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Teen accepted to all 8 Ivies

An Elmont Memorial High School senior has been accepted to all eight Ivy League universities, again. Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, the class valedictorian this year, faces the same difficult decision Harold Ekeh did last year in Elmont. He chose Yale University. “Having two students get accepted into all eight Ivy League institutions in back-to-back years is humbling …

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Scientists devise a possible plan to cloak Earth from an extraterrestrial attack

  A professor of astronomy, and one of his graduate students Columbia University, believe that they have come up with a fool proof way to protect Earth from an unfriendly extraterrestrial invasion. This approach seems to fly in the face of traditional astronomy and other scientific research that has been trying to independently confirm that …

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Hong Kong graphic designer builds a robot that looks just like Scarlett Johansson

  Ever since he was a little boy, Ricky Ma, a graphics and product designer from Hong Kong, had a vision and dream of one day building his own functional robot. Recently Ma, 42, realized his dream with the completion of his robot that he built over the course of 18 months out on his …

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Deadpool Highest Grossing X-Men Film of All Time

Deadpool has had an incredible run at the box office, especially as an R-rated comic book adaptation. After the close of yesterday’s box office, Deadpool officially surpassed X-Men: Days of Future Past to become the highest-grossing X-Men film of all time at the global box office. The film raked in $3.5 million this past weekend for a …

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Bomb scare shuts down Peoria International Airport for three hours

  On Thursday, a bomb scare was reported to security officials at Peoria International Airport in Peoria, Illinois. The Federal Bureau of Investigation rushed to the scene along with a regional police tactical bomb squad team. They were summoned by the TSA after an agent discovered what appeared to be a bomb or some manner …

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