Phrixus would reach Colchis on the Black Sea‚ marry the daughter of the king and sacrifice the ram to Poseidon. The Golden Fleece became the prize of Colchis and would go on to have a whole other series of adventures courtesy of Jason and the Argonauts. The fresco captures the moment Helle sinks beneath the waves as she reaches out for Phrixus on the back of the ram. Its palette of blues and teals is still vivid and it is framed in black on the center of a wall painted in solid yellow. It adorns the back wall of the atrium of one of the southern domus‚ one of two newly-discovered homes that were built in different phases of construction at the House of Leda. The House is currently being excavated and restored with the ultimate goal of stabilizing the richly frescoed spaces and erecting protective roofs to preserve them from exposure to the elements. The excavation of the site has been ongoing since 2018‚ and most of the spaces are still partially buried‚ including the room at the entrance to the house with the Leda and the Swan fresco. Tunneling expeditions in the 18th and early 19th centuries already removed some of the layers from the eruption of 79 A.D. from the House of Leda‚ but they never reached the two connected domuses north and south of it. The parts of the house accessed by the tunnelers have pumice levels covering the walls up to between 20 and 30 inches from the floor. The two domuses‚ on the other hand‚ have pumice deposits 13 feet deep‚ reaching the tops of the surviving walls. The current excavation aim to clarify the full floorplan of the House of Leda‚ including the perimeters of the main rooms of the northern and southern domus. Archaeologists will also clean the frescoed walls as they go‚ liberating the vibrant pigment from volcanic residues and deposits and consolidating the surfaces to prevent deterioration now that they’ve been exposed.

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