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Neanderthals’ Carb Loading, Helped Grow their Big Brains
“The finding suggests our ancestors had adapted to eating lots of starch by at least 600,000 years ago—about the same time as they needed more sugars to fuel a big expansion of their brains.” By Ann Gibbons via ScienceMag Headline Image Caption/Credit: A reconstruction of Neanderthal mealtime MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE SOURCE Here’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as … Continue reading
Some Viruses Have a Completely Different Genome to the Rest of Life on Earth
By Jacintha Bower via Science Alert Headline Image: © fpm/Getty Images Illustration of a bacteriophage In the world of microbial warfare, sometimes you have to change the very fabric of who you are. Viruses that infect bacteria – fittingly called bacteriophages – and their prey have been at war for eons, each side evolving more devilish tactics to infect or … Continue reading
What’s the Minimum Number of People Needed to Survive an Apocalypse?
By Patrick Pester via LiveScience Headline Image Credit: Agustin Paullier/Contributor via Getty Images From all-out nuclear war to a giant asteroid strike, it’s not hard to imagine ways human life on Earth could abruptly end. But assuming there are some survivors, how many people would it take to keep our species going? The short answer is, it depends. Different catastrophes … Continue reading
‘Martian Plague’? Bringing Samples to Earth Could Cause Devastating Pandemic Scientists Warn
What if we’ve already brought back something, maybe even this current pandemic. By Aleksandra Serebriakova via Sputniknews Headline Image:© CC BY 2.0 / Kevin Gill / Mars While Perseverance rover is rolling over the Red Planet studying its geology and taking fancy selfies with the help of the Ingenuity helicopter, researchers back on Earth are looking forward to welcome and … Continue reading
NASA Pretends to Hit Earth with a Large Asteroid
“The risk of a cataclysmic asteroid impact might be small, but it could still happen…” via Unexplained-Mysteries Headline Image: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A planetary defense exercise at the weekend ended up ‘destroying’ an area of Europe around 100km wide. The risk of a cataclysmic asteroid impact might be small, but it could still happen – which is why every two … Continue reading
Doomsday: SOLAR EXPLOSION TRIGGERS CATASTROPHE
It could take 15 years to recover if this happens! “Coronal Mass Ejection refers to a piece of the sun that gets hurled out of sunspots then slams into Earth’s magnetic field, triggering global catastrophic effects. Would we ever be able to recover from this solar storm?” IF YOU ENJOY THIS SITE PLEASE TELL OTHERS ABOUT US…SHARING IS CARING Start … Continue reading
Is a Giant Black Hole Headed Towards Earth?
Are we safe…. Black holes are real, and they are out there in the darkness of space. They destroy and devour anything that gets too close to them. And what if we were to tell you that a supermassive black hole might be headed in Earth’s direction right now as we speak? Yes, we said ‘supermassive… Normal black-holes, or ‘Stellar … Continue reading
NASA to Participate in Tabletop Exercise Simulating Asteroid Impact
JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies will lead the hypothetical impact scenario to see how international agencies respond to an actual impact prediction. During the week of April 26, members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to simulate an asteroid impact scenario. The exercise depicting this fictional event is being led by … Continue reading
Might We Find Alien Probes in our Solar System ?
Are alien probes visiting our solar system? via Unexplained-Mysteries Image Credit: YouTube / NASA / ET Data Base A NASA report published in 2018 takes the idea of finding alien ‘technosignatures’ very seriously indeed. The search for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations is perhaps one of the most important endeavours mankind has ever undertaken. It has the potential to not … Continue reading
Telescope Could Find Alien Life ‘Within 5 Years’
“…a new study by researchers at the University of Ohio has concluded that this could lead to the discovery of extraterrestrial life within as little as 5 to 10 years and a tentative signature of life could even be discovered within a mere 60 hours of the telescope beginning operations.” via Unexplained-Mysteries: Headline Image Credit/Caption: Artist’s impression of the NASA/ESA/CSA … Continue reading
