Key Takeaways Russia updated its nuclear-use policy on November 18–19, 2024, broadening language and increasing public signaling (Arms Control Association; NBC News). Markets showed a risk-off response around these signals: global equities fell while bonds and safe-haven currencies gained, reported by The Guardian on November 19, 2024; academic work documents a “proximity penalty” for stocks […]
Key Takeaways 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, was discovered on July 1, 2025, following a hyperbolic trajectory not bound to the Sun. Its perihelion on October 30, 2025, and closest Earth approach on December 19, 2025, align closely with three Mercury–Uranus oppositions on October 29, November 19, and December 10, 2025. Observers note a […]
Key Takeaways 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019); it’s on a hyperbolic (unbound) trajectory, meaning it came from outside the Solar System and will never return. Core observables: discovered July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile at about 4.5 AU from the Sun; perihelion on October […]
Key Takeaways A Kyiv resident wakes to an unprecedented, total blackout of the skyline, in a city already used to rolling outages and air raids. Russia has systematically targeted Ukraine’s power grid since 2022, including a December 2015 cyber-attack impacting over 230,000 people and massive missile/drone strikes in August and November 2024 that triggered widespread […]
Key Takeaways The U.S. hit a record 28 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2023, costing around $92.9 billion, while global records from EM-DAT tally over 27,000 mass disasters since 1900, showing crises are routine, not rare—and now the Pentagon and NASA treat UAPs as serious, with 400 incidents tracked and 18 displaying odd flight […]
Key Takeaways A powerful recent X-class flare (around X1.9 in intensity) erupted as new active regions rotated into view, in the context of Solar Cycle 25 already outperforming early forecasts in terms of activity. On December 31, 2023, an X5.0 solar flare — the strongest since 2017 — was recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, […]
