earth mystery news

KFC Is 3D-Printing Chicken Nuggets. Would You Eat Them?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2020
They’ll be “as close as possible in both taste and appearance” to the real thing. We’ll see about that.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its nuclear power source 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch.

By David Aragorn
Are Earth’s magnetic poles about to swap places? Strange anomaly gives clues.0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 25, 2020
Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the sun.

By David Aragorn
China launches its first unmanned mission to Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations.

By David Aragorn
Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 25, 2020
Bombshell: The government’s once-clandestine UFO program will reveal findings on unexplained materials and crashes.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Nasa delays James Webb space telescope to October 2021 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Delay is result of coronavirus pandemic and technical challenges as troubled project is set to cost £6.8bn

By David Aragorn
Junk DNA might be really, really useful for biocomputing 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 24, 2020
Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed?

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Directly Image Two Giant Exoplanets around Young Sun-Like Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Astronomers using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a second planetary-mass companion orbiting TYC 8998-760-1, a 16.7-million-year-old solar-type star previously known to host one giant planet. The researchers have also managed to directly image this multi-planet system.

By David Aragorn
An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 24, 2020
Features of a fossil from what’s now Libya tie the animal closely to its extant American kin

By David Aragorn
Marco Rubio Hopes UFOs Are Aliens, Not Chinese Planes 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 24, 2020
“Frankly, if it’s something outside this planet that might actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some sort of technological leap from the Chinese or Russians.”

By David Aragorn