earth mystery news

What was that flashing light in San Diego? Video captures orb streaking through sky 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 20, 2017
Residents in San Diego were treated to a surprise light show on the Monday night of April 11th.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Deliver Formal Proof of Famous Kepler Conjecture 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 20, 2017
An international team of mathematicians led by University of Pittsburgh Professor Thomas Hales has delivered a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry. The team’s paper is published in the journal Forum of Mathematics, Pi.

By David Aragorn
Radio astronomers peer deep into the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

By David Aragorn
Close encounters of a blurred kind! UFO hunters ZOOM in on faded Roswell photo and claim US general’s memo reveals a ‘disc-shaped craft and victims’ found in 1947 mystery crash 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 19, 2017
Conspiracy theorists claim a blurry letter seen in a picture could be the key to solving the Roswell UFO mystery.

By David Aragorn
Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2017
Quantum satellite Micius has sent entangled photons to ground stations on Earth

By David Aragorn
Scientists solve 30-year old mystery on how resistance genes spread 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 17, 2017
To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance genes. Further, they try to identify how the genes are introduced to disease-causing bacteria — so-called pathogens. Identifying where resistance genes come from and how they spread somewhat compares to finding patient zero in an outbreak, which is not an easy task.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2017
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west.

By David Aragorn
SYMPHY: Researchers Propose New ‘Tree of Life’ Framework that Incorporates Symbiomes 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2017
In 1859, Charles Darwin included a novel tree of life in his book ‘On the Origin of Species.’ Now, a Rutgers University-led research team wants to reshape Darwin’s tree. The authors discuss their proposal in a paper published online in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

By David Aragorn
Fossil mushroom discovered from the era of the dinosaurs 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2017
Scientists say the unique find, believed to be 115m years old, is similar to today’s fungi

By David Aragorn
Giant Flying Turkeys Lived in Australia 1-3 Million Years Ago 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 16, 2017
Progura gallinacea, a species of extinct giant brush turkey that lived in Australia during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (1-3 million years ago), is among five megapode birds described (or redescribed) by Flinders University paleontologists.

By David Aragorn