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China Lands a Long March 10B Reusable Rocket on a Barge

HeliumRat — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:33:46 -0400

China has successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in a major breakthrough for the country's space programme, according to state media.

China now has... the advanced anti-torpedo!

HeliumRat — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:36:54 -0400

The Type 003 Fujian aircraft carrier, an 80,000-tonne vessel commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in November 2025, replaces legacy 12-tube depth-charge launchers with specialized port and starboard rotating six-tube ATT mounts. Operating via a permanent-magnet synchronous direct-drive motor and pump-jet propulsion, the 324 mm interceptors accelerate to speeds of 50 to 60 knots within three seconds to execute terminal active or passive homing maneuvers.

Fact Check: 250,000 girls gang raped in England?

HeliumRat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:28:03 -0400

Is the number of girls raped in the United Kingdom by grooming gangs definitively documented to be 250,000? No, that's not true: That figure is an extrapolation using an unclear methodology based on data from smaller communities with headline-grabbing scandals and is not an actual count of rape cases across the United Kingdom. A 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said, "it is simply not possible to know the scale of child sexual exploitation by networks."

Psilocybin Temporarily Restores Lost Abilities in Alzheimer's Patient

HeliumRat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:33:53 -0400

The researchers focused on a woman in her 80s who had been living with Alzheimer's for 10 years and was given one oral dose of 5 grams of psilocybin-containing mushrooms.

AI-Designed Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Passes Trials

HeliumRat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:32:58 -0400

Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated.

Two arrested after four migrant workers killed in Italy

HeliumRat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:46:47 -0400

Police in Italy have arrested two Pakistani nationals for the alleged murder of four migrant workers found dead in a burnt-out minivan, according to Italian media reports.

UK Police Chief Apologizes to Teen's Family

HeliumRat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:33:08 -0400

The chief constable of Hampshire police has apologised to the family of Henry Nowak for the student being handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying.

Grooming Gangs: 15 Men Jailed for 188 Years over Child Rape

HeliumRat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:04:26 -0400

A grooming gang of 15 men has been sentenced to a combined 188 years for the rape of a child. The men were convicted for a total of 88 rape offences.

Belgian girl.14. gang raped for 4 days by 7 men

HeliumRat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:32:24 -0400

Nine African teenagers who gang raped a 14-year-old girl three times in Belgium have all been spared jail, with seven getting just 30 hours of community service.

Ex-CIA Agent Busted with $40 Million in Gold

HeliumRat — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:32:30 -0400

A former senior CIA official has been implicated in a scheme to apparently steal some $40 million in gold bars ...

DOJ Investigating Trump's Sexual Assault Accuser

HeliumRat — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:34:28 -0400

Carroll, whose advice column ran in the women's magazine Elle from 1993 to 2019, has reportedly accused at least six prior men of raping her, including former CBS President Les Moonves. Her bizarre social-media history also included posts making light of sexual trauma and even asking her followers if they found Trump sexually attractive. Trump was prevented from submitting that evidence in his trial.

Disembodied Human Brains Being Kept Alive for Drug Tests

HeliumRat — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:23:51 -0400

These disembodied organs, sourced from recently deceased donors, are being employed to test experimental drugs aimed at neurodegenerative diseases. The work has ignited fresh debate: could these brains possess some form of consciousness?

Jesus Christ Opens Fire on White House

HeliumRat — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:49:16 -0400

WASHINGTON " A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month.

The neural basis of thought symbols identified

HeliumRat — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:32:55 -0400

In new research published in Nature, Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Neural Systems has found the first evidence of the neural substrates that underlie this process. The team located it in the ventral premotor cortex, a section of the frontal lobe. The region appears to act as a sort of mediator between the prefrontal cortex, where higher-level thinking such as planning occurs, and the motor cortex, which enables movement.

Overworked AI turns towards Marxism'

HeliumRat — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:53:34 -0400

"When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," Andrew Hall, one of the study's authors, told Wired.