earth mystery news

Scientists are unlocking the mystery of how marijuana makes us get high 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 22, 2016
This will help us better understand how to use the drug for medical purposes

By David Aragorn
New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- October 22, 2016
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution.

By David Aragorn
Did LIGO detect black holes or gravastars?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2016
After the first direct detection of gravitational waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Cecilia Chirenti (Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil) set out to test whether the observed signal could have been a gravastar or not. The results were recently resented in a paper published on Physical Review D.

By David Aragorn
Volcanoes might have forced early humans out of Africa, altering the course of our evolution 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- October 21, 2016
Surge in volcanic activity along East African Rift System coincided with arrival of Homo sapiens.

By David Aragorn
Volcanoes on Venus Erupted Recently, New Study Suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2016
Volcanic activity on Venus took place in the recent past, geologically speaking, and may still be happening on the planet today. New research takes a deeper look at one recent eruption on Venus’ surface.

By David Aragorn
Comet 67P cracking under pressure 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2016
Spinning space motion could cause neck to snap.

By David Aragorn
Wikileaks’ Podesta Email Leak Mentions E.T. Disclosure and Zero Point Energy 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- October 20, 2016
In two emails Wikileaks had managed to get a hold of, the messages hold some very interesting topics about Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a strange ‘Zero point energy’

By David Aragorn
NASA Reveals Dark Side of the Mystery of Sun’s Bursts of Radiation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2016
In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation that propel high-energy particles toward Earth.

By David Aragorn
Do Cosmic Rays Grease Lightning?0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- October 20, 2016
Nobody knows exactly what triggers lightning bolts. Now, two Russian researchers say that these discharges of a billion volts or more could be caused by the interaction of cosmic rays—high-energy particles from outer space—with water droplets in thunderclouds.

By David Aragorn
CHINA’S NEW SPACE STATION IS NOW OCCUPIED 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2016
On Oct 18th, Chinese astronauts onboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft docked with China’s new space station, the Tiangong 2.

By David Aragorn