2019-03-01
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Greetings from the Far Side: Chang’e 4 Starts Farming on the Moon, Sends Back Pictures
February 8, 2019Since its historical landing on January 3, the Chang'e 4 lunar lander has continued to rack up a string of firsts for spaceflight history, including taking new pictures of the Moon's never-before photographed far side, surviving through the long, cold... continued
A Huge Chasm has Opened Up Under Antarctica’s Most Important–and Vulnerable–Glacier
February 6, 2019 An enormous cavity two-thirds the area of Manhattan and nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep has been discovered growing under West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Considered to be the world's most crucial glacier due to its sheer size and importance... continued
A List of DIA Secret UFO Study Projects has been Revealed
February 4, 2019The US Office of Information Services has released a Defense Intelligence Agency report addressed to the Senate Committee on Armed Services that lists the titles of more than three dozen research papers funded by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the... continued
Scorching Heat Breaks Records in Australia
February 1, 2019True to the predictions in Superstorm and (more recently) some global warming models, planet earth is now experiencing increasingly dangerous extremes of heat and cold. While the northern mid-latitudes endure record cold, the southern mid-latitudes are experiencing record heat. While... continued
Ultra Cold Air Causing Record Freeze in Much of US and UK
January 29, 2019An extremely cold air mass is in the process of blanketing the eastern half of the United States and will also affect the United Kingdom. It will drive temperatures down well past the lowest ever previously recorded in the midwest... continued
Researchers may have Found a “Missing Link” for our Ancient Human Ancestors
January 24, 2019A recent re-examination of the fossils of a species of hominid excavated in South Africa has revealed that they may represent what is popularly known as a "missing link" in human evolution, bridging the gap between the long-extinct genus known... continued
Saturn’s Majestic Rings are Extremely Young–and Might Not Be Around for Much Longer
January 21, 2019Newly-analyzed data from the Cassini space probe has revealed that Saturn is losing material from its visually stunning ring system at a rapid rate, due to an effect cased by the planet's wide-reaching magnetic field that produces what NASA is... continued
Human Language may have been Born from the “Sound” of Ancient Cave Art
January 20, 2019A team of researchers from Brazil, Japan and the US may have solved the mystery regarding how the evolution of verbal language as used by humans got its start, using the connection between ancient cave art and the acoustic properties... continued
Ocean Temperatures Broke Another Record in 2018, and are Heating Up Faster than Previously Thought
January 16, 2019The oceans of Planet Earth are warming at a much faster rate than previously thought--forty percent faster--according to a new report, with 2018 being the hottest year on record for the planet's aquasphere. Using improved data collected through a worldwide... continued
Trade in “Ice Ivory” from Mammoth Tusks could Help Protect Endangered Elephants
January 16, 2019The growing international ban on the trade of ivory from elephant tusks has been increasing the focus on harvesting the illicit material from an unusual source: the tusks of long-extinct mammoths, preserved in the frozen Siberian tundra. Out of the... continued