Science & Technology - The New American

NSA Building Largest Spy Center Ever

In the little town of Bluffdale, Utah, between the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrh Mountains, the National Security Agency (NSA) is building what...

Jack Kenny March 18, 2012

New Spy Apparatus Lets People “Bug” Themselves

Jack Kenny March 18, 2012

The good news is that in the near future governments, including our own, may no longer be planting bugs or tapping phones to...

Predicted Solar Storm Fizzles Out, More Storms Likely

Bob Adelmann March 10, 2012

Many were surprised when the prediction by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of potential major disruptions of power grids, Global Positioning...

Wind Farms Paid to Stop Producing Power

James Heiser March 9, 2012

While President Obama travels around the United States touting “green energy” as the solution to the nation’s spiraling energy costs, the wind farms of...

Is America Vulnerable to an E-Attack?

Kurt Hyde March 9, 2012

Frequently, the most important news items are not those that make the front page, but rather those details that are, when reported at...

Coal: The Rock That Burns

Ed Hiserodt March 7, 2012

“Load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt… ” — Tennessee Ernie Ford Coal is...

Obama Quiet as UN & Dictators Push to Control Internet

Alex Newman February 22, 2012

A new effort to hand control over the Internet to the United Nations is underway as oppressive regimes such as the communist dictatorship...

FBI Plans to Shut Down Internet Servers Infected With Notorious Trojan

Dave Bohon February 21, 2012

Computers experts around the world are warning that, in an attempt to stop the damage inflicted by a Trojan virus that has infected...

John Glenn Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic Spaceflight

James Heiser February 20, 2012

It was in the fall of 1962 that President John F. Kennedy set forth his vision of seeing Americans successful land on the...

Environmentalists’ Dilemma: “Green” Wind Farms Threaten Endangered Species

Bruce Walker February 17, 2012

One dilemma faced by environmentalists pushing the use of wind farms to generate electricity is that the machines are actually a deadly environmental...

Nearly 2 Million Deceased U.S. Citizens Still Registered to Vote

Brian Koenig February 15, 2012

As the 2012 election nears, a report published by the non-partisan Pew Center on the States asserted that nearly two million deceased Americans...

FBI Pursues Social Media Surveillance to Gather Intelligence

Brian Koenig February 14, 2012

In a formal "request for information," the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked software companies for a digital tool that would systematically scan...