From Around the Web

Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 12, 2020
Pocket-sized blasts in the lab reveal details of massive stellar explosions

By David Aragorn
Asteroid named for Egyptian chaos god may be on collision course with Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 12, 2020
Scientists are tracking an asteroid that is speeding up as it hurtles through our solar system, and warning that it could hit the Earth within the next 50 years.

By David Aragorn
Light-absorbing ‘tarballs’ detected in the Himalayan atmosphere 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 12, 2020
Air samples taken at a remote research station in the Himalayan mountains revealed pollutants are travelling from thousands of kilometres away and could increase glacial melting rates.

By David Aragorn
The universe is getting hot, hot, hot, a new study suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 12, 2020
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found.

By David Aragorn
Primeval Greenland lake found buried beneath a mile-thick slab of ice 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 12, 2020
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland’s past climate.

By David Aragorn
The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica will remain active well into November 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- November 11, 2020
The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica will persist well into November, according to satellite and weather balloon observations from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

By David Aragorn
The fossil of a duckbill dinosaur has been found on the ‘wrong’ continent 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 11, 2020
The final chapter of dinosaur history is a tale stretching across two very different worlds, each a vast supercontinent dominated by its own unique mix of predators and herbivores.

By David Aragorn
ISS Experiment Reveals How We Could Mine Rocks in Space With 400% Efficiency 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 11, 2020
Obtaining minerals in space may be a little easier than we’d thought – with the help of some of Earth’s tiniest inhabitants.

By David Aragorn
Half-billion-year-old microfossils may yield new knowledge of animal origins 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 11, 2020
When and how did the first animals appear? Science has long sought an answer to this question. Uppsala University researchers and colleagues in Denmark have now jointly found, in Greenland, embryo-like microfossils up to 570 million years old, revealing that organisms of this type were dispersed throughout the world. The study is published in Communications Biology.

By David Aragorn
‘Alien-hunting’ Arecibo Observatory suffers more damage as second cable fails 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 11, 2020
It’s the second cable snap for Arecibo in just three months.

By David Aragorn