2019-03-01
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The Ocean Cleanup’s Plastic-Gathering Prototype Is Working
December 30, 2019An effort to rid the oceans of plastic waste that was launched seven years ago has finally borne fruit: the nonprofit organization The Ocean Cleanup reports that one of their ships was able to successfully gather plastic pollution from their... continued
US Space Force Now a Reality
December 29, 2019The order to form the United States Space Force has been passed by the US Congress, and was signed into law by President Trump on December 20. Officially called "United States Space Force", this organization will operate as a new... continued
Easter Island’s Enigmatic Moai May Have been Fertility Idols That Actually Worked
December 24, 2019The enigmatic moai, the imposing statues that stand guard over the island of Rapa Nui—more commonly known as Easter Island—have long presented a mystery to the modern world, the story of their true origins having been lost to the sands... continued
Global Warming, and Mercury Poisoning May Have Helped Hasten Dinosaur’s Demise
December 18, 2019It is commonly accepted that the dinosaurs were driven to extinction by the drastic change in Earth's climate brought about by the impact of a massive asteroid that occurred 66 million years ago. There is, however, evidence that the planet's... continued
Greenland’s Ice Is Melting Nearly Eight Times Faster Than It Was 27 Years Ago
December 16, 2019The annual rate of ice melt in Greenland is now nearly eight times faster than it was in the early 1990s, according to a large-scale 6-year study that involved 89 scientists employing that data from 26 separate satellite analyses, coming... continued
Shape-Shifting Hunters and Their Prey Are Depicted in Humanity’s Oldest Cave Art
December 13, 2019Researchers in Indonesia have found what may be the world's oldest rock art in a cave on the island of Sulawesi. The scene depicted in the 44,000-year old painting is of a hunting expedition, complete with images of a menagerie... continued
Plants Make High-Pitched Sounds When Injured or Stressed
December 11, 2019Having been on earth for about as long as animals, plants have evolved numerous senses similar to our own that allow them to perceive their environment and react accordingly: plants sense light to better gather energy from the Sun, pick... continued
Saving the Ozone Layer May Have Inadvertently Reduced Global Warming by Half
December 9, 2019A new study has discovered that the current state of global warming could have been a lot worse if the world's nations hadn't successfully agreed to take measures to save the planet's ozone layer, and phased out the production and... continued
Wild Winds & Rogue Waves: Parker Solar Probe Proves How Little is Known About the Sun
December 8, 2019NASA has released the discoveries made during the first two orbits of the Sun-skimming Parker Solar Probe—now the fastest known artificial object to orbit the Sun—revealing high-speed solar winds and powerful rogue plasma waves, revelations that point out that we... continued
Nimitz Encounter Witness Launches New UFO Research Group
December 4, 2019One of the witnesses to a series of UFO encounters involving the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004 has launched a new UFO research group that involves individuals from NASA, Silicon Valley and former military personnel. As a retired US... continued