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The Truth About the Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 18, 2020
Some believe it’s an extraterrestrial spacecraft. NASA says it’s probably just space junk. Here are the facts.

By David Aragorn
Triple threat: The first observation of three massive gauge bosons produced in proton-proton collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 18, 2020
The Standard Model, the most exhaustive existing theory outlining fundamental particle interactions, predicts the existence of what are known as triboson interactions. These interactions are processes in which three-gauge bosons are simultaneously produced from one Large Hadron Collider event.

By David Aragorn
Non-Marine Mass Extinctions Occur with Periodicity of 27.5 Million Years: Study 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 18, 2020
Non-marine animals (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have apparently experienced at least 10 distinct episodes of intensified extinctions over the past 300 million years. Eight of these extinction events are concurrent with known marine mass extinctions, which previously yielded evidence for an underlying period of 26.4 to 27.3 million years ago. In new research, a team of scientists from New York University and Carnegie Institution for Science performed an analysis of the ten recognized non-marine mass extinctions and detected a statistically significant underlying periodicity of 27.5 million years; they also found that these mass extinctions align with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava called flood-basalt eruptions.

By David Aragorn
NYC UFO sightings in 2020 are up 283% from 2018 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 18, 2020
This has been one far-out year!

By David Aragorn
Researchers develop unique process for producing light-matter mixture 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 18, 2020
In groundbreaking new research, an international team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has developed a unique process for producing a quantum state that is part light and part matter.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Monitors Weird Dark Vortex on Neptune 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
In 2018, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spotted a giant dark storm, which is 7,400 km (4,600 miles) across, in the northern hemisphere of Neptune. Observations a year later showed that the vortex began drifting southward toward the equator, where such storms are expected to vanish from sight. To the surprise of astronomers, Hubble spotted the vortex change direction by August 2020, doubling back to the north. At the same time as the spot’s stunning reversal, a new, slightly smaller dark feature appeared near its bigger cousin and later disappeared.

By David Aragorn
An AI just copiloted a U-2 spyplane for the very first time 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 17, 2020
The test involved an artificial intelligence system that used the radar to look for missile launchers, while a human flew the aircraft.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see the ‘Christmas star’ of 2020 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn brings them closest in the night sky since 1623

By David Aragorn
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, announcing a formal deal with Washington.

By David Aragorn
Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Scientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago.

By David Aragorn