[ZERO] In the span of nine months, nine top-level scientists in the United States have died or vanished without a trace.
Seven of them were connected to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) or the institutions it directly funds.
AFRL develops and transitions the most sensitive aerospace technologies in the United States’ defense arsenal.
1) Monica Jacinto Reza vanished June 22, 2025 while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.
She was last seen waving to a hiking companion approximately 30 feet behind the group. Despite an extensive search involving helicopters, drones, and canine units, only a beanie and lip balm were recovered, and her body was never found.
Reza, 60, was an aerospace engineer and Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne who later moved to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)and co-inventor of Mondaloy.
Mondaloy is a family of nickel-based superalloys developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne to withstand oxygen-rich environments and extreme heat in rocket engines. Its unique achievement is balancing high oxygen compatibility with structural strength, solving a critical challenge where traditional oxygen-resistant alloys were too weak for use in high-pressure components like preburners and turbine rotors.
She worked closely with Retired Major General William Neil McCasland, who commanded the AFRL from 2011 to 2013 and oversaw the government funding for her alloy program. McCasland disappeared in February.
Dallas Hardwick, Reza’s mentor and co-inventor of Mondaloy, died on January 5, 2014, apparently of natural causes.
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Us old people do die. In the past, we just died of old age. Now days they run a pie chart of 'causes' not noting that if you move the radii of one cause it only effects the other ones. The pie remains whole. They should have started one for those with Covid shots. In Canada they need one for assisted suicide.
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That list does not include the 10 or so cold fusion scientists that were murdered.
So chew on this. Our entire global economy runs on oil and gas. If a limitless energy source became available the change would be so dramatic. Something similar to wide use of electricity.
But with a lot more puppet master dollars going up in flames. But they also would loose control.
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I worked with a Brit scientist years ago that allegedly took a walk down a hedge row and slit his wrists. Never been able to believe he wasn't murdered.
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Many scientists, despite having families and hobbies and all, can’t find a purpose for their life once research is not the center of it. My father had a very difficult time, becoming very nasty in his frustration until Mama got him involved in her research — a completely different field and style of work, but he throve on the challenge and the analysis, and so lived productively until a week after his 90th birthday. But when I was in high school, one of his colleagues stepped off the roof.
So retired scientists — or those approaching retirement — committing suicide would not surprise me at all.
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My dad was the opposite TW. He was a professor and an award-winning physicist. But he loved retirement. Died of a heart attack at 81 after a day of down hill skiing with his friends.
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The irregular past tense form throve is a bit archaic, NoMoreBS, having been replaced on this side of the pond by the regular thrived in the mid-19th century, and in England early in the 20th century, according to this linguistics post. But both my parent learnt British English first, and were trained by teachers who’d learnt their grammar eqrly in the century… and those were the books I mostly read as a child as well.
So now we all know. :-)
Secret Master, that sounds wonderful.
Besoeker, once again you tied it all up in a ribbon. It’s a gift.
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[Regnum] Russians may witness the explosion of a comet that has disintegrated near the Sun in early April. This was reported on March 31 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) have recorded record-breaking luminosity from comet C/2026 A1. Yesterday, the celestial body, estimated to be billions of years old, officially became the brightest object for Earth-based observers.
The comet is currently 40 million km from the center of the solar system. Its velocity is approximately 80 km/s, but it is constantly increasing under the influence of the sun's gravity. Experts predict that its acceleration will reach 90 km/s tomorrow, and by April 2nd, it will exceed 100 km/s. The climax will occur on April 4th, when the comet will approach the sun or collide with it at a colossal speed of approximately 300 km/s.
Experts note that the disintegration process of the nucleus has already begun under the influence of powerful light beams and centrifugal forces. The peak of the disintegration is expected when the comet enters the distant solar corona. This event could occur between April 2 and 4, at a distance of 10 to 20 million km from the solar surface. The comet will experience the same explosive disintegration processes as asteroids entering Earth's atmosphere.
"This also creates a certain chance for a rapid increase in the brightness of the celestial body on the night of April 3 and especially on the night of April 4. Although the comet's nucleus will be invisible due to its proximity to the Sun, its bright tail, which could extend tens of degrees in this scenario, could become visible in the sunset sky from across the country," the scientists concluded.
[FoxNews] Nellis Air Force Base public affairs told Fox News Digital the aircraft crashed about 25 miles northeast of Indian Springs, Nevada, within the controlled airspace and restricted federal property of the Nevada Test & Training Range.
[Reuters] Hackers linked to North Korea breached behind-the-scenes software that runs many common online functions in an effort to steal login information that could enable further cyber operations, Google said on Tuesday.
