earth mystery news

NASA’s InSight Lander Sees Stunning Sunrise and Sunset on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2019
In April 2019, NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) to capture a series of Martian sunrise and sunset images.

By David Aragorn
Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for how a shell swirls

By David Aragorn
Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But only European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians. Now, with the help of ancient DNA samples, researchers reporting in Current Biology on May 9 suggest that these languages may have arrived from Siberia by the beginning of the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago, rather than evolving in Northern Europe.

By David Aragorn
A new AI acquired humanlike ‘number sense’ on its own 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
The neural network developed ‘number neurons’ similar to those in animal brains

By David Aragorn
Turkish airline pilot films UFO during flight 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- May 14, 2019
Pilot Atilla Senturk and his crew encountered a strange object during a routine flight from Istanbul to Cologne.

By David Aragorn
Scientists bioengineer a cellular speedometer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
An all-Princeton research team has identified bacteria that can detect the speed of flowing fluids.

By David Aragorn
Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the moon may be tectonically active 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 13, 2019
Scientists linked the seismic recordings with a NASA orbiter’s data on surface faults

By David Aragorn
Local UFO videographers believe Northeast Ohio is a UFO sighting hot zone 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- May 13, 2019
Whether you believe UFOs are a product of a wild imagination or a real phenomenon, some local UFO videographers believe Northeast Ohio is a hot zone for UFO sightings.

By David Aragorn
Violent Collision of Two Neutron Stars Occurred near Pre-Solar Nebula 4.6 Billion Years Ago 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2019
According to new research, a nearby binary neutron-star merger gave birth to 0.3% of the Earth’s heaviest elements, including gold, platinum and uranium; such an event may have occurred about 1,000 light-years away from the Pre-solar Nebula, approximately 80 million years before the formation of our Solar System.

By David Aragorn
A mathematical method for calculating black-hole properties from gravitational-wave data 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 11, 2019
Sean McWilliams, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, has developed a mathematical method for calculating black hole properties from gravitational wave data. He has written a paper describing his method and posted it on the arXiv preprint server. The paper has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

By David Aragorn