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Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 9, 2020
When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard. But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved DNA degrades into illegibility, leaving the story of our early evolution shrouded in mystery. A new study of proteins taken from the tooth of an enigmatic human ancestor reveals their rough place in the family tree—and shows how ancient proteins can push beyond the limits of DNA.

By David Aragorn
Universe may not be expanding the same way in all directions, new Nasa and ESA study suggests, challenging fundamental idea of cosmology 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
‘This would contradict one of the most basic underlying assumptions we use in cosmology today’

By David Aragorn
New Paper Suggests Life Could Be Common Across The Universe, Just Not Near Us 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That’s called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis.

By David Aragorn
No star, no problem: Radioactivity could make otherwise frozen planets habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 8, 2020
Not too close, but not too far. That’s long been the rule describing how distant a planet should be from its star in order to sustain life. But a new study challenges that adage: A planet can maintain water and other liquids on its surface if it’s heated, not by starlight, but by radioactive decay, researchers calculate. That opens up the possibility for many planets—even free-floating worlds untethered to stars—to host life, they speculate.

By David Aragorn
Russian space agency says Trump paving way to seize other planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 8, 2020
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused Donald Trump on Tuesday of creating a basis to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining U.S. policy on commercial mining in space.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 8, 2020
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively large satellite galaxy visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is thought to have brought at least six of its own satellite galaxies with it when it first approached the Milky Way, based on recent measurements from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.

By David Aragorn
Viral ‘Bigfoot’ photos at Turkey Mountain apart of city-park social distancing campaign 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 8, 2020
Recent photos of Bigfoot in Tulsa have been revealed as a campaign to get people active but at a distance.

By David Aragorn
Record-size hole opens in ozone layer above the Arctic 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 8, 2020
Rare hole is result of low temperatures in atmosphere and is expected to disappear

By David Aragorn
Red giant stars that eat planets might shine less brightly 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 7, 2020
The finding could affect calculations for how fast the universe is expanding

By David Aragorn
Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 7, 2020
The oldest known animals and plants preserved in amber from Southern Gondwana are reported in Scientific Reports this week. Gondwana, the supercontinent made up of South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Antarctica and Australia, broke away from the Pangea supercontinent around 200 million years ago. The findings further our understanding of ecology in Australia and New Zealand during the Late Triassic to mid-Paleogene periods (230-40 million years ago).

By David Aragorn

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Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree 0

Universe may not be expanding the same way in all directions, new Nasa and ESA study suggests, challenging fundamental idea of cosmology 0

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No star, no problem: Radioactivity could make otherwise frozen planets habitable 0

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