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Research Team Prints Fully Functional Human Skin with Bioprinter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 18, 2020
A team of scientists successfully used a 3D bioprinter to generate completely functional human skin.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica’s ‘deflated football’ fossil is world’s second-biggest egg 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 18, 2020
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica’s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
Soul-snatching aliens blamed for player’s lateness for training in Chile 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 18, 2020
Former Argentine footballer Guillermo Marino once turned up late to a training session and explained it was because he had been abducted by aliens, ex-teammate Gustavo Lorenzetti has said.

By David Aragorn
Animals May Fail Self-Awareness Tests Only Because They Don’t Understand Mirrors 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 17, 2020
Scientists from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences have found that if monkeys learn how mirrors work, they can pass self-awareness tests.

By David Aragorn
New ideas in the search for dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark matter, an invisible substance that permeates our galaxy and universe. Coined dark matter because it gives off no light, this substance, which constitutes more than 80 percent of matter in our universe, has been shown repeatedly to influence ordinary matter through its gravity. Scientists know it is out there but do not know what it is.

By David Aragorn
Weirdly-Shaped Wormholes Might Work Better Than Spherical Ones 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Wormholes, or tunnels in the fabric of space-time, are ferociously unstable. As soon as even a single photon slips down the tunnel, the wormhole closes in a flash.

By David Aragorn
48,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Unearthed in Sri Lanka 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2020
Archaeologists have found over a hundred bone arrow points at the Pleistocene cave site of Fa-Hien Lena in Sri Lanka. The artifacts were used to hunt tree-dwelling animals such as small monkeys and squirrels about 48,000 years ago and represent the earliest known bow-and-arrow technology outside of Africa.

By David Aragorn
Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2020
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event. The results of their study have been recently published in the journal Geology.

By David Aragorn
Flat spots on Saturn’s moon Titan may be the floors of ancient lake beds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2020
New theory about the gas giant’s largest satellite may solve a 20-year-old mystery

By David Aragorn
Terrestrial bacteria can grow on nutrients from space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2020
In the past decade, there has been renewed thinking about missions to the moon, perhaps even to Mars.

By David Aragorn