Major Sci News Blog

[Lloyd]

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TECH:

Materials 'sandwich' breaks barrier for solar cell efficiency
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-mat ... -cell.html

Two-wheel transporter will transform into smart sidekick
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-two ... ekick.html

New insights could pave the way for self-powered low energy devices
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-ins ... vices.html

Eco-friendly smart glass panels that switch from transparent to opaque
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-eco ... arent.html

Proton battery breakthrough
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-pow ... rough.html

Manure could heat your home
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-manure-home.html

Novel semiconductor-superconductor
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-sem ... tride.html

Scientists develop new tool for imprinting biochips
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-02-sci ... chips.html

Electrically charging planes have reduced risk of being struck by lightning
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-electrica ... tning.html

*New technique for creating lightweight materials that are stiffer and stronger
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-tec ... onger.html

*New Beehive allows honey to be harvested on demand directly from the hive without harming bees
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-hiv ... honey.html

New hybrid panel can harvest energy from sunlight and raindrops
https://www.sott.net/article/379558-New ... -raindrops

Russian Mig-31 Test-Firing the Hypersonic Missile
https://www.sott.net/article/379656-Rus ... ic-Missile

World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster for spaceflight
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-world-fir ... uster.html


SCIENCE:

*Evidence to Believe Giants Existed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMXDRyzOEA

127 million-year-old baby bird rewrites dinosaur story
[I'll rewrite that: make that 5 thousand year old baby bird fossil]
https://www.sott.net/article/379127-127 ... saur-story

Comet Chury: Younger than originally thought
https://www.sott.net/article/379215-Com ... ly-thought

Scientists unravel mysterious ball lightning puzzle
https://www.sott.net/article/379222-Kno ... y-accident

South Atlantic Anomaly: The 'Bermuda Triangle' of space
https://www.sott.net/article/379223-Sou ... g-on-there

*Galactic cosmic rays hitting Earth are 'bad and getting worse'
https://www.sott.net/article/379252-Gal ... ting-worse

The discovery that some animals thrive despite hugely mutated DNA hidden in their genome is forcing us to rethink some basics of evolution
https://www.sott.net/article/379453-Dar ... -of-nature

NASA's sun-observing satellites recreate solar eruption in 3-D
https://www.sott.net/article/379517-NAS ... ion-in-3-D

Scientists find type of ice [from heavy water] not known on Earth trapped in diamond
https://www.sott.net/article/379521-Sci ... in-diamond

*Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth's mantle
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 170700.htm

NASA preparing spacecraft to nuke dangerous asteroids
https://www.sott.net/article/379633-Rep ... -asteroids

*Experiments shed new light on composition of prehistoric oceans
https://www.sott.net/article/379703-Exp ... ric-oceans

How we discovered the strange physics of [plasma?] jets
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-strange-p ... black.html

"Warm Saturn" exoplanet discovered by astronomers
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-saturn-ex ... omers.html

Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life's building blocks in space
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-chemical- ... -life.html

Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-hubble-hu ... oping.html

Geometric clusters of cyclones churn over Jupiter's poles
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-geometric ... piter.html

Imaging a galaxy's molecular outflow
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-imaging-g ... tflow.html

Filaments of Orion Nebula a star formation region
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-alma-reve ... rsery.html

*Harappans of India over 3,700 years ago had knowledge of hydraulic engineering
http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-anal ... 77399.html

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35816

TECH:

Tokyo Tech's six-legged robots get closer to nature
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tokyo-tec ... loser.html

Drone tracks moving subjects for videos while freely navigating any environment
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-vid ... reely.html

Research team develops clinically-validated 3-D printed stethoscope
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-tea ... scope.html

Origami-inspired self-locking foldable robotic arm
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-origami-i ... c-arm.html

Lunavity device to allow wearer to defy gravity
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-lun ... avity.html

Silicon breakthrough could lead to new high-performance bendable electronics
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-sil ... onics.html

Alcatel’s first Android Go phone is coming to the US for under $100
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... ease-price

Navy launches USS Colorado submarine with Xbox controllers
https://www.cnet.com/news/us-navy-launc ... ontroller/

Cracking new ways to fight plastic waste
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43390938

Printing matter from the air? Nanotube membrane start-up thinks big
https://www.sott.net/article/379739-Pri ... thinks-big

Researchers able to sew atomic lattices together seamlessly
https://www.sott.net/article/379791-Res ... seamlessly


SCIENCE:

Ask Randall: Climate Change – Who Are The Real Deniers?
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/ ... al-deniers

Electrostatics Simulator
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzUWMpP99DY
- https://github.com/Zulban/coulombic

Metagenomic clustering powered by supercomputers for making sense of big science data
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-gam ... wered.html

Spectacular dance of two galaxies' merger gives birth to new stars
https://www.sott.net/article/379731-Hub ... -new-stars

Fastest burst of radio waves detected by astronomers
https://www.sott.net/article/379876-Fas ... stronomers

Astronomers suspect the Milky Way's excess gamma rays are emitted from dying stars [more likely from star formation]
https://www.sott.net/article/379934-Ast ... ying-stars

Stephen Hawking Died Long Ago
http://milesmathis.com/hawk3.pdf

Red alert: Jupiter's 'spot' turning orange and changing shape
https://www.sott.net/article/380089-Red ... ging-shape

Scientists in Russia testing lasers to blow up deadly asteroids
https://www.sott.net/article/380158-Sci ... -asteroids

Ancient humans learned to be social more than 320,000 years ago
https://www.sott.net/article/380261-Evo ... -years-ago

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-planets-c ... stars.html

Astronomers discover two bright high-redshift quasars
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-astronome ... asars.html

New study suggests galactic bulge emissions not due to dark matter
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-galactic- ... -dark.html

Astronomers rethink quasar environment
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-nothingas ... nment.html

Recent changes in Ceres' surface
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-dawn-reve ... rface.html

New technique uses AI to locate and count craters on the moon
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-technique ... -moon.html

Rare metals on Mars and Earth implicate colossal impacts
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-rare-meta ... icate.html

These Early Indonesians Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter
https://gizmodo.com/these-early-humans- ... 1823697164

The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia’s largest family of Aboriginal languages
https://theconversation.com/the-origins ... ages-92997

Asteroids and comets shower Mars with organics
https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/ast ... -organics/

Ash from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 101729.htm

Australia’s Jurassic Park leaves lasting impressions [dinosaur tracks]
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontolog ... mpressions

Unexplained Underwater Craters Found Off Coast of Iceland
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/u ... f-iceland/

Solar alignments in Ancient Egypt
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... Egypt.aspx

Humans bred with mysterious Denisovan species more than once
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 58586.html

[Lloyd]

36655

TECH:

Implantable sensor relays real-time personal health data to a cell phone
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-imp ... sonal.html

New valve technology promises cheaper, greener engines
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-val ... eener.html

Make way for the mini flying machines
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-mini-machines.html

New 4-D printer could reshape the world we live in
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-d-p ... world.html

Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-depth-sen ... r-fog.html

New design produces true lithium-air battery
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-tru ... ttery.html

