Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into PaleontologyBirds Are Birds Dinosaurs? Live Science - Mindy Weisberger What do sparrows, geese and owls have in common with a velociraptor or the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex? All can trace their origins to a bipedal, mostly …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsBlack Holes Astronomers discover bizarre stretchy objects unlike anything else in our galaxy Digital Trends - Georgina Torbet Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new class of objects at the heart of the Milky Way, unlike anything else found previously in our galaxy. The …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into PaleontologyScience Supercomputer Scours Fossil Record for Earth’s Hidden Extinctions scientificamerican.com - Ewen Callaway, Nature magazine Palaeontologists have a fuzzy view of Earth’s history. An incomplete fossil record and imprecise dating techniques make it hard to pinpoint events …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsUniverse XMM-Newton discovers scorching gas in Milky Way's halo phys.org - European Space Agency ESA's XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way's halo reaches far hotter temperatures than previously thought and has a …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsBlack Holes ‘Fermi Bubbles’ Spewing from Milky Way’s Center Are Still a Mystery Nerdist - Matthew Hart In 2010, scientists discovered the existence of two monumental spherical plumes of high-energy particles spewing from the Milky Way’s galactic …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsJupiter A Cosmic Gatekeeper Divides Our Solar System in Two Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu The rocky planets closest to the sun are made up of very different materials than the gas giants in the outer solar system. That's because billions …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into Climate changeNews Hundreds of thousands of fish dead in NSW as bushfire ash washed into river The Guardian - Graham ReadfearnHundreds of thousands of native fish are estimated to have died in northern New South Wales after rains washed ash and sludge from bushfires into the Macleay River. Parts of the Macleay River – favoured
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into PaleontologyDinosaurs Ancient fossil 'may prove scorpion was first land-dwelling animal' The Guardian - Nicola DavisFossil experts in the US have revealed the remains of what they say is the first animal that may have set foot on land – an ancient scorpion. The earliest animals were aquatic, but eventually transitioned
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsScience Stardust older than the Earth and sun found in Australian meteorite The Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondentStardust that formed more than 5bn years ago, long before the birth of the Earth and the sun, has been discovered in a meteorite that crashed down in Australia, making it the oldest known solid material
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into Climate changeClimate Change Why do record ocean temperatures matter? The Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorWhat is the significance of record ocean heat in 2019? The new record represents the most stark demonstration that global heating is unequivocally real and driving the climate crisis. With emissions still
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into Climate changeClimate Change Oceans are as hot as humans have known them and we’re to blame The Guardian - John AbrahamEach year, unfathomable amounts of energy are added to the oceans. Scientists measure heat in joules; the amount of heat in the oceans is so large that we report it in zettajoules. What is a zettajoule?
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsNeutron Stars LIGO observatory sees its 2nd-ever neutron star collision — and it was massive Digital Trends - Georgina Torbet The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), famous for the first detection of gravitational waves, has made another exciting …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into International PoliticsNews Britain must prepare to fight wars without US help, says defence secretary The Guardian - Press AssociationBritain must be prepared to fight future wars without the US as its principal ally, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said. Wallace said the increasing withdrawal of America from international leadership
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into International PoliticsPolitics It’s tempting to see India as a place apart. But it offers lessons for us all The Guardian - Kenan MalikIt’s the largest democracy in the world. It’s also one of the most fragile, one in which dissent has often been curtailed and communal divisions inflamed. At no time have the vulnerabilities of India’s
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsNeutron Stars Ripples in space, time point to new class of collision in the universe - Business Insider Business Insider - Morgan McFall-JohnsenScientists may have stumbled upon a previously unknown class of massive collision in the universe. On Monday, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into ArcheologyScience Gold bar found in Mexico was Aztec treasure: study phys.org A gold bar found in a Mexico City park in 1981 was part of the Aztec treasure looted by Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago, a …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsScience Did life travel from Earth to an exoplanetary system? Inverse - Passant Rabie New research tracks a rocky, interstellar object’s ability to transport life to another planet. Around 4 billion years ago, Earth was under attack. …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsVoyager 2 Voyager scientist Ed Stone on the search for extraterrestrial life: 'We need to get back to Enceladus' The Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondentThe Voyager mission has not lacked for highlights, having beamed back the first glimpses of methane oceans, erupting volcanos on a Jovian moon and a thunderstorm on Saturn. But Prof Ed Stone, who has at
