This week‚ an error on a child’s poster how led to the Solar System’s first quasi-moon being named “Zoozve”‚ the Pacific Ocean plate appears to be tearing‚ and getting COVID-19 jabs in both arms may boost the immune response to the virus. Finally‚ we ask if and how foraging can benefit our health.Subscribe to the IFLScience newsletter for all the biggest science news delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday and Saturday. Chernobyl's Mutant Wolves Have Evolved Anti-Cancer AbilitiesNew research is showing that the population of wolves living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) is genetically different from their counterparts outside of the region. Remarkably‚ the irradiated wolves appear to have developed protective mutations that increase their odds of surviving cancer.  Read the full story hereSolar System's First Quasi-Moon Officially Named "Zoozve" After Error On Child's PosterTwenty years after its discovery‚ asteroid and quasi-moon 2002 VE 68 has been officially renamed "Zoozve" after a strange label on his 2-year-old child's poster of the Solar System led Radiolab host Latif Nasser to investigate further. Read the full story hereChina Is Building World's First "Super Dam" Along The Yarlung Zangbo RiverChina is the undisputed world champion of dam building. Not only do they have more working large dams than every other country in the world‚ but they also hold the record for the largest capacity hydroelectric power station in operation: the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. Now‚ the East Asian superpower is in the process of creating the world's first super dam‚ set to bust all previous records. Read the full story herePacific Plate May Be Tearing At Its Core‚ Redefining Current TheoriesGeologists have unearthed new evidence that the Pacific Ocean plate is wracked with colossal faults‚ caused by the plate slowly drifting westward and plunging into the Earth’s mantle. The researchers believe their findings‚ if accurate‚ have the potential to redefine what we previously understood about how our planet works. Read the full story hereGetting Jabbed In Both Arms Could Boost Immune Response To COVID-19 VaccinesResearchers are always looking for ways to make vaccines more effective‚ but the latest find is a bit of an unusual one. According to a new study‚ alternating arms when receiving the first two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine can modestly improve the body’s immune response. Read the full story hereTWIS is published weekly on our Linkedin page‚ join us there for even more content.Feature of the week: Can Foraging Benefit Our Health And Wellbeing? Here’s All You Need To KnowLet’s travel back in time before Just Eat‚ five different supermarket chains within a 2-mile radius‚ or even agriculture. There‚ you’ll find foraging‚ one of the most ancient practices there is. Now‚ as foraging is making a resurgence‚ people are beginning to question: is it safe? Can it be good for us? What does wild food do to our bodies? Let’s find out. Read the full story here More content:Have you seen our free e-magazine‚ CURIOUS? Issue 19 February 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.

