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Is the Sun Getting Brighter?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 17, 2017
What does the data tell us about the sun, and should we be worried?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission Performs First Supersonic Parachute Test 0
- From Around the Web
- November 17, 2017
Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful.

By David Aragorn
On The Alien Question: Where Are They?0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- November 17, 2017
From the outset, we must state two essential facts: first, that we have no concrete evidence that intelligent aliens have ever visited our planet; and, second, that we have no evidence that there is life outside Earth, intelligent or not.

By David Aragorn
An Enormous Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out Of Nowhere 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 17, 2017
Astrophysicists inspecting the skies just got a massive surprise. They discovered a huge galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, haven’t seen before.

By David Aragorn
New ‘Trackable’ Pill knows when it’s being taken and can talk to Doctors 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 16, 2017
The drug talks to a patch put on the patients’ skin

By David Aragorn
Ancient Hominin Skull From China Suggests Humans Didn’t Evolve Just From African Ancestors 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 16, 2017
Most scientists believe all modern humans are descended from African ancestors. But a new analysis of an ancient Chinese skull found too many similarities to the earliest human fossils found in Africa to be a coincidence; maybe we didn’t all originate in Africa.

By David Aragorn
Woolly Mammoth Bachelors Skew the Fossil Record 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 16, 2017
When paleontologists pull woolly mammoth fossils from mud pits, sinkholes, mudflows and other ancient booby traps, odds are it was a male that fell victim to the hazard.

By David Aragorn
These spiders may have the world’s fastest body clocks 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 16, 2017
Three arachnid species experience the equivalent of five-hour jet lag every day

By David Aragorn
Geologists uncover Antarctica’s fossil forests 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 16, 2017
During Antarctica’s summer, from late November through January, UW-Milwaukee geologists Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell climbed the McIntyre Promontory’s frozen slopes in the Transantarctic Mountains. High above the ice fields, they combed the mountain’s gray rocks for fossils from the continent’s green, forested past.

By David Aragorn
Mongolian Microfossils Shed Light on the Rise of Animals 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 15, 2017
A newly published study from Yale University details how a cache of embryo-like microfossils discovered in northern Mongolia may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth.

By David Aragorn