SYDNEY, Australia (PNN) - February 9, 2016 - Scientists in Australia have developed a “bionic spine” which could enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again by controlling a tiny paper clip-sized device implanted in the brain.

The device, to be implanted in three paraplegic patients in Melbourne next year, allows patients left paralyzed by injury or illness to subconsciously control equipment that can move robotic limbs.

CONCORD, New Hampshire (PNN) - February 7, 2016 - The Free State Project, a Libertarian organization that wants to spark an exodus to New Hampshire, announced Wednesday that it had collected 20,000 signatories who pledged to move to the state within five years. The announcement comes nearly two years after the organization began a Trigger the Move campaign, which sought to get 20,000 people to move to the community.

PARIS, France (PNN) - January 30, 2016 - Thousands of people marched in the Paris rain on Saturday to denounce plans to renew France’s state of emergency and revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 30, 2016 - During a panel talk about the ins-and-outs of filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World), who will be directing Star Wars: Episode IX, teased an idea he's working on for his Star Wars movie: shooting in space.

He says to spread out into space to avoid Earth disaster.

LONDON, England (PNN) - January 21, 2016 - Humanity’s future is in peril thanks to so-called advancements in science and technology, claims Professor Stephen Hawking, who cited “nuclear war, global warming, and genetically-modified viruses” as deadly threats to our existence.

PASADENA, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 20, 2016 - Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system.

Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times the mass of Earth and has an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Science magazine reports that the mysterious “Planet X” moves in distant orbit beyond Neptune.

by Brent Johnson

“The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. You can see it when you
look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when
you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world
that has been pulled over your eyes (in order) to blind you from the truth.”
Morpheus, from the movie “The Matrix”

For those who have not seen the movie The Matrix, the red pill is what you take if you are willing - really willing - to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

To those who, like me, value the truth, it seems almost incomprehensible that anyone, much less the majority, would never take the red pill. But in reality, most people would do just about anything to avoid the simple, plain truth. But why?

BURNS, Oregon (PNN) - January 27, 2016 - One person is dead and eight others, including Oregon occupation leader Ammon Bundy, were detained following a violent confrontation with the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division and state terrorist pig thug cops Tuesday night.

Fly from New York to London in 11 minutes.

MONTREAL, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - January 27, 2016 - The engineer behind the Skreemr jet has unveiled another radical, much faster design for future air travel.

Charles Bombardier’s latest concept jet is capable of reaching Mach 24 - more than twice the speed of the Skreemr and 12 times faster than Concorde.

LONDON, England (PNN) - January 14, 2016 - The first genetically modified human embryos could be created in Britain within weeks according to the scientists who are about to learn whether their research proposal has been approved by the fertility watchdog.

Although it will be illegal to allow the embryos to live beyond 14 days, and be implanted into the womb, the researchers accepted that the research could one day lead to the birth of the first GM babies should the existing ban be lifted for medical reasons.