Margaret Osborne
Margaret Osborne
Freelance science writer, fact-checker & producer | bylines @SmithsonianMag , @TheScientistLLC , @WSHUPublicradio + more | producer @TWC_pod | @SBUjournalism gradSource
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Whistleblower Alleges U.S. Government Is Covering Up Alien Life at UFO Hearing

Whistleblower Alleges U.S. Government Is Covering Up Alien Life at UFO Hearing

A former intelligence official testified Wednesday that the United States government has found—and covered up—evidence of extraterrestrial life for decades. The witness, David Grusch, alleged at a House of Representatives hearing about UFOs that the Pentagon has recovered crashed vehicles and biological remains believed to be of “non-human” origin. “I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP [unidentified anomalous phenomena] crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” he said at the hearing. “My testimony is based on...

July 27, 2023
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This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry

This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry

Robert Sansone is a natural born engineer. From animatronic hands to high-speed running boots and a go-kart that can reach speeds of more than , the Fort Pierce, Florida-based inventor estimates he’s completed at least 60 engineering projects in his spare time. And he’s only 17 years old.A couple years ago, Sansone came across a video about the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars. The video explained that most electric car motors require magnets made from rare-earth elements, which can be costly, both financially and environmentally, to extract. The rare-earth materials needed can...

August 11, 2022
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Tonga Volcanic Eruption Blasted an Enormous Plume of Water Vapor Into the Atmosphere

Tonga Volcanic Eruption Blasted an Enormous Plume of Water Vapor Into the Atmosphere

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcano eruption in Tonga last January propelled a record-breaking amount of water vapor into the Earth’s stratosphere—enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to research from NASA. “We’ve never seen anything like it,” Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, says in a . “We had to carefully inspect all the measurements in the plume to make sure they were trustworthy.” In a paper published in , scientists analyzed data from the Microwave Limb...

August 8, 2022
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