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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Aug 27, 2017 1:55 pm

17178
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What Happens to Your Camera Photographing Solar Eclipse Without a Filter
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/19/1617 ... -zoom-lens

Environmentally Friendly Cement
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-greening- ... endly.html

Researchers Use Lasers to Weld Spider Silk to Kevlar [for Spiderman?]
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08 ... to-kevlar/

Toyota Patents Cloaking Device
https://futurism.com/toyota-just-patent ... ng-device/

Robot Buddhist Priest
http://www.ibtimes.com/robot-funeral-hu ... es-2581706

Pet Companion Robot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -DOGS.html

Graffiti Robot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... urals.html

Drones Help Swiss Rescue Dogs Find the Missing
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-drones-swiss-dogs.html

Autonomous Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut at Airports and Hospitals
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/b ... d-airports

Building the Perfect Skywatching House
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/or ... hotography

New Russian MiG interceptor will be able to operate in space at Mach 4 speed
https://www.sott.net/article/359978-New ... ch-4-speed

Automated safety systems are preventing car crashes
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-automated-safety-car.html

High-frequency chip brings researchers closer to next generation technology
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-high-freq ... ology.html

Face scans, robot baggage handlers—airports of the future
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-scans-rob ... uture.html


SCIENCE:

Gaia’s First Full-Colour Sky Map
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-image-gai ... l-sky.html

Test Lab Recreates Innovative Weapons of Stone Age North America
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180964077/

First Underwater Entanglement Could Lead to Unhackable Communication
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... ble-comms/

Iceland: Photos show North American and European tectonic plates pulling apart
https://www.sott.net/article/359792-Ice ... ling-apart

Mysterious microbe discovered in Antarctic may hold keys to puzzle of evolution
https://www.sott.net/article/359861-Mys ... -evolution

Asteroid that killed dinosaurs led to endless night and 18-month winter
https://www.sott.net/article/359880-Sci ... nth-winter

First X-rays from mystery supernovas detected
https://www.sott.net/article/359986-Fir ... s-detected

A new type of gravitational wave has been detected...maybe
https://www.sott.net/article/360128-A-n ... cted-maybe

'Dark DNA' could change thinking on evolution
https://www.sott.net/article/360267-Dar ... -evolution

Was an Eclipse Over Ancient Amarna the Beginning of its End?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/history- ... ght-008640

It’s Raining Diamonds on Neptune
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... iants.html

NASA Monitoring 3 Mile Wide Asteroid
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... -ever.html

Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises Again After 58 Years
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 141218.htm

The origin of binary stars
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-binary-stars.html

Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mars-weat ... ttime.html

Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-analysis- ... erior.html

Researchers explain why our Sun's brightness fluctuates
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-variable- ... uates.html

The moving Martian bow shock
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-martian.html

Astronomers detect methanol maser emission towards nearby galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-astronome ... earby.html

APL proposes Dragonfly mission to explore potential habitable sites on Saturn's largest moon, Titan
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-apl-drago ... ntial.html

Elevated zinc and germanium levels bolster evidence for habitable environments on Mars
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-elevated- ... dence.html

4,500 year old Trading Network Identified in Vietnam
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5857-17 ... de-network

6,000 year old Neolithic Remains Discovered in Istanbul
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... mains.html

Italian Library Fire Kills 3, Destroys Priceless Renaissance Books and Galileo Letters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08 ... struction/

Scandinavia’s Oldest Cup Mark Rocks Found, Dated to 3,000 BCE
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... -rock.html

Oldest Examples of “Tree of Life” Motifs Discovered in Domuztepe Mound, Turkey
https://www.sott.net/article/359587-Old ... und-Turkey

Ancient Earth’s Hot Interior Created a Graveyard of Continents
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-ancient-e ... eyard.html

Britain’s Ancient Villages Lost at Sea 8,000 Years Ago
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/08/an ... ing/116338

Everything is Written Twice ~ on the Ground and in the Sky
http://nit.com.au/astrology/
http://nit.com.au/everything-written-tw ... -part-two/

Babylonian Tablet Rewrites History of Math and Shows Greeks Did Not Invent Trigonometry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... ths-could/

Pottery Analysis Reveals Oldest Italian Winemaking 4,500 Years Ago
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/fir ... 05162.html

The Advanced Copper Tool Industry of Ancient North America
http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/ ... ica-008657

Gosford Glyphs Allegedly Show Egyptians Built Pyramids in Australia
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/g ... australia/

Unicorns Were Real, Lived With Humans, and Weren’t All That Cute
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fairy-tales- ... 07636.html

Global Oceanic Dead Zones Persisted for 50,000 [tiny] Years After End-Triassic Extinction Event
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-global-oc ... isted.html

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 03, 2017 2:44 pm

17891
TECH:

Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-candy-can ... -fast.html

Florida Farmer Hopes [non-union] Robot Pickers Can Help Save Strawberry Industry
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/a ... om/2334855

Shipwrecks to Be Explored Using Virtual Reality
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08 ... r-instead/

Shark-Detecting Drones to Patrol Beaches in Australia [not jellyfish?]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... aches.html

Researchers Develop Home Acoustic Levitator
http://www.sci-news.com/physics/acousti ... 05136.html

Bionic Pop Superstar Going to War For Science [now everyone will want prosthetic limbs]
https://futurism.com/a-bionic-pop-super ... r-science/

Landmine Detonation Balls Could Be Lifesaver in a War Zone
https://futurism.com/videos/detonation- ... -war-zone/

New Headset Lets You Control Your TV with Only Your Mind [Are guns next?]
https://futurism.com/videos/dont-lift-a ... your-mind/

New Braille Smart Watch Tells Time with a Simple Touch
https://futurism.com/videos/a-new-brail ... ple-touch/

Secrets of 200,000 year old Neanderthal Glue
https://gizmodo.com/new-experiment-reve ... 1798636925

Neuroscientist creates mouse neuron based computer chip that can smell explosives
https://www.sott.net/article/360401-Neu ... explosives

Your cell phone could soon be turned into a mobile, scannable version of your "papers" [ID]
https://www.sott.net/article/360478-Tyr ... our-papers

Silicon-based solar cells can reach nearly 36% efficiency
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-collabora ... cells.html

Robots that understand contextual commands
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-robots-contextual.html

The new world of voice shopping
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-world-voice.html


SCIENCE:

Twitter Science is largely dominated by spam bots, paid content promoters, and “monomaniacs”
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuro ... aNM15VK2Uk

Missouri Engineer Works to Solve 4,500 year old Egyptian Pyramids Mystery
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/colu ... 20e29.html

Antiquities Looters Try to Recruit Egyptologists For Help on Social Media
https://www.livescience.com/60246-loote ... -help.html

Skycharting Mobile Apps Can be Astronomical Time Machines
https://www.space.com/38015-sky-chartin ... chine.html

Clever New Water Atlas is All Over the Map
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... yria-isis/

The basis of the Universe may be Information, not energy or matter
https://www.sott.net/article/360360-The ... -or-matter

Saturn's rings may be far younger than previously thought
https://www.sott.net/article/360644-Sat ... ly-thought

Historical observations reveal ancient Nova
https://www.sott.net/article/360679-His ... cient-Nova

AI is unfair to Humans
https://www.sott.net/article/360744-Pro ... -not-great

Mysterious fast radio bursts from deep space go hyperactive
https://www.sott.net/article/360836-Mys ... yperactive

16 stars passing 'Oort cloud' could fire cosmic matter throughout our galaxy
https://www.sott.net/article/360844-16- ... laxy-study

Study reveals new details about Uranus satellite Cressida
https://www.sott.net/article/360966-Flo ... e-Cressida

Best preserved nodosaur has skin, horn and pigments [because it's not so old]
https://www.sott.net/article/361014-Bes ... d-pigments

Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster [probably GIGO]
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-artificia ... llion.html

Was Orion the Heavenly Overlord of Stonehenge?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient- ... nopaging=1

NASA’s Clockwork Venus Rover
https://www.ancient-code.com/nasa-is-cr ... mechanism/

Crushed Crystal Reveals Spookier [fairtale] Entanglement State
https://www.livescience.com/60255-new-q ... ystal.html

Kepler Satellite Discovers Variability in the Seven Sisters
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-kepler-sa ... sters.html

Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests [& by logic]
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-black-hol ... andia.html

Astronomers reveal new insights into physical properties of the young star system ROXs 12
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-astronome ... rties.html

Saturn plunge nears for Cassini spacecraft
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-saturn-pl ... craft.html

Volunteers find 'spiders' on mars - but not where they expected
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-volunteer ... mars-.html

Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-universe.html

House-sized near Earth objects rarer than we thought
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-house-siz ... ought.html

Rrare close star encounters with our sun
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-encounter ... -kind.html

Ancient Egyptian Records Indicate Philistines Weren’t Aegean Pirates After All, but native
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802928

The Widespread Appearance of Neanderthal DNA: Africans Have it Too
http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-or ... nopaging=1

Discovery of 14,000 year old Settlement in Canada Could Rewrite North American History [but they can't be that old]
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ ... n-history/

Ice Age Bones Recovered from Underwater Caves in Mexico
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... 3s2OOFL.97

