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How the dinosaur-killing asteroid primed Earth for modern life 0
- Ancient Archeology, Science & Technology
- January 18, 2020
Marine die-offs after the impact may have created opportunities for the life that survived around the globe, new data reveal.

By David Aragorn
New dinosaur discovered in China shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 17, 2020
San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolution

By David Aragorn
Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2020
There’s something really weird in the centre of the Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
A parasite that makes mice unafraid of cats may quash other fears too 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 17, 2020
Toxoplasma gondii can mess with all sorts of mice behaviors, a new study shows

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Five New Planets around Nearby Red Dwarfs 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2020
Astronomers have detected five new planets, eight planet candidates, and confirmed three previously reported planets, around nine nearby M-dwarf (red dwarf) stars. Among the new planets, Gliese 180d and Gliese 229Ac are super-Earths located in the conservative habitable zones of their host stars; Gliese 433c is a cold super-Neptune candidate belonging to an unexplored population of Neptune-like planets.

By David Aragorn
Strange Purple Glow Appears Above Medical Marijuana Farm in Snowflake, Arizona 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 17, 2020
Lights from a medical marijuana farm created a strange purple glow in the sky recently above Snowflake, Arizona—located around 175 miles northeast of Phoenix.

By David Aragorn
Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange ‘Ghost’ Particles That Physicists Can’t Explain 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 16, 2020
When physicists detected signals of high-energy neutrinos coming from a rather unlikely direction in the cosmos, they naturally went looking for a powerful source that might explain it.

By David Aragorn
The UFO Sightings that Pushed the UK to Take ‘Flying Saucers’ More Seriously 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- January 16, 2020
The incidents interrupted Exercise Mainbrace, a massive set of NATO war-game maneuvers.

By David Aragorn
Taking the temperature of dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 16, 2020
Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe.

By David Aragorn
A second planet may orbit Proxima Centauri 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 16, 2020
The star closest to the sun appears to host another world much colder than Earth

By David Aragorn