earth mystery news

US Space Force logo looks like one from Star Trek 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
The newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

By David Aragorn
Nuclear waste recycled into diamond batteries with ‘near-infinite power’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 27, 2020
Thousands of tonnes of radioactive materials could be used to power everything from pacemakers to spacecraft

By David Aragorn
It Only Takes A Few Thousand Years For Jupiter-Like Planets To Form Around Red Dwarf Stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
With over 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, we’re starting to get an idea of which types are common and which are rare. We’ve learned that our solar system is rather unusual in ways you wouldn’t expect. Take, for example, the presence of large planets orbiting small stars.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients—objects that brighten or dim over time. A new search of Kepler archival data has uncovered an unusual super-outburst from a previously unknown dwarf nova. The system brightened by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day before slowly fading away.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 25, 2020
What’s making these things fly out of the frozen continent?

By David Aragorn
The mysterious Devon UFO police chase which led to an MoD investigation 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- January 25, 2020
‘We’ve just gently been asked to sweep it under the carpet. It didn’t happen – that’s what they said. But we know what we saw.’

By David Aragorn
Fossilized Footprints Show Neanderthals Climbing An Active Volcano 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 24, 2020
Local people called them “Ciampate del Diavolo” or the devil’s trail, as only a supernatural entity could leave its footprints in apparent solid rocks. Discovered in 2001, for archaeologists the devil’s trails site near the Italian town of Roccamonfina is a rare example of humanoid footprints preserved in volcanic rocks.

By David Aragorn
Borexino Detector Spots 53 Geoneutrino 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 24, 2020
An underground particle detector called the Borexino detector has detected 53 antielectron neutrinos emanating from the Earth, so-called geoneutrinos.

By David Aragorn
Google Assists in Publishing the Largest High-Res Image of Brain Connectivity 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 24, 2020
It’s the brain of a fruit fly, but it’s impressive nonetheless.

By David Aragorn
Extreme heat of Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to ‘glass’0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 24, 2020
A man who died in Herculaneum during the historic Vesuvius eruption was found with an exploded skull and glass-like brain tissue.

By David Aragorn