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‘Skull Asteroid’ Returns But Not Before a Visit by a Trio of Space Rocks
Space rocks a plenty! via Sputniknews: The US space administration NASA has announced that three asteroids will be skipping past Earth this weekend, the closest of which will come inside the moon’s orbit. In their wake is the perennial “skull” asteroid, last seen in our vicinity on Halloween three years ago. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the first and largest … Continue reading
Ingenious Crows Make Hooked Tools
The manufacture and use of tools has long been touted as a line of demarcation between humans and non-human animals: our technological prowess is what makes us human, it was thought. But research over the last few decades has blurred that line, as tool manufacture and use, and even the use of tools to make other tools (known as meta-tool … Continue reading
Walls Will Not Stop AI from Being Able to Track You
Think you can hide from AI behind closed doors.. nowhere to run, nowhere to hide! via unexplained-mysteries: Scientists have used radio signals as well as an artificial intelligence to track individuals through solid walls. The remarkable new system is able to produce a skeleton-like visualisation of someone moving around behind a wall by using radio waves to build up a … Continue reading
Harvard Study Suggests Panspermia Can Transfer Life Between Planets In Our Galaxy
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently released a study claiming that panspermia, an astronomical theory that life is exchanged between planets within solar systems, can be expanded to support exchanging life within the Milky Way galaxy. The study, “Galactic Panspermia,” concluded that life, or the chemical compounds necessary for life, can be distributed between solar systems or even … Continue reading
Russia Planning Permanent Moon Base – Russian Space Agency Head
This would be great news for space and science exploration etc. except we know this will likely have ulterior (political) motives behind it. via RT: Russia’s plans for moon exploration are to be updated within two weeks, but Moscow still wants to have a permanent base on its surface, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said. Rogozin, … Continue reading
Mysterious ‘Oumuamua Was Alien ‘Reconnaissance Mission’, Harvard Researcher
‘Oumuamua, the mysterious interstellar object that has caused much head scratching in scientific circles, now has a new possible origin: part of a reconnaissance mission initiated by an alien civilization wanting to check out other galaxies. The latest theory on ‘Oumuamua comes from a study published on Thursday by Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, a pair of astronomers with the … Continue reading
Mysterious Linear Features Discovered on One of Saturn’s Moons
Saturn’s moons are a hodgepodge of misfits. Iapetus looks like the Death Star from Star Wars. Tiny Pan resembles a cosmic empanada. And now something appears to be etching oddly straight lines across the icy surface of Dione. The lines – or linear virgae, to use the proposed technical term – stretch for up to hundreds of kilometers, and yet are less than 5 kilometers wide. They … Continue reading
Alien Life Might be Found on Mars by 2021, And Worlds that Host Alien Life Could be Purple
Scientists developing Europe’s new ExoMars rover are optimistic about its chances of finding life on Mars. Unlike previous missions which have focused mainly on rocks and surface soil, ESA’s upcoming excursion to the Red Planet will dig down in to the ground to look for evidence of life. The new rover, which is due to launch in 2020 and will … Continue reading
Alcohol Affects Memory Pathways Making Your Brain Forget the Bad Times, Remember the Good Ones
Haven’t they ever herd of the song ‘Red Red Wine’ by UB-40? 😉 via Daily Mail UK: Just one glass of wine could be enough for you to dismiss your bad memories and focus only on the good times, a new study suggests. Researchers say that alcohol ‘hijacks’ the pathway that forms memory on a fundamental, molecular level. It affects … Continue reading
Jupiter and Saturn Pushed Other Planets Away from the Sun in the Early Beginnings of the Universe
Researchers studying the lone surviving binary asteroid in the Trojan belt orbiting Jupiter have revealed that the chaos at the beginning of our solar system may have been shorter but more violent than previously thought. A new study on the binary asteroid Patroclus-Menoetius reveals that within the first 100 million years of the solar system’s existence, Jupiter and Saturn shoved … Continue reading