New artificial intelligence technique dramatically improves the quality of medical imaging
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-artificia ... dical.html

World's smallest computer smaller than grain of salt
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-ibm ... grain.html

Flexible ultrasound patch could make it easier to inspect damage in odd-shaped structures
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-fle ... haped.html

3-D printing for automobiles
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-lse ... scale.html

Understanding of liquid-to-glass transition process improves creation of metallic glass
https://www.sott.net/article/380466-Und ... llic-glass


SCIENCE:

New Comet: C/2018 E1 (ATLAS)
https://www.sott.net/article/380432-New ... 8-E1-ATLAS

Scholz's star disturbed prehistory solar system comets
https://www.sott.net/article/380637-Sch ... tem-comets

Math proves there is a something hiding beyond Pluto at the edge of our Solar System
https://www.sott.net/article/380705-Mat ... stronomers

Magma plume stretching all the way from Mexico found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano
https://www.sott.net/article/380822-Mag ... pervolcano

Possible Nova in constellation Carina
https://www.sott.net/article/380833-Pos ... ion-Carina

Mount Etna: Europe's biggest volcano 'sliding towards the sea'
https://www.sott.net/article/380934-Mou ... ds-the-sea

Measuring white dwarf masses with gravitational lensing
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-white-dwa ... nsing.html

'Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-oumuamua-binary-star.html

Mars' oceans formed early, possibly aided by massive volcanic eruptions
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mars-ocea ... aided.html

Radio nebula discovered around the pulsar PSR J0855–4644
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-radio-neb ... 54644.html

New theory to explain why planets in our solar system have different compositions
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-theory-pl ... tions.html

The absence of ants — entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/03/t ... ago/118615

Agriculture initiated by indigenous peoples, not Fertile Crescent migration
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 031918.php

New Understanding Of Kenyan Paleoenvironments Opens Window On Human Evolution In The Area
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... VGF5BZL.97

Oldest DNA from Africa offers clues to ancient cultures
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-03-21-old ... t-cultures

New linguistic analysis finds Dravidian language family is approximately 4,500 years old [time of the Great Flood, eh?]
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-linguisti ... amily.html

Skilled female potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 032218.php

Germany was covered by glaciers 450,000 years ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 104824.htm

See: Evidence of Ancient Global Cataclysm
From: http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 80#p123665
To: http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 69#p124269
Some of it is copies from this thread, but a lot is not.

[Lloyd]

37388

TECH:

Future electric cars could recharge wirelessly while you drive
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-fut ... essly.html

Self-powered wireless sensors embedded in roads could spot potholes and other hazards
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-sel ... roads.html

Research hints at double the driving range for electric vehicles
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-hin ... icles.html

3-DIY: Printing your own bioprinter that you can build for under $500
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-diy-bioprinter.html

Knitting electronics with yarn batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-ele ... eries.html

Robot takes cues from spider that can walk and roll
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-rob ... pider.html

Ski-worthy exoskeleton set to enhance experience
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-03-ski ... leton.html

Researchers in Japan focus on a way to mix rocket fuel ingredients
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-jap ... ients.html

Russian camo goes invisible in infrared emission
https://www.sott.net/article/381159-Rus ... -remission

First biocomputer made from living human cells
https://www.sott.net/article/381208-Fir ... -scientist

Paper-like LCD - thin, flexible, tough and cheap
https://www.sott.net/article/381557-Pap ... -and-cheap

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos


SCIENCE:

Discourses on an Alien Sky #35 | The Ram and the Golden Fleece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XtoFuUsm9A

5 Reasons Going To Mars is a TERRIBLE Idea (Lots of problems need solving first; send robots for now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQ1bKd7Los

A Case for Mistaken Identity re Ra
https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/0 ... -identity/

'Alien megastar' darkens again
https://www.sott.net/article/381049-Ali ... kens-again

Scientists observed one of the fastest, brightest supernovas on record
https://www.sott.net/article/381105-Sci ... -on-record

"Cosmic signatures" of the Younger Dryas impact found in Antarctica
https://www.sott.net/article/381255-Cos ... Antarctica

The bigger the earthquake, the longer it takes to issue an alert
https://www.sott.net/article/381298-Sci ... e-an-alert

Powerful 18th century New England earthquake recorded in pond mud
https://www.sott.net/article/381456-Pow ... n-pond-mud

First 3-D thermal image of volcano using drone technology
https://www.sott.net/article/381508-Sci ... technology

What the first American astronauts taught us about living in space
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-american- ... space.html

A runaway star in the Small Magellanic Cloud
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-runaway-s ... cloud.html

Dark matter 'missing' in a galaxy far, far away
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-dark-galaxy.html

'Marsquakes' could shake up planetary science
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-marsquake ... ience.html

Study suggests Earth's water was present before impact that caused creation of the moon
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-earth-imp ... -moon.html

NASA ready to study heart of Mars
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-nasa-read ... -mars.html

Comet provides rare chance to study solar system's origins
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-comet-rar ... solar.html

Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-life-adri ... venus.html

A 3,500 year-old stone carving has been found by accident at a Welsh university
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educ ... g-14448618

Some Prehistoric Anatolians Learned to Farm 10,000 Years Ago, Others Thought It for the Birds
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/som ... -1.5933949

The Native American story in S.A. is 15,000 years old, and counting
https://www.expressnews.com/sa300/artic ... 777871.php

How ancient knowledge inspires African tech to flourish
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/26/afri ... index.html

Iron Age People in Scotland Really Knew How to Party, Ancient Trash Heap Reveals
https://www.livescience.com/62138-iron- ... welry.html

Oldest Human DNA from Africa Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture
https://www.livescience.com/62131-oldes ... lture.html

Australia’s indigenous languages have one source, study says
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43564134

Oldest Human Footprints in North America Discovered [ignoring the ones in Texas next to dinosaur tracks]
https://www.livescience.com/62153-oldes ... erica.html

The oldest footprints in North America are right where native historians said they should be
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spe ... 42d647be9f

Laser technology uncovers a lost city in South Africa
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2018/ ... th-africa/

Cosmic Black Mat found on 5th continent
https://cosmictusk.com/cosmic-black-mat ... continent/

Prehistoric Megastorms - Comet Swarms (2015)
https://cosmictusk.com/9678-2/

Black Mat in Turkey
https://cosmictusk.com/9675-2/

An Astronomical Hypothesis for the Younger Dryas Impact Event
https://cosmictusk.com/9558-2/

Randall Carlson interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYL65pxQ3k

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37881

TECH:

Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/moth ... 6e318a1c53

Biobot made of heart cells and gel
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-bio ... ering.html

Robot designed to defend factories against cyberthreats
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-robot-def ... reats.html

Magnesium-metal batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-maj ... eries.html

Novel ultrafast laser beam steering for autonomous cars that is less complex, uses less power
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-ult ... mplex.html

What lies beneath: 'Cognitive' GPR could vastly speed urban construction
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-lie ... astly.html

Shrimp-inspired camera may enable underwater navigation
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-shr ... water.html

Zipline's delivery drone system redesign boosts capabilities
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-zip ... oosts.html

Faced with global warming alarmism, aviation aims to turn green
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-global-av ... green.html

Diamond batteries made of nuclear waste can generate power for thousands of years
https://www.sott.net/article/381938-Dia ... s-of-years

Some Amazon Key features, including keyless entry, remote lock and unlock, go nationwide
https://www.sott.net/article/382020-Som ... nationwide

Future of Tech: machine of considerable power and intricacy, with green lasers and ions instead of oil and pistons
https://www.sott.net/article/382039-Bui ... modynamics

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

The origin of magnetic fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlpyXhS ... e=youtu.be
The motion of electrons is not the cause of the magnetic field of electric currents. The own magnetic field of electrons has a rotational structure and is the one and only cause of the magnetic field of electric currents.