Facts About the Last Ice Age [maybe]
https://www.livescience.com/40311-pleis ... epoch.html

This is What Happens When You Plot the Nazca Lines
https://www.ancient-code.com/this-is-wh ... re-planet/

4,300 year old Statue Head from Israel Depicts Mystery Egyptian Pharaoh
https://www.livescience.com/60270-ancie ... araoh.html

Study Dates Corn as Staple Crop in Central America 4,300 years ago
http://insider.si.edu/2017/08/study-dat ... years-ago/

Neolithic Caves of Turkey Being Intentionally Dynamited and Submerged
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... Lh3AYHB.97

Research on the Meaning of Ancient Geometric Earthworks in Brazilian Amazonia
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/su ... n-amazonia

New Findings May Evidence Late Pleistocene People in the Americas
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/su ... n-americas

Scientists Reconstruct Paleoindian Bison Hunt from 10,300 year old Bone Bed in Kansas
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article153093719.html

Ice Age Predators [pets] Found Alongside Oldest Human in Americas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... s-science/

Lifting the Veil from Neanderthal Technology
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontolog ... technology

Castle of the Sealand Kings: Discovering Ancient Iraq’s Rebel Rulers
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... bel-rulers

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:39 am

18453
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Unistellar: the Next Generation of Backyard Telescopes
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-uni ... 54362.html

For Devastated Houston Armies of Drones Prove their Worth
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/above-de ... 00884.html

WWII Pigeon Project Led to Modern Touchscreens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... reens.html

John Deere Company Spends $305 Million on Lettuce-Farming Robots
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-john ... 46668.html

Revolutionizing smartphone use
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-technolog ... uture.html

Engineers develop tools to share power from renewable energy sources during outages
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-tools-pow ... urces.html

Nissan's new Leaf electric car
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-nissan-ra ... ivers.html

Water-based lithium-ion batteries without explosive risks now a reality
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-water-bas ... ality.html


SCIENCE:

Machine-Learning Can Predict Simulated Earthquakes by Listening to Fault Lines
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/machine- ... 45933.html

Medium sized [undetectable] black hole 100,000 times bigger than sun discovered near center of Milky Way
https://www.sott.net/article/361113-Med ... -Milky-Way

Giant sunspot unleashes two more powerful solar flares [Auroras coming south]
https://www.sott.net/article/361422-Gia ... uding-X1-3
and https://www.sott.net/article/361328-Sun ... n-a-decade
and https://www.sott.net/article/361538-NAS ... -five-days
and https://www.space.com/38050-solar-storm ... ept-6.html
and http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-h ... ng-auroras
and https://uk.news.yahoo.com/massive-sunsp ... 55127.html

Aftershocks following the 23 August, 2012 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia, increased sharply as Hurricane Irene passed by
https://www.sott.net/article/361463-Hur ... arthquakes

Bacterial biofilms use bursts of electricity to communicate
https://www.sott.net/article/361570-Bac ... ommunicate

NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Florence Has Two Moons
http://www.sci-news.com/space/asteroid- ... 05190.html

Fossilized Cosmic Dust in the White Cliffs of Dover
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-scientist ... liffs.html

Asteroid Strike and Tsunami May Have Caused Britain’s Floods of 1014
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aste ... -kq0n93q53

Stellar corpse sheds light on origin of cosmic rays
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-stellar-c ... -rays.html

Two distant hypervelocity stars discovered by Chinese astronomers
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-distant-h ... omers.html

Shocking discovery explains powerful novae
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-discovery ... novae.html

The most metal-poor dwarf star-forming galaxy found
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-metal-poo ... alaxy.html

'Extreme' telescopes find the second-fastest-spinning pulsar [But do they spin?]
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-extreme-t ... ulsar.html

Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch [or sign of not spinning]
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-accretion ... litch.html

Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-discovery ... ility.html

Study of Uranus suggests some of its moons are on a collision course
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-uranus-mo ... ision.html

X-rays reveal temperament of possible planet-hosting stars
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-x-rays-re ... stars.html

Jupiter's aurora presents a powerful mystery
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-jupiter-a ... stery.html

New Horizons spacecraft to view MU69 asteroids in Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... hird-zone/

Minimal Geological Methane Emissions During Younger Dryas
https://www.environmentguru.com/pages/e ... id=5368567

Constructing an Obelisk: How the True Rocks of Eternity Were Made
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... nopaging=1

Does the Dendera Zodiac Represent the Most Ancient Astronomy?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... nopaging=1

Ancient Metallurgy Likely has More than One Birthplace
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/09/me ... ace/116389

Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Linked to Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Change
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-massive-a ... inked.html

New Radiocarbon Dating Technique on Neanderthal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ought.html

People May Have Lived in Brazil Over 20,000 years ago [way less]
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scienc ... -years-ago

Neolithic Irish Death Rites Included Deconstruction of Bodies
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php ... f-the-body

Ancient Settlement and its Ceramics Recreated in Cyprus
http://in-cyprus.com/ancient-site-reurrected/

Neolithic Mound in Turkey Dates Back 8,600 Years
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... ed-in.html

The Lost Second Sphinx of Giza
https://www.ancient-code.com/lost-sphin ... -pyramids/

Archaeological Find in British Columbia Affirms Heilsuk Nation’s 14,000 year old Oral History [or way less]
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/brit ... -1.4046088

Neanderthal Site in Spain: Rich Remains of Human Occupation Over 60,000 years ago
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... JKkO6LY.97

Newark, UK, Housing Construction Unearths Neolithic Finds From 4,000 BC
https://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/201 ... using-site

Mystery of What Was Killing Ancient Parchments Solved
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.811076

Mind-Boggling Mysteries of the Great Pyramid
http://www.collective-evolution.com/201 ... -built-it/

Unexpected Finds Boost Mystery at Bolivia’s Tiahuanaco Citadel
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0007.html

Ancient Egyptian Goldsmith’s Tomb Discovered in Luxor
https://www.livescience.com/60364-ancie ... egypt.html

Archaeologists Shed Light on Alaska’s Tlingit Culture 10,000 Years Before Europeans
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/09/08/ ... europeans/

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:56 pm

19086
TECH:

European Winegrowers Turn to Robots To Increase Competitiveness
http://www.euronews.com/2017/09/04/euro ... titiveness

Brain Composer—'thinking' melodies onto a musical score
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-brain-com ... score.html

American Red Cross Officially Launching First Drone Program for Disasters
https://futurism.com/the-red-cross-offi ... disasters/

High-Tech Electronics Made from Autumn Leaves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 113813.htm

Quest to Put a 1967 Self-Balancing Car Back on Its Feet
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quest-pu ... 00193.html

UK wind electricity cheaper than nuclear
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-uk-electr ... clear.html

Making lithium-ion batteries safer, stronger
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-lithium-i ... onger.html

Foldable drone for emergencies
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-drone-las ... ivery.html

New manufacturing process for the more efficient SiC to power devices
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-sic-power ... ition.html

Rickshaws to jump start India's all-electric drive
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-rickshaws ... ctric.html

China's mysterious 'physics-defying' EmDrive could allow journey to Mars in weeks
https://www.sott.net/article/361853-Chi ... s-in-weeks

Restrain your baby and let the robo-crib rock them to sleep?
https://www.sott.net/article/361895-Res ... m-to-sleep


SCIENCE:
Researchers Create First Global Map of Water in Moon’s Soil
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-global-moon-soil.html

International Space Station forced to seek shelter during massive solar flare
https://www.sott.net/article/361722-Int ... olar-flare

Plants form memories
https://www.sott.net/article/361764-The ... m-memories

Face-reading AI will be able to detect your politics and IQ
https://www.sott.net/article/361928-Fac ... ics-and-IQ

Creating radio-induced auroras with HAARP
https://www.sott.net/article/362051-Cre ... with-HAARP

Mysterious 'earthquake lights' explained after Mexico's huge quake?
https://www.sott.net/article/362054-Mys ... huge-quake

Genetically modified ant could replace honey bees
https://www.sott.net/article/362171-Mon ... honey-bees

Does the Organic Material of Comets Predate Our Solar System?
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... VDRi7iG.97

The Significance of Time Crystals
https://www.space.com/38100-the-signifi ... stals.html

Seven Massive Solar Flares Erupt in Seven Days
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/seven-massive ... 14481.html

Astronomers for the first time have measured how a galaxy's spin affects its shape
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-astronome ... shape.html

Astronomers resolve mystery of white dwarf's mass
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-astronome ... -mass.html

A one-of-a-kind star found to change over decades
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-one-of-a- ... cades.html

Pulsar jackpot reveals globular cluster's inner structure
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-pulsar-ja ... uster.html

Research provides evidence of ground-ice on asteroids
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-evidence- ... roids.html

New gravity map suggests Mars has a porous crust
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-gravity-m ... crust.html

New supernova analysis reframes dark energy debate
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-supernova ... nergy.html

New theory on origin of the asteroid belt
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-theory-asteroid-belt.html

Hubble captures blistering pitch-black planet
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-hubble-ca ... lanet.html

Venus' mysterious night side revealed[/url]
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-venus-mys ... aturn.html

Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh with Gigantism Identified
https://www.livescience.com/60044-ancie ... giant.html

Ancient Elephant was 50 Percent Bigger than Modern Cousins
http://www.realclearscience.com/article ... 10380.html

Did Humans and Columbian Mammoths Co-exist 12,000 years ago in Florida?
http://www.thebatt.com/science-technolo ... 234b3.html

Mobile Women Were Key to Cultural Exchange in Stone Age and Bronze Age Europe
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fa ... age-europe

Ankle Fossil Suggests our Ancient Ancestors Leapt Like Acrobats
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146797/

West Coast Rising: 14,000 years ago in Peru
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fa ... ast-rising

Earliest Manmade Climate Change Took Place 11,500 Years Ago
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/06/ma ... ago/115470

Discovering the World’s Oldest Religious Site
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fa ... gious-site

Ancient Writings in Turkey Date Back 4,000 Years
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancien ... sCatID=375

Ancient Babylon: Center of Mesopotamian Civilization
https://www.livescience.com/28701-ancie ... ation.html

Fossil footprints of early human ancestor stolen from Crete
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... pVYvA7k.99

The Inga Stone: an Ancient Monument Depicting a Rare Star Map
https://www.ancient-code.com/written-in ... -star-map/

Uluburun Shipwreck
http://www.ancient.eu/Uluburun_Shipwreck/

Ancient Asteroid Generated Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded on Earth
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-bri ... bs6R5VK2Uk

Preserving and Deciphering Ancient Rock Art in Texas
http://voices.nationalgeographic.org/20 ... -in-texas/

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Sep 24, 2017 11:43 am

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First Quantum Computers Need Smart Software
http://www.nature.com/news/first-quantu ... re-1.22590

New Computer Chip Can Store Quantum Information in the Form of Light
https://futurism.com/a-new-computer-chi ... -of-light/

Underwater Ironman Jetpack Propels the Weakest Swimmers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mmers.html

Super Sticky Remora Robot Clings Underwater Like Hitchhiker Fish
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/super-st ... 00747.html

A solar cell you can put in the wash
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-solar-cell.html

Intel chips loaded in Waymo self-driving minivans
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-intel-chi ... ivans.html

World's first wireless charger
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-startup-p ... -cord.html

Actuator three times stronger solved a long-standing issue in the creation of untethered soft robots
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-soft-robo ... onger.html

Security cameras are vulnerable to attacks using infrared light
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-cameras-v ... rared.html

Doorbell that can recognize familiar faces
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-labs-door ... iliar.html

Superfast lightwaves can be slowed to store data on a computer chip
https://www.sott.net/article/362276-Sup ... chip-study

French scientists create bizarre magnetic material
https://www.sott.net/article/362441-Fre ... c-material


SCIENCE:

Millions of ‘Citizen Scientists’ are Transforming Our World from their Homes
https://futurism.com/millions-citizen-s ... eir-homes/

30,000 year old Cave Paintings Discovered in Cantabria, Spain
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spanish-resear ... gs-1639118

History of the Technology of Bow and Arrow Hunting
https://www.thoughtco.com/bow-and-arrow ... ry-4135970

Virtual Reality Breathes New Life into African Fossils, Art, and Artifacts
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-virtual-r ... ssils.html

New technique spots warning signs of extreme events
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-technique ... vents.html

Doubt cast on what causes the northern lights
https://www.sott.net/article/362393-Dou ... ern-lights

Astronomers baffled to discover stars that appear older than the universe
https://www.sott.net/article/362425-Ast ... e-universe

The reasons why Mexico is terribly prone to the occurrence of earthquakes
https://www.sott.net/article/362430-The ... arthquakes

Herschel: Discovering the cosmic water trail in Taurus star nursery
https://www.sott.net/article/362493-Her ... ater-trail

Neanderthals may have died out due to competition with homo sapiens for food resources
https://www.sott.net/article/362551-Nea ... -resources

Data shows massive Arctic Ice gain over past five years
https://www.sott.net/article/362566-Dat ... five-years

Hubble spots 'unique' binary asteroid between Mars and Jupiter
https://www.sott.net/article/362582-NAS ... nd-Jupiter

Unique 'ring comet' discovered by Hubble telescope
https://www.sott.net/article/362584-Uni ... -telescope

Scientists hypothesize heat-pipe cooling was involved in evolution of all terrestrial planets including early Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/362605-Sci ... arly-Earth

Milky Way could be an outlier, not 'normal', its satellites are more tranquil
https://www.sott.net/article/362610-Ast ... ally-quiet

Researchers can now store light as sound waves to improve data processing
https://www.sott.net/article/362634-Bot ... processing

Advanced life may exist in a form beyond matter
https://www.sott.net/article/362656-Adv ... ond-matter

Research suggests gravity waves have influence over weather and climate
https://www.sott.net/article/362710-Res ... nd-climate

The Most Mysterious Anomalies of Mars
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-most-myst ... rs-4123208

Nanosat Fleet Proposed for Voyage to 300 Asteroids
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-nanosat-f ... roids.html

Comet Turns Out to Be Two Dancing Asteroids Circling Each Other
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... roids.html

Astronomers Plan for New Telescope in Antarctica
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-14/a ... ca/8945828

X-ray burst spotted in the galactic bulge
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-x-ray-galactic-bulge.html

Secrets of bright, rapidly spinning star revealed
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-secrets-b ... ealed.html

V745 Sco: Two stars, irregular outbursts
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-v745-sco- ... odles.html

New quasar discovered
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-quasar-astronomers.html

New research suggests Mercury's poles are icier than scientists thought
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-mercury-p ... ought.html

Ageing star blows off smoky bubble
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-ageing-star-smoky.html

Fast radio bursts may be firing off every second
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-fast-radio.html

Mythbusting the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/232 ... nd-reality

Dynastic Egypt Timeline: 2,700 years of Change in Egyptian Society
https://www.thoughtco.com/dynastic-egyp ... ne-4147743

Upper Paleolithic Mammoth Bone Settlement in Ukraine
https://www.thoughtco.com/mezhirich-mam ... ent-171805

7,200 year old Silo Model in Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.811906

Evidence for Ancient Egyptians Sailing to America 5,000 years ago
https://www.ancient-code.com/5000-years ... -evidence/

The 40,000 Year History of Shoes
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-shoes-170943

Blackwater Draw: 12,000 years of Hunting in New Mexico
https://www.thoughtco.com/blackwater-dr ... ico-170385

List of Nature Goddesses From Around the World
https://www.thoughtco.com/nature-goddesses-4149818

Dust Deposits Give New Insights into History of the Sahara
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/07/du ... ara/115996

Studies of ‘Crater Capital’ in Estonia Shows Impactful History
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-crater-ca ... story.html

Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Sub-Saharan African History
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-en ... t-41348087

Abu Hureyra: Early Agriculture in Syria’s Euphrates Valley
https://www.thoughtco.com/abu-hureyra-syria-170017

Younger Dryas Black Mat in Geoarchaeological Site in Zacatecas, Mexico
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... cas_Mexico

The Eye of Horus (Wadjet): Ancient Egyptian Symbol
https://www.thoughtco.com/eye-of-horus- ... mbol-96013

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New Nano-clay Shelf-Life Extending Packaging Film
https://www.dailysabah.com/science/2017 ... -packaging

Dubai Testing Two-Person Flying Taxi Drones
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/1636 ... volocopter

NASA tests first 3-D printed rocket engine part made with two different alloys
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-nasa-d-rocket-alloys.html

Self-driving cars could dramatically reduce the road toll
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-self-driv ... -toll.html

Team builds flexible new platform for high-performance electronics
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-team-flex ... onics.html

Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov unveils a flying motorbike
https://www.sott.net/article/363038-Rus ... -motorbike

Travel anywhere on Earth in under an hour with Elon Musk's 'Big F Rocket'
https://www.sott.net/article/363294-Tra ... ing-Rocket

Russia develops electromagnetic weapons which could 'neutralize entire armies'
https://www.sott.net/article/363342-Rus ... ire-armies

Lockheed Martin unveils reusable water-powered Mars lander
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-lockheed- ... wered.html


SCIENCE:
Aerial Thermal Imagery is Revolutionizing Archaeology
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/09/ae ... ogy/116601

Meteorite impacts may have created Earth's tectonic plates
https://www.sott.net/article/362866-Met ... nic-plates

Clearest image of a star's surface and atmosphere other than the Sun
https://www.sott.net/article/363001-Cle ... an-the-Sun

Russia and US to create new space station in moon's orbit
https://www.sott.net/article/363033-Rus ... oons-orbit

Shedding more light on the 1572 supernova in Cassiopeia
https://www.sott.net/article/363056-She ... Cassiopeia

Climate changes can spur volcanoes into life
https://www.sott.net/article/363081-Cli ... -into-life

Physicists create a mathematical model for a viable time machine (A clock?)
https://www.sott.net/article/363170-Phy ... me-machine

Comet K2 - farthest active inbound comet ever seen
https://www.sott.net/article/363189-Com ... -ever-seen

