Researchers have discovered humanity’s oldest cave art. The paintings depict a hunting scene with what may be part-animal, part-human figures. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-rock-art-supernatural-beings.html
Tag: hunting
44,000-year-old hunting scene is earliest painted ‘story’ ever found
Cave paintings discovered in Indonesia reveal ancient artists were conjuring imagined scenes 20,000 years earlier than we thought – but who painted them? Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432604-300-44000-year-old-hunting-scene-is-earliest-painted-story-ever-found/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Hunters Set to Round Up Giant Burmese Pythons in Florida Challenge
The state of Florida is preparing to host the Super Bowl in January … and to wipe out as many invasive pythons as possible. Source: https://www.livescience.com/florida-python-hunting-challenge.html
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players ‘Hunt Down Traitors’ in Hong Kong
The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper published “under the auspices” of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily, according to Wikipedia. And this week Slashdot reader Tulsa_Time noticed that this official state-run newspaper “promoted a video game where users are tasked with hunting down the ‘traitors’ leading Hong Kong’s ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations.” Here’s an excerpt from the article by China’s…
‘Expedition Bigfoot’ set to track down Sasquatch
A new TV series will follow a team of Bigfoot hunters as they attempt to find evidence of the creature’s existence. Bigfoot hunting shows have been a … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332802/expedition-bigfoot-set-to-track-down-sasquatch…
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018. This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation…
When Did the ‘Dark Ages of the Universe’ End? This Rare Molecule Holds the Answer.
Scientists hunting for neutral hydrogen — a rare molecule that predates every star in the universe — just took a step closer to catching their prize. Source: https://www.livescience.com/neutral-hydrogen-dark-ages-of-universe.html
Monster Black Hole That ‘Should Not Exist’ Discovered in the Milky Way
An anonymous reader shares a report: Astronomers think our home galaxy — the Milky Way — is practically bursting with black holes, with estimates of up to 100 million of the invisible beasts hiding across the galactic neighborhood. It was generally assumed these black holes could reach a mass of up to 20 times that of the sun, but the discovery…
Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing
Their unique blend of electric and magnetic properties was long thought impossible. Now multiferroics are shaking up fields from dark matter hunting to finding cancer Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432580-500-exotic-super-magnets-could-shake-up-medicine-cosmology-and-computing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
TESS helps astronomers study red-giant stars, examine a too-close planet
NASA’s planet-hunting TESS Mission keeps giving astronomers new realities to examine and explain. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-tess-astronomers-red-giant-stars-too-close.html…