earth mystery news

Lost artifact from Great Pyramid of Giza found in cigar box in Aberdeen 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 22, 2020
Wooden fragment from at least 3000BC discovered by chance by Egyptian university researcher

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 22, 2020
Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.

By David Aragorn
Winter solstice: Jupiter and Saturn ‘merge’ in rare celestial event 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2020
A very rare, once-in-a-lifetime celestial event will shine brightly in the sky on Monday evening – weather permitting, of course.

By David Aragorn
Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- December 19, 2020
Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands.

By David Aragorn
Chinese space probe returns to Earth with samples from the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 19, 2020
China now joins the ranks of the U.S. and the former Soviet Union in pulling off the feat.

By David Aragorn
We Already Know How to Build a Time Machine 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 19, 2020
It’s just a matter of time before we build one that can take us into the far future.

By David Aragorn
Team develops component for neuromorphic computer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 19, 2020
Neural networks are some of the most important tools in artificial intelligence (AI): they mimic the operation of the human brain and can reliably recognize texts, language and images, to name but a few.

By David Aragorn
The Truth About the Black Knight Satellite Conspiracy Theory 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 18, 2020
Some believe it’s an extraterrestrial spacecraft. NASA says it’s probably just space junk. Here are the facts.

By David Aragorn
Triple threat: The first observation of three massive gauge bosons produced in proton-proton collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 18, 2020
The Standard Model, the most exhaustive existing theory outlining fundamental particle interactions, predicts the existence of what are known as triboson interactions. These interactions are processes in which three-gauge bosons are simultaneously produced from one Large Hadron Collider event.

By David Aragorn
Non-Marine Mass Extinctions Occur with Periodicity of 27.5 Million Years: Study 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 18, 2020
Non-marine animals (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have apparently experienced at least 10 distinct episodes of intensified extinctions over the past 300 million years. Eight of these extinction events are concurrent with known marine mass extinctions, which previously yielded evidence for an underlying period of 26.4 to 27.3 million years ago. In new research, a team of scientists from New York University and Carnegie Institution for Science performed an analysis of the ten recognized non-marine mass extinctions and detected a statistically significant underlying periodicity of 27.5 million years; they also found that these mass extinctions align with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava called flood-basalt eruptions.

By David Aragorn