'Jupiter is not a gas giant' - Juno Jupiter mystery
https://www.sott.net/article/363282-Jup ... er-mystery

Genetic study suggests much older origin for Homo sapiens species, evolutionary split may have occurred up to 350K years ago
https://www.sott.net/article/363318-Gen ... -years-ago

Strong solar blast sparks global aurora and doubles radiation levels on the surface of Mars
https://www.sott.net/article/363391-Str ... ce-of-Mars

Ancient Lake on Mars Was Hospitable Enough to Support Life
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive ... port-life/

The UAE is Building a Mock Martian City in the Desert
http://www.sciencealert.com/to-prepare- ... y-on-earth

Astronomers study the extended stellar structure around the globular cluster NGC 288
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-astronome ... r-ngc.html

Progenitor for Tycho's supernova was not hot and luminous
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-progenito ... inous.html

The strange structures of the Saturn nebula
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-strange-s ... ebula.html

Solving the mystery of Pluto's giant blades of ice
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-mystery-p ... s-ice.html
Video: https://youtu.be/rSKQwwWehEs

LIGO and Virgo observatories detect gravitational wave signals from black hole collision
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-ligo-virg ... -hole.html

The volatile processes that shaped the Earth
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-volatile-earth.html

Study sheds new light on how Earth and Mars were created
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-earth-mars.html

Moon village the first stop to Mars
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-moon-vill ... s-esa.html

Bursting with starbirth
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-starbirth.html

Unexpected surprise: A final image from Rosetta
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-unexpecte ... setta.html

A fresh look at older data yields a surprise near the martian equator
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-fresh-old ... uator.html

Art of the Amarna Period
https://www.ancient.eu/article/1110/the ... na-period/

Storytelling Flints and an Oxen Ford, UK
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news ... gy_begins/

Ancient Egyptian Viziers
https://www.ancient.eu/Ancient_Egyptian_Vizier/

SC Scientist Leads Team that Finds Evidence of Possible Comet Impact 12,800 years ago
http://www.aikenstandard.com/news/local ... 4e91f.html

Clovis Comet? Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Gets a Bayesian Beating ~ and Survives!
http://www.theironsamurai.com/clovis-comet/

The History of Sun Worship [Saturn]
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-su ... ip-2562246

Ancient Underwater Forest off Alabama Coast
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environ ... st-n804496

Ancient Papyri Reveal First-Person Diary of Giza Pyramid Builder
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 65916.html

11,500 year old Settlement Unearthed at Hasankeyf Turkey
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/11500- ... sCatID=375

First Americans May Have Been Neanderthals or Denisovans 130,000 years ago
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... years-ago/

Late Neolithic People in Spain May Have Had Class System
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ystem.html

Ancient Native American Rock Art Rescued From Wyoming Warehouse
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Anci ... 237603.php

11,000 year old, 13 foot long Boat Petroglyph Discovered in Norway
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5948-1 ... glyph-boat

Top 10 Rare Discoveries Involving Ancient Rituals
http://listverse.com/2017/09/01/top-10- ... t-rituals/

Geologists Decipher Evidence of Ancient Tsunami in California
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-geologist ... cient.html

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

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Armor of Tomorrow Inspired by These 3 Animals
https://www.popsci.com/animals-inspire-armor

Merge Cube Augmented Reality Toy
https://www.i4u.com/2017/10/124736/hot- ... eality-toy

Drones Are Keeping Watch on Arctic’s Polar Bear Population
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/drone ... dVkDZVe6Uk

Ping pong robot takes on Olympian at Tokyo tech fair
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ping-pong ... tokyo.html

Two intelligent vehicles are better than one
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-intelligent-vehicles.html

Boeing boosts tech investment in hybrid, autonomous planes
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-boeing-bo ... ybrid.html

Future of news: bracing for next wave of technology
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-future-ne ... ology.html

Epic world solar car race begins in Australia
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-epic-worl ... ralia.html

New material developed that efficiently extracts hydrogen fuel from seawater
https://www.sott.net/article/363824-New ... m-seawater


SCIENCE:

Public invited to test new tool to study earth using photos taken by International Space Station astronauts
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-tool-eart ... space.html

How a Videogame Developer Painstakingly Recreated Ancient Egypt
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... pt-ubisoft

Is gravity an electrical phenomenon? Louis Hissink
https://www.sott.net/article/363429-Is- ... phenomenon

House-sized asteroid will come 'damn close' to Earth next week as it passes only 27,000 miles away
https://www.sott.net/article/363452-Hou ... miles-away

Study suggests methane belches kept water flowing on ancient Mars
https://www.sott.net/article/363559-Stu ... cient-Mars

Study reveals world's tropical forests are now carbon emission source
https://www.sott.net/article/363640-Stu ... ion-source

Scientists suggest a synthetic crystal can mimic learning and forgetting
https://www.sott.net/article/363682-Sci ... forgetting

Physicists send particles of light into the "past"
https://www.sott.net/article/363692-Phy ... s-possible

Scientists find water on Mars where they thought none could exist
https://www.sott.net/article/363799-Sci ... ould-exist

Hidden 'megathrust' could cause massive earthquake in New Zealand
https://www.sott.net/article/363810-Hid ... ew-Zealand

Global wind speeds slowing since 1960, but "nobody" knows why
https://www.sott.net/article/363866-Glo ... -knows-why

Uncovering deep sleep's role in visual learning
https://www.sott.net/article/363912-Unc ... l-learning

Dog-Killing Meteorite Rewrote Mars’ Volcanic History
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-bri ... dVj7JVe6Uk

Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon’s Interior
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ancient-a ... -moon.html

What We Can Learn From the Ghostly Myths Behind the Northern Lights
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/learn-g ... 00483.html

Observations of a Red Aurora Over 1770 Kyoto Japan Help Diagnose Extreme Magnetic Storm
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... T6sQ54g.97

New insights on dark energy
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-insights-dark-energy.html

Hubble catches galaxies swarmed by star clusters
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-image-hub ... -star.html

Researchers conduct more accurate chemical analysis of the star 68 Tauri
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-accurate- ... tauri.html

Milky way's most-mysterious dimming star
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-milky-mos ... found.html

Mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star may be caused by dust
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mysteriou ... -star.html

Surface helium detonation spells end for white dwarf
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-surface-h ... dwarf.html

Examining Mars' moon Phobos in a different light
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mars-moon-phobos.html

Unexpected phenomenon in a merger of a cluster of galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-unexpecte ... axies.html

New NASA study shows moon once had an atmosphere
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nasa-moon-atmosphere.html

Telescope attachment improves viewing of space
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-telescope ... space.html

Mars study yields clues to possible cradle of life
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mars-yiel ... -life.html

How Scientists Are Piecing Together the Story of Ancient Americans
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-01/ ... -americans

18 Shipwrecks Discovered Off Southern Coast of Turkey
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... 5gbrYKK.97

Volcanoes Erupt Nickel, Giving Clues About Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction
http://www.ibtimes.com/volcanoes-erupt- ... on-2596310

The Real Reason Ancient Indo-Europeans Carried Out Human Sacrifice
http://www.ancient-origins.net/history- ... nopaging=1

Ancient Humans Left Africa to Escape Drying Climate
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ancient-h ... imate.html

Tracing Oral Histories to Solve Longstanding Human-Migration Puzzle
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ed/541764/

Gypsum Head of Akhenaten Statue Unearthed in Egypt’s Minya
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... tatue.html

Ancient Egyptian Queen’s Obelisk Unearthed in Saqqara
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... nopaging=1

The Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/ ... ok-of.html

Unearthing a Large Neolithic House in Scotland’s Ayrshire
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot. ... HcMQycE.97

Antarctic Underwater Ecosystem Hidden for 120,000 Years [or days] Revealed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ealed.html

5 Pyramids of the Ancient World You May Not Have Heard About
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient- ... nopaging=1

New Excavations Confirm Spain’s El Pendo Cave as Continuous Neanderthal Settlement
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot. ... ukJbg3h.97

3,200 year old Stone Inscription Tells Tale of Trojan Prince Muskus and the Sea Kingdom of Mira
https://www.livescience.com/60629-ancie ... eople.html

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

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World’s First Solar Powered Smartwatch Coming in December
http://www.greenmatters.com/news/2017/0 ... smartwatch

Recycled Oyster Shells Make Eco-Friendly Cement
http://www.greenmatters.com/renewables/ ... -renewable

Egypt’s New Farm City Will House 50,000 Smart Greenhouses
http://www.greenmatters.com/news/2017/0 ... pt-sk-city

Google Sends Solar Powered Balloons to Bring Cell Service Back to Puerto Rico
http://www.greenmatters.com/news/2017/1 ... k-coverage

Proposed Green Eco-Resort in Philippines
http://www.greenmatters.com/living/2017 ... hillipines

Dutch Company Training Crows to Trade Littered Cigarette Butts for Treats
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... butts.html

New Headphones Will Allow You to Understand 40 Languages
http://www.collective-evolution.com/201 ... -language/

Airborne LiDAR, photogrammetry and laser scanning performed at Nebraska ruins
http://btn.com/2017/10/14/nebraska-arch ... n-livebig/

