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The science of weather forecasting falls to public scrutiny every single day. When the forecast is correct, we rarely comment, but we are often quick to complain when the forecast is wrong. Are we ever likely to achieve a perfect forecast that is accurate to the hour? There are many steps involved in preparing a weather forecast. It begins its life as a global “snapshot” of the atmosphere at a given time, mapped onto a…
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This article is more than one year old. A glossary of ghost hunting terminology including 60 paranormal, occult and supernatural terms that every paranormal investigator should know. This jargon-busting page covers everything from psychic mediums, through to demonology and the common technical language you’ll hear on ghost hunts such as the name of ghost-hunting gadgets, methods and techniques. Although the paranormal terms listed in this glossary are commonly used, their inclusion in this list is…
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Could this be real or a prank? A video from Jharkhand in eastern India showing an alien walking along the side of a road has gone viral. The 30 second clip filmed in the city of Hazaribagh on Saturday night was shared on social media and shows the alien figure walking down the Chadwa bridge in the dark. Some are convinced its an alien while others think it was a ghost, also some think it…
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The news over the past two weeks has been inundated with reports about a Chinese surveillance balloon being shot down by U.S. fighter jets just after it passed over a major portion of the country, followed by reports of three unidentified flying objects that appear to be balloons being shot down over the U.S. and Canada. Many of the reports treat this as an unheard of, never-before seen occurrence of an engagement between a fighter…
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022. Where does that molten rock come from? We asked Gabi Laske, a geophysicist at the University of California-San Diego who led one of the first projects to map the deep plumbing that feeds the Hawaiian Islands’ volcanoes, to explain. Where is the magma surfacing at Mauna Loa…