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Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2020
First fast radio burst found in our galaxy is traced to magnetar 30,000 light years away

By David Aragorn
“Dancing” Orbs Over Geyserville 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- November 5, 2020
Anthony [last name withheld] and his wife Samantha were just leaving a resort casino in Geyserville, California when they saw a “disk dancing around in the sky”.

By David Aragorn
Mars Express Spots Triple Crater on Red Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2020
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has spotted three overlapping craters in Noachis Terra, an extensive landmass in the southern hemisphere of Mars.

By David Aragorn
NASA Contacts Voyager 2 Using Upgraded Deep Space Network Dish 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 4, 2020
The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track to wrap up in February.

By David Aragorn
Archaeologists reveal human resilience in the face of climate change in ancient Turkey 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region.

By David Aragorn
War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren’t our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel.

By David Aragorn
DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans arrived nearby 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
For today’s Buddhist monks, Baishiya Karst Cave, 3200 meters high on the Tibetan Plateau, is holy. For ancient Denisovans, extinct hominins known only from DNA, teeth, and bits of bone found in another cave 2800 kilometers away in Siberia, it was a home.

By David Aragorn
Area 51: UFOs, Aliens, or Secret Stealth Jets?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 4, 2020
Area 51 houses America’s military black projects.

By David Aragorn
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 3, 2020
An additional planet between Saturn and Uranus was kicked out of the Solar System in its infancy

By David Aragorn
OSIRIS-REx Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu’s Regolith 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 3, 2020
On October 28, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully stowed its Sample Return Capsule (SRC) with a sample of surface material from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

By David Aragorn