News April 2018

World News April 2018

- Mainstream media (MSM) is getting less reliable compared to some 'alternative' news sites, but still it can show us dots to connect on this timeline.

• Power cut temporarily shuts Amsterdam's airport - phys.org - 4.29.2018 - See also: No Alarm Error in the Netherlands [wp-svg-icons icon="file-4" wrap="i"]
• Multiple deer shot with arrows through head, body; Oregon police searching for suspect - foxnews.com - 4.29.2018
• Africa Splitting Is Just The Beginning, Earth's Undergoing Massive Changes - sciencealert.com - 4.29.2018
• Scientists are on the brink of creating an elephant-mammoth hybrid - dailymail.co.uk - 4.29.2018
• I Spent a Weekend With Cyborgs, and Now I Have an RFID Implant I Have No Idea What to Do With - gizmodo.com - 4.29.2018
• China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale - scmp.com - 4.29.2018
• This new device can read your mind - theweek.com - 4.28.2018
• Steamboat Geyser at Yellowstone National Park erupts for third time in six weeks - cbsnews.com - 4.27.2018
• Bee-Harming Pesticides Face Complete Ban in Europe - livescience.com - 4.27.2018
• Great white shark Hilton, 1,326-pound real life 'Jaws,' spotted off Gulf Coast - foxnews.com - 4.27.2018
• Mysterious Human-Like Statue Found In Siberia Is Twice As Old As The Pyramids - iflscience.com - 4.26.2018
• Nuclear accidents make mutant bugs and birds - dw.com - 4.26.2018
• Scientists discover the "heartbeat" of trees - xinhuanet.com - 4.26.2018
• JFK was not shot from the grassy knoll, suggests new research - eurekalert.org - 4.25.2018
• Cheap 3-D printer can produce self-folding materials - sciencedaily.com - 4.24.2018
• Scientists Discovered a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells - gizmodo.co.uk - 4.24.2018
• There May Be An Unsettling Reason Why Aliens Have Never Made Contact - iflscience.com - 4.24.2018
• Viruses, ET and the octopus from space: the return of panspermia - cosmosmagazine.com - 4.24.2018
• Physicists gain control over transitions between different states of matter - eurekalert.org - 4.23.2018
• Even NASA Isn't Sure What's Making These Bizarre Circles in The Arctic - sciencealert.com - 4.23.2018
• Japan's Mount Io volcano erupts for the first time in 250 YEARS, spewing smoke and ash 1,300 feet into the air - dailymail.co.uk - 4.20.2018
• Government Accidentally Releases Documents on "Psycho-Electric" Weapons - 4.19.2018 - popularmechanics.com
• Wreck Of Infamous WW2 Submarine Linked To Fleeing Nazis Found In Denmark - iflscience.com - 4.18.2018
• Ingenious baboons escape a research lab in Texas by using their captor's 55-gallon barrel to climb a wall and make a run for freedom - dailymail.co.uk - 4.18.2018
• Was another civilization on Earth before humans? - earthsky.org - 4.18.2018
• Twitter is down across the world - mashable.com - 4.17.2018
• Japan Just Found a Huge Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries - sciencealert.com - 4.16.2018
• The Ground Beneath This Tiny English Village Is Rising Up, And Nobody Knows Why - sciencealert.com - 4.16.2018
• We think we're the first advanced earthlings—but how do we really know? - phys.org - 4.16.2018
• Microplastics in Everything - ontario-geofish.blogspot.nl - 4.15.2018
• Nearly 1,400 Sharks Spotted In Mysterious Gathering Off East Coast - latestnigeriannews.com - 4.15.2018
• Scholars Have Found a Rare Copy of Heretical Writings on Jesus And His 'Brother' - sciencealert.com - 4.15.2018
• Donald Trump's Syria strikes are designed to hit Assad's chemical weapons while limiting escalation, but may not be enough - radioaustralia.net.au - 4.14.2018
• Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony needs speeding up by 20 minutes, claims conductor - telegraph.co.uk - 4.13.2018
• Secretive X-37B Space Plane Discovered in Orbit after Staying Hidden for 218 Days - spaceflight101.com - 4.13.2018