The hackers targeted Axios, a program that connects apps and web services, by adding their own malicious software to an update issued Monday, Google and independent cyber researchers said after the hack came to light early on Tuesday.
“Every time you load a website, check your bank balance, or open an app on your phone, there’s a good chance Axios is running somewhere in the background making that work,” said Tom Hegel, a senior researcher at SentinelOne.
The malicious software, which has since been removed, could have given hackers access to a computer's data including access credentials, which can then be used to carry out additional data theft or other kinds of attacks.
The developers of Axios could not immediately be reached for comment. Rather than a proprietary commercial product, the software is open source, meaning the code can be openly licensed and modified by users.
The cyber researchers described the breach as a supply chain attack, in which the hack could enable attacks on downstream entities.
“You don’t have to click anything or make a mistake,” Hegel said. “The software you already trust did it for you.”
Google attributed the hack to a group it tracks as UNC1069. Google said in a February report the group has operated since at least 2018 and is known for targeting the cryptocurrency and financial industries.
“North Korean hackers have deep experience with supply chain attacks, which they primarily use to steal cryptocurrency,” John Hultquist, chief analyst for Google's threat intelligence group, said in a statement.
North Korea uses stolen crypto to fund its weapons and other programs, and evade sanctions, according to the U.S. government.
North Korea’s mission to the U.N. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The hackers created versions of the malware that could infect macOS, Windows and Linux operating-system versions, according to an analysis published by cybersecurity firm Elastic Security.
The hackers' methods meant "the attacker gained a delivery mechanism with potential reach into millions of environments," Elastic said. It was not clear how many times the malicious software was downloaded.
[ZERO] Remember when blues state Democrats tried to enforce sweeping pandemic mandates for years after it became clear that covid was not the "mass killer" that the supposed experts claimed it would be? Remember when they called for people to be jailed for publicly speaking about scientific facts that contradicted the narrative? Remember when they called for people's children to be taken away if they refused to vaccinate?
Remember how millions of people left blue states in response to the far-left madness? Well, Democrats are now pretending that none of that ever happened, but they can't hide the continuing consequences of their draconian policies.
The historic population shift that escalated during the pandemic era is still well underway, though the causes are now more economic than political. We recently covered New York Governor Kathy Hochul's sad attempt to beg wealthy NY taxpayers to stop leaving her state. However, New York is only one of multiple blue regions being crushed by an ongoing wealth exodus.
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@1 Don't be too quick. The people most likely to move are those that have good, well paying jobs and just because they are leaving a blue state doesn't mean they are left or far left politically.
I knew a bunch of people, most recently retirees, leave CT, MA, RI to move to red states. All were gun owners.
[JustTheNews] Funding for UC San Diego study had been reinstated under court order last summer, but budget period ended and NIH was under no legal obligation to issue new award, anti-animal testing watchdog says. FOIA lawsuit filed.
It could be useful information against the practice, depending on how the research is designed, or it could be a signal to add more names to the To Be Fired list.
Less than a year after the Department of Government Efficiency abruptly halted funding for transgender experiments on animals, intended to improve so-called gender-affirming care for humans, the National Institutes of Health chose to fund at least one again.
The University of California San Diego study of "androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis" to fine-tune male hormones for women who identify as men, using mice that were "gonadectomized," injected with testosterone and decapitated, received another $584,117 for fiscal 2026, following the $646,301 it received for fiscal 2025.
Last summer, a federal court ordered NIH to resume funding hundreds of studies including UCSD's trans mice research, saying their termination had been "arbitrary and capricious," but the order applied only to the grants' current budget periods, according to the anti-animal testing White Coat Waste Project, which showed the Jan. 16 approval to Just the News.
NIH funding policy says it has no "legal obligation to provide funding beyond the ending date of the current budget period" and warns grantees that "projected levels of future support are contingent on satisfactory progress, the availability of funds, and the continued best interests of the Federal government."
That means NIH's legal obligation to the UCSD study ended Nov. 30 with its budget end date, said WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman.
NIH is also funding a parallel human study by UCSD researchers, last updated Jan. 15, to understand "the mechanism of menstrual disruption" for women who identify as men and receive "testosterone replacement therapy." Flooding female physiology with wrong-sex hormones is known to have severe side effects far beyond menstruation.
They are studying "blood reproductive hormone secretion" in these women before and during hormone therapy, and in female control subjects who do not identify as men.
STOP 'WASTING MONEY ON THIS WOKE PSEUDOSCIENCE': REP. GOSAR
Goodman said the court-ordered resumption of funding for the UCSD trans mice study "seems to undermine" HHS's response to The Gateway Pundit, two months later, about four NIH grants for University of Florida research that floods male macaque monkeys with estrogen to model "feminizing hormone therapy" for men who identify as women.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed "an Anthony Fauci grant from 2020 that terminated in 2022" for that study, which wasn't published until August 2025, in the medical journal Cell Reports.
