From Around the Web

Cern poised to back plan for €20bn successor to Large Hadron Collider 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 19, 2020
Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Youngest Magnetar Ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected a hard X-ray burst, a long-lived outburst and a number of strong and short radio pulses from an infant neutron star with a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. Named Swift J1818.0-1607, the object emitted X-rays about 16,000 years ago, when it was about 240 years old.

By David Aragorn
Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Streams of plasma shooting away from galaxies flare at the ends

By David Aragorn
Mysterious UFO captures imaginations in Japan 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 19, 2020
It’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected

By David Aragorn
π-Earth: Newfound Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Its Star in 3.14 Days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.

By David Aragorn
Research Team Prints Fully Functional Human Skin with Bioprinter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 18, 2020
A team of scientists successfully used a 3D bioprinter to generate completely functional human skin.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica’s ‘deflated football’ fossil is world’s second-biggest egg 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 18, 2020
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica’s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
Soul-snatching aliens blamed for player’s lateness for training in Chile 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 18, 2020
Former Argentine footballer Guillermo Marino once turned up late to a training session and explained it was because he had been abducted by aliens, ex-teammate Gustavo Lorenzetti has said.

By David Aragorn
Animals May Fail Self-Awareness Tests Only Because They Don’t Understand Mirrors 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 17, 2020
Scientists from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences have found that if monkeys learn how mirrors work, they can pass self-awareness tests.

By David Aragorn