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Pennsylvania cities, towns with highest rate of UFO sightings; Pittsburgh is 206th 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 29, 2020
The skies of Pennsylvania appear to be packed with unidentified flying objects, UFOs.

By David Aragorn
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 29, 2020
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. Scientists were surprised to find that this tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy — about halfway to our Milky Way — and as far as 2 million light-years in some directions. This means that Andromeda’s halo is already bumping into the halo of our own galaxy.

By David Aragorn
Musk’s Neuralink venture unveils pig with computer chip in brain 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 29, 2020
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

By David Aragorn
Water, Water, Every Where — And Now Scientists Know Where It Came From 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 28, 2020
Water on Earth is omnipresent and essential for life as we know it, and yet scientists remain a bit baffled about where all of this water came from: Was it present when the planet formed, or did the planet form dry and only later get its water from impacts with water-rich objects such as comets?

By David Aragorn
Britain’s oldest artwork may depict mammoths from a drowned land 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 28, 2020
These etchings are at least 15,000 years old.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Observe Young, Radio-Emitting Jets in Distant Active Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 28, 2020
Around five years ago, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected high-energy gamma rays coming from TXS 0128+554, an elliptical galaxy located some 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Purdue University’ Professor Matthew Lister and colleagues have since taken a closer look using NSF’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

By David Aragorn
NASA spots active galaxy that totally looks like a Star Wars TIE fighter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 28, 2020
Now we just need to find a galaxy shaped like an X-wing fighter.

By David Aragorn
How cold was the ice age? Researchers now know 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 28, 2020
A University of Arizona-led team has nailed down the temperature of the last ice age—the Last Glacial Maximum of 20,000 years ago—to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 C).

By David Aragorn
Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 27, 2020
Changing the world, bit by bit

By David Aragorn
Astronomers discover the fastest-spinning white dwarf yet — and it’s a vampire 0
- Earth Mysteries
- August 27, 2020
White dwarfs are some of the strangest objects in the universe.

By David Aragorn