From Around the Web

China’s giant radio telescope will start searching for aliens in September 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 3, 2020
FAST will scan the skies for life in addition to its usual exploration.

By David Aragorn
‘Air battle between two UFOs was extra-terrestrial’, claims Australian Courier reader who witnessed incident 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 3, 2020
Phil Tindale got in touch to explain how as 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”.

By David Aragorn
Google Earth user claims he found the entrance to Area 51 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 3, 2020
Satellite images supposedly showing the entrance to the secret base of ‘Area 51’ have caused quite a buzz on social media. Are we on to something?

By David Aragorn
A weird cosmic flare called the ‘Cow’ now has company 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2020
Scientists report two other bursts similar to a luminous, short-lived glow spotted in 2018

By David Aragorn
Heavy Water Has Sweet Taste, New Study Confirms 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
Highly purified heavy water has a distinctly sweeter taste than same-purity normal (light) water, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Czech Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich.

By David Aragorn
Left-Handed DNA Has a Biological Role Within a Dynamic Genetic Code 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
Once considered an unimportant curiosity, Z-DNA is now recognized to provide an on-the-fly mechanism to regulate how an RNA transcript is edited.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX successfully launches Nasa astronauts into orbit 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2020
A rocketship named Dragon breathed new fire into America’s human spaceflight programme on Saturday, carrying two astronauts on a much-anticipated adventure.

By David Aragorn
Study: Women with Neanderthal Progesterone Gene Have Higher Fertility 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
A hormone called progesterone is important for preparing the uterine lining for egg implantation and in maintaining the early stages of pregnancy. Almost one in three women with European descent inherited a genetic variant of the progesterone receptor called V660L from Neanderthals. According to a new study, its carriers have higher fertility, more siblings, fewer miscarriages, and less bleeding during early pregnancy.

By David Aragorn
Did Neanderthals draw? This B.C. researcher is going to test DNA in old cave art to find out 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 1, 2020
National Geographic funds UVic paleoanthropologist to solve 40,000-year-old mystery

By David Aragorn
Researchers Create Map of Electric Currents in Magnetosphere of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2020
Using five years of magnetic field data obtained by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, a team of scientists has created the first-ever map of the electric current systems in the Martian induced magnetosphere. Their results appear in the journal Nature Astronomy.

By David Aragorn