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into ArcheologyAncient History An ancient viking stone has revealed fears over a problem that still looms today Inverse - Claire Cameron This is still a major cause for concern today. The Rök stone, an ancient, five-ton granite slab erected by Vikings in southern Sweden in the 9th …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsUniverse Galaxy Group 13 Billion Light-Years Away Could Be Ending the Cosmic 'Dark Ages' Before Our Eyes Live Science - Brandon Specktor For hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, the entire universe was a thick soup of hydrogen atoms swimming in total blackness. So dense …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsQuantum Mechanics The Most Interesting Scientific Idea of the Decade: Time Is More Real Than Space thestranger.com - Charles Mudede by Charles Mudede AlexandrIvasenko/gettyimages.com Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist whose work has been defined by a rejection of what is known …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsEarth Science 800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater. Live Science - Mindy Weisberger About 790,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth with such force that the explosion blanketed about 10% of the planet with shiny black lumps of …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsScience NASA's alien planet hunter shows Egyptian pyramids may align with ancient north star, researcher says Fox News - Chris CiacciaResearchers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered that an ancient star undergoes eclipses, which may have guided the ancient Egyptians when they were building the pyramids.
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsUniverse Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It's Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen Live Science - Adam Mann HONOLULU — Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why. A newly discovered example of this …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsExoplanets TESS mission spots Earth-size potentially habitable planet and 'Tatooine' system CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — NASA's planet-hunting mission TESS has found its first potentially habitable exoplanet the size of Earth orbiting a star about 100 light-years from Earth, according to the agency. The findings
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into ArcheologyAncient History Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says The Guardian - AFP in StockholmOne of the world’s most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, a study has concluded. The Rök stone, raised
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into ArcheologyIce Age Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age fro nature.com - Ulf Büntgen, Vladimir S. Myglan, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Michael McCormick, Nicola Di Cosmo, Michael Sigl, Johann Jungclaus, Sebastian Wagner, Paul J. Krusic, Jan Esper, Jed O. Kaplan, Michiel A. C. de Vaan, Jürg Luterbacher, Lukas Wacker, Willy Tegel, Alexander V. Kirdyanov Climatic changes during the first half of the Common Era have been suggested to play a role in societal reorganizations in Europe1,2 and Asia3,4. In …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into Astrophysics Una sorella della Terra distante 100 anni luce - Scienza & Tecnica ansa.it Scoperta una sorella della Terra che si trova nella cosiddetta zona abitabile della sua stella, ossia alla distanza ideale per avere acqua liquida in …
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into Climate changeClimate Change Bots and trolls spread false arson claims in Australian fires ‘disinformation campaign’ Australia News - Christopher KnausBot and troll accounts are involved in a “disinformation campaign” exaggerating the role of arson in Australia’s bushfire disaster, social media analysis suggests. The bushfires burning across the nation
Giandomenico Orlandoflipped into AstrophysicsScience Astronomers discover huge gaseous wave holding Milky Way's newest stars The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorAstronomers have discovered a gigantic, undulating wave of dust and gas where newborn stars are forged over a 50 million billion mile stretch of the Milky Way. The gaseous structure, which holds more than
The Guardianflipped into Politics ‘Death threats every single day’: MPs on effect of Brexit vote The Guardian - Dan SabbaghMany say they now use panic buttons amid growing intimidation and abuse MPs have warned that Brexit has coarsened public debate to the point where they regularly receive death threats and other forms intimidation
BGRflipped into Science This map will show you how climate change will transform your city bgr.com - Mike Wehner As the Earth gradually warms up due to human activity like the burning of fossil fuels, whatever city or town you call home will eventually feel the …
