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Marsquakes reveal the Red Planet boasts a liquid core half its diameter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2021
Data from NASA’s InSight lander also hint at the thickness of the planet’s crust

By David Aragorn
Jeff Bezos offers Nasa $2bn in exchange for moon mission contract 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2021
Bezos claims Nasa’s decision will delay moon mission

By David Aragorn
Largest known comet is heading close enough to us to become visible 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 27, 2021
Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it’s about a thousand times more massive than others.

By David Aragorn
Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- July 27, 2021
Are there intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations capable of building technologies that can travel between the stars? An international research project is poised to find out.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
The slime mold Physarum uses mechanical signals to probe environments that it hasn’t directly explored yet.

By David Aragorn
Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? My research takes us a step closer to finding out 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer.

By David Aragorn
‘Eye of Sauron’ volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater ‘Mordor’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 27, 2021
It is one of several discoveries named after “The Lord of the Rings.”

By David Aragorn
‘Generator’ Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 26, 2021
Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.

By David Aragorn
Meteor lights up the night in Norway 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2021
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.

By David Aragorn
Marsquakes reveal the anatomy of the Red Planet’s interior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2021
Seismic waves from quakes detected by NASA’s robotic InSight lander have helped scientists decipher the anatomy of Mars, including the first estimates of the size of its large liquid metal core, thickness of its crust, and nature of its mantle.

By David Aragorn