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Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Streams of plasma shooting away from galaxies flare at the ends

By David Aragorn
Mysterious UFO captures imaginations in Japan 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 19, 2020
It’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected

By David Aragorn
π-Earth: Newfound Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Its Star in 3.14 Days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.

By David Aragorn
Research Team Prints Fully Functional Human Skin with Bioprinter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 18, 2020
A team of scientists successfully used a 3D bioprinter to generate completely functional human skin.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica’s ‘deflated football’ fossil is world’s second-biggest egg 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 18, 2020
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica’s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
Soul-snatching aliens blamed for player’s lateness for training in Chile 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 18, 2020
Former Argentine footballer Guillermo Marino once turned up late to a training session and explained it was because he had been abducted by aliens, ex-teammate Gustavo Lorenzetti has said.

By David Aragorn
Animals May Fail Self-Awareness Tests Only Because They Don’t Understand Mirrors 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 17, 2020
Scientists from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences have found that if monkeys learn how mirrors work, they can pass self-awareness tests.

By David Aragorn
New ideas in the search for dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark matter, an invisible substance that permeates our galaxy and universe. Coined dark matter because it gives off no light, this substance, which constitutes more than 80 percent of matter in our universe, has been shown repeatedly to influence ordinary matter through its gravity. Scientists know it is out there but do not know what it is.

By David Aragorn
Weirdly-Shaped Wormholes Might Work Better Than Spherical Ones 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Wormholes, or tunnels in the fabric of space-time, are ferociously unstable. As soon as even a single photon slips down the tunnel, the wormhole closes in a flash.

By David Aragorn