earth mystery news

How Close Are We to Successfully Cloning the First Human?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 29, 2017
When Will We Clone a Human?

By David Aragorn
Some Neanderthals were vegetarians who used natural forms of penicillin and aspirin as medicine 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 29, 2017
‘Apparently, Neandertals possessed a good knowledge of medicinal plants … the use of antibiotics would be very surprising, as this is more than 40,000 years before we developed penicillin’

By David Aragorn
Monkeys ‘throw spanner’ in our understanding of human evolution by accidentally making tools 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- June 28, 2017
Capuchins have been observed in the wild smashing rocks together and creating razor-sharp flakes of rock just like those thought to have been used as knives by early humans.

By David Aragorn
‘We have been poisoning ourselves’: has ice analysis revealed the truth about lead?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 28, 2017
ice cores and records from the Black Death show lead entered the air from human activity – and scientists claim “natural background” levels are zero

By David Aragorn
Scientists decide to bury 5,000-year-old lost city in Pakistan 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 28, 2017
Mohenjo Daro is threatened by the baking temperatures of the Indus Valley and the threat from tourists and terrorists

By David Aragorn
Plain of Jars Mystery 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 28, 2017
Photojournalist Jerry Redfern recently accompanied a team of archaeologists as they excavated at the Plain of Jars in Laos.

By David Aragorn
‘Britain’s X-Files’ reveal how a UFO was spotted on RAF radar for HOURS but military were told to do nothing about it 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 27, 2017
Ministry of Defence UFO files reveal ALL about 1996 UFO sighting that was written off as a ‘celestial phenomena’

By David Aragorn
Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 27, 2017
What would happen if you took two galaxies and mixed them together over millions of years? A new image including data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the cosmic culinary outcome.

By David Aragorn
Deceleration of runaway electrons paves the way for fusion power 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 27, 2017
Although the vacuum chamber in the British fusion reactor JET has a wall made of solid metal, it can melt if it gets hit by a beam of runaway electrons. It is these runaway elementary particles that doctoral students Linnea Hesslow and Ola Embréus have successfully identified and decelerated.

By David Aragorn
‘Liquid Light’ Can Bend Around Objects in a Frictionless Flow 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 27, 2017
Scientists discover that light, under certain conditions, can move around objects like a frictionless liquid, which could help improve a wide array of devices like lasers and solar panels.

By David Aragorn