Tag: New Guinea

Chinese Intelligence Compiles ‘Vast Database’ About Millions Around the World

Australia’s national public broadcaster ABC reports:
A Chinese company with links to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks has been amassing a vast database of detailed personal information on thousands of Australians, including prominent and influential figures. A database of 2.4 million people, including more than 35,000 Australians, has been leaked from the Shenzhen company Zhenhua Data which is believed to be used…

Farming and art arose in New Guinea at same time as Europe and Asia

New archaeological finds show that New Guinea developed sophisticated cultural practices around the same time as they were emerging in Europe and Asia Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238546-farming-and-art-arose-in-new-guinea-at-same-time-as-europe-and-asia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Walking sharks discovered in tropics

Researchers have discovered 4 new species of sharks that use their fins to walk, in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/new-spacies-walking-sharks-discovered-in-tropics…

Did an interstellar traveler hit Earth in 2014?

‘Oumuamua – 1st known object to sweep past us from beyond our solar system – caused a stir when astronomers spotted it in 2017. Now a new study suggests another interstellar object might have hit the Earth in 2014. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/interstellar-object-similar-to-oumuamua-strike-earth-2014…

Second Interstellar Meteor Discovered and This One Hit the Earth

Move over, ‘Oumuamua … there’s a new interstellar object in town. Well, there was, according to Abraham (Avi) Loeb, the astronomer who will be forever linked to ‘Oumuamua because of his theory that the cigar-shaped, not-of-this-solar-system object might actually be artificially made – in other words, an interstellar spaceship or solar sail. Despite some ridicule,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/second-interstellar-meteor-discovered-and-this-one-hit-the-earth/…