Singapore's first robot masseuse starts work
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-singapore ... seuse.html

Battery based on sodium may offer more cost-effective storage than lithium
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-battery-b ... orage.html

Ingestible devices sense movement and ingestion in the stomach, harness power from GI tract movement
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ingestibl ... omach.html

Soft robotic gripper can screw in light bulbs
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-soft-robo ... bulbs.html

Researchers work to mitigate water scarcity crisis with solar-powered devices made of wood
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mitigate- ... vices.html

'Air-breathing' battery could cut costs of renewable energy storage
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-storage-r ... ethis.html

Ceramic pump moves molten metal at a record 1,400 degrees Celsius
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ceramic-m ... lsius.html

Futuristic solar-powered Dutch family car
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-futuristi ... y-car.html


SCIENCE:

Staying Longer at Home was Key to Stone Age Technology Change 60,000 Years Ago
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-ho ... e-age.html

Scientists develop machine-learning method to predict the behavior of molecules
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... cules.html

Engineers identify key to albatross' marathon flight
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-key-albat ... light.html

Is asking whether we live in a simulation scientific?
https://www.sott.net/article/363975-Is- ... scientific

Comet 01-ASAS-SN brightens unexpectedly
https://www.sott.net/article/363999-Com ... expectedly

Thunderbolts Space News: 'Dirty snowballs' falsified
https://www.sott.net/article/364003-Thu ... -to-notice

Scientists have finally found half of the universe's missing matter
https://www.sott.net/article/364121-Sci ... ing-matter

Dr. Henry Bauer interview discussing the corruption of science
https://www.sott.net/article/364154-Dr- ... of-science

Puzzling spike in radioactive particles across Europe, baffles scientists
https://www.sott.net/article/364163-Puz ... scientists

NASA shares detailed images of Martian pits believed to have been formed by glaciers
https://www.sott.net/article/364245-NAS ... y-glaciers

Human brain remembers visual features in reverse order than it detects them
https://www.sott.net/article/364300-Par ... tects-them

Quantum physicists say that living in a matrix is impossible
https://www.sott.net/article/364512-Qua ... impossible

Researchers discover secret of perovskite crystal's strong photoluminescence
https://www.sott.net/article/364519-Res ... minescence

Recent Solar Storm Sparked Global Aurora on Mars
http://www.sci-news.com/space/solar-sto ... 05278.html

NASA Press Release Announces Planet Nine [probably hype]
https://futurism.com/nasa-press-release ... %20planet/

NASA’s Carbon Space Observatory Watches Earth Breathe
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41604760

Glycolaldehyde and ethylene glycol detected around giant molecular cloud Sagittarius B2
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-glycolald ... %20b2.html

Scientists discover more about the ingredients for star formation
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... ation.html

New theory on why the sun's corona is hotter than its surface
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-theory-su ... rface.html

Two separate teams of astronomers find evidence of missing Baryonic matter
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-teams-ast ... yonic.html

Scientists discover one of the most luminous 'new stars' ever
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... stars.html

Devourer of planets? Researchers dub star 'Kronos'
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-devourer- ... ronos.html

An algorithm for helicopters may help envision the formation of planets and galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-spacevia-helicopter.html

Astronomers discover unusual spindle-like galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-astronome ... axies.html

Astronomers find potential solution into how planets form
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-astronome ... anets.html

On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-solar-spi ... venic.html

Real Roots of Early City States May Rip Up the Textbooks
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... textbooks/

Andean Copper Age
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/269- ... opper-mask

Volcanic Eruptions that Shaped Oregon May Have Had Chilling Effect
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/co ... %20climate

The Big Egyptian Sphinx Cover-Up: Hidden Chambers, an Unexcavated Mound, and Endless Denial
http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplai ... nopaging=1

Partial Statues of King Psamtik I, Ramses II, and Ra-Horakhti Discovered in Egypt
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/10/pa ... ypt/117044

Newfoundland Populated Multiple Times by Distinct Groups
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fa ... ence-shows

South Americans Did Not Populate Easter Island
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... sland.html

The Mysterious Tribe of Blue Eyed Native Americans
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/10/t ... americans/

How Osiris, First Ruler of Egypt, Became God of the Underworld
http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-or ... nopaging=1

Ancient Egyptian Pyramidion Found Hints at Queen’s Lost Chamber
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-egypt ... 27149.html

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

Unread post by Lloyd » Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:21 pm

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Not Your Average Beach House
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-s ... each-house

The Science Behind the New Weather-Fueled Doomsday Film “Geostorm”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180965303/

NASA’s Robotic Psyche Asteroid Mission to Communicate Using Lasers
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... scope.html

Butterfly-Inspired Robot Undergoes Mechanical Metamorphosis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inn ... f8563aefc7

Scientists create most powerful micro-scale bio-solar cell yet
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... -cell.html

Dutch open 'world's first 3D-printed bridge'
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-dutch-wor ... ridge.html

Electric jet startup could become 'Uber in the sky'
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-electric- ... r-sky.html

Snake-like robots to support search-and-rescue teams
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-autonomou ... teams.html

Enhancing solar power with diatoms
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-solar-power-diatoms.html

Ion thruster breaks power, propulsion records
https://www.sott.net/article/364633-NAS ... on-records

Russian company floats brand new hydrofoil passenger ship after two-decade pause
https://www.sott.net/article/365085-Rus ... cade-pause


SCIENCE:

Historians Claim to Have Found the Twin of Giza’s Great Sphinx
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/10/h ... at-sphinx/

Google Maps Now Lets You Explore Space
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... space.html

Observatory in Argentina detects extragalactic cosmic rays reaching Earth, and will help in locating their source
https://www.sott.net/article/364546-Obs ... eir-source

Scientists witness of gravitational waves and light from colliding of two neutron stars
https://www.sott.net/article/364594-Sci ... tron-stars

More than 30,000 biological studies could be wrong due to widespread cell contamination dating back 60 years
https://www.sott.net/article/364666-New ... k-60-years

Research sheds new light on how Earth and Mars were created
https://www.sott.net/article/364707-Res ... re-created

Missing mass - what is causing a geoid low in the Indian Ocean?
https://www.sott.net/article/364748-Mis ... dian-Ocean

Waves in lakes make waves in the earth
https://www.sott.net/article/364784-Wav ... ce-geology

Huge cavern beneath moon's surface which could be suitable for lunar astronaut base
https://www.sott.net/article/364835-Jap ... onaut-base

Evidence that Planet Nine does exist
https://www.sott.net/article/364857-Is- ... tant-rocks

Greenland ice stream retreated during the Younger Dryas period
https://www.sott.net/article/364939-Gre ... yas-period

Our 'freakish' galaxy
https://www.sott.net/article/364942-Why ... -they-know

<CNPS> Most scientific papers end up drawing wrong conclusions
https://www.sott.net/article/364947-Its ... onclusions

Bus-sized asteroid heading for Earth after string of near-miss encounters
https://www.sott.net/article/365034-Bus ... encounters

Supernova theory explains global warming, extinction events, ice ages says engineer
https://www.sott.net/article/365056-Sup ... s-engineer

Scientists are mapping an Atlas of the inner Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/365107-Sci ... h-our-feet

<CNPS> Does science need more mavericks?
https://www.sott.net/article/365111-Doe ... -mavericks

Martian rotating 'magnetotail' may be contributing to the destruction of its atmosphere
https://www.sott.net/article/365142-Mar ... atmosphere

Star that Eats Planets for Breakfast
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hail-kronos-s ... 02332.html

Ring Discovered Around Potato-Shaped Dwarf Planet Haumea
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017 ... ea/9034498

How the Sun, Moon and Stars Appear in Ancient Mayan Astronomy
https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-maya- ... my-2136314

The Solar-Powered Asteroid Nursery at the Orbit of Mars
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-solar-pow ... -mars.html

Tribes of India Tell Their Own Stories of Celestial Bodies
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/t ... 699686.ece

Dark Matter Maps: Charting the Unseen Sky
http://discovermagazine.com/2017/nov/ch ... unseen-sky

The remarkable jet of the quasar 4C+19.44
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-remarkabl ... c1944.html

Microbes leave 'fingerprints' on Martian rocks
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-microbes- ... rtian.html

To keep Saturn's A ring contained, its moons stand united
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-saturn-moons.html

Earth's new traveling buddy is definitely an asteroid, not space junk
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-earth-bud ... -junk.html

Scientists dig into the origin of organics on Ceres
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientists-ceres.html

Spinning comet observed to rapidly slow down during close approach to Earth
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-comet-rap ... earth.html

Samples brought back from asteroid reveal 'rubble pile' had a violent past
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-samples-b ... ubble.html

Scientist sees evidence of planet formation in narrow rings of other solar systems
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... arrow.html

Neolithic Settlement Found in Western Iran
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... x49DOYf.97

40,000 Years of Rock Art in Gobustan, Azerbaijan
https://www.azernews.az/travel/120413.html

Earth Nearly Froze Over When Today’s Coal was First Buried
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10 ... -snowball/

Temple of Ramses II Discovered in Luxor’s Abusir Necropolis
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... luxor.html