Scholarly snowball: Deep learning paper generates big online collaboration
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-scholarly ... r-big.html

NOAA's 'adjustments': The stunning statistical fraud behind the 'Global Warming' scare
https://www.sott.net/article/381722-NOA ... ming-scare

Did Earth collide with a fragmented comet 12,800 years ago?
https://www.sott.net/article/381841-Did ... -years-ago

Mystery of how birds navigate is solved: Researchers discover eye proteins that allow them to SEE the Earth's magnetic field over their normal vision
https://www.sott.net/article/381933-Mys ... mal-vision

Human viruses can be traced to first-ever animals
https://www.sott.net/article/381970-Stu ... er-animals

Team of astronomers find 72 bright and fast explosions in space
https://www.sott.net/article/381971-Tea ... explosions

A dozen new black holes [imposters] at centre of Milky Way
https://www.sott.net/article/382043-Sci ... -Milky-Way

Mississippi floods are the biggest in 500 years - and human intervention may be partly to blame
https://www.sott.net/article/382046-Mis ... y-to-blame

Ancient cold front sweeping 'relentlessly' across Perseus galaxy cluster
https://www.sott.net/article/382096-Anc ... xy-cluster

South Korean University may start a killer-robot apocalypse
https://www.sott.net/article/382140-Sou ... apocalypse

The mission to decode the DNA of all life on Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/382150-The ... e-on-Earth

Massive hole in Sun's atmosphere, magnetic storms possible
https://www.sott.net/article/382193-Mas ... sible-NASA

A surprising meteorite discovery points to early solar system chaos
https://www.sott.net/article/382209-A-s ... stem-chaos

NASA survey seen as steppingstone for astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-nasa-surv ... onomy.html

First age-map of the heart of the Milky Way
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-age-map-heart-milky.html

Is the Milky Way getting bigger?
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-milky-bigger.html

Gravitational waves created by black holes in the centre of most galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-gravitati ... axies.html

Magnetic hot spots on so-called neutron stars survive for millions of years
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-magnetic- ... rvive.html

Supercomputer simulations shed light on the heliospheric interface
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-supercomp ... rface.html

New study suggests tens of thousands of black holes [Charles calls them quasars] exist in Milky Way's center
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-tens-thou ... milky.html

Hubble makes the first precise distance measurement to an ancient globular star cluster
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-hubble-pr ... bular.html

What's happening in Orion's Horsehead Nebula?
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-orion-hor ... ebula.html

Dead star circled by light
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dead-star-circled.html

Giant solar tornadoes
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-giant-sol ... adoes.html

Dark matter might not be interactive after all
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dark-interactive.html

Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the Universe
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dark-smal ... verse.html

Aryan/Indian genetics
https://scroll.in/article/874102/aryan- ... n-genetics

Spear point study offers new explanation of how early humans settled North America
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 160610.htm

Oldest Neanderthal wooden tools found in Spain
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 090050.htm

Laser Tech Reveals Lost Bronze Age Island Civilization
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/la ... ilization/

Still believe an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? Think again
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-asteroid- ... heory.html

Space Metal Has Captivated Humanity for Ages
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-bri ... spnEUxFzIU

Deciphering the DNA of the Bell Beaker Complex of Britain
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/ ... omplex.htm

Randall Carlson on Comets, floods, Ice Age and extinctions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Aioafh_dM

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Perovskite solar technology is scalable, but questions remain about the best methods
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-per ... thods.html

Gecko-inspired adhesives help soft robotic fingers get a better grip
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-gec ... ngers.html

This imaging sensor is powered by sunlight
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-ima ... light.html

Researchers propose a blockchain data network to boost manufacturing
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-blo ... boost.html

New sodium-ion electrolyte may find use in solid-state batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-sod ... eries.html

New technology could wean the battery world off cobalt
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-tec ... obalt.html

Offshore wind farm: First of 11 turbines goes up in Scotland initiative
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-off ... tland.html

3-D printed active metamaterials for sound and vibration control
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-d-m ... ation.html

Sweden installs section of electrified road
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-swe ... -road.html

Researchers conduct first-ever combustion experiment with X-rays
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-first-eve ... -rays.html

France unveils world's first 3D-printed house
https://www.sott.net/article/382547-Fra ... nted-house

Between a defunct satellite & nuclear space towboat: Russia negotiates its way to profiting in space
https://www.sott.net/article/382620-Bet ... g-in-space

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Sputtering Canyons [on Thunderbolts]
- https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/0 ... ns-part-1/
- https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/0 ... ns-part-2/
- https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/0 ... ns-part-3/

Electric Universe News
http://electric-universe-news.michaelzfreeman.org/

Supernovae and a new storm on Saturn
https://www.sott.net/article/382375-Sup ... -on-Saturn

Ichthyosaur: Paleontologists discover gigantic marine reptile
https://www.sott.net/article/382474-Ich ... ne-reptile

X chromosomes do more than determine sex
https://www.sott.net/article/382479-X-c ... ermine-sex

Subtle second magnetic field surrounding Earth discovered
https://www.sott.net/article/382548-Sub ... discovered

Hyper-saline lakes discovered in Canadian Arctic
https://www.sott.net/article/382632-Hyp ... yond-Earth

Scientists discover a role for 'junk' DNA holding the genome together
https://www.sott.net/article/382677-Not ... r-junk-DNA

Scientists look at genetic markers to see if memories can be unlocked after death
https://www.sott.net/article/382686-Sci ... fter-death

NASA's infrared 3D video reveals Jupiter's menacing cyclones
https://www.sott.net/article/382692-NAS ... g-cyclones

Has solar cycle 25 begun? Solar cycle 24 was one of the shortest and weakest ever
https://www.sott.net/article/382709-Has ... akest-ever

New geological evidence suggests Nile River is at least 31 million years old
https://www.sott.net/article/382733-New ... -years-old

Researchers find huge solar 'tornadoes' don't spin after all
https://www.sott.net/article/382737-Res ... -after-all

Cells use light to communicate
https://www.sott.net/article/382806-Cel ... ommunicate

China plans to grow flowers and silkworms in 'mini biosphere' on the dark side of the moon
https://www.sott.net/article/382866-Chi ... f-the-moon

Hubble telescope captures amazing photo of Einstein Ring phenomenon
https://www.sott.net/article/382873-Hub ... phenomenon

Exotic binary stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-exotic-binary-stars.html

