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The Last Galactic Year Has Taken Us From the Jurassic Period to Today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
The last time we were in this position in the Milky Way, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth.

By David Aragorn
Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa.

By David Aragorn
Big star energy: record-breaking explosion recorded 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
Astronomers note record-breaking observation of highest energy ever measured from gamma ray bursts

By David Aragorn
The “Hobbit” at 15 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution

By David Aragorn
Extraterrestrial Sugar Found in Space Rocks Show that Meteorites May Have Led to Origin of Life on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s adorable underwater rover might be the first to discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.

By David Aragorn
Meet Hector, the massive thunderstorm that shows up every day 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 22, 2019
Meteorologists give names to large storms with wide impacts — like tropical cyclones and, in some cases, massive winter storms — to help make communication easier. If you have several active tropical storms, for instance, you want to be sure everyone knows which one you’re discussing.

By David Aragorn
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.

By David Aragorn
Scientists catch glimpse of a fifth force of nature 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2019
The fifth force could also potentially help researchers explain and spot black matter, which is theorized to account for 85 per cent of the universe

By David Aragorn
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.

By David Aragorn

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