earth mystery news

‘Generator’ Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 26, 2021
Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.

By David Aragorn
Meteor lights up the night in Norway 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2021
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.

By David Aragorn
Marsquakes reveal the anatomy of the Red Planet’s interior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2021
Seismic waves from quakes detected by NASA’s robotic InSight lander have helped scientists decipher the anatomy of Mars, including the first estimates of the size of its large liquid metal core, thickness of its crust, and nature of its mantle.

By David Aragorn
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 23, 2021
The Air Force Research Laboratory argues that we’ve hit a tipping point with directed energy technologies, bringing many science fiction concepts closer to reality.

By David Aragorn
When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 23, 2021
Around 74,000 years ago, a “supereruption” on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, blasted out an estimated 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma. This was the Toba eruption, the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years. To put 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma in perspective, this is more than a hundred times as large as the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and included enough ash to blanket the entire United Kingdom about 1 millimetre deep.

By David Aragorn
The leader’s brain: Neuroscience in the workplace 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
The brain rarely fires on all cylinders even at the best of times – what more during a pandemic?

By David Aragorn
Sea snot choking Turkey’s waters could be a warning to the world 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 22, 2021
Turkey’s Marmara Sea is dying. Globs of feathery goo are literally choking the life out of the water. Scientists say rising sea temperatures and untreated wastewater being dumped into the sea combined to create the perfect conditions for phytoplankton to thrive. Now it’s thriving at the expense of everything else.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find Evidence Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Caused Mile-High Tsunami 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- July 22, 2021
The hidden fragment, dating as old as 1.3 billion years, is helping scientists trace the history of the mysterious “lost continent” of Zealandia.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It’s Never Seen Before 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don’t actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.

By David Aragorn
‘Jurassic Pompeii’ yields thousands of ‘squiggly wiggly’ fossils 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 22, 2021
“If they could squeal, I’m sure they would have done.”

By David Aragorn