Couples take their AR-15 rifles to Pennsylvania church for blessing

Couples take their AR-15 rifles to Pennsylvania church for blessing

Hundreds of couples toting AR-15 rifles packed a Unification church in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to have their marriages blessed and their weapons celebrated as rods of iron that could have saved lives in a recent Florida school shooting. Women dressed in white and men in dark suits gripped the guns, which they had been urged to bring unloaded to the church in the rural Poconos Mountains, about 160 km (100miles) north of Philadelphia. Mar 1, 2018
Earliest stars shone 180 million years after big bang

Earliest stars shone 180 million years after big bang

Using radio waves, scientists have determined that the period of darkness following the Big Bang likely lasted about 180 million years. As the first stars in the universe turned on, there was also interaction with dark matter, which could explain the observation of the universe being twice as cold as expected at the time. Mar 1, 2018