earth mystery news

NASA camera spots China’s Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Spacecraft or space rock?

By David Aragorn
What is consciousness?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 28, 2020
The ancient Greeks dove into this question. But what do modern scientists think?

By David Aragorn
Ancient African skull sheds light on American crocodile origins 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 28, 2020
The extinct African crocodile species Crocodylus checchiai may be closely related to American crocodile species alive today, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that crocodiles may have migrated from Africa to America during the Late Miocene epoch (11-5 million years ago).

By David Aragorn
KFC Is 3D-Printing Chicken Nuggets. Would You Eat Them?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2020
They’ll be “as close as possible in both taste and appearance” to the real thing. We’ll see about that.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its nuclear power source 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch.

By David Aragorn
Are Earth’s magnetic poles about to swap places? Strange anomaly gives clues.0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 25, 2020
Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the sun.

By David Aragorn
China launches its first unmanned mission to Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations.

By David Aragorn
Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 25, 2020
Bombshell: The government’s once-clandestine UFO program will reveal findings on unexplained materials and crashes.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Nasa delays James Webb space telescope to October 2021 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Delay is result of coronavirus pandemic and technical challenges as troubled project is set to cost £6.8bn

By David Aragorn
Junk DNA might be really, really useful for biocomputing 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 24, 2020
Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed?

By David Aragorn