Astronomers use cosmic lens to find new substellar system
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-planet-or ... inary.html

Swarm tracks elusive ocean magnetism
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-swarm-tra ... etism.html

Tiny distortions in universe's oldest light reveal clearer picture of strands in cosmic web
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-tiny-dist ... eveal.html

SPHERE reveals fascinating zoo of discs around young stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-sphere-re ... discs.html

Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beat
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-radio-tel ... ulsar.html

Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds [planets etc]
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-circumbin ... eject.html

Once upon a time in a thunderstorm
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-thunderstorm.html

Origin of Mysterious 2,700-Year-Old Gold Treasure Revealed
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... chaeology/

Parts of Stonehenge Were There Long Before Any Humans [I'm so shur]
https://www.sciencealert.com/stonehenge ... rchaeology

First human migration out of Africa much more geographically widespread than previously thought
http://www.shh.mpg.de/891823/wusta

Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African ‘City of the Dead’
https://www.livescience.com/62272-oldes ... frica.html

Humans may have occupied Indonesian site Leang Burung 2 earlier than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-humans-oc ... leang.html

Cretan Cave Art Includes an Animal Extinct for 11,000 Years
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his ... 000-021873

[Lloyd]

39279

TECH:

Putting the 'smart' in manufacturing
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-smart.html

Robot designed to defend factories against cyberthreats
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-robot-def ... reats.html

New tool helps minimize impact of solar activity
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-tool-mini ... solar.html

Researchers develop smart sensors to prevent power outages
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-smart-sen ... tages.html

Smart home dashboard to better visualize energy usage
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-smart-hom ... nergy.html

Could holey silicon be the holy grail of electronics?
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-holey-sil ... onics.html

Video: Double your RAM – This Method Actually Works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHDoAsX1yo

Renewables break the 100 mark in Portugal
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-mad ... tugal.html

Higher-energy, safer, longer-lasting zinc battery
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-hig ... ttery.html

Researchers design 'soft' robots that can move on their own
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-soft-robots.html

New robot assembles IKEA chairs
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-too ... hairs.html

Advanced 3-D printed parts for NASA's Orion designed to hold up to extreme temperatures
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-adv ... treme.html

Upper-body exoskeleton turns focus on drones
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-fly ... rones.html

Robot designed for faster, safer uranium plant pipe cleanup
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-robot-fas ... -pipe.html

Researchers accidentally improve plastic-eating enzyme
https://www.sott.net/article/383109-Res ... ing-enzyme

Scientists develop method to bend diamonds in surprising breakthrough for ultra-strong nanomaterials
https://www.sott.net/article/383417-Sci ... omaterials

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Video: 5 Clues Humans Actually COEXISTED With Dinosaurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFI_xLvzi0

Video: Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger (Lang'orig'd 4-5kya)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg

Video: Ice Age and Clovis Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxYm1ej0-qw

Video: Younger Dryas Impact Quantification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG1Y1kOoxjk&t=752s

Dinosaurs appeared much earlier, then their numbers exploded during planetary upheaval and mass extinction event
https://www.sott.net/article/383154-Din ... tion-event

Space diamonds found in meteorite came from an ancient destroyed planet
https://www.sott.net/article/383171-Spa ... yed-planet

Desperate global warming 'scientists' theorize Earth's cyclical climate fluctuations due to ancient unknown civilisations
https://www.sott.net/article/383183-Des ... ilisations

Pre-human civilizations existed suggest new study
https://www.sott.net/article/383241-Pre ... -new-study

NASA's asteroid hunter charted scariest, Earth-bound objects
https://www.sott.net/article/383513-Thr ... nd-objects

Amateur mathematician makes 'first progress' on decades-old graph problem
https://www.sott.net/article/383597-Ama ... ph-problem

The gamma ray burst – supernova connection [Charles said they're both involved in star birth, not death]
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-gamma-ray-supernova.html

Ramp compression of iron provides insight into core conditions of large rocky exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ramp-comp ... -core.html

Researchers study extended X-ray emission in the PKS 1718−649 radio source
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-x-ray-emi ... ource.html

350,000 stars' DNA interrogated in search for sun's lost siblings
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-stars-dna ... -lost.html

Black hole and stellar winds form giant butterfly, shut down star formation in galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-black-hol ... erfly.html

Simulations suggest Saturn may have helped create Jupiter's big moons
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-simulatio ... moons.html

Human populations have split, reformed and remixed over millennia
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018 ... millennia/

First Europeans survived climate change following ‘super-eruption’ by working together
https://www.independent.co.uk/environme ... 06911.html

Meteorite’s diamonds tell of Earth’s baby sister, which died young
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04 ... ied-young/

Archaeologists discover Cornish barrow site in UK
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-archaeolo ... -site.html

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 141536.htm

GREAT LISBON 1755 ANTIPODAL IMPACT QUAKE - The great Lisbon earthquake Nov. 1, 1755 devastated the city and Portuguese coastlines down to Morocco [Nov 1 = Taurid meteor stream]
https://abruptearthchanges.com/2018/04/ ... prof-emer/

[Lloyd]

40051

TECH:

Amazon begins delivery to vehicles
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-car-amazo ... icles.html

Cheap 3-D printer can produce self-folding materials
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-che ... rials.html

Electrode shape improves neurostimulation for small targets
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-electrode ... small.html

A new technique for making paper touch sensitive inexpensively
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-tec ... ively.html

Researchers 3-D print electronics and cells directly on skin
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-d-electro ... -skin.html

Transparent eel-like soft robot can swim silently underwater
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-tra ... ently.html

Balancing nuclear and renewable energy
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-nuclear-r ... nergy.html

How small creatures generate world's fastest snaps, jumps and punches
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-sma ... snaps.html

Bosch engineers focus on brightening the future of diesel
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-bos ... iesel.html

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_su ... _id=245123

Scientists denounce Pruitt’s effort to block ‘secret science’ at EPA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... nce-at-epa

Alcubierre Drive Initiative faster than the speed of light
https://www.sott.net/article/383595-NAS ... d-of-light

Researchers find a new DNA shape
https://www.sott.net/article/383696-Res ... -DNA-shape

7 important questions about Mars - and what we currently know
https://www.sott.net/article/383707-7-i ... ently-know

Nunatsiavut wildlife manager says polar bear numbers "very, very healthy" - Inuit hunters agree
https://www.sott.net/article/383820-Nun ... ters-agree

Strange behavior coming from the sun's gamma rays
https://www.sott.net/article/383829-Str ... se-unknown

3D renderings of real weather data prove just how complex and captivating clouds are
https://www.sott.net/article/383918-3D- ... clouds-are

Billions of gallons of water will be saved by thinning down forests in California
https://www.sott.net/article/383951-Stu ... California

Astronomers witness galaxy megamerger that raises questions about current galaxy cluster formation theories
https://www.sott.net/article/383971-Ast ... n-theories

'Perfectoid geometry' may be the secret that links numbers and shapes
https://www.sott.net/article/384114-Per ... and-shapes

Acidification: A new threat to lakes and rivers
https://www.sott.net/article/384129-Aci ... and-rivers

