earth mystery news

Strange ‘orange snow’ phenomenon reported across eastern Europe 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 4, 2018
Particles of sand and dust from North Africa believed to be the cause

By David Aragorn
World’s largest dinosaur found in Scotland 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 4, 2018
Rare dinosaur footprints belonging to the largest animal to ever roam the planet have been found in Scotland. Dozens of the 170 million-year-old fossils, belonging to early sauropods, have been unearthed in a muddy lagoon on the Isle of Skye.

By David Aragorn
China says space station burns up over South Pacific 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

By David Aragorn
Image: Proba-1 pyramid spotting 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
A view looking north to south of Egypt’s famous Giza Pyramid Complex, as seen by ESA’s Proba-1 minisatellite.

By David Aragorn
Scientists seeking people with ‘encounters’ while taking DMT 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 3, 2018
A psychedelic substance known for taking users on a transcendent experience seemingly to other worlds, DMT is also known as “The Spirit Molecule.”

By David Aragorn
On the use and abuse of ancient DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 3, 2018
Researchers in several disciplines need to tread carefully over shared landscapes of the past.

By David Aragorn
Hubble uses cosmic lens to discover most distant star ever observed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered. The hot blue star existed only 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This discovery provides new insight into the formation and evolution of stars in the early Universe, the constituents of galaxy clusters and also on the nature of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
France to spend $1.8 billion on AI to compete with U.S., China 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 2, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron promised 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) of public funding into artificial intelligence by 2022 in a bid to reverse a brain drain and catch up with the dominant U.S. and Chinese tech giants.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Super-Earth with Mercury-Like Composition: K2-229b 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type dwarf star K2-229. What’s the most intriguing is that one of these extrasolar planets is a super-Earth class object with a Mercury-like composition.

By David Aragorn
Why a galaxy with no dark matter could make it hard to prove there’s no dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
What’s the matter with dark matter?

By David Aragorn