PARIS: Conspiracy theories about a US research station have resurged, with social media users falsely blaming it for the Turkiye-Syria earthquakes, following debunked claims it causes weather disasters and spreads the coronavirus. Scientists have for years been refuting claims that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), with its Alaska facility boasting
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, a scientific facility for studying the equatorial ionosphere located in Lima, Peru, recently received over $12 million in grants to help expand. Dating back to the 1960s, the facility is run by the Geophysics Institute of Peru and aided by Cornell and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Cornell has led research operations at the observatory since the 1960s, when NASA began sending people to space and scientists wanted to learn more about the physics of space weather.