World News February 2018
- Bee-harming pesticides could face complete Europe-wide ban after EU report confirms threat - independent.co.uk - 2.28.20
- New evidence of nuclear fuel releases found at Fukushima - 2.28.20
- Can Earth be hacked by aliens? Scientists say messages from space could destroy life as we know it - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.28.20
- Giant 300,000-year-old hand axes that may have been used by a mystery ancestor are uncovered in Spain - dailymail.co.uk - 2.28.20
- Artificial Intelligence Poses Big Threat to Society, Warn Leading Scientist - voanews.com - 2.28.20
- BLACK HOLES MIGHT BE PORTALS TO ALTERNATE UNIVERSES - syfy.com - 2.27.20
- Scientists change their minds, think water may be all over the Moon - theregister.co.uk - 2.28.20
- Was Hitler Building Advanced UFOs in Antarctica? - history.howstuffworks.com - 2.27.20
- Engineers create device that generates electricity out of thin air and needs no direct sunlight - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.27.20
- Alien life in our Solar System? Study hints at Saturn's moon - phys.org - 2.27.20
- Scientists Have Created A New Exotic State Of Matter For The First Time - iflscience.com - 2.27.20
- Russia to hand over 2,000 seed specimens to ‘doomsday’ Arctic Seed Vault - tass.com - 2.26.20
- Another Earthquake Just Struck Offshore Of Fukushima In Japan - forbes.com - 2.25.20
- Are we heading towards doomsday? Scientist suggests risk of a major war could be higher than believed - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.25.20 - See also: Global Seed Vault
- Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is freezing, not melting and no one knows why - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.25.20
- NASA finds massive ice losses in Antarctica - sbs.com.au - 2.25.20
- What Will Happen When Humans Make Contact With Aliens? Physicist Michio Kaku Says It Depends - techtimes.com - 2.24.2018
- Swarm of 200 earthquakes strikes Yellowstone super volcano - foxnews.com - 2.24.2018
- Car hits White House security barrier during press conference by Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.24.2018
- Is it too late to save the Amazon rainforest? Scientists say it is reaching the 'point of no return' - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.24.2018
- Scientists reveal how the most intense explosions on the Sun are stopped by solar magnetic cage - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.24.2018
- The Military Wants Genetically-Modified Sea Creatures to Snitch on Enemy Ships - motherboard.vice.com - 2.22.2018
- Like Humans, Elephants Display Complex Personality Traits - iflscience.com - 2.22.2018
- Is the Fall Equinox the Secret to the Pyramids’ Near-Perfect Alignment? - smithsonianmag.com - 2.22.2018
- WHAT MYSTERIES LURK AT PROXIMA CENTAURI? - syfy.com - 2.22.2018
- Is This Seal the Earliest Evidence of Biblical Prophet Isaiah? - livescience.com - 2.22.2018
- Oxygen ions in planets' ionospheres could be indicators of life - thespacereporter.com - 2.22.2018
- Is time travel possible? Science answers the question of whether 'visitors from the future' are genuine - mirror.co.uk - 