earth mystery news

How should we respond to alien contact? Scientists ask the public 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 2, 2019
Scientists searching the universe for aliens to conduct survey of the public for views on first contact

By David Aragorn
This was the moment a car-size asteroid exploded above Puerto Rico 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2019
Such an explosion has energy equivalent to more than 6,000 tonnes of TNT

By David Aragorn
Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you.0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 1, 2019
If the “mirrorverse” exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it.

By David Aragorn
These states have reported the most UFO sightings, database says 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 29, 2019
World UFO day is coming up on July 2 and may come as a surprise to learn just how many strange flying objects are spotted each year.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Snap Thermal Images of Uranian Ring System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 29, 2019
The rings of the ice giant Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977. However, they are surprisingly bright in the new thermal images taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The new images allowed astronomers for the first time to measure the temperature of rings particles: minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 196 degrees Celsius).

By David Aragorn
Ultra-short period brown dwarf discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 29, 2019
An international team of astronomers has detected a new brown dwarf with an ultra-short orbital period that transits an active M-dwarf star. The newfound object, designated NGTS-7Ab, turns out to be the shortest period transiting brown dwarf around a main or pre-main sequence star discovered to date. The finding is detailed in a paper published June 19 on the arXiv pre-print server.

By David Aragorn
We will rock you: the world prepares for Asteroid Day 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 29, 2019
Events are planned in 192 countries, so there’s something for everyone. Jeff Glorfeld reports

By David Aragorn
Man who wrote letters found in MOD UFO files about about Hull trawler tragedy speaks out 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 28, 2019
David Coneyworth wrote the letter when he was just 15 years old

By David Aragorn
These are the states where people are most likely to report a UFO sighting 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 28, 2019
The first reported UFO sighting in modern history happened somewhere above Mount Rainier in 1947. A pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw flying objects that looked like “saucers” or “pie pans” — shadowy shapes against the Washington mountain’s snowy facade.

By David Aragorn
Printing liquid metals in three-dimensional structures 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 28, 2019
In a recent study on materials science and nanomedicine, Young-Geun Park and co-workers at the departments of Nanoscience, Nanomedicine and Materials Science and Engineering in the Republic of Korea developed an unconventional 3-D printing approach. The scientists engineered a high-resolution, reconfigurable 3-D printing strategy using liquid metals to form stretchable, 3-D constructs. Using the technique, they formed a minimum line width of 1.9 µm using direct printing and printed patterns for reconfiguration in to diverse 3-D structures while maintaining pristine resolutions.

By David Aragorn