400 Mysterious Ancient Stone Structures Discovered in Saudi Arabia
https://www.livescience.com/60698-myste ... rabia.html

Volcanic Eruptions in Russia and Alaska Could Have Starved Ancient Egyptians
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencen ... story.html

The Lost Mountains of Karoo Reveal Secrets of Earth’s Biggest Mass Extinction Event
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... .html#more

4,000 year old Scandinavian Bronze Age Petroglyphs Became Sacred Symbols of Georgia’s Creek Indians
https://www.ancient-code.com/4000-year- ... k-indians/

Aftermath of the Great Collision: Fascinating Fossils of the Himalayas
http://www.thehindu.com/society/history ... 882356.ece

Massive Underground City in Turkey Once Housed 20,000 People
http://mymodernmet.com/derinkuyu-underground-city/

Fossil Coral Reefs Show Sea Level Rose in Bursts During Last Warming
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 100954.htm

Younger Dryas Ice Stream Retreats Under a Cold Climate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 100802.htm

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Tree-Planting Drones Are Re-Seeding Forests with 100,000 Plants a Day
http://mymodernmet.com/biocarbon-engine ... restation/

Cave Hotels Transform Ancient Dwellings into Luxurious Vacation Stays
http://mymodernmet.com/cappadocia-cave-hotels/

Scientists write 'traps' for light with tiny ink droplets
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... plets.html

Passive solar windows heat up in cold weather
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-passive-s ... ather.html

New research findings could lead to safer and more powerful lithium-ion batteries
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-safer-pow ... eries.html

Proteins can be made to conduct electricity like a metal
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-heavy-met ... icity.html

AI method to upscale low-resolution to higher resolution images
https://www.sott.net/article/365711-AI- ... ion-images


SCIENCE:

How Glaciers Disappeared from Scotland at the End of the Last Ice Age
http://phys.org/news/2017-10-glaciers-s ... e-age.html

There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One
http://www.sciencealert.com/artificial- ... sciousness

Cataclysms: A Lifetime Spent Chasing Planetary Catastrophe
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... tastrophe/

Ionospheric cold plasma discovered at the magnetopause
https://www.sott.net/article/365340-Ion ... gnetopause

First-known interstellar comet spotted by astronomers
https://www.sott.net/article/365429-Fir ... stronomers

NASA's Twins Study shows genes alter faster in space than on Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/365532-NAS ... n-on-Earth

The bizarre behaviour of anti-matter has scientists saying universe shouldn't exist
https://www.sott.net/article/365591-The ... ldnt-exist

Dwarf planet Ceres may have had an ocean
https://www.sott.net/article/365680-NAS ... d-an-ocean

Juno mission finds that Jupiter's gravitational field is askew
https://www.sott.net/article/365759-Jun ... d-is-askew

Magic Mirrors of the Ancients: Were Telescopes Used in Ancient Times?
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/10/m ... ent-times/

How Ancient Aztec Chroniclers Recorded Venus: Smoke Without Fire
https://www.sott.net/article/362367-How ... thout-fire

Oral Accounts of Aboriginal Australians Referenced Red Giant Stars
https://www.sott.net/article/364398-Ora ... red-giants

Thorium-232 Evidence Suggests a Collision and Several Close Cometary Encounters in the Last 2,000 Years
https://www.sott.net/article/361998-Evi ... 2000-years

Official Inside Story of the Tabby Star Controversy
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... versy.html

Rosetta Mission Jet Burst
https://www.space.com/38590-frozen-come ... amera.html

Where Are All the Goodwill Moon Rocks from Apollo 17?
http://www.collectspace.com/resources/m ... dwill.html

Giant Glowing Orb Photographed in Sky Over Siberia
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/clima ... sion-fears

The atmospheres of water worlds
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-atmospheres-worlds.html

Researchers reveal insights into the nature of an extremely massive galaxy cluster
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-reveal-in ... ssive.html

Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-artificia ... dates.html

Spots on supergiant star drive spirals in stellar wind
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-supergian ... ellar.html

Wave nature of delocalized electrons in defective hydrocarbons at the origin of cosmic infrared emission
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nature-de ... rbons.html

Comet mission reveals 'missing link' in our understanding of planet formation
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-comet-mis ... lanet.html

Winters on Mars are shaping the Red Planet's landscape
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-winters-m ... scape.html

September 2017's intense solar activity viewed from space
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-september ... space.html

The Mysterious Pyramids of Ancient Nubia
http://www.buro247.sg/lifestyle/travel/ ... sudan.html

World’s Oldest Fossil Tree in China Reveals Complex Anatomy Never Seen Before
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-fossils-w ... eveal.html

Vietnamese Farmer Discovers Spectacular 5 million year old Sơn Đoòng Cave
https://www.sott.net/article/363659-Vie ... rgest-cave

Coptic tombstone unearthed at Sphinxes Avenue in Luxor
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... inxes.html

Possible Neolithic Standing Stone Menhir Monument Unearthed in Switzerland
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6047-1 ... e-monument

6,000 year old Skull in New Guinea May Be Earliest Known Tsunami Victim
https://www.livescience.com/60772-ancie ... ictim.html

The First Temple: Crowning Achievement of King Solomon and Home of Legendary Ark of Covenant
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient- ... nopaging=1

Yellowstone Spawned Twin Super-Eruptions that Altered Global Climate
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-yellowsto ... lobal.html

The “Elephant Pipes” of the Mounds: An Intriguing Historical Controversy
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/10/t ... ntroversy/

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RoboBee is an aerial-to-aquatic robot that weighs just six-thousandths of an ounce (175 milligrams)
https://www.livescience.com/60816-tiny- ... t-all.html

The Long Strange History of Flying Saucer Patents
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/f ... er-weygers

NASA Investigates Use of Medical-Like Tools to Study Solar System Samples
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nasa-medi ... solar.html

From health to crimefighting, AI has brought us to the threshold of a new era
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... -a-new-era

Robotics principles help wave energy converters better absorb power of ocean waves
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-robotics- ... power.html

Non-queasy VR display technique
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-vr-techni ... g-eye.html

Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-web-based ... tists.html

Bird-like robot
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-michigan- ... paces.html

Robotic cars
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-google-br ... botic.html

Robot pet dog
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-sony-revi ... t-dog.html

Researchers working to mimic giant clams to enhance the production of biofuel
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-mimic-gia ... ofuel.html

Fluidic transistor ushers the age of liquid computers
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-fluidic-t ... iquid.html

Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow crops at the same time
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-solar-gre ... crops.html

The world's first flying water taxis coming to Switzerland next year
https://www.sott.net/article/365971-The ... -next-year


SCIENCE:

Hot, rocky exoplanets are the scorched cores of former gas giants
https://www.sott.net/article/366266-Hot ... gas-giants

Ancient Hindu Manuscript Reveals Interplanetary Travel and Flight Existed 7,000 years ago
https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-hi ... years-ago/

Oldest Recorded Solar Eclipse Helps Date Egyptian Pharaohs
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 220104.htm

We’ve Finally Narrowed Down The Speed of Gravity And The Numbers Are Insane
http://www.sciencealert.com/speed-of-gr ... light-same

Jupiter's X-ray auroras pulse independently
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-jupiter-x ... ently.html

Scientists penetrate mystery of raging black hole beams
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-scientist ... black.html

Saturn's radiation belts: A stranger to the solar wind
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-saturn-be ... solar.html

Giant radio galaxy found by Indian astronomers
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-giant-rad ... omers.html

'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-monster-p ... heory.html

Next Mars rover will have 23 'eyes'
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mars-rover-eyes.html

Kepler data reveals existence of 20 promising exoplanets 'hiding in plain sight'
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-kepler-re ... sight.html

NASA investigates invisible magnetic bubbles in outer solar system
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-nasa-invi ... solar.html

Neutron star merger
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-neutron-s ... cades.html

Study of W Hydrae suggests condensed aluminum oxide dust plays key role in accelerating stellar wind
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-hydrae-co ... e-key.html

The inner secrets of planets and stars
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-secrets-p ... stars.html

ALMA discovers cold dust around nearest star
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-alma-cold ... -star.html

The most ancient spiral galaxy confirmed
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-ancient-s ... alaxy.html

Return of the comet: 96P
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-comet-96p ... lites.html

Computer simulation suggest the presence of a second Sun
https://www.sott.net/article/365942-Com ... second-Sun

Witches, Comets and Planetary Cataclysms
https://www.sott.net/article/217194-Wit ... Cataclysms

Thunderbolts Project: Big science and the impossibility of gravitational waves (VIDEO)
https://www.sott.net/article/366196-Thu ... aves-VIDEO

New Comet Heinze (C/2017 T1)
https://www.sott.net/article/366202-New ... -C-2017-T1

'Chicxulub impact event produced huge sulfur cloud that plunged world into ice age'
https://www.sott.net/article/366264-Sci ... to-ice-age

Dust belt discovered around Proxima Centauri
https://www.sott.net/article/366478-Dus ... a-Centauri

Why are so many fossils of woolly mammoths young males?
https://www.sott.net/article/366544-Why ... oung-males

Solar Goddess Amaterasu, Divine Ancestor of the Japanese Imperial Family
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-le ... nopaging=1

