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Looking for Life Beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2020
The search for potentially-habitable planets has heated up in recent years, and it’s only going to get hotter as the decade unfolds!

By David Aragorn
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Great for Bacteria 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 3, 2020
The smoldering crater left by the apocalyptic space rock became a nice home for blue-green algae within years of the impact.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Observe a Star Dragging Space-Time With It in a Cosmic Stellar Dance 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2020
Einstein’s theory of relativity has been proven right once again.

By David Aragorn
Ministry of Defence insider reveals contents of Britain’s ‘final’ UFO X-Files 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 1, 2020
The Ministry of Defence recently announced plans to publish the ‘final’ cache of files relating to the work of its shuttered UFO investigation unit.

By David Aragorn
Submarine Robot Expedition in Antarctica to Find Out How Fast the Thwaite Glacier Melts Captured For the First Time on Video 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 1, 2020
The submarine robot, Icefin, was dropped in a 700-meter deep ice hole through the efforts of the MELT Project scientists assigned in the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

By David Aragorn
Two dead satellites nearly collided in space on Wednesday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2020
Thursday, January 30th 2020, 9:45 am – This near-miss highlights the worries about Kessler Syndrome and the future safety of spacecraft and space travel

By David Aragorn
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIREBALL 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2020
Last night, Jan. 30th around 10:30 pm PST, a spectacular fireball crawled across the skies of southern California.

By David Aragorn
Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
Source: Science Magazine For 10 years, geneticists have told the story of how Neanderthals—or at least their DNA sequences—live on in today’s Europeans, Asians, and their descendants. Not so in Africans, the story goes, because modern humans and our extinct cousins interbred only outside of Africa. A new study overturns that notion, revealing an unexpectedly

By David Aragorn
Researchers Develop Robot Fingers That Cool Off By Sweating 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The work is the first step in creating robots that can operate for extended periods without overheating.

By David Aragorn
Scientists cooled a nanoparticle to the quantum limit 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

By David Aragorn