From tiny tyrannosaurs to species that soar on bat wings, new dinosaurs are unearthed every month. And the strangest discoveries may yet be lying in wait Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332410-600-undiscovered-dinosaurs-we-are-entering-the-golden-era-of-fossil-finds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Google Reveals Fistful of Flaws In Apple’s iMessage App
Google researchers have shared details of five flaws in Apple’s iMessage software that could make its devices vulnerable to attack. The BBC reports: In one case, the researchers said the vulnerability was so severe that the only way to rescue a targeted iPhone would be to delete all the data off it. Another example, they said, could be used to copy…
Astronomy educators to rendezvous in Chile
Members of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program are heading to Chile for a tour of its great observatories, July 27 to August 5, 2019. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/astronomy-educators-to-rendezvous-in-chile…
‘Majorana Photons’: New super-class of photons can travel with different wavefronts
Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum and Cr tunable lasers, City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R. Alfano and his research team are claiming another breakthrough with a new super-class of photons dubbed “Majorana photons.” They could lead to enhanced information on quantum-level transition and imaging of the…
5 Strange, Cool Things We’ve Recently Learned About the Moon
It’s exciting discoveries like these that continue to fuel mankind’s curiosity about the moon. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65943-strange-facts-about-the-moon.html
Today in 2015: New Horizons at Pluto
The small, fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft is likely to be the only Pluto mission in the lifetimes of many of us. It changed forever the way we on Earth perceive this outermost world and its moons. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/july-4-2015-new-horizons-at-pluto…
Gaia’s asteroid discoveries
Animated view of more than 14 000 asteroids in our Solar System from the catalogue in the second data release of ESA’s Gaia satellite, published in 2018. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-gaia-asteroid-discoveries.html…
7 Far-Out Discoveries About the Universe’s Beginnings
Physicists are constantly learning new facts about the universe’s beginnings, and they’re mind-blowing. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65773-facts-about-the-big-bang.html
Do toxic gases make advanced extraterrestrial life less likely?
A new study suggests that many exoplanets – worlds orbiting distant stars – might have an overabundance of toxic gases in their atmospheres. If so, that would make the evolution of complex life forms more difficult. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/toxic-gases-habitable-zones-complex-life-exoplanets…