From Around the Web

Record-size hole opens in ozone layer above the Arctic
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 8, 2020
Rare hole is result of low temperatures in atmosphere and is expected to disappear

By David Aragorn
Red giant stars that eat planets might shine less brightly
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 7, 2020
The finding could affect calculations for how fast the universe is expanding

By David Aragorn
Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 7, 2020
The oldest known animals and plants preserved in amber from Southern Gondwana are reported in Scientific Reports this week. Gondwana, the supercontinent made up of South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Antarctica and Australia, broke away from the Pangea supercontinent around 200 million years ago. The findings further our understanding of ecology in Australia and New Zealand during the Late Triassic to mid-Paleogene periods (230-40 million years ago).

By David Aragorn
The Military Spent $22 Million Tracking UFOs: Here’s What They Found
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 7, 2020
The Pentagon UFO-hunting mission, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, is still partially classified.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 7, 2020
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Solve Mystery Behind The World’s First Color Photographs
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 7, 2020
In the mid-19th century scientists were diligently at work experimenting with methods to capture the solar spectrum in images. French physicist Edmond Becquerel was the first to succeed. In 1848 he produced what he called “photochromatic images” which are considered to be the world’s first color photographs.

By David Aragorn
Germany’s devolved logic is helping it win the coronavirus race
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 6, 2020
With 400 public health offices forging ahead with testing, the country is a model for others to emulate

By David Aragorn
Nasa and ESA find ‘cosmic killer’ black hole that could solve mystery
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2020
Newly-discovered black hole could be the long hoped-for ‘missing link’

By David Aragorn
Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2020
The enormous outflows of gas can help explain why galaxies stop making stars

By David Aragorn
Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 4, 2020
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years old

By David Aragorn