From Around the Web

Use of ‘killer robots’ in wars would breach law, say campaigners 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 21, 2018
Calls grow for ban on fully autonomous weapons, following NGO coalition report

By David Aragorn
Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 21, 2018
Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying.

By David Aragorn
Researchers Discover New Molecular Properties of Water 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 21, 2018
Water has numerous anomalous properties, many of which remain poorly understood. One of its intriguing behaviors is that it exhibits the so-called temperature of maximum density (TMD) at 3.98 degrees Celsius (39.16 degrees Fahrenheit). In a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers at New York University provide experimental evidence for previously unknown abrupt changes in proton (H+) transfer kinetics in water at this temperature.

By David Aragorn
Quantum chains in graphene nanoribbons 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 21, 2018
Empa researchers, together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and other partners, have achieved a breakthrough that could eventually be used for precise nanotransistors or, in the distant future, possibly even quantum computers, as the team reports in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature.

By David Aragorn
‘Asteroid forensics’ could reveal the origin of water 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 21, 2018
By studying water-rich meteorites on Earth, Museum scientist Helena Bates is working out where in the solar system the meteorites – and the water they contain – originated from.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Propose Possible Death of the Universe Scenario 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 20, 2018
Professor Odintsov comments, “Possible future singularity was studied within the modified theory of gravity with the use of dynamical system variables. We showed that a dynamical system singularity is not always a physical singularity. A singularity might not occur, and the Universe can then evolve infinitely. However, for that to happen it must be described through alternate gravity which includes quadratic scalar invariants. Interestingly, this theory corresponds with the inflational theory of KFU AstroChallenge project supervisor Alexei Starobinsky.”

By David Aragorn
Pilot wanted for secretive ‘Janet Airlines’ to fly to Area 51 0
- Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 18, 2018
If you’ve got loads of experience in top secret missions and an affinity for UFOs, then a job opportunity has arrived that may be impossible to pass up.

By David Aragorn
Scientists make breakthrough in quantum physics’ ‘spookiest’ theory 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 18, 2018
Experiment raises hopes we can soon create real quantum computers

By David Aragorn
When a U.S. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 18, 2018
In the words of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the man who investigated unidentified-flying-object reports for the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s, the Gorman Dogfight remains one of the “classics” among UFO sightings.

By David Aragorn
Silpho Moor ‘UFO bits’ found in Science Museum archive 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 18, 2018
Fragments of a mysterious object dubbed “Britain’s answer to Roswell” have been unearthed after being hidden away for decades in a Science Museum archive.

By David Aragorn