Tag: discoveries
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Kepler-186f: First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
from popularmechanics.com: A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone. “This…
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Scientists Dig Up Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus in Siberia
from cnn.com: Scientists have unearthed a giant virus more than 30,000 years old from the frozen soil in a remote region of Siberia. While this ancient virus is harmless to people, the scientists behind the discovery warn that the discovery suggests that the thawing of permafrost in polar regions, as a result of either climate…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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Burial Tomb of Princess Diana’s Ancestor Uncovered
from irishexaminer.com: A graveyard restoration project in Cork has uncovered the ancient burial tomb of a direct ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales. The unmarked mausoleum in Corkbeg graveyard in Whitegate in East Cork was found to contain the remains of Princess Diana’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Baron Edmond Roche. During the restoration process, volunteers discovered plaques…
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Britain’s Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa
from slashdot.com: “They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe. A…
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2/6 – Binge & Purge: Rarities and Discoveries
New & Extremely Rare Species of River Dolphin Discovered in Brazil Giant jellyfish found on Australian beach Rare deep-sea fish found in Toyama Rare lavender crab discovered New species of deep-diving whale discovered Rare iguanas hidden in socks found by UK customs at Heathrow New species of prehistoric spider discovered in China Rare new snowdrop…
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4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Uncovered In Egypt
from foxnews.com: Archaeologists working near the ancient settlement of Edfu, in southern Egypt, have uncovered a step pyramid that dates back about 4,600 years, predating the Great Pyramid of Giza by at least a few decades. The step pyramid, which once stood as high as 43 feet, is one of seven so-called “provincial” pyramids built…
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Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn’t Be There
from phys.org: An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet – a planet outside of our solar system – discovered at the UA.
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Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women
(Note: This is our first #MediaMatriarchy post.) from nbcnews.com: Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those…
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Rare, Tiny Neutrinos May Have Huge Implications for Astronomy
from latimes.com: The 28 subatomic particles from deep space detected within an Antarctic glacier are mysterious and extremely powerful, suggesting a new way of looking at the universe, scientists say. Together, they contain a tiny fraction of the mass of a single electron. But the 28 neutrinos from deep space detected by an icy observatory…
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Astronomers reveal guts of mysterious black hole jets
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a recent press release from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, an international team of researchers has solved an age-old question of the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. The findings appear in the latest issue of Nature, in an article entitled, “Baryons in the relativistic jets of the stellar-mass…
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One in five suns has habitable world
from bbc.co.uk: Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet. Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, they argue that one in five stars like the Sun hosts an Earth-sized world located in the “habitable zone”. This zone is the region around a star where…
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
from latimes.com: Just 700 million years after the big bang, our most distant known galaxy was a cauldron of star production, churning out new suns hundreds of times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists say. But it was only this spring, roughly 13 billion years later, that astronomers first glimpsed evidence of this…
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Massive Submerged Structure Stumps Israeli Archaeologists
from foxnews.com: The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologist’s dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated. It’s thousands of years old — a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored. The problem…
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#PopOcculture: Cosmic, Creepy, Cults and More
Did James Holmes Call Diggity Dave? // Synchrocinematic Willy Wonka Director Dies // Joan Rivers to #ADL: #STFU! – “Germany is where banning books started, and it can start here” // Unification Church founder Rev. Moon in critical condition // 93yr-old Billy Graham in NC hospital with bronchitis // #Audio #Satire: Christian Porn Film Climaxes…