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02/29/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
A welcome surprise: Miners digging for gemstones unearth fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster instead
In June of 2019, miners employed by Enchanted Designs Limited were busy at work in Alberta, Canada looking for ammolite, a rainbow-colored gemstone used in luxury jewelry, when they instead found something arguably much more valuable. They found the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster that lived about 70 million years ago during the age of […]
02/28/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Old-school adhesives: Archeologists discover some of the earliest known examples of adhesive use in Italian cave
In a pair of caves known as the Grotta del Fossellone and the Grotta di Sant’Agostino in Italy’s western Lazio region, archaeologists discovered some of the earliest known examples of the use of adhesives. In this study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, archaeologists found evidence that Neanderthals that lived around 55 to 40 thousand years ago ventured out […]
02/25/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
NASA considering the use of “starshade” tech to look for alien planets
NASA has announced its plans to use “starshade” technology on exoplanet-hunting missions. Recent research from the space agency suggests that while the plans may be technologically daunting, it’s not impossible and well within NASA’s reach. Astronomers all over the world have been detecting exoplanets for over a decade now. However, their work has been done only […]
02/24/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
The “perfect age” for life: Saturn’s moon Enceladus hides an ocean ripe enough to sustain life
Researchers from the University of Maryland and the Southwest Research Institute believe that Enceladus, an icy moon orbiting Saturn and is known for hiding a vast subterranean ocean, is “old enough” to support life. “This sprawling ocean is likely one billion years old,” said co-author of the study Marc Neveu during a talk at the 2019 Astrobiology […]
02/23/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
From the sea to the stars: Scientists study octopuses to understand intelligent life on other planets
Researchers trying to figure out how extraterrestrial life may think are starting to look in different places. In one study, presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference, a group of researchers from the University of Washington (UWash) in Seattle believe that the way the arms of a cephalopod like the octopus “think” can be a model for how […]
02/23/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
10,000 year old “weapons factory” discovered by archeologists alongside remains of a wooly mammoth, whose tusks were used as raw materials
Paleontologists working on the island of Kotelny, a now-uninhabited Siberian island administered by Russia and located within the Arctic circle, have discovered a “weapons factory” where early humans took shards of mammoth tusks and sharpened them into knives and spears. Not only that, but this “weapons factory” was discovered right beside the remains of a felled […]
02/18/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Mars may have developed habitable conditions as early as 4.2 billion years ago
A new study claims that Mars could have been habitable anywhere between 4.2 to 3.5 billion years ago. The authors of this study have adjusted their timeline of when they believe the red planet stopped being bombarded with meteorites to around 4.2 to 3.5 billion years ago. After this period, the scientists believe that Mars became habitable for a time, […]
02/17/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Astronomers detect the earliest example of a “galactic merger”: The two galaxies spotted crashed together 13 BILLION YEARS ago
A galactic merger occurs when two or more galaxies collide. These kinds of galaxy interactions are fairly well-known, as scientists have already found several galaxies they believe are in the process of forming or were formed due to a galactic merger. Even the Milky Way is currently in the process of merging with another galaxy, the […]
02/16/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Scientists uncover link between low tide and earthquakes
Many scientific investigations have been conducted to figure out if there is a connection between the tide and earthquakes. For decades, scientists have failed to understand exactly why there is an uptick in earthquake tremors during low tide. A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, has finally figured out the mysterious link between the two. […]
02/15/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Researchers discover ruins of lost colonial tavern in North Carolina: Cache of artifacts is a “time capsule” of history
At the early stages of the American Revolutionary War in 1776, Brunswick Town, a small coastal town in southeastern colonial North Carolina, was raided by the British Army. They burned most of the homes in the area and, after the war, it was never rebuilt. In 2018, an archaeology student from East Carolina University (ECU) poked around the area using […]
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