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NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid as part of a planetary defense test mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2021
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.

By David Aragorn
100-million-year-old crab preserved in amber 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 2, 2021
“In a way, it’s like finding a fish in amber. Talk about wrong place, wrong time.”

The peer-reviewed journal Science Advances published these scientists’ study on October 20.

By David Aragorn
High-speed propeller star is fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 1, 2021
A white dwarf star that completes a full rotation once every 25 seconds is the fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf, according to a team of astronomers from the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick.

By David Aragorn
Who are You “Homo Sapiens”?0
- Featured Articles
- November 30, 2021
The many questions for couple of missing answers

By Dumitru Bojiuc
New Satellite Photo of Tiny Perseverance on Mars Will Give You All The Feelings 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2021
Occasionally, as various orbiters make their rounds of Mars, they spot their ground-based friends far below.

By David Aragorn
Ancient Human Relative ‘Walked like a Human, but Climbed Like an Ape’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2021
New lumbar vertebrae give insight into how this ancient human relative walked and climbed

By David Aragorn
Yellowstone Volcano’s Last Supereruption Started with Decades of Explosions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 22, 2021
The last supereruption at Yellowstone volcano was preceded by multiple explosions taking place over the course of decades, scientists have discovered. The Lava Creek Tuff eruption took place 631,000 years ago and researchers studying the event have found unexpected rock deposits that suggest the event was far more complicated than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
A Mars Rover Explored a Wasteland and Found an Oasis 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2021
Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.”

By David Aragorn
Do we live in a computer simulation? If we don’t, we might be doomed 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- October 25, 2021
Not living in a simulation might be humanity’s worst option.

By David Aragorn
Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don’t Know Why 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- October 21, 2021
It’s true: Crabs keep turning up in nature, and it’s bothering scientists so much that they’ve been given federal grants to get to the bottom of it.

By David Aragorn