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Want to see ‘fireballs’ light up the sky? Here’s how to catch the Perseid meteor shower 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2021
Gaze upon the night sky as the best meteor shower of the year makes its annual return.

By David Aragorn
Why the military should work with scientists to study the UFO phenomenon 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 20, 2021
UFOs have been in the news a lot lately. I am a research astronomer who has written and edited books and created a free online course about the search for life in the universe. While I think we are making progress on detecting life beyond Earth, I view UFOs from a skeptical standpoint, since the evidence that they represent aliens visiting the Earth is unconvincing.

By David Aragorn
$Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human$
Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
The result underscores how big of a hand interbreeding among ancient hominids had in shaping us

By David Aragorn
A Decade of Ancient DNA Analysis Has Taught Scientists “What It Means to Be Human”0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just over a decade ago.

By David Aragorn
Study: Domestication Changed Not Just How Dogs Look, But Their Minds As Well 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
A new study led by a Duke University researcher supports the idea that domestication enhanced the cooperative-communicative abilities of dogs as selection for attraction to humans altered social maturation.

By David Aragorn
Rats prefer to help their own kind; Humans may be similarly wired 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 19, 2021
A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritize their nearest and dearest in times of crisis. It also suggests humans may share the same neural bias.

By David Aragorn
Creepy, finger-like fungus found clinging to life in Australian island 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 19, 2021
Researchers were pleasantly surprised to discover a large population of Tea-tree Fingers, a critically endangered species, on a remote Australian island.

By David Aragorn
UFO witnesses aren’t buying into government report 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- July 15, 2021
An anticipated preliminary report from the federal government was recently released on UFOs encountered by military personnel dating back to 2004, and its contents, or lack thereof, has some Mississippians upset.

By David Aragorn
U.S. approves Blue Origin license for human space travel ahead of Bezos flight 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it approved a Blue Origin license to carry humans on the New Shepard launch system into space.

By David Aragorn
Safe space: the cosmic importance of planetary quarantine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2021
As the pace and ambition of space exploration accelerates, preventing Earth-born organisms from hitching a ride has become more urgent than ever

By David Aragorn