Humans to be Genetically Modified for the first time in Europe
https://www.sott.net/article/384139-Hum ... -in-Europe

Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
https://www.sott.net/article/384209-Dis ... ears-Later

5 'close' asteroid flybys will take place today
https://www.sott.net/article/384212-Inc ... lace-today

Studying dwarf galaxies to get the big picture
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dwarf-gal ... cture.html

Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-galaxies- ... r-age.html

Uranus's cloud tops
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-uranus-cl ... otten.html

Face recognition for galaxies using Artificial intelligence
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-recogniti ... tools.html

Milky Way's supermassive black hole [likely quasars] may have 'unseen' siblings
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-milky-sup ... nseen.html

Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-gaia-rich ... xyand.html

Powerful flare detected on an M-dwarf star
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-powerful- ... -star.html

How impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-projectil ... roids.html

New estimates of Mercury's thin, dense crust
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-mercury-t ... crust.html

Finding galaxies with active nuclei
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-galaxies-nuclei.html

Earliest Bone Arrowhead, 61,700 Years Old, Found in South Africa
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAG ... -1.6029711

This Eerie, Human-Like Figure Is Twice As Old As Egypt's Pyramids
https://www.livescience.com/62404-shigi ... -face.html

Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... u-science/

Michael crichton the lost world pdf download
http://downloadfreepdffromqatar.ml/prod ... wnload.php

Mars's Two Tiny Moons Were Formed After an Asteroid Hit the Planet, New Theory Suggests
http://uk.pressfrom.com/news/world/us-n ... -suggests/

Why did mammoths and mastodons really disappear?
http://islanddwarfism.blogspot.com/2018 ... eally.html

Atlantis existed
https://medium.com/@jonathanroseland/at ... eb06c95207

Cosmography101-15.1 Ice Dam Viability / Mayan Gods Symbolize Geocosmic Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sAMOcNg3SY

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40795

(a little late)
TECH:

Analysis shows when and where advanced photovoltaics would be economic to install
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-ana ... nomic.html

Researchers develop water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-wat ... nergy.html

Robot transitions from soft to rigid
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-rob ... rigid.html

Natural gas prices, not 'war on coal,' were key to coal power decline
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-natural-g ... -coal.html

3-D batteries pack power into tiny footprints
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-d-b ... rints.html

Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify water with near-perfect efficiency
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-anc ... rfect.html

Engineers invent smart microchip that can self-start and operate when battery runs out
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-smart-mic ... ttery.html

When little robot will go through your rooms to find the orange purse
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-rob ... purse.html

MapLite enables navigation with just GPS and sensors
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-aut ... beled.html

SureFly keeps focus on new day in safe, two-seater flight
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-sur ... eater.html

Russia upgrades Su-25SM3 attack aircraft with modern electronic warfare system in Syria
https://www.sott.net/article/384337-Rus ... m-in-Syria

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Moon Mission Canceled - AGAIN...Hmm, Anyone else Notice a Pattern here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_5-nbldPqA

Discourses on an Alien Sky #36 | Atlantis -- The Disappearing Homeland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWEK2eVIBs

The Younger Dryas Event and the Birth of the Gods | Ancient Architects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJYmIcJk6A

Pole reversal apocalypse downgraded for now
https://www.sott.net/article/384334-Pol ... ed-for-now

Dwarf V392 Persei undergoes a rare nova outburst
https://www.sott.net/article/384453-Dwa ... a-outburst

Marine experts hatching scheme to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Cape Town in efforts to aid South Africa's drought crisis
https://www.sott.net/article/384494-Mar ... ght-crisis

Last year's solar eclipse set off a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected as far away as Brazil
https://www.sott.net/article/384617-Las ... -as-Brazil

DNA sequences indicate 250 people made up original Native American founding population
https://www.sott.net/article/384627-DNA ... population

Latest epigenetic and 'junk' DNA research shows genes don't hold all the answers
https://www.sott.net/article/384708-Lat ... he-answers

How a backyard pendulum saw may solve a Bronze Age mystery
https://www.sott.net/article/384713-How ... ge-mystery

Astronomers now coming to the conclusion that our understanding of the universe's expansion is wrong
https://www.sott.net/article/384714-Ast ... n-is-wrong

How the moon affects volcanoes
https://www.sott.net/article/384749-How ... -volcanoes

Reviving extinct mammoths will save the planet say global warmists [fat chance]
https://www.sott.net/article/384751-Rev ... l-warmists

Earth hit by G2 geomagnetic storm
https://www.sott.net/article/384822-Ear ... etic-storm

Fresh results from NASA's Galileo spacecraft 20 years on
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-fresh-res ... craft.html

Przybylski's star is an extremely slow rotator, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-przybylsk ... tator.html

NASA sending robotic geologist to Mars to dig super deep
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-nasa-robo ... super.html

Recent work challenges view of early Mars, picturing a warm desert with occasional rain
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-view-earl ... ional.html

Stellar family portrait in X-rays
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-stellar-f ... -rays.html

Mineral in lunar meteorite suggests water was once on the moon
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-mineral-l ... -moon.html

NASA spacecraft will have company all the way to Mars
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-nasa-spac ... -mars.html

SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship returns to Earth
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-spacex-dr ... earth.html

Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans?
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/di ... ncna869856

What Ancient Civilization KNEW about The Universe & Cosmos Will SHOCK You
http://thephaser.com/2018/04/what-ancie ... shock-you/

(See more at) http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 00#p124700

[Lloyd]

41305

TECH:

500-year-old Leaning Tower of Pisa mystery unveiled by engineers
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-year-old- ... eiled.html

How even one automated, connected vehicle can improve safety and save energy in traffic
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-aut ... affic.html

Battery-free 'smart' toys
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-bat ... rcial.html

Tackling global energy savings through efficiency improvements
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-tac ... iency.html

Italian researchers develop lighter, cheaper robotic hand
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-italian-l ... botic.html

At end of grocery rainbow could be swarm robots taking your order
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-gro ... obots.html

Safer and more powerful lithium-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-saf ... uires.html

Walking robots, a YouTube sensation
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-robots-yo ... ready.html

Musk says LA-area test tunnel almost complete
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-elon-musk ... unnel.html

ASML perfecting 'microchip shrink'
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-dutch-fir ... -tech.html

New Russian aircraft carrier to challenge US naval supremacy
https://www.sott.net/article/385042-New ... -supremacy

Robot helicopter for Mars
https://www.sott.net/article/385353-Mee ... r-for-Mars

China's first home-built aircraft carrier heads out for sea trials
https://www.sott.net/article/385465-Chi ... sea-trials

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

The orbits of Venus and Jupiter are found to have effects on earth climate change over very long periods of time
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/01/1800891115

Pyramid's True Purpose FINALLY DISCOVERED: Advanced Ancient Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-ZboCzR64

The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLzss58CLs

Emergent plate tectonics caused "snowball Earth" [NOPE]
https://www.sott.net/article/385090-Hyp ... ball-Earth

Research uncovers 405 thousand year climate cycle discovered related to variations in Earth's orbit around the sun [also inaccurate]
https://www.sott.net/article/385117-Res ... nd-the-sun

