German police investigating three crossbow deaths have discovered two more bodies hundreds of miles away. The peculiar incident began on Saturday when… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/327680/germany-gripped-by-crossbow-deaths-mystery…
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New water cycle on Mars discovered
Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: Only in this season can water vapor efficiently rise from the lower into the upper Martian atmosphere. There, winds carry the rare gas to the north pole. While part of the water vapor decays and escapes into space, the rest sinks back down…
Study shows long spaceflights lead to increase in brain ventricle size
A large team of researchers with members from Belgium, Russia, and Germany has found that people who spend a long time aboard the International Space Station experience an increase in the size of some of their brain ventricles. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of brain ventricles in cosmonauts that…
How scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program
New research suggests that the Nazis had enough uranium to make a working nuclear reactor. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-trace-uranium-cube-nazi-germany-nuclear-reactor-program4…
The sound of justice
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18514298/nazi-germany-holocaust-records-audio-lost-saved-hitler-nuremberg-trials…
Universe’s 1st type of molecule found at last
Scientists have detected the 1st type of molecule that ever formed in the universe – a combination of helium and hydrogen called helium hydride – in a planetary nebula near the constellation Cygnus. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/universe-1st-type-molecule-found-helium-hydride…
This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
Source: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked…
10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change
Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17952334/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report-solutions-carbon-tax-electric-vehicles…
20 years after Columbine, the guns are still the problem
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18412627/columbine-anniversary-gun-control-mass-shootings…
The Nazis and the Disabled
A reader writes about the disabled people who were killed by the Nazis in Aktion T4, “the so-called euthanasia program that was a testing ground for the Holocaust.”