Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, according to a groundbreaking microlensing study using KMTNet telescopes.

Researchers discovered that these planets can orbit their stars at vast distances, similar to gas giants like Jupiter, hinting at a hidden abundance of alien worlds. Using rare cosmic alignments and light anomalies, the team not only found new planets but also began piecing together the mysterious processes of planet formation, fueled by international collaborations and innovative telescope technology.

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Milky seas have been notoriously impossible to predict. Even today, with advances in technology and satellite technology, just when the next one will occur is information that continues to elude researchers.

While they have been documented in eyewitness accounts for the past 400 years, only one sample of ‘milky sea’ ocean water has ever been collected. And that was by accident, in 1985.

“According to the data we have on that, they found this bioluminescent bacterium called Vibrio harveyi around there, which lines up pretty well with what the glow of this milky sea looks like,” said Hudson. “So, that’s why we strongly suspect this.”

Hudson’s database merges 240 credible accounts dating back to the 1600s with modern, low-light satellite imagery, giving scientists their first real opportunity to forecast where and when the phenomenon will next appear.

He Has Direct Contact With Aliens - Whitley Strieber - DEBRIEFED ep. 36

The spear tip was found back in 2003 in a sediment layer in a cave in the North Caucasus, Russia, along with a host of bones from a variety of animals, and also the remnants of a campfire. It was only recently that the spear tip was fully examined.

The research team used spectroscopy, computed tomography, and other microscopy techniques and were able to ascertain that the spear tip (which was 9 cm long) had been made from the bone of an animal, likely a bison. It had also been attached to a wooden shaft using a type of tar.

The team was also able to date the spear back to between 80,000 and 70,000 years ago. This predates the arrival of modern humans in Europe (approximately 45,000 years ago), leaving Neanderthals as the likely makers of the spear tip.

Further study of the spear tip showed that it had been shaped using stone tools, and that it had been used either in battle or for hunting—there were cracks showing it had struck something very hard. There were also no signs of long u

The dramatic loss of sea ice due to global warming is changing light conditions for marine primary production, but exactly how is not well understood.

Previous studies revealed that small peaks in the absorption spectrum of liquid water, due to molecular vibrations of H2O, delineate a series of spectral niches for aquatic photosynthesis. Ice, however, has a smoother absorption spectrum and scatters light much more strongly than liquid water. Here, we show with a radiative transfer model that the loss of sea ice causes a pronounced blue shift, narrowing light spectra in the euphotic zone to shorter wavelengths.

Furthermore, ice cover yields a smooth continuum of light spectra, whereas open water creates distinct spectral niches selecting for phytoplankton species with different photosynthetic pigments.

These results indicate that the loss of sea ice will cause major changes in both the pigment and species composition of primary producers in polar ecosystems.

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We’re used to imagining extinct civilizations in terms of sunken statues and subterranean ruins. These kinds of artifacts of previous societies are fine if you’re only interested in timescales of a few thousands of years. But once you roll the clock back to tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years, things get more complicated.

When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago. For example, the oldest large-scale stretch of ancient surface lies in the Negev Desert. It’s “just” 1.8 million years old—older surfaces are mostly visible in cross section via something like a cliff face or rock cuts. Go back much further than the Quaternary, and everything has been turned over and crushed to dust.

Ca’ Granda’s four wings could accommodate thousands of patients at once in a series of specialized wards treating everything from kidney stones and broken bones to tuberculosis (TB). The hospital had its own sewer system, kitchens, ice house, laundry, pharmacies, and chapel.

For 60 years, it also had its own system for disposing of the dead. Between 1637 and 1697, people who died at the hospital were dropped into brick-lined underground vaults below a newly built church. Hospital planners expected the remains to skeletonize quickly, but a cool, moist microclimate slowed decomposition. Bodies accumulated and stank, eventually forcing the hospital to seal off the chambers and begin burying people on the outskirts of town.

More than 300 years later, the tens of thousands of bodies in the crypt are providing scientists with a remarkable record of the poor in 17th century Milan.

UFOs to be discussed again at Congress: What happened at last hearing

Story Summary

• 3 of those scheduled to appear during the briefing, hosted by nonprofit UAP Disclosure Fund, testified before subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee.

• The Disclosure Fund, which advocates for government transparency about UAP, said the session will "offer a science‑driven perspective" about the phenomena.

Less than six months ago, witnesses testifying in the halls of Congress reignited public interest in UFOs with regaling accounts of shadowy government cover-ups and strange craft seen whizzing through the sky.

The hearing was the second time in as many years that elected officials paid serious heed to the possibility that extraterrestrials – or some other force – were not only invading U.S. airspace, but that the military knew about it.

Now, another type of meeting to discuss UFOs is set to take place Thursday, May 1, on Capitol Hill. But this event – described as a "briefing," not

Is human beat keeping unique among vertebrates? The only non-human data showing consistent and lagless beat matching to novel stimuli, including music, come from Ronan, a trained sea lion.

Here, we report Ronan’s contemporary ability to synchronize head movements with novel metronomic sounds presented at novel tempos. We also provide data for ten humans moving in time to the same stimuli using a comfortable arm motion with similar amplitude. This sea lion’s sensorimotor synchronization was precise, consistent, and indistinguishable from or superior to that of typical adults. These findings challenge claims of unique neurobiological adaptations for beat keeping in humans.