Google's massive carbon footprint revealed by new online tool [Good for Google; plants need more CO2]
https://www.sott.net/article/385211-Goo ... nline-tool

Bioluminescence takes hold causing San Diego's night-time surf to glow
https://www.sott.net/article/385283-Bio ... rf-to-glow

What's been eating the first starlight?
https://www.sott.net/article/385326-A-m ... -starlight

Earth was warmer 500 million years ago [more like 10,000] and led to an explosion of life
https://www.sott.net/article/385344-Ear ... on-of-life

Rogue star Gilese 710 hurtling towards our solar system will arrive sooner than we thought
https://www.sott.net/article/385348-Rog ... we-thought

Researchers find that conspiracy theorists are not necessarily paranoid
https://www.sott.net/article/385428-Res ... y-paranoid

The effect of volcanoes on climate and climate on volcanoes
https://www.sott.net/article/385445-The ... -volcanoes

What will happen when our sun dies?
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-sun-dies.html

Waves similar to those controlling weather on Earth have now been found on the Sun
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-similar-w ... h-sun.html

Why does the Sun's corona sizzle at one million degrees F?
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-sun-coron ... -team.html

Exiled asteroid discovered in outer reaches of solar system
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-exiled-as ... solar.html

Bursting pulsar found to 'hiccup' during crucial stage of its lifecycle
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-pulsar-hi ... cycle.html

First early-type magnetic star in an eclipsing binary detected
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-early-typ ... inary.html

A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-giant-clo ... sform.html

NICER mission finds an X-ray pulsar in a record-fast orbit
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-nicer-mis ... -fast.html

Sprawling 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Hides Secrets of Ancient War
https://www.livescience.com/62514-ancie ... qqara.html

Cuneiform tablets from Bassetki reveal location of ancient royal city of Mardaman
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/05/c ... man/119529

78,000 year cave record from East Africa shows early cultural innovations
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-year-cave ... early.html

[Lloyd]

42002

TECH:

Robot teaches itself how to dress people
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-robot-people.html

Toward smaller, more efficient radio frequency transformers
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-sma ... uency.html

High-sensitivity microsensors on the horizon
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-hig ... rizon.html

Wearable ring, wristband allow users to control smart tech with hand gestures
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-wea ... -tech.html

Eco-friendly hut in Australia
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-eco ... -tent.html

New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-rob ... rials.html

The first wireless flying robotic insect
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-wir ... nsect.html

Autonomous glider can fly like an albatross, cruise like a sailboat
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-aut ... lboat.html

Self-assembling 3-D battery would charge in seconds
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-self-asse ... conds.html

BMW to ease charging anxiety via wireless mat system
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-bmw ... s-mat.html

Broad adoption of electric cars will increase air pollution
https://www.sott.net/article/385654-Gre ... -pollution

AI is summoning demons [making flawed products]
https://www.sott.net/article/385664-Tec ... -attention

X-Ray laser heats water to 180,000 degrees in a fraction of a second
https://www.sott.net/article/385701-X-R ... f-a-second

Russia's new hypersonic glider weapon
https://www.sott.net/article/385823-US- ... der-weapon

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

The BIG Bell Test—Global physics experiment challenges Einstein with the help of 100,000 volunteers
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-big-bell- ... stein.html

So I had a Conversation in a Pub with a Government Scientist...about Space & Weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFNyEyU7AKE

Cells speak in a language similar to viruses
https://www.sott.net/article/385535-Cel ... to-viruses

Sea levels are rising, but not because of climate change
https://www.sott.net/article/385876-Sea ... ate-change

We just had two years of record-breaking cooling world-wide
https://www.sott.net/article/385900-We- ... ing-people

The inside of a proton endures more pressure than previously seen elsewhere
https://www.sott.net/article/385910-The ... -elsewhere

Are octopuses aliens?
https://www.sott.net/article/386003-Are ... ses-aliens

Did recent supernovae affect life on Earth?
https://www.sott.net/article/386005-Did ... e-on-Earth

Observations reveal complex environment of HD 50138
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-reveal-co ... nt-hd.html

Old NASA spacecraft points to new evidence of watery plumes over Europa
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-evidence- ... uropa.html

Chinese volunteers emerge from virtual moon base
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-chinese-v ... -moon.html

Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball' states in habitable zones around sunlike stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-orbital-v ... tates.html

Researchers determine chemical composition of two extremely metal-poor stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-chemical- ... stars.html

Unusual laser emission in the Ant Nebula suggests hidden double star system
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-unusual-l ... ebula.html

A new map for a birthplace of stars
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-birthplace-stars.html

Astronomers find vast ionized hydrogen cloud in 'Whirlpool Galaxy'
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-astronome ... cloud.html

Breakthrough in understanding rare lightning-triggered gamma-rays
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-team-brea ... -rays.html

Astronomers release most complete ultraviolet-light survey of nearby galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-astronome ... axies.html

Could recent supernovae be responsible for mass extinctions?
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-supernova ... tions.html

85,000-Year-Old Footprints Show Stepping Stone in Human Migration
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... ience-spd/

What Sculpted the Earth’s Surface?
https://principia-scientific.org/what-s ... s-surface/

How our ancestors with autistic traits led a revolution in Ice Age art
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 095522.htm

Mysterious ancient humans with brains like modern people prompt rethink of early evolution
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 51451.html

Newly Discovered Species –“Maybe We’ve Had the Story of Human Evolution Wrong the Whole Time”
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... e-tim.html

Fossil record reveals changes in Earth’s movement and rotation
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-fossil-re ... ation.html

Earliest Version of Our Alphabet Possibly Discovered
https://www.livescience.com/62580-earli ... vered.html

Arctic ice brings an understanding of ancient Europe’s economy
https://www.economist.com/science-and-t ... es-economy

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TECH:

Fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-fas ... rable.html

Flexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-flexible- ... nergy.html

Electric vehicles could save billions on energy storage
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-electric- ... orage.html

New dispatching approach could cut the number of taxis on the road while meeting rider demand
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-dis ... rider.html

Fleet of autonomous boats could service cities to reduce road traffic
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-fle ... -road.html

3-D printed sugar scaffolds offer sweet solution for tissue engineering, device manufacturing
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-d-s ... ution.html

A 'self-eating' rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-aim-stars-rocket.html

How greener grids can stay lit
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-gre ... s-lit.html

Traffic light tech will be tested in UK, allows cars to leverage signal change [so you don't have to wait when there's no traffic?]
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-tra ... erage.html

Russian security forces unveil 'Taser shield' to use in raids against crime
https://www.sott.net/article/386565-Lit ... inst-crime

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

"Floating Crane" Found Beneath The Great Pyramid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0475nNf5tSs

Astronomers [think they] discover fastest growing monster black hole the size of 20 billion suns
https://www.sott.net/article/386175-Ast ... llion-suns

Worldwide ocean anoxia driven by global cooling was possible factor in previous mass extinctions
https://www.sott.net/article/386186-Wor ... xtinctions

Weird asteroid in Jupiter's orbit is 1st interstellar immigrant
https://www.sott.net/article/386287-Wei ... -immigrant

