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Mission to clean up space junk with magnets set for launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 2, 2021
It’s invisible in the night sky, but above us there is a cloud of more than 9,000 tons of space junk — equivalent to the weight of 720 school buses.

By David Aragorn
Nova Scotia grants 18-month extension for work to begin on commercial spaceport 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 18, 2021
The company planing to build Canada’s first spaceport in northeastern Nova Scotia has been granted an 18-month extension to begin construction.

By David Aragorn
Why One Side of Earth Is Rapidly Getting Colder Than the Other 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- March 17, 2021
It’s a strange tale of two hemispheres.

By David Aragorn
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- March 16, 2021
Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years and is highly vulnerable to a warming climate

By David Aragorn
Mars webcam reveals the secrets of this enormous, elongated cloud 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2021
There’s an unusual feature in the skies of Mars: a huge, elongated cloud stretching over 1,100 miles long over the Arsia Mons volcano, appearing and disappearing one per martian year. Now, an unexpected tool aboard the Mars Express spacecraft has revealed more about how this cloud grows and shrinks considerably on a daily cycle that lasts for several months.

By David Aragorn
Archaeologists find unique ceremonial vehicle near Pompeii 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 14, 2021
Well-preserved iron, bronze and tin carriage discovery is ‘without precedent in Italy’

By David Aragorn
Researchers solve puzzle of water-to-land transition of vertebrates 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 13, 2021
The water-to-land transition is a leap in the history of vertebrate evolution and one of the most important scientific issues in vertebrate evolution. Previous studies have shown that vertebrate landing occurred in bony fishes.

By David Aragorn
Neanderthal and early modern human culture co-existed alongside older traditions for 100,000 years 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 12, 2021
Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean, likely persisted for tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ suggest one mutation might have rewired the human mind 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 12, 2021
How we humans became what we are today is a question that scientists have been trying to answer for a long time. How did we evolve such advanced cognitive abilities, giving rise to complex language, poetry and rocket science? In what way is the modern human brain different from those of our closest evolutionary relatives, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans?

By David Aragorn
Humans Evolved to Be More Water-Efficient Than Other Primates, But We Don’t Know Why 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 11, 2021
Humans have evolved big, energy-hungry brains that require us to consume many more calories than our closest animal relatives. The same, however, does not appear to hold for our water intake.

By David Aragorn