earth mystery news

You’ve Heard of Vantablack. Scientists Just Created ‘Super White’, And It’s Very Cool 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 24, 2020
Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to Vantablack’s yang.

By David Aragorn
Senate bill would assign space traffic management work to Commerce Department 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 23, 2020
A Senate bill would authorize the Office of Space Commerce to take over civil space traffic management, but funding for that work has yet to be appropriated.

By David Aragorn
Black holes could become massive particle accelerators 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 23, 2020
Black holes are powerful engines of pure gravity, capable of pulling on objects so intensely that they can’t possibly escape.

By David Aragorn
Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- October 23, 2020
An 800,000-year-old tool may be the oldest known of its kind

By David Aragorn
Researchers discover ‘spooky’ similarity in how brains and computers see 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 23, 2020
The brain detects 3-D shape fragments (bumps, hollows, shafts, spheres) in the beginning stages of object vision—a newly discovered strategy of natural intelligence that Johns Hopkins University researchers also found in artificial intelligence networks trained to recognize visual objects.

By David Aragorn
ALMA Spots Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon Io 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 23, 2020
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted airborne plumes of sulfur dioxide (SO2), sulfur monoxide (SO), and potassium chloride (KCl) from Io’s active volcanoes.

By David Aragorn
NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2020
NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.

By David Aragorn
White “Oval” Lands on Mountaintop in Northern Spain 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- October 22, 2020
Case 111613: Laura [last name withheld] was photographing the sunset near Zumarraga, Spain.

By David Aragorn
The first space station crew to launch during a pandemic is coming home 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2020
After launching to the International Space Station on April 9, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner returned to Earth on Wednesday, October 21.

By David Aragorn
The strange story of 2020 SO: How an asteroid turned into rocket junk and the NASA scientist who figured it out 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2020
As soon as he saw the data, Paul Chodas knew something was strange about the near-Earth object that had been designated 2020 SO.

By David Aragorn