Podcast: Riddle of the Younger Dryas, "one of the most unusual periods of great climate change in the ancient world"
https://www.sott.net/article/386383-Pod ... ient-world

Scientists think [wrongly] they've found a million-year-old ice core lurking under Antarctica
https://www.sott.net/article/386501-Sci ... Antarctica

Jams in the jet stream blamed for abnormal weather patterns
https://www.sott.net/article/386542-Jam ... orecasters

What you can expect from consumer DNA testing
https://www.sott.net/article/386588-Pro ... NA-testing

Solar minimum for 2018 - 2020 could be unprecedented in modern astronomy
https://www.sott.net/article/386621-Sol ... -astronomy

Study reveals atmospheric rivers to double in size
https://www.sott.net/article/386622-Stu ... le-in-size

Oldest tree in Europe found
https://www.sott.net/article/386624-Old ... owth-spurt

New evidence for existence of Planet Nine
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-evidence-planet.html

Two bright high-redshift quasars discovered
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-bright-hi ... asars.html

Lightening up dark galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-dark-galaxies.html

Multiple gamma-ray emission regions detected in the blazar 3C 279
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-multiple- ... lazar.html

New study details geological process behind Titan's dunes
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-geologica ... dunes.html

Astronomers observe unprecedented detail in pulsar 6,500 light-years from Earth
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-astronome ... earth.html

Curiosity is collecting Mars rocks
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-drilling- ... -mars.html

InSight steers toward Mars
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-insight-mars.html

Ancient meteorite tells tales of Mars topography
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-ancient-m ... raphy.html

Study of ancient fish suggests Chicxulub asteroid strike warmed planet for 100,000 years
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-ancient-f ... lanet.html

How stratospheric life is teaching us about the possibility of extreme life on other worlds
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-stratosph ... orlds.html

Poking a Hole in the Latest Younger Dryas Impact Paper
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/14/ ... part-trois

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TECH:

Building batteries that don't go boom
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-fas ... -boom.html

Global electric car sales up over 50 percent in 2017: IEA
- https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-glo ... rcent.html
- https://phys.org/news/2018-05-global-pu ... icles.html

Activity simulator could teach robots tasks
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-sim ... table.html

Researchers develop one-step, 3-D printing for multimaterial projects
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-one ... erial.html

A multimaterial, voxel-printing method turns imaging datasets into physical objects
- https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-mul ... asets.html
- https://phys.org/news/2018-06-d-printer-physical.html

Combining experts and automation in 3-D printing
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-05-com ... ion-d.html

Aerial robot that can morph in flight
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-aer ... light.html

Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-prototype ... power.html

G Plus driverless delivery vehicle to feature solid-state LiDAR tech
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-dri ... state.html

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Nuclear physicists leap into quantum computing with first simulations of atomic nucleus
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-nuclear-p ... tomic.html

Archaeologists Discover Old Artificial Underground Complex in Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQsezl8amug

Is a catastrophic event 200,000 years ago responsible for most of the life on our planet today?
https://www.sott.net/article/386765-Is- ... anet-today

Permian extinction occurred during low CO2, cooler climate, increasing ice sheets and sea level drop
https://www.sott.net/article/386785-Per ... level-drop

Great Barrier Reef has recovered from five "death events" in the last 30,000 years
https://www.sott.net/article/386787-Gre ... 0000-years

Illusion of scientific consensus: Demotion of Pluto ignores astronomical history
https://www.sott.net/article/386952-Ill ... al-history

Milky Way galaxy is larger than original estimates
https://www.sott.net/article/386954-New ... -estimates

Mother of all lizards found in the Italian Alps
https://www.sott.net/article/387049-Mot ... alian-Alps

Geologists discover London sitting on two serious fault lines, capital at risk of dangerous earthquake
https://www.sott.net/article/387128-Geo ... earthquake

Broccoli in space—how probiotics could help grow veggies in microgravity
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-broccoli- ... avity.html

Spanish astronomer discovers new binary star of EW type
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-spanish-a ... ar-ew.html

The case of the relativistic particles solved with NASA missions
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-case-rela ... sions.html

Tarantula Nebula: A crowded neighborhood
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-tarantula ... rhood.html

Comet C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS) is rich in carbon monoxide and depleted in hydrogen cyanide
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-comet-c20 ... -rich.html

Does some dark matter carry an electric charge? [or is DM electric charge?]
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-dark-electric.html

Cosmic collision lights up the darkness NGC 3256
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-cosmic-co ... kness.html

Secrets behind Pluto's dunes
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-scientist ... dunes.html

Gravitational wave event likely signaled creation of a black hole [or something did something]
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gravitati ... -hole.html

Multiple metals – and possible signs of water – found in unique exoplanet
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-multiple- ... lanet.html

Peruvian scientists use DNA to trace origins of Inca emperors
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-peruvian- ... erors.html

Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-surv ... ution.html

New Stonehenge Theory Says Humans Didn’t Move Stones After All
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/n ... after-all/

Prehistoric Teeth Reveal Details On Ancient Africa’s Climate
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot ... jPJoT5w.97

Stonehenge is found in Chile
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/ ... d-in-chile

First direct dating of Homo antecessor
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-dating-ho ... essor.html

Lost City of Irisagrig Comes to Life in Ancient Stolen Tablets
https://www.livescience.com/62688-lost- ... blets.html

Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/05/w ... ago/119903

Life recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-life-reco ... -site.html

The making of a human population uncovered through ancient Icelandic genomes
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-human-pop ... andic.html

Recovering the lost world
https://willingness-to-listen.blogspot. ... world.html

New Dating of The Great Sphinx of Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j517lzH6fVI

DISCOVERY: Is THIS the Oldest Portrayal of The Sphinx?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gpgiHAmA_E

Catastrophism Resource
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 82#p124782

Comet 134340 Pluto?
https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/0 ... 340-pluto/

Cosmography101-16.1 Recent Climate Cycles / Ice Sheets & Ocean / YDB Extinctions w/Randall Carlson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qigMq3Q475U

Black Budget Bonus Release [Climate Change BS] - Randall Carlson Unplugged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPB9R5ttngk

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TECH:

Pharmaceutical material shows promise for better grid-scale batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-pha ... eries.html

Team uses biomimicry of bats to help drones navigate in the dark, dust or smoke
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-tea ... -dark.html

Japan 'drone-brella' promises hands-free sun cover
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-japan-dro ... e-sun.html

Nozzle-rich firefighter is a robot
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-noz ... ragon.html

Sodium-based batteries could make your smartphone cheaper and cleaner
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-sod ... eaner.html

Novel transmitter uses ultrafast 'frequency hopping' and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-tra ... ckers.html

Visual semantics enable high-performance place recognition
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-vis ... ition.html

Intel claims it can cut display battery use in half with its new tech
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-int ... -life.html

New way for designing electronic systems that incorporates the best from analogue and digital
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-electronics.html

System for drone surveillance to recognize violence
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-dro ... lence.html

New system recovers fresh water from power plants
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-rec ... power.html

MIT creates 'psychopath' AI named Norman [AI is just computer programming]
https://www.sott.net/article/387395-MIT ... med-Norman