Archaeological Finds Shed Light on Life in Abu Dhabi 7,000 years ago
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... -life.html

Fossil Scimitar Cat with ‘Steak Knife Fangs’ Found in Yukon
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yuk ... -1.4372037

Caribbean’s Largest Concentration of Indigenous Pre-Columbian Rock Art
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 220108.htm

14,000 Year Migration Genetics Study Reshapes Theories of How Humans Populated the Earth
https://www.inverse.com/article/37901-h ... netic-data

Secret Chamber? Cosmic Rays Reveal Possible Void Inside Great Pyramid
https://www.livescience.com/60842-cosmi ... ramid.html

‘Biblical miracle’ was actually the first solar eclipse ever documented, study finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 29966.html

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ANCIENT MINERAL FORGED IN EARTH’S MANTLE COULD MAKE INTERNET 1,000-TIMES FASTER
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-mineral ... ifi-702509

Ancient construction is a model for earthquake-safe buildings
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/a ... -1.3620347

New home security camera so smart it can identify people [but not dogs or cats?]
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-smartest-home-camera.html

Robotic spy among the fish
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-robotic-spy-fish.html

Fully integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-fully-cir ... abric.html

Transfer technique produces wearable gallium nitride gas sensors
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-technique ... e-gas.html

Robots becoming alarmingly better at human tasks
https://www.sott.net/article/366935-Rob ... sks-VIDEOS

Scientists engineering implantable microchips to bio-hack the brain
https://www.sott.net/article/367117-Sup ... -the-brain

China is building 30 'sponge cities' that aim to soak up floodwater and prevent disaster
https://www.sott.net/article/367404-Spo ... t-disaster

World's first 'self-healing' sports car
https://www.sott.net/article/367448-Lam ... sports-car


SCIENCE:

How Life Began: Missing Link Chemical in First Living Cell Discovered
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/life-began-mi ... 49861.html

Physics Has Demoted Mass
http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/ ... moted-mass

Why did the Earth’s ancient oceans disappear?
https://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.a ... ureCode=en

Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-ink-ancie ... opper.html

History of art rewritten as archaeologists unearth 3,500-year-old carving of ancient Greek battle
https://www.sott.net/article/367049-His ... eek-battle

Medieval women shrank in height because of Black Death
https://www.sott.net/article/367426-How ... lack-Death

Ruins found in Turkish lake may be Iron Age fortification dating back 3,000 years
https://www.sott.net/article/367497-Rui ... 3000-years

Fake gravity is essential to avoid brain damage while traveling through space
https://www.sott.net/article/366922-Fak ... ough-space

Latest study says dogs are color blind
https://www.sott.net/article/367004-Lat ... olor-blind

Volcanic magma plume under Antarctica may explain ice sheet instability
https://www.sott.net/article/367015-NAS ... nstability

'Geomagnetic spike' in 1000 BC challenges our understanding of Earth's magnetic field
https://www.sott.net/article/367156-Geo ... etic-field

Study claims cooling in high and mid-latitudes led to aridification in Northern Africa
https://www.sott.net/article/367176-Stu ... ern-Africa

NASA spots rare 7,000mph 'whirlpool' on sun's surface
https://www.sott.net/article/367183-NAS ... ns-surface

Astronomers discover star that exploded [or flared?] multiple times
https://www.sott.net/article/367187-Ast ... iple-times

Extinction of dinosaurs may not have occurred had the asteroid struck in different place [like Mars?]
https://www.sott.net/article/367220-Ext ... rent-place

Scientists hope to clone 500,000 [or 5,000] year old lion cub
https://www.sott.net/article/367245-Sci ... em-decoded

2nd-nearest Star hosts elaborate planetary system
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-closest ... nteresting

Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
https://theconversation.com/stars-that- ... ians-85833

Molecular signals observed in star-forming galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-forest-mo ... alaxy.html

ALMA's image of a red giant star gives a surprising glimpse of the sun's future [NOT]
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-alma-imag ... -star.html

Seven new giant radio galaxies discovered
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-giant-radio-galaxies.html

Shocking [shockwave] results of galaxy-cluster collisions
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-results-g ... sions.html

Hubble spots expanding light echo around supernova
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-hubble-ec ... rnova.html

Dawn explores Ceres' interior evolution
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-dawn-expl ... ution.html

Observations of a comet's first passage through the solar system reveal unexpected secrets
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-comet-pas ... ected.html

Living With Gods review – 40,000 years of religious art, and this is it?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... ish-museum

Ancient Syrian inscription tells of Trojan prince, Sea people
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/005864.html

New Aerial Images Show Mysterious Lost City In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-an ... ic-ocean-/

European Hunter-Gatherers Interbred With Farmers From the Near East
https://www.seeker.com/culture/history/ ... -europeans

Chinese Archaeologists Discover Neolithic Cave Dwelling Agrarian Society
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... -cave.html

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New approach uses light instead of robots to assemble electronic components
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-approach- ... nents.html

Ancient Art Inspires Efficient Spacecraft
https://www.space.com/38787-origami-ins ... pment.html

High-efficiency building bloopers revealed through occupant studies
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-high-effi ... upant.html

China maintains reign over world supercomputer rankings
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-china-wor ... urvey.html

Electric trucks emerging
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-electric- ... -haul.html

Toyota bullish on hydrogen
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-global-el ... rogen.html

Research suggests vertical axis turbines could increase public support for new wind energy installations
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-vertical- ... nergy.html

Tesla's all-electric semi truck
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-tesla-all ... -aims.html

'Better than Concorde' Supersonic 1,687mph airliner to 'revolutionise' air travel by 2025
https://www.sott.net/article/367894-Bet ... el-by-2025

Scientists create ring of plasma in mid air for the first time in history
https://www.sott.net/article/367953-Lig ... in-history

'World's most dynamic humanoid' can get knocked down and get back up
https://www.sott.net/article/368237-Wor ... et-back-up

Hypersonic missile race: China is testing weapons that can reach the US in 14 minutes
https://www.sott.net/article/368278-Hyp ... 14-minutes


SCIENCE:

Aerial Images May Unlock Enigma of Ancient Stone Structures in Saudi Arabia
https://www.livescience.com/60918-aeria ... tures.html

Ancient Egyptian tomb resurrected using 3D printer
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 52606.html

Scientists Have Engineered Beetles With a Fully Functional Third Eye
http://www.sciencealert.com/scarab-beet ... -evolution

Life Can Survive on Mars Far, Far Longer Than We Thought
https://futurism.com/life-survive-mars-longer-thought/

Next generation astronomical survey to map the entire sky
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronomi ... e-sky.html

Cellphone data reveals Hurricane Maria's impact on travel in Puerto Rico
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-cellphone ... mpact.html

Living samples of planet's oldest life forms found in Australia
https://www.sott.net/article/367789-Liv ... -Australia

New intergalactic explosion could be biggest supernova ever
https://www.sott.net/article/367914-New ... rnova-ever

Russian astronomers show big 'unusual orbit' asteroid 3200 phaeton approaching Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/368060-Rus ... hing-Earth

Carbon dioxide and climate change
https://www.sott.net/article/368113-Car ... ate-change

Astronomers discover comet shaped like a giant pink fire-extinguisher
https://www.sott.net/article/368135-Ast ... tinguisher

Study claims Don Juan Pond in Antarctica, among the saltiest waters on Earth, is fed from deep below
https://www.sott.net/article/368156-Stu ... deep-below

Discovery of winds blowing off a dying star
https://www.sott.net/article/368260-Sta ... dying-star

Crater in Rajasthan India proven to be caused by a meteorite
https://www.sott.net/article/368325-Cra ... -meteorite

The anatomy of a ‘cosmic snake’ reveals the structure of distant galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-anatomy-c ... stant.html

METEORITE’S ORIGINS POINT TO POSSIBLE UNDISCOVERED ASTEROID
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive ... -asteroid/

Astronomers discover radio emission from a symbiotic X-ray binary
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronome ... x-ray.html

Duo of titanic galaxies captured in extreme starbursting merger
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-duo-titan ... treme.html

Giant ionized gas nebula found by astronomers
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-giant-ion ... omers.html

Neutron star with strong magnetic field may still launch jets
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-neutron-s ... field.html

FIREBIRD II and NASA mission locate whistling space electrons' origins
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-firebird- ... space.html

Pluto's hydrocarbon haze keeps dwarf planet colder than expected
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-pluto-hyd ... lanet.html

A familiar-looking messenger from another solar system
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-familiar- ... solar.html

High-altitude observatory sheds light on origin of excess anti-matter
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-high-alti ... atter.html

Solar minimum surprisingly constant
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-solar-min ... stant.html

Scientific Evidence Discovered For Event Described In Aboriginal Oral History
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ ... -evidence/

Why We Find Solar Observatories and Astronomical Features in Churches
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifact ... and-021715

These close-up images from NASA show the largest iceberg to ever split off from Antarctica
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... antarctica

No ‘lost tribes’ or aliens: what ancient DNA reveals about American prehistory
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... prehistory

A temple for Isis dating back to Ancient Egypt era unearthed
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32 ... -Egypt-era

