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Researchers No Longer Need Your PC’s Help to Look for Aliens: SETI@home Halted 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 5, 2020
SETI@home researchers said they have what they need.

By David Aragorn
New Candidate Particle for Dark Matter: D-Star Hexaquark 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 5, 2020
Dark matter is the mysterious substance that makes up roughly a quarter of the Universe. There is strong indirect evidence for its existence from measurements of cosmic primordial radiation, anomalies in the radial dependence of galactic rotational curves and gravitational lensing. Despite its apparently pivotal role in the Universe the physical origin of dark matter remains unknown. Scientists suspect that it is made of unseen particles that neither reflect nor absorb light, but are able to exert gravity. Two theoretical physicists at the University of York, UK, have a new candidate: a recently-discovered bosonic particle, the d*(2380) hexaquark.

By David Aragorn
Declassified U2 spy plane images reveal bygone Middle Eastern archaeological features 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 5, 2020
In the 1950s and early ’60s, with the Cold War at its peak, the United States flew U2 spy planes across Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia, taking images of interesting military targets. Though the missions typically connected Point A to Point B, say an air field and an important city, in many cases the camera kept recording between those spots, capturing thousands of photos of the desert, steppes, fields, and villages below.

By David Aragorn
Why is NASA Sending Dragonfly to Titan? Here are Five Reasons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 4, 2020
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found.

By David Aragorn
Farmers Return To Ancient Method: Fighting Pests By Planting Wildflowers Instead of Using Chemicals 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 4, 2020
The use of pesticides has proven to affect the environment in a negative way.

By David Aragorn
LISA May Reveal the Secret Lives and Deaths of Stars With Gravitational Waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 4, 2020
The space telescope LISA will tell astronomers how stars live and die in ways we’ve never known before.

By David Aragorn
Huge ‘space snowman’ is two merging stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 4, 2020
Researchers have discovered a huge snowman-shaped star with an atmospheric composition never seen before.

By David Aragorn
Scientists shed light on mystery of dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 4, 2020
Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the “dark matter” in the Universe during the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find the First Extraterrestrial Protein in a Meteorite 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 3, 2020
The new discovery could provide clues as to whether extraterrestrial life is possible.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find Chemical Markers of DNA in Calcified Cartilage of Duck-Billed Dinosaur 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 3, 2020
In the 1980s, paleontologists found a dinosaur nesting ground with dozens of nestlings in northern Montana and identified them as Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, a species of herbivorous duck-billed dinosaur that lived some 75 million years ago (Cretaceous period). Now, a team of researchers from the United States, Canada, and China has investigated molecular preservation of calcified cartilage in one of the Hypacrosaurus stebingeri nestlings at the extracellular, cellular and intracellular levels. They’ve found chemical markers of DNA, preserved fragments of proteins and chromosomes in the dinosaur chondrocytes (cartilage cells). The findings further support the idea that these original molecules can persist for tens of millions of years.

By David Aragorn