From Around the Web

This Greek philosopher had the right idea, just too few elements 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 20, 2019
Empedocles didn’t make a periodic table, but identified basic concepts of matter and force

By David Aragorn
Scientists say fossils are ‘missing link’ in human history 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 20, 2019
The fossils of Australopithecus sediba have fueled scientific debate since they were found at the Malapa Fossil Site in South Africa 10 years ago.

By David Aragorn
Africa’s largest mammalian carnivore had canines ‘the size of bananas’0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 20, 2019
When paleontologists dug up the bones of Africa’s largest carnivore in the early 1980s, they had no idea what they had found.

By David Aragorn
We Could Soon Watch a Black Hole in Action, Gobbling Up Matter in Real Time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2019
Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever image of a black hole’s shadow cast against the hot gas of its accretion disk. That image, of the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87), was front page news all over the world. Soon, the EHT will produce the first movie of that hot gas whirling chaotically around the shadow, said project leaders who spoke Sunday (April 14) here at the April meeting of the American Physical Society.

By David Aragorn
Yellowstone, NASA, and the New World Order 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2019
Scientists recently rejected the claim that the Yellowstone caldera is overdue for its regular 600,000-year supereruption. However, one week later, researchers announced their surprise at discovering new thermal areas developing.

By David Aragorn
More than a million tiny earthquakes revealed in Southern California 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2019
Abundant data on little quakes can help scientists learn more about what triggers the big ones

By David Aragorn
Independent report concludes 2033 human Mars mission is not feasible 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2019
An independent report concluded that NASA has no chance of sending humans to Mars by 2033, with the earliest such a mission could be flown being the late 2030s.

By David Aragorn
Back on Earth, China’s Mars simulation base greets first visitors 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 19, 2019
About 100 excited Chinese teenagers completed a five-hour tour of a space colony against a desolate backdrop not unlike the desert planet of Tatooine, the home world of Luke Skywalker.

By David Aragorn
Mercury Has Solid Inner Core, Planetary Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2019
Planetary researchers have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores. Mercury’s core fills nearly 85% of the volume of the planet — huge compared to the other rocky planets in the Solar System. Like Earth, Mercury’s outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been hints that Mercury’s innermost core is solid. Now, a team of scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MIT, Sapienza University, Case Western Reserve University and Columbia University has found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s solid inner core.

By David Aragorn
Have UFOs visited Peterborough? Reports of sightings go back decades 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 18, 2019
Matthew Hayes says Peterborough had two reported sightings between 1950 and 1995, but the government dismissed those accounts and many others across Canada

By David Aragorn