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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIREBALL 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2020
Last night, Jan. 30th around 10:30 pm PST, a spectacular fireball crawled across the skies of southern California.

By David Aragorn
Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
Source: Science Magazine For 10 years, geneticists have told the story of how Neanderthals—or at least their DNA sequences—live on in today’s Europeans, Asians, and their descendants. Not so in Africans, the story goes, because modern humans and our extinct cousins interbred only outside of Africa. A new study overturns that notion, revealing an unexpectedly

By David Aragorn
Researchers Develop Robot Fingers That Cool Off By Sweating 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The work is the first step in creating robots that can operate for extended periods without overheating.

By David Aragorn
Scientists cooled a nanoparticle to the quantum limit 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

By David Aragorn
Glowing green ‘dunes’ in the sky mesmerized skygazers. They turned out to be a new kind of aurora.0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 31, 2020
When mysterious glowing stripes of green lit up Finnish skies in 2018, it didn’t go unnoticed by avid aurora chasers. The pattern of light was unfamiliar and strangely perfect, reaching out toward the horizon like a set of celestial sand dunes.

By David Aragorn
‘Vampire’ star sparks brilliant ‘super-outburst’ while gorging on its neighbor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
An undead vampire star feeds on its victim, the two tug hard on this lifeblood swirling in space — then boom, and repeat.

By David Aragorn
Researchers Drill Deep Into One of the Most Important Antarctica Glaciers 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 30, 2020
The melting of Thwaites Glacier already accounts for 4% of global sea-level rise.

By David Aragorn
Mystery at Mars pole explained 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
In 1966, two Caltech scientists were ruminating on the implications of the thin carbon dioxide (CO2) Martian atmosphere first revealed by Mariner IV, a NASA fly-by spacecraft built and flown by JPL. They theorized that Mars, with such an atmosphere, could have a long-term stable polar deposit of CO2 ice that, in turn, would control global atmospheric pressure.

By David Aragorn
Quantum Mechanics Helps Explain Why Humans Sometimes Make Foolish Decisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 30, 2020
Scientists think that quantum physics and human psychology belong hand in hand to explain human behavior.

By David Aragorn
Highest-Resolution Solar Telescope Ever Released Incredible First Images of the Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
This image is the first high-resolution shot from the 4-meter Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i.

By David Aragorn