This 8,000-Year-Old Rock Art Is The Earliest Depiction of Domesticated Dogs
http://www.sciencealert.com/1000-year-o ... gs-hunting

How a DNA revolution has decoded the origins of our humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ing-genome

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

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Preserving rock art at the touch of a button
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-ancient-n ... utton.html

'Robo-taxis' hold promise, and perils, for automakers
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-robo-taxi ... akers.html

Energy from electric cars could power our lives if we improve the system
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-energy-el ... esbut.html

Musk beats deadline for building world's biggest battery
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-musk-dead ... ttery.html

Drones, high-tech camera revamp archaeology
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-drones-hi ... ology.html

Whatever Happened to 3D Printing? It Found Its Way
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... ng-future/

Youbionic gives augmented humans a helping hand, or two
https://newatlas.com/youbionic-double-hand/52341/

Want longer-lasting roads? Just add graphene
https://newatlas.com/graphene-additive- ... ave/52337/

Solar supercapacitor creates electricity and hydrogen fuel on the cheap
https://newatlas.com/solar-hydrogen-ele ... ice/52329/

Why Your Car May Not Be Safe to Drive
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/video/fi ... 6322115982


SCIENCE:

Do dark matter and dark energy exist?
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-dark-energy.html

Fracking Earthquakes: Government sponsored scientist reveals link and cover up
https://www.sott.net/article/368393-Fra ... d-cover-up

Definitely not your average asteroid or comet
https://www.sott.net/article/368468-Oum ... d-or-comet
and https://www.sott.net/article/368501-Fir ... ved-before

2017 hurricane season: NASA's mesmerizing new video
https://www.sott.net/article/368559-The ... -new-video

Scientists clock the incredible speed of an electron being emitted from an atom
https://www.sott.net/article/368566-Sci ... om-an-atom

Antarctica forest that thrived long before [or the same time 5000 years ago] dinosaurs
https://www.sott.net/article/368590-Dis ... -dinosaurs

Gamma rays from lightning creates anti-matter
https://www.sott.net/article/368757-Gam ... very-shows

John Ackerman: Sunspots a la Cyclic Catastrophism
https://www.sott.net/article/368845-An- ... astrophism

Too much artificial light on Earth is disrupting the order of ecological and human life
https://www.sott.net/article/368851-War ... o-darkness

Mysterious deep-Earth seismic signature explained?
https://www.sott.net/article/368870-Mys ... -explained

Drilling in Texas leads to uptick in earthquakes
https://www.sott.net/article/369003-Dri ... s-reawaken

Three-mile-wide Asteroid 3200 Phaethon to skim Earth just before Christmas
https://www.sott.net/article/369072-Sea ... tmas-VIDEO

'Global Warming' 30 years on: How and why it never came to pass
https://www.sott.net/article/369113-Glo ... me-to-pass

10 easy ways you can tell for yourself that the Earth is not flat
https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can- ... h-is-round

One of the Oldest and Most Distant Objects in the Universe Has Been Discovered
https://www.seeker.com/space/astronomy/ ... discovered

Moon’s crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma ocean
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 132524.htm

Hubble's cosmic search for a missing galactic arm
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-image-hub ... c-arm.html

Space dust may transport life between worlds
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-space-life-worlds.html

Recurring martian streaks: flowing sand, not water?
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-recurring ... -sand.html

Uncovering the origins of galaxies' halos
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-uncoverin ... halos.html

Researchers conduct chemical study of an old, metal-rich globular cluster
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-chemical- ... uster.html

Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-unexpecte ... aturn.html

Did David and Solomon’s United Monarchy Exist? Vast Ancient Mining Operation May Hold Answers
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.823580

3,000-Year-Old Castle Built by Mysterious Civilization Found at The Bottom of a Lake in Turkey
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... key-021726

6,000-year-old monument offers a glimpse of Britain’s neolithic Game of Thrones
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/6-000-old-mon ... 29423.html

Megafauna mega-find: the extraordinary discoveries at Diamond Valley Lake
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blo ... alley-lake

400,000-year-old ‘School of Rock’ Found in Prehistoric Cave in Israel
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.824356

Ancient DNA Explains How Chickens Got To The Americas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinaki ... b6854356db

Pharaonic carpentry workshop discovered in Upper Egypt’s Aswan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017- ... 775049.htm

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Re: Major Sci News Blog

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Keep Your Glasses Crystal Clear With Carbon Technology
https://getcarbonklean.io/

Transform Your Smartphone Into a Professional Camera
https://www.hdzoom360.com/

Protect Yourself With a Personal Safety Alarm
https://www.tigressalert.com/

Charge Your Cell Phone In Emergency Situation With Trusty Charge
https://trustycharge.com

Inspired by origami, scientists build artificial muscle that lifts 1,000 times its own weight
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencen ... story.html

New 3-D printer is ten times faster than commercial counterparts
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-d-printer ... rcial.html

Discovery could bring better efficiency to a new class of solar cells
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-discovery ... cells.html

Neutrophil power: White blood cell inspired propulsion using acoustic vibrations and magnetic fields
https://www.sott.net/article/369805-Neu ... tic-fields

US fighter jets are getting laser cannons
https://www.sott.net/article/369806-Pew ... er-cannons

Tesla activates Australia's 'mega battery' to feed their 'shaky' power grid using unreliable renewable energy
https://www.sott.net/article/369813-Tes ... ble-energy

Real-time DNA-authentication a reality
https://www.sott.net/article/369925-Rea ... -a-reality


SCIENCE:

Hundreds of pterosaur eggs help reveal the early life of flying reptiles
https://theconversation.com/hundreds-of ... iles-88266

Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA
https://theconversation.com/metal-aster ... nasa-88044

Living bacteria 'that had not been there' found on ISS hull, Russian cosmonaut says
https://www.sott.net/article/369283-Ali ... onaut-says

'Arrow of time' reversed in quantum experiment
https://www.sott.net/article/369366-Arr ... experiment

The politics of science: Scientists might not say what the evidence supports
https://www.sott.net/article/369441-The ... e-supports

'Megathrust' earthquake and devastating tsunami could hit New Zealand, scientists warn, as hazardous fault awakens
https://www.sott.net/article/369537-Meg ... lt-awakens

Deepest sea fish known collected from Mariana Trench
https://www.sott.net/article/369570-Dee ... ana-Trench

'There was no Big Bang' - the universe is cyclical
https://www.sott.net/article/369581-Bra ... s-cyclical

Satellite data shows no acceleration in global warming for last 23 years
https://www.sott.net/article/369620-Sat ... t-23-years

Mass of warm rock is rising beneath New England, seismic study reveals
https://www.sott.net/article/369797-Mas ... dy-reveals

Nasa successfully fires Voyager 1 backup thrusters after 37 years
https://www.sott.net/article/369807-Nas ... r-37-years

Researchers present list of 'pristine' ingredients that make up comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
https://www.sott.net/article/369819-Com ... erasimenko

'Rocket test' proves worms can thrive in Red Planet soil
https://www.sott.net/article/369991-Roc ... lanet-soil

10-qubit entanglement superconducting circuit sets a new record
https://www.sott.net/article/369996-10- ... new-record

Yellowstone supervolcano threat theory 'demonstrably false' - USGS expert to RT [I agree; the supervolcanoes erupted about 5,000 years ago due to the Shock Dynamics impact]
https://www.sott.net/article/369999-Yel ... pert-to-RT

Project Lyra, a mission to chase down that interstellar asteroid
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-lyra-miss ... eroid.html

GIANT ASTEROID TO SHAVE EARTH’S ORBIT NEXT MONTH
http://www.newsweek.com/3200-phaethon-g ... asa-722056

Astronomers identify dozens of new OB-type stars in the Cygnus OB2 stellar association
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronome ... ygnus.html

Astronomers measure 3-D stellar motion with record-breaking precision
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-proper-mo ... alaxy.html

Astronomers discover 21 changing-look active galactic nuclei
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-astronome ... uclei.html

Why is massive star formation quenched in galaxy centers?
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-massive-s ... alaxy.html

Giant black hole pair photobombs Andromeda galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-giant-bla ... bombs.html

German Town Encrusted With Impact Diamonds
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2017112 ... h-diamonds

Discovery of 7000-year-old Egyptian city could shed light on Nile Valley’s earliest civilisations
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/discovery-7000 ... ns-1648880

Archaeologists find ‘oldest school in the world’ in Israel
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/worl ... -dvsvtmf27

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula reveals a cryptic methane-fueled ecosystem in flooded caves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 090945.htm

How Himalayan rivers influenced ancient Indus civilization settlements
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 112209.htm

How did these giant boulders get here?
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/ ... s-get-here

Origin of Gold: Was it asteroid impact or some mysterious particle?
http://www.ibtimes.sg/origin-gold-aster ... ence-20778

Fluffy Four-Winged Creature Resembling a Muppet Is Actually a Dinosaur
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fluffy-four- ... 00323.html

Paleolithic Bone Jewelry Tells A Remarkable Story Of Prehistoric People Living 31,000 Years Ago
https://www.inquisitr.com/4659420/paleo ... years-ago/

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