Dr. Fauci led the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, reportedly retiring as the richest federal employee in history by salary, benefits and pension.
HHS further claimed that "none of the funds from these grants are currently funding transgender animal experiments, and no other NIH grants still fund transgender animal experiments," but walked that back after Gateway Pundit noted the court order to resume funding.
"We believe the one you asked about," the trans monkey research, was part of that order, HHS said, but did not mention the also-reinstated UCSD trans mice research.
"They haven’t comment[ed] on the UCSD grant at all, and their statement from August indicated they were[n't] funding any more transgender animal tests (which doesn’t appear to be true)," Goodman wrote in an email.
"Tax dollars shouldn’t be funding the Biden Administration's sickening transgender animal tests," Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar said in a statement to Just the News via WCW. He cosponsored the TRANS MICE Act (HR 4512) to ban such research following WCW's investigations, though it hasn't moved since introduction last summer.
"That’s why I’ve been working with White Coat Waste to stop the NIH and other federal agencies from wasting money on this woke pseudoscience ever again," Gosar said.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to Just the News queries on whether it favors research into improving gender-affirming care, as illustrated by NIH approving new money for trans mice experiments after its legal obligation ended and for the human study, and whether HHS gave incorrect information to The Gateway Pundit last summer.
"After White Coat Waste exposed it, President Trump quickly put transgender animal tests on the chopping block – and cut them," Goodman said in a lengthy statement. The annual National Defense Authorization Act signed by Trump in December includes a ban on "painful research" on domestic dogs and cats.
"The NIH is openly defying President Trump and blowing up claims from RFK’s team that it had stopped funding transgender animal tests," Goodman said.
Freedom of Information Act records show that this "Biden-era experiment ... will subject nearly 10,000 mice to horrific abuse – drilling into their skulls, injecting toxins into their brains, and ultimately decapitating them," he wrote.
PENTAGON STONEWALLING ON RECORDS FROM JOINT THAI MONKEY RESEARCH
WCW has been on a tear against the Trump administration in recent months as federal science agencies gain allies among other animal-rights groups.
It filed a FOIA lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Defense – avoiding the "War" name instituted by Secretary Pete Hegseth – for videos, photos and other documents on its "taxpayer-funded primate experiments in the U.S. and foreign countries."
"The legal name of the agency for the purposes of the lawsuit is still DOD" and it wasn't meant as a dig at Hegseth, a spokesperson told Just the News.
The Pentagon has given no response to three WCW FOIA requests five to nine months after acknowledging them, and it never responded to the other two, according to the suit.
WCW is seeking records from the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, in Thailand; U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit South, in Peru; Fort Detrick medical research institutes for chemical defense and infectious diseases, and the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., the home of NIH.
The Thailand primate colony, operated with the Royal Thai Army, "has quietly operated with millions of American tax dollars and minimal public scrutiny for decades," according to WCW, which said its investigation uncovered 500 monkeys in captivity and 30-45 bred each year.
"These monkeys are abused in experiments involving infectious diseases like malaria, Zika, dengue, typhus, shigella, and SHIV," WCW said. "They are surgically mutilated, intentionally infected with diseases, forced to ingest drugs, fed to disease-carrying mosquitoes, and subjected to sleep deprivation tests."
Citing a public grant database, WCW said DoD paid the disgraced animal breeder Envigo more than half a million dollars just last year to ship another 18 monkeys from the U.S. to Thailand, years after the Department of Agriculture cited Envigo for dozens of Animal Welfare Act violations. It was forced to shut down a Virginia breeding facility.
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Anyone who redirected it should have their salary yanked until it's paid for. They should also be required to move to Alaska. Failure to pay is theft of government funds and should be charged.
[Reuters] NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing.
NASA mission managers on Monday polled "go" to launch the Artemis II mission's towering, 322-ft (98-m) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket topped with the astronauts' Orion crew capsule as early as 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) on Wednesday.
It will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida just one pad away from where the last moon-bound astronauts of the U.S. Apollo program lifted off more than half a century ago.
The Artemis II crew includes NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who landed in Florida from Houston on Friday.
They had been in a two-week quarantine leading up to liftoff and spent time with their families over the weekend at the Kennedy Space Center's beach house, a spot where astronauts rest before blasting off into space.
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The Trump administration is moving the Forest Service’s headquarters out of Washington and into Salt Lake City, Utah, as part of a broader push to shift federal agencies closer to the regions they oversee and reduce the footprint of government in the nation’s capital.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
