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Another week of stunning news from NASA’s Blue Dot reports problems for Hubble Albert Einstein’s claim that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is understandable.
Age of mysterious crater may add clues to dinosaur extinction – The Boltysh crater in Ukraine formed around the same time as the Chicxulub event, raising questions about its role in this tumultuous era, Becky Ferreira reports for the New York Times.
Is the universe open? An intriguing proposition about what makes reality vibrate below the surface, reports Caleb Scharf for Nautilus. “One of my favorite, albeit heavily paraphrased, quotes from Albert Einstein is his claim that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is understandable. In truth, this statement holds back a bit. The biggest mystery is that the universe is in fact capable of self-understanding. ”
Scientists remotely detect life signatures, reports the University of Bonn. “This could be an important step on the way to detecting life on other planets: Scientists under the leadership of the University of Bern and the National Center for Research Competence (NCCR) PlanetS detect a key molecular property of all living organisms from a helicopter flying several kilometers above the ground. Measurement technology could also open up opportunities for remote sensing of the Earth. “
Earth’s 27.5 million year geological activity cycle, reports New York University. “Geological activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5 million year cycle, giving the planet a ‘boost’.
Inside the race to save clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers –Glacial ice records all kinds of valuable information about the environmental history of the planet, but it melts quickly. The Ice Memory Project is scrambling to extract samples for posterity before it’s too late, reports New Scientist.
The human genome is finally finished!–The Human Genome Project has left 8% of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, these enigmatic regions have been revealed, Sarah Zhang reports for The Atlantic. “These were the most difficult regions to sequence, full of repetitive letters that were simply impossible to read with technology at the time.”
This magnet can lift an aircraft carrier and will attempt nuclear fusion – The first central solenoid module crosses the United States under cover of night to be shipped to France to possibly attempt a nuclear fusion, reports Becky Ferreira for Motherboard Science.
NASA reports issues with Hubble Space Telescope– The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been scanning the universe for more than 30 years, has been down for a few days, NASA announced Friday. “The problem is a payload computer that stopped working last Sunday,” the US space agency said. He insisted that the telescope itself and the scientific instruments that accompany it are “in good health. “The purpose of the payload computer is to control and coordinate scientific instruments and monitor them for health and safety purposes,” NASA said.
Experts look into Pentagon UFO report – The vast majority of the incidents examined were not caused by US advanced technology programs, concludes the next report. So what is going on? Leonard David asks for Scientific American.
“They think it’s real” – NASA joins UFO investigation, reports the Daily Galaxy. “Are we, both scientists and laymen, ready? â€Asks Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb in his introduction to his controversial new book, Extraterrestrial – The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. “Human civilization,†Loeb wonders, “is it ready to face what follows our acceptance of the plausible conclusion, which we have come to through evidence-supported assumptions, that life on earth is not unique? and maybe not even particularly impressive? I fear the answer is no and the prevailing biases are a source of concern. “
How the Pentagon began to take UFOs seriously -For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the US government overcame the taboo, reports Gideon Lewis-Kraus for The New Yorker.
Why is the Universe spinning? asks the Daily Galaxy. “” Not only galaxies revolve, but also stars in galaxies, and Earth revolves, and Earth revolves around the sun and the moon revolves around Earth. Almost the whole universe revolves, â€explains Noam Libeskind of the Leibniz Institute of Astrophysics. “We don’t really know why, and one way to try to answer that is to understand where the rotation stops. “
Life may be more likely to be born on Mars than on Earth –The environmental setting makes all the difference, reports Dirk Schulze-Makuch for Air & Space. “An international team of renowned researchers led by Benton Clark of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., Recently looked into one of the key questions in astrobiology – whether life is likely to have arisen on Mars. Their analysis, published in the journal Life, is the most comprehensive assessment of this question that I have seen to date, and is based not only on current thinking about the origin of life, but also on the latest survey results from the Mars rover.
The Ganges makes the dead. it doesn’t lie, The New York Times reports – The Ganges, or Ganga, is India’s holiest river, and most Hindus believe that soaking their bodies in it will purify their souls. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became room A for the failures and deceptions of the Modi administration.
Is it time to let go of consciousness as a “ghost in the machine”? Peter Halligan asks for Singularity Hub, science has yet to reach a consensus on the nature of consciousness, which has important implications for our belief in free will and our approach to the study of the human mind.
“The Iron Anomaly” – New research adds a wrinkle to our understanding of the origins of matter in the Milky Way. New findings published this week in Physical Review Letters suggest that cosmic rays from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen travel through the galaxy to Earth in a similar fashion, but, surprisingly, that iron is arriving. on Earth differently. Knowing more about how cosmic rays travel through the galaxy helps answer a fundamental and lingering question in astrophysics: How is matter generated and distributed in the universe? “
The Gods Were Right – They Punished Prometheus For Stealing Their Fire. Now look what humans have done with it, reports The Atlantic.
The best places to find alien life in our solar system, ranked – If there is alien life nearby, where are we most likely to find it? asks the MIT Technology Review
How the United States Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill – A “green vortex” saves America’s climate future, Robinson Meyer reports for The Atlantic.
The biologist who fell to Earth –At 17, Juliane Diller is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later, she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru, reports The New York Times.
A Victorian Scientific Murder Mystery –William Saville-Kent was a pioneering coral photographer. Was he also hiding a horrible secret?
As astronauts dock, China settles long-term in orbit – Three Chinese astronauts arrived Thursday to help build their country’s rival to the International Space Station, reports The New York Times.
The immune system’s strangest weapon –For decades, neutrophils have been misinterpreted as stupid growls. They look more like super soldiers, reports The Atlantic.
Mockers are better musicians than we thought – Their complex songs have striking similarities to Beethoven, Tuvan’s throaty song, a Disney musical, and Kendrick Lamar, reports David Rothenberg for Scientific American.
Human aging process is unstoppable, unprecedented study finds – Research suggests humans cannot slow down the rate at which they age due to biological constraints, reports The Guardian.
Recent reports from planet Earth
Planet Earth Report – “Extraterrestrial Extraterrestrial Living for 24,000 Years Extremophile Could End All Life on Earth”
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Planet Earth Report – “The Terrifying Message Lurking in the Ancient Earth Records to Autonomous Robots”
Planet Earth Report – “The Quantum Century of Events That Could Have Ended Mankind”
Report on Planet Earth – “The ‘Douglas Adams Era’ of Earth’s First Life May owe Virus Existence”
Planet Earth Report – “The man who decoded the origins of life is our universe an experience of an ancient civilization”
Planet Earth Report – “Beyond Homo Sapiens, Did Neanderthals Go to War with Our Ancestors?”
Planet Earth Report – “Darwin’s Aliens on Earth from an Alien Observatory”
Planet Earth Report – “The supermassive Milky Way experience that no one thought would work for an earlier universe”
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