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Ancient Giza: A Pre-Dynastic Settlement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-LdAJybIlI

Thought to be seismically silent, East Antarctica is actually active
https://www.sott.net/article/387316-Tho ... lly-active

Oldest footprints discovered on ancient seafloor
https://www.sott.net/article/387554-Old ... t-seafloor

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers organic material in ancient lakebed
https://www.sott.net/article/387619-Lif ... ntial-life

Chemical traces from star formation cast light on cosmic history
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-chemical- ... story.html

Astronomers detect a doubly eclipsing quadruple star system
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-astronome ... -star.html

Saturn found to have noontime auroras
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-saturn-no ... roras.html

Data discrepancies may affect understanding of the universe
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-discrepan ... verse.html

Collisions of dead stars spray heavy elements throughout small galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-collision ... ments.html

Astronomers observe huge flares on a young brown dwarf
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-astronome ... brown.html

New Horizons wakes for historic Kuiper Belt flyby
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-horizons- ... flyby.html

As solar wind blows, our heliosphere balloons
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-solar-hel ... loons.html

New data-mining technique offers most-vivid picture of Martian mineralogy
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-data-mini ... rtian.html

Tumultuous galaxy mergers
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-tumultuou ... holes.html

How do you weigh a galaxy?
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-galaxy-youre.html

Juno solves 39-year old mystery of Jupiter lightning
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-juno-year ... tning.html

Chandra scouts nearest star system for possible hazards
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-chandra-s ... zards.html

More mystery objects detected near Milky Way's supermassive ...
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-mystery-m ... -hole.html

Scientists solve lunar mystery with aid of missing moon tapes
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-scientist ... -moon.html

Mineralogy on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-minerolog ... cient.html

How solar prominences vibrate
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-solar-pro ... brate.html

Neutron stars cast light on ...
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-neutron-stars-quark.html

Magnetic fields could hold the key to star formation [Make that electric]
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-magnetic- ... ation.html

Space Pioneering: the passion and dream continue!
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2018/06/s ... 8004208625

DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPE WITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?
http://maajournal.com/Issues/2017/Vol17 ... 281%29.pdf

Redating the Sphinx: Robert Schoch Talks to Joe Rogan about a Lost Civilization
https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/06/reda ... ilization/

Hats on for Easter Island statues
http://www.sciencecodex.com/hats-easter ... ues-621188

The Art of Creating Replicas of Ice Age Cave Paintings
https://hyperallergic.com/445675/the-ar ... paintings/

Late Pleistocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-late-plei ... -niah.html

A Crucial Archaeological Dating Tool [C14] Is Wrong, And It Could Change History as We Know It
https://www.sciencealert.com/radiocarbo ... accuracies

Big data little help in megafauna mysteries
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05330-7

Ancient paintings found in Krabi cave
https://thethaiger.com/news/ancient-pai ... krabi-cave

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TECH:

Vermont start-up's small packets a big deal for energy industry
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-vermont-s ... s-big.html

Large-scale and sustainable 3-D printing with the most ubiquitous natural material
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-large-sca ... tural.html

Startup uses artificial intelligence to analyze vehicle driver behavior
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-startup-a ... river.html

New aircraft-scheduling models may ease air travel frustrations
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-air ... tions.html

Orange peels may hold secret to safer bridges
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-ora ... safer.html

AI senses people's pose through walls
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-ai- ... walls.html

Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-sol ... skite.html

Now, you can 3-D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-d-c ... solid.html

Cobalt-free batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-cob ... odbye.html

Could studying swarm behaviors teach us how to help drones fly safely?
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-swarm-beh ... afely.html

Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, and jump
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-mag ... inted.html

Engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-con ... nsors.html

Amazing Homemade Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfjXH ... G1g/videos

Latest Greatest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh66TZ ... lig/videos


SCIENCE:

Ancient Egyptians in Ancient Ireland?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3kcoDSBRXU&t=25s

The Dendera Zodiac of Egypt: An Ancient Babylonian Copy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_R9TV2xkA

Archaeologists find ancient rock art in Egypt
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-archaeolo ... egypt.html

What happens when researchers make mistakes
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-science.html

What caused the rapid de-glaciation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6gyS6aBN4

Cosmic history comes into question after new giant stars discovery
https://www.sott.net/article/387885-Cos ... -discovery

Asteroid LV3 will be 35th asteroid this year to flyby Earth at 1 lunar distance
https://www.sott.net/article/387982-Tar ... r-distance

Volcanic eruptions can lead to 'mass extinction' of life on Earth as it saps oxygen from oceans
https://www.sott.net/article/388060-Vol ... rom-oceans

Oceans' magnetic field mapped in stunning detail by Swarm satellite group
https://www.sott.net/article/388072-Oce ... lite-group

West Antarctic ice sheet made a 'surprising comeback' 10,000 years ago - And it's been growing ever since
https://www.sott.net/article/388104-Wes ... ever-since

Astronomers suggest nanodiamonds are responsible for the microwave light emanating from distant stars
https://www.sott.net/article/388118-Ast ... tant-stars

Huge, possibly planet-wide dust storm affecting Mars
https://www.sott.net/article/388124-Hug ... cting-Mars

Astronauts' movement increased subsurface temperatures on the moon
https://www.sott.net/article/388157-Des ... tudy-finds

The sun changes size according to its level of activity
https://www.sott.net/article/388171-Res ... f-activity

The shape code: Even more information found in DNA
https://www.sott.net/article/388271-The ... und-in-DNA

Discovery: New type of photosynthesis
https://www.sott.net/article/388304-Dis ... osynthesis

What happened when a scientist filed a public records request for NASA code? Two years of stonewalling
https://www.sott.net/article/388322-Wha ... onewalling

Dangerous, golden 'Pele's hair' spun by Kilauea volcano & raining gemstones
- https://www.sott.net/article/388327-Dan ... ea-volcano
- https://www.sott.net/article/388417-Haw ... -gemstones

Exploring the dusty prehistory of the solar system
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-exploring ... solar.html

New GAIA data reveals mergers in Milky Way
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-gaia-reve ... milky.html

The most distant radio galaxy discovered
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-distant-radio-galaxy.html

Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-black-hol ... tures.html

Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-exploring ... aptop.html

‘Shocking’ die-off of Africa’s oldest baobabs
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-die-off-a ... obabs.html

New research unveils true origin of ancient turquoise
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/201 ... 060818.php

Archaeologists excavate a prehistoric settlement in Northern Scotland
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/06/a ... and/120108

ANCIENT EGYPT: 3,500 YEAR OLD ROCK ART WITH EARLY FORM OF HIEROGLYPHS DISCOVERED IN DESERT
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-3 ... ert-976735

Indicator of YD Impact event in southwestern France
https://asecher.wordpress.com/2018/06/0 ... t-al-2018/

What if the impact was severe enough that more than one civilization was wiped out?
https://bryanwilton.wordpress.com/2018/ ... -emerging/

In the Voluspa we are told of how the world will end
https://bryanwilton.wordpress.com/2018/ ... ut-asatru/