earth mystery news

WTF: This Wearable Turns Your Skin into a Touchscreen 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2016
With this new device, you can now have your touch screen displayed right on your arm.

By David Aragorn
Bright radio bursts probe universe’s hidden matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

By David Aragorn
NASA Hints About Asteroid It Plans To Pluck And Place In Moon’s Orbit? ‘2008 EV5’ Could Be Part Of Asteroid Redirect Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
NASA appears to be serious about its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that was being discussed last year.

By David Aragorn
How scientists will use artificial intelligence to find aliens 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 22, 2016
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast

By David Aragorn
EMDrive Peer-Reviewed Essay May Prove NASA’s ‘Impossible’ Rocket Thruster Really Works 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2016
The Journal of Propulsion and Power, a peer-reviewed journal published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), published a paper this week asserting that radio frequency cavity thrusters such as the electromagnetic thruster, or EmDrive, are theoretically viable.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic ‘barcode’ from distant galaxy confirms Nature’s constancy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2016
Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past.

By David Aragorn
Star Maps and the Secrets of Senenmut: Astronomical Ceilings and the Hopi Vision of Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 19, 2016
The builders of the pyramid complex in Egypt had a very good astronomer. We call him Senenmut (the Mother’s Brother, or the Uncle).

By David Aragorn
Icy surprises at Rosetta’s comet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 19, 2016
As Rosetta’s comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches of water ice.

By David Aragorn
Trump Space Reform May Force NASA To Ditch SLS Rocket And Orion Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 19, 2016
Donald Trump wants to take a giant leap forward in the public-private partnership in outer space and may tell NASA to ditch their own launch vehicles in favor of using commercial spacecraft on a contract basis.

By David Aragorn
Quantum Physicists Probe Fabric of Spacetime to Solve Mystery of Dark Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 19, 2016
One of the great mysteries of the cosmos is why it is expanding at an apparently accelerating rate.

By David Aragorn