Over the last 20 years, the army of SETI@home screensavers has parsed billions of signals collected at Arecibo and selected those that seemed the most likely to have been generated by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Once the program parsed this data, it was shipped off to Berkeley where the data was […]
What Is the Coronavirus?
If you’re confused, think about HIV/AIDS. Human-immunodeficiency virus infects people. If left untreated, HIV can lead to autoimmune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Some people might get infected with SARS-CoV-2 and not get sick at all. Others will come down with symptoms of the disease, Covid-19. (Yeah, it sounds like the […]
U.S. 10-year yields drop below 1% for first time ever
Economic Indicators12 hours ago (Mar 03, 2020 03:38PM ET) By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury yields on Tuesday slid below 1% for the first time, after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency move to ease the economic […]
4 Major Factors Influencing Oil Prices This Week
The price of nearby NYMEX crude oil futures traded to a low of $49.31 during the week of February 3. The first probe below the $50 level led to a recovery that took the energy commodity to a high of $54.50 per barrel in mid-February, where it ran out of […]
The Corn And Ethanol Report: March 03, 2020
Good Morning! We started off the day with G7 Conference Call at 6:00 A.M. with the conversation will be how much money they are willing to pump into the system to thwart this pandemic. We also have Redbook MoM and YoY, ISM new York Index at 8:45 A.M., IBD/TIPP Economic […]
WTI May Continue Uuptrend From 47.30 Support To 49.65 Resistance
By Anton KolhanovCommodities6 hours ago (Mar 03, 2020 08:35AM ET) WTI Crude oil (CL), Futures market Tuesday forecast, March 3 Downtrend An downtrend will start as soon, as the pair drops below support level 47.30, which will be followed by moving down to support level 45.95 – 45.30. Uptrend The […]
Satellite Cell Towers Will Beam 4G to Your Phone
In the United States it’s easy to take cell reception for granted. With few exceptions, you can use your phone to text, call, and get online from pretty much anywhere in the country. Yet about 2 billion people around the world live in areas that lack mobile coverage, mostly far […]
How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession
When a big flap pops, in other words, codified programs crop up. You can see this happening today, when in April 2019, the Navy confirmed that, given the number of unauthorized or unidentified craft that military personnel had encountered recently, it was “updating and formalizing the process by which reports […]
Spit Kits, Sperm Donors, and the End of Family Secrets
Alice Collins Plebuch, or Grandma Nerd, as her grandkids call her, is good at solving puzzles. She was among the first wave of computer programmers–when that term meant punching information on cards to be fed into mainframes. She has an analytical mind and is at ease with technology. Years ago, […]
Euro-Area Inflation Hits Three-Month Low on Energy-Price Slump
Economic Indicators9 hours ago (Mar 03, 2020 05:21AM ET) (C) Reuters. Euro-Area Inflation Hits Three-Month Low on Energy-Price Slump (Bloomberg) — Euro-area inflation slowed to a three-month low in February, highlighting how disruption unleashed by the spreading coronavirus is hitting the bloc’s economy. A slump in oil and other commodities […]