• Solar Wind Lights Up Night Skies, After Bursting Through a 'Hole' in the Sun - livescience.com - 4.12.2018
• Three "Holes" Have Opened Up On The Sun Releasing A Solar Wind That Is Hitting Earth -iflscience.com - 4.12.2018
• 64 Pounds of Trash Killed a Sperm Whale in Spain, Scientists Say - nytimes.com - 4.12.2018
• Huge HOLE appears on the surface of the sun - and it could cause absolute chaos here on Earth - mirror.co.uk - 4.11.2018
• Dark matter making us blind to alien life, says study - financialexpress.com - 4.11.2018
• SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars - eso.org - 4.11.2018
• Proof the military is controlling the weather? Footage of an eerie glowing line of orange light spotted on a flight sparks conspiracy theories - dailymail.co.uk - 4.11.2018
• 'Very urgent': Activists want global treaty to ban killer robots by 2019 - cbc.ca - 4.10.2018
• Cinematographers are losing control of images in digital filmmaking era, says Janusz Kaminski - scroll.in - 4.10.2018
• Secretive X-37B military space plane wings past 200 days in orbit - foxnews.com - 4.9.2018
• Mirrors made of a single atomic layer - nature.com - 4.9.2018
• Bound for Mars: countdown to first interplanetary launch from California - spacenewsfeed.com - 4.9.2018
• Stonehenge's massive pillars were 'in place long before humans arrived' and prehistoric architects built around the mystery monoliths - dailymail.co.uk - 4.9.2018
• Moose kicks man in Alaska - after he kicked first - foxnews.com - 4.8.2018
• 'There was something out there': Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'passes lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life' during historic 1969 mission to the moon - dailymail.co.uk - 4.8.2018
• A Mysterious 3,000-Year-Old Castle Has Been Found Under a Lake in Turkey - 4.7.2018
• 'First luxury space hotel' plans to offer zero gravity living - 4.7.2018
• Astronomers find 72 bright and fast explosions - earthsky.org - 4.7.2018
• Ecologists Use Astronomy to Track Endangered Species - pbs.org - 4.5.2018
• Space scientists have big plans to avert an asteroid apocalypse - nbcnews.com - 4.6.2018 - See also:  H.A.M.M.E.R. Time [wp-svg-icons icon="file-4" wrap="i"]
• Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes off Southern California coast - emsc-csem.org - 4.5.2018
• The first Antarctic greenhouse harvest may lettuce go to Mars - popsci.com - 4.5.2018
• Russian scientists invent device that swiftly analyzes composition of unknown substances - tass.com - 4.5.2018
• There's a Detectable Human-Made Barrier Surrounding Earth - sciencealert.com - 4.5.2018
• Scientists make most precise measurements of antimatter — but only deepen mystery - rawstory.com - 4.5.2018
• Scientists discover the universe has much less phosphorus than we thought, potentially meaning there are fewer aliens - independent.co.uk - 4.5.2018
• Astronomers Have Detected 72 Incredibly Bright Explosions, Caused by a Mysterious Source - sciencealert.com -  4.4.2018
• Oil Spill in Colombia Kills 2,400 Animals - smithsonianmag.com - 4.3.2018
• China Says Space Lab Breaks Up Over South Pacific - novinite.com - 4.2.2018
• Chinese space station expected to return to Earth around midnight - theguardian.com - 4.1.2018
• Kepler caught strange supernova: Sudden surge, rapid decay - arstechnica.com - 4.1.2018
• Indian scientists lose contact with satellite - phys.org - 4.1.2018
• Tiangong-1 heading for uncontrolled return – disposal corridor still unclear - nasaspaceflight.com - 4.1.2018
• Aliens traced! Scientists say clouds of Venus may possibly host alien life - financialexpress.com - 4.1.2018
• Chinese Space Lab Tiangong-1 Is Expected to Fall to Earth in the Next 24 Hours - time.com - 4.1.2018
• Bees on Mars: Nasa funds swarm of robotic insects for exploring Red Planet - telegraph.co.uk - 4.1.2018