UFOs have been in the news again with the passing of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). The Act mandates that government agencies hand over any records on UFOs within 300 days‚ including any samples or technology that may have been recovered. The US President is allowed to postpone disclosure of certain records if disclosure poses a national security risk. In addition to the passing of this landmark act‚ intelligence officials in the US have admitted they have retrieved craft of ‘non human’ origin and also revealed they have special retrieval teams to recover damaged – and even intact – UFOs – there’s a great premise for a Netflix series. The peninsula has been the scene of some spectacular and intriguing UFO activity over the decades‚ and now that US legislation has given the “Flying Saucer” phenomenon a stamp of authenticity‚ people (often mislabelled “experts”) will now have a harder time explaining away the encounters of sightings of strange craft see in our skies and on the ground. An example that springs to mind would be the light aircraft pilot who was flying his Cessna over West Kirby in June 2016 at a height of about 1‚825 feet at a speed of 105 knots when the plane started to shake and the cockpit instruments acted strangely. The pilot then saw a gigantic circular craft which he estimated to be about 350 feet in diameter‚ and beneath this gargantuan UFO there was an Airbus 320 with the white an orange livery of what looked like an easyJet passenger plane. The UFO was about 150 feet above the jet and the pilot noted that the airliner had its wheels down. What did not make sense was the trajectory the plane was on – it was headed south across the River Dee towards Flint at a very steep angle. The pilot flew his Cessna out of the path of the UFO and the airliner‚ which‚ he suspected‚ the UFO had somehow “captured” – as if by some magnetic force. The pilot intended to follow the plane and radio his sighting of the strange spectacle to Air Traffic Controllers at John Lennon Airport when something extraordinary happened. The colossal UFO seemed to contract in size as it turned a ghostly pale colour‚ and the plane suspended below it did the same. There was a flash of light and both UFO and plane were gone from the skies. The instruments in the Cessna cockpit then returned to some normality. The pilot decided not to radio any reports‚ fearing ridicule and possibly a huge dent in his sterling reputation. Although the pilot told no one about the encounter – even his wife – he received a telephone call at his home in Heswall on the day after the incident‚ from a well-spoken man who claimed to be an intelligence officer from MI5. He gave the name William Valley and warned the pilot that the “large craft” he had seen was a secret project by the Ministry of Defence and it had been carrying out trials to see if it could incapacitate an airliner. ‘How do you know what I saw?’ the pilot asked‚ ‘I never reported anything; who are you?’ Mr Valley talked over the pilot and warned‚ ‘If you decide to tell anyone what you witnessed‚ you will never be seen nor heard from again.’ The pilot was not scared off and made enquiries and told as many people as he could about the close encounter‚ and he received a call from what he believed to be a spokesman from MI5 who apologised for “Mr Valley’s uncalled for attitude.” The spokesman then said: ‘The thing you saw was in fact an Airbus 319 doing manoeuvres over Wirral – the pilot was involved in air-training exercises from John Lennon Airport‚ and I even have a reference to prove it – EZY9090 – so I hope this clears up the matter. “We’ve had many members of the public calling the airport because they also saw the jets circling over Wirral all day.” “That is utter [expletive deleted]!” the light aircraft pilot told the ‘spokesman’‚ “I saw something which was not made on this earth‚ and it was not a passenger jet. Can I have your name and number please?” The spokesperson’s voice then changed in tone and suddenly had a ring of familiarity to it – it sounded like Mr Valley again. “I have explained what you have seen‚ now I hope‚ for your sake‚ that you will drop this ridiculous claim you are making about a UFO.” “Is that you again‚ eh? Mr Valley isn’t it? Who the hell are you?” the pilot asked‚ and the line went dead. The pilot keyed in a code to obtain the caller’s number – but the automated reply told him the number had been withheld by the caller. The reference the man had given the pilot as checked‚ and referred to the number of a flight that had taken place a month before the UFO encounter. No more was heard from William Valley – a name that no one could trace when the pilot contacted various departments relating to defence and aviation. It’s possible that Mr Valley was one of the so-called Men in Black – shady individuals who would turn up at the home of UFO witnesses from the early 1950s onwards and often claim to be government officials. They always bullied and threatened witnesses to scare them away from reporting their experiences‚ often impersonating air force and intelligence officials – but no one could ever trace the determined impostors and even the registration plates of cars they were seen getting into were found to be bogus. Did a UFO abduct a passenger jet? None were ever reported as missing so it’s possible the abduction took place for a short time and then perhaps‚ the jet was placed back on course with the minds of the crew and passengers wiped clean so that they would be unaware of what had happened – or perhaps the jet the pilot saw was some advanced craft disguised as one of our airliners – all we can do is speculate. The light aircraft pilot’s mental health suffered greatly after his strange experience and he became very paranoid and eventually gave up flying altogether. People said he had been seeing things‚ but hopefully with the UAP Disclosure Act‚ we might start learning the truth about the enigmatic UFOs. Author: Tom Slemen‚ who is a Liverpool writer‚ known foremostly as the author of the best-selling Haunted Liverpool series of books which document paranormal incidents and unsolved or unusual crimes. Check his Books on Amazon here. The post Mystery of the giant UFO: Pilot saw a giant object with a diameter of 350 feet appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The overlong Super Bowl pregame festivities will once again unfold without an interview with President Biden. Pundits are asking: Why would Biden forego this massive audience as he runs for re-election? It’s not like CBS would pound him with hardballs. Scott Pelley is about as tough as a Biden granddaughter. Gayle King vacationed with the Obamas and donated to Barack Obama. Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn made an important point out as this news broke. Special Counsel Robert Hur – a man the media have mostly ignored for a year – was expected to put out his report on Biden’s improper handling of classified documents. That would be a reason to skip any inconvenient interviews. Then Hur’s report came out‚ and it grew worse. The report said a jury would find Biden to be a sympathetic figure and “a well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory.” How poor a memory? “He did not remember when he was vice president” and “He did not remember‚ even within several years‚ when his son Beau died.” This is amazing‚ since the Bidens can’t seem to stop talking about Beau’s death‚ as the president routinely says Beau “died in Iraq” (false) and probably got cancer from exposure to burn pits there (fact checkers said No). The Hur report underlines why Team Biden is hiding the president. Days before‚ CNN’s Oliver Darcy repeated all the Bidenite talking points. They wanted the public to get a break from politics during the big game. They are being “more creative” in their media strategy.  "We are being less traditional because less people get their news from traditional mediums than ever before‚” they claimed. This is ridiculous‚ since you can’t argue “less people” watch the Super Bowl if you’re seeking a broad audience – voters old and young‚ white and black and everything else. They’re hiding because Biden is prone to bumble – just as he’s imagined himself in recent days talking in 2021 to deceased French prime minister Francois Mitterrand (died in 1996) and deceased German chancellor Helmut Kohl (died in 2017). For many years‚ the pro-Biden press has avoided the vast majority of gaffes and then excused a few as beloved Uncle Joe having a tiny lapse‚ God love him. That won’t fly anymore. They also keep Biden from journalists because when he gets mildly challenging questions‚ he can blow his stack‚ like the time he insulted Fox reporter Peter Doocy as a “stupid son of a bitch.” The liberal media are never bothered when Biden turns down interview requests. They have no self-respect. They'll take lame excuses from the White House and just quote them like Darcy did. They lie down like climate protesters on the highway. When Donald Trump was president‚ he granted wide access to a press corps that sought to ruin him at every turn. Joe Biden is now granting very stingy access to a press corps that treats him like they’re protective nurses at a memory-care facility. Nobody really tunes into the Super Bowl for the presidential interview. It won’t be missed. But what no one should miss is that our media elite have been aerobically hypocritical about how it’s their job to hold powerful people accountable. From the Clintons to the Obamas to the Bidens‚ these “news” people have acted like a journalistic Secret Service. That’s why Republicans and independents tell pollsters they don’t find them to be reliable sources of information. 

Plus: Remembering Toby Keith.

The Supreme Court should rule on the grounds that provide the most decisive settlement of whether Donald Trump is qualified to become president again.

The state now has two half-baked laws that risk being struck down in court.

It’s not Joe Biden’s fault that he’s old and in decline. What’s blameworthy is that he and his wife‚ Jill‚ haven’t acknowledged what is happening to him.

Tran Anh Hung’s exquisite multicultural period piece.