A family who had been out grouse hunting in Canada recently recorded some truly blood-curdling sounds. This fascinating clip, which was uploaded to Yo… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331482/unnerving-bigfoot-screams-caught-on-video…
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US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other migrants detained by immigration officials and will add the information to a massive FBI database used by law enforcement hunting for criminals, a Justice Department official said. The Justice Department on Monday issued amended regulations that would mandate…
Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage
New book Ahab’s Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432520-300-hunting-facts-in-the-classic-tale-moby-dick-makes-for-a-strange-voyage/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Nearly a decade in the making, exoplanet-hunting instrument installed in Hawaii
A top a dormant volcano in Hawaii, an extremely delicate instrument—designed to help scientists find distant worlds—is scattered across the floor in hundreds of pieces. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-decade-exoplanet-hunting-instrument-hawaii.html…
NASA Launches a New Earth-like Planet Hunting Telescope Using a Giant Balloon
A new telescope will seek out planets that resemble Earth from a height of around 125,000 feet, using special optical technology that will filter out light from the stars they orbit to provide a better view. From a report: The telescope is the product of UMass Lowell, and took off on Tuesday morning from Fort Sumner, New Mexico aboard a helium…
When did humans start altering Earth?
The ArchaeoGlobe Project assessed knowledge on human land use over the past 10,000 years, through the contributions of more than 200 archaeologists. It concluded that, by 3,000 years ago, most of Earth was already transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers and pastoralists. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-humans-start-altering-planet-earth-anthropocene…
M27: Not a Comet
While hunting for comets in the skies above 18th century France, Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
‘Evil-Genius’ Neutrino Gun Could Finally Unmask the Tiniest Particles in the Universe
Several giant experiments are hunting for neutrinos, the tiniest, most-elusive particles in the universe. Source: https://www.livescience.com/neutrino-experiments-dune-hyperk-pingu.html
‘Interplanetary Shock’ Seen for 1st Time
A team of four NASA spacecraft finally caught sight of a phenomenon scientists have been hunting for years: an interplanetary shock. Source: https://www.livescience.com/nasa-detects-first-interplanetary-shock.html
Check out this cool video map of known exoplanets
This short video, just over a minute long, takes you on a journey from 1991, when no exoplanets were known, to today’s 4,003+ known exoplanets. Why the plus? According to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the number of known exoplanets has already jumped up to 4,031 and counting! Source: https://earthsky.org/space/time-lapse-video-map-exoplanets-2019…