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Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2020
The enormous outflows of gas can help explain why galaxies stop making stars

By David Aragorn
Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 4, 2020
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years old

By David Aragorn
30 years later, we still don’t know what really happened during the Belgian UFO wave 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 3, 2020
At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights.

By David Aragorn
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Found in Outskirts of Lenticular Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2020
A bright X-ray source in a massive star cluster in the outskirts of 6dFGS gJ215022.2-055059, a barred lenticular galaxy located about 806 million light-years away from Earth, is an intermediate-mass black hole, according to a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By David Aragorn
Oldest ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 3, 2020
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.

By David Aragorn
Coronavirus May Have Caused the Earth to Stop Vibrating so Much 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 3, 2020
Coronavirus may have inadvertently caused Earth to vibrate less, with lockdown measures leading to a huge drop in the use of industrial machinery and transportation around the world.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica was covered in rainforests when dinosaurs roamed Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 2, 2020
Antarctica was covered in rainforest in the time of the dinosaurs, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
Necroplanetology: The Strangest Field of Astronomy You’ve Never Heard Of 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 2, 2020
In 2015, astronomers found something weird. It was a white dwarf star, 570 light-years from Earth, with a peculiar dimming pattern. It dimmed several times to varying depths, each depth repeating on a 4.5 to 5-hour timeframe; and its atmosphere was polluted with elements usually found in rocky exoplanets.

By David Aragorn
Landmark skull fossil provides surprising human evolution clues 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 2, 2020
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery over the age of a landmark skull found in 1921 in Zambia – the first fossil of an extinct human species discovered in Africa – in research with big implications for deciphering the origin of our own species.

By David Aragorn
A study lays out the complexity of the settlement of Asia by Homo sapiens 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 2, 2020
Up to now, studies have focused on determining when the first modern human arrived in China, but there has been hardly any research into the dynamics of this settlement. A joint paper by institutions from China, Spain and the United Kingdom proposes that, given its size and biogeographical diversity, China would have received migrations by Homo sapiens from both north and south, with hardly any overlap between them.

By David Aragorn