CHICAGO, Illinois (PNN) - October 24, 2012 - With a new megapressure environment, scientists will be able to replicate pressures one and a half times stronger than those found at the center of the Earth. The specialized anvil cell can create double the amount of pressure than anyone had previously demonstrated, an environment where new materials can be formed and where minerals behave very strangely.

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 23, 2012 - For more than 70 years, Superman has fought off a host of enemies, who have tried and failed to get the better of him.

But finally the Man of Steel has been worn down to the point of submission.

However, it is not his arch nemesis, Lex Luthor, who has finally defeated Clark Kent; rather it is the state of modern journalism.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 21, 2012 - Mike Janke has been getting what he calls the “hairy eyeball” from international government agencies. The 44-year-old former Navy SEAL commando, together with two of the world’s most renowned cryptographers, was always bound to ruffle some high-level feathers with his new project - a surveillance-resistant communications platform that makes complex encryption so simple your grandma can use it.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - October 22, 2012 - A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) to counter NATO’s missile defense system.

North Korea threatens military retaliation.

SEOUL, South Korea (PNN) - October 22, 2012 - South Korean activists floated balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea on Monday, eluding thug cops who had disrupted an earlier launch attempt because of threats from North Korea.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - October 16, 2012 - Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet roughly the size of Earth orbiting Alpha Centauri B, the star nearest our sun.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - October 9, 2012 - It appears that we have a bright comet heading this way in late next year. What we know right now is that it will be bright and possibly super bright before it is all over. So it is worth the effort to be ready for it.

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 7, 2012 - It has long been possible to make a gun at home. But what happens when it no longer takes knowledge and skill to build one?

It won’t be long before a felon, unable to buy a gun legally, can print one at home. Teenagers could make them in their bedroom while their parents think they are playing on their computer. I’m talking about a fully functional gun, where the schematic is downloaded free from the Internet and built on a 3-D printer, all with the click of a button.

Fascist government violates Constitution by authorizing military takeover of all indigenous land.

BRASILIA, Brazil (PNN) - October 5, 2012 - Indigenous Peoples throughout Brazil are mobilizing to repeal a dangerous new "anti-Indian" law that decimates indigenous rights to land that are guaranteed by Brazil's Federal Constitution and backed by international agreements such as ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 1, 2012 - Drones could soon operate without the help of humans.

Agence France-Presse is reporting that the Pentagon wants its drones to be more autonomous, so that they can run with little to no assistance from people.