From Around the Web

Storm Area 51 weekend has arrived. Here’s what’s actually happening.0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- September 21, 2019
A guide to the competing alien-themed events taking place in Nevada in the aftermath of a viral meme.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Japan’s Hayabusa 2 targets final asteroid landing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2019
Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month

By David Aragorn
Scientists use fossilised finger bone DNA to rebuild ancient human 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2019
Unprecedented feat reveals little-known Denisovans resembled Neanderthals but had ‘super-wide’ skulls

By David Aragorn
When Physics Collide: The Rapport between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2019
These two physics theories have not been linkable in the past.

By David Aragorn
NASA couldn’t find India’s crashed Moon lander, and hope is fading fast 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2019
It’s now been nearly two full weeks since India’s lunar lander, Chandrayaan-2, went quiet moments before what was supposed to be a soft landing on the Moon.

By David Aragorn
Alien enthusiasts descend on Nevada desert near secretive U.S. base 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- September 20, 2019
UFO enthusiasts began descending on rural Nevada on Thursday near the secret U.S. military installation known as Area 51, long rumored to house government secrets about alien life, with local authorities hoping the visitors were coming in peace.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Dust Triggered an Explosion of Life on Ancient Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- September 19, 2019
466 million years ago, the break-up of a large space rock may have led to major changes in our planet’s biodiversity

By David Aragorn
33ft ‘frozen dragon’ pterosaur found in Canada 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 19, 2019
Palaeontologists have identified one of the largest flying creatures ever to live on planet Earth. This gargantuan creature, which soared through the Cretaceous skies over 76 million years ago, has been named Cryodrakon boreas, which means ‘frozen dragon of the north.’

By David Aragorn
‘Soft tactile logic’ tech distributes decision-making throughout stretchable material 0
- From Around the Web
- September 19, 2019
Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing — creating a device that is not quite a robot and not quite a computer, but has characteristics of both. The new technology holds promise for use in a variety of applications, from soft robotics to prosthetic devices.

By David Aragorn
The Ultimate Mystery? –“Consciousness May Exist in the Absence of Matter”0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 19, 2019
“I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness,” says Edward Witten, theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey who has been compared to Isaac Newton and Einstein.

By David Aragorn