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A star orbiting the Milky Way’s giant black hole confirms Einstein was right 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2020
Decades of observations revealed the rotation of the star’s elliptical orbit

By David Aragorn
Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
Egypt’s classical wonders are off limits but a royal tomb is one of four sites where 3D modelling gives us a fascinating glimpse of antiquity

By David Aragorn
Major new breakthrough could help reveal origin of the universe, scientists say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 17, 2020
Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could help us understand the origin of our universe, they say.

By David Aragorn
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
Dinosaur ‘Easter eggs’ reveal their secrets in 3D thanks to X-rays and high-powered computers

By David Aragorn
Lost Viking ‘highway’ revealed by melting ice 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.

By David Aragorn
Alabama’s Natural Bridge 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 17, 2020
148-foot-long natural rock bridge!

By David Aragorn
The Covid-19 puzzles that scientists are still trying to answer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 16, 2020
The Observer’s science editor looks at questions such as why the disease does appear not to infect children, and whether men are really more susceptible

By David Aragorn
Prestigious astrophysicist talks openly about UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 16, 2020
Scientists are not quite sure what human consciousness is or how it is generated, but a few bold thinkers speculate that it is a physics question and is directly related to the UFO question.

By David Aragorn
New quantum computers can operate at higher temperatures 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 16, 2020
Silicon chips raise hopes for scaling up devices to millions of quantum bits

By David Aragorn
Matter-antimatter difference found in neutrino oscillations 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 16, 2020
One of the great scientific puzzles of our time is why we live in a universe full of matter rather than antimatter. Wherever we look, we observe that matter dominates over antimatter, yet we believe that matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts soon after the Big Bang. To reconcile these two facts there must be some difference in the way matter and antimatter behave.

By David Aragorn