earth mystery news

Cold, dry climate shifts linked to Neanderthal disappearance 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 29, 2018
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Billiards: This Wild Idea to Protect Earth Just Might Work 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 29, 2018
Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.

By David Aragorn
Buildings made from fungi? Meet London’s pop-up bio-lab innovators 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
A shipping container complex in a Shepherd’s Bush market is the unlikely home to a community of startup research projects

By David Aragorn
Extinct Cave Bear DNA Found in Living Bears 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
The discovery is the first of its kind outside the human lineage.

By David Aragorn
Laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in anithydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating the basic form of antimatter.

By David Aragorn
Genetic error led humans to evolve bigger, but more vulnerable, brains 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
Newly-discovered genes that helped supersize human brains along with DNA retrieved from extinct humans, which can still be found in people living today, are expanding scientists’ understanding of how our species evolved. One of the major features that distinguish humans from other primates is the size of our brains, which underwent rapid evolution from about

By David Aragorn
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy by Tim Radford – review 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 28, 2018
From the Voyager mission to detecting the merging of black holes over a billion years ago, an argument for the pleasures of theoretical thinking

By David Aragorn
DNA analysis of 6,500-year-old human remains with blue eye mutation 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 27, 2018
Skeletons buried in Israel’s Upper Galilee reveal migration from ancient Turkey and Iran

By David Aragorn
A GREEN COMET APPROACHES EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2018
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is approaching Earth. On Sept. 10th, it will be 0.39 AU (58 million km) from our planet and almost bright enough to see with the naked eye. Already it is an easy target for backyard telescopes. Last night, Michael Jäger of Weißenkirchen, Austria, caught the 7.7th magnitude comet passing through star cluster Tombaugh

By David Aragorn
A radar blip, a flash of light: How UFOs ‘exploded’ into public view 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 25, 2018
In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created ‘Project Blue Book’ that March — the longest investigative government project of its kind.

By David Aragorn