Highlights

• Pterosaur trackmakers are identified using quantitative methods and diagnostic traits

• Three track morphotypes match pterosaur clades inferred as most terrestrially adapted

• Tracks support a mid-Mesozoic radiation of pterosaurs into terrestrial ecosystems

• Identifying trackmakers transforms our view of pterosaur biogeography and ecology

The absence of pterosaur tracks prior to the Middle Jurassic supports evidence from hand and foot morphology indicating that early pterosaurs were arboreal or scansorial. Track evidence demonstrates a major radiation of derived pterodactyloid pterosaurs into terrestrial niches beginning in the Middle Jurassic. Successive clades maintained a strong presence across diverse terrestrial environments throughout the latter half of the Mesozoic, highlighting the evolutionary versatility and ecological significance of pterosaurs in terrestrial environments.

After a rigorous analysis and selection process, including visual inspection of images, the team identified one strong candidate pair, where the IRAS and AKARI sources showed the expected angular separation (42′–69.6′) and were not detected at the same position in each survey. The AKARI detection probability map confirmed the candidate’s consistency with a slow-moving object, showing two detections on one date and none six months earlier. However, IRAS and AKARI data alone are insufficient to determine a precise orbit so there will need to be follow-up observations with DECam, which can detect faint moving objects within about an hour of exposure, are suggested to confirm the candidate and fully determine its orbit, aiding in understanding the solar system’s evolution and structure.

The search for Planet Nine continues to push the boundaries of astronomical discovery using advanced survey techniques and paring it with careful analysis. While the identification of a promising candidate

We currently lack both macro- and micromorphological descriptions of fire features for this period beyond brief mentions of presence of features or combustion-related residues (such as concentrations of charcoal, ash or indirect proxies of fire use like burned lithics). This scarcity of published data could be attributed to several factors, namely: either lack of preservation of fire remains during cold periods, a publication bias, or a potential lack of widespread fire use by modern humans during this period.

Immaculate Constellation - UFO Whistleblower Goes Public : WEAPONIZED : Episode #74 : PART 1

A team of biotech startups want to create lab-grown leather based on fossil remnants of the king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex.

This ambitious project is a collaboration between The Organoid Company, a Netherlands-based genomic engineering startup; UK-based Lab-Grown Leather, a business specializing in 'scaffold-free' biomaterials; and VML, a US marketing agency responsible for the 'mammoth meatball'.

A team of archaeologists, biologists, chemists and historians affiliated with several institutions in Europe and the U.K. has found evidence that the remains found in the Tomb of Persephone, in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, are not those of Philip II of Macedon, as previously thought. In their paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the group describes their study of the remains found in the tomb.

In 1977, researchers discovered the Great Tumulus of Vergina in northern Greece. The original find turned out to be a series of tombs, all of which were created to entomb members of the Argead Dynasty—the family who created the Kingdom of Macedonia.

After much research and debate, some historians decided that one of the tombs, known as the Tomb of Persephone, held the remains of Philip II of Macedon—Alexander the Great's father, along with his wife, Cleopatra, and their newly born son. Some speculate that all three were murdered at the behest of Phillip's ex-wife, who want

The surprise discovery of a huge cloud of molecular gas — the stuff that forms stars — just 300 light-years away is opening up new ways to study the conditions that enable star birth.

Stars form from collapsing clouds of molecular gas. We see this in the likes of the Orion Nebula, which gets energized by hot ultraviolet radiation of the young stars born within. However, finding molecular clouds before they begin producing stars is more difficult.

Such clouds are predominantly made from molecular hydrogen gas, which, when it isn't being energized by starlight, is very faint — almost invisible. (Atomic hydrogen, on the other hand, is easily detectable by radio telescopes). Astronomers usually use radio telescopes to detect carbon monoxide, which is available in much lower quantities in molecular clouds, as a proxy.

The story originated from Weekly World News, a tabloid known for fabricating stories.

In short, although the document at the center of the claims was genuinely available on the CIA's website, it was not an official agency report. Rather, it was a translation of a Ukrainian newspaper article based on a fictional story originally published in the tabloid Weekly World News. Additionally, the document was never classified and therefore never declassified. As such, we have rated this claim as false.

We contacted the CIA for comment on the document's classification status, credibility and source, and will update this article if we receive a response.

What's actually in the document

The document circulating online appeared on the official CIA website under the title, "Paper reports alleged evidence on mishap involving a UFO." 

It opened with a line crediting the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which the agency established to "monitor, record, transcribe, and analyze fore

Since the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amount of lithium. Later, some heavier elements, including iron, were forged in stars. But one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics is: How did the first elements heavier than iron, such as gold, get created and distributed throughout the universe?

“It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” said Anirudh Patel, a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York. “It’s a fun puzzle that hasn’t actually been solved.”

Patel led a study using 20-year-old archival data from NASA and ESA telescopes that finds evidence for a surprising source of a large amount of these heavy elements: flares from highly magnetized neutron stars, called magnetars. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Study authors estimate that magnetar giant flares could contribute up to 10% of the total abundance of elements heavier than iron in the galaxy. Since magnet

In this paper we argue that the LNF represents a return to the depiction of large naturalistic animal figures, following at least several millennia of rock art dominated by highly decorated anthropomorphic figures.

This change in graphic repertoire is interpreted as a paradigmatic change in how people perceive their landscape and interpreted it through art.

We argue that this renewed emphasis on animals is most adequately understood as an expression of kinship, where animals and humans share a common origin. Rock art sites are where this kinship was expressed and emplaced.