A Rocket Built By Students Reached Space For the First Time

In the early morning of April 21, 10 students from the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Lab successfully launched a rocket above the Karman Line, the imaginary boundary that separates earth’s atmosphere and space. As Wired reports, this is the first time a collegiate rocket has made it to space. The team may have successfully accomplished this feat last September…

Stellar waltz with dramatic ending

Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual celestial object. It is most likely the product of the fusion of two stars that died a long time ago. After billions of years circling around each other these so-called white dwarfs merged and rose from the dead. In the near future, their lives could finally…

Giant devil rays’ secret birthing zone?

The discovery of dozens of pregnant giant devil rays tangled in fishing nets in Mexico’s Gulf of California could mean the endangered species has an unknown birthing zone there, says a new study. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/giant-devil-rays-birthing-zone…

Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead

An emotional and intellectual voyage into an underground mythical world imagined by the Sami people reveals truths about our collective future Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232291-400-underland-is-a-profound-journey-into-the-mirror-world-of-the-dead/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

The Weird and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board

Of all of the ways of supposedly contacting the dead and the world beyond what we see, by far the most widely available and easy-to-use is the Ouija board. It has variously called a party game or a potent window to another realm, and has been the basis for numerous movies, books, and TV shows…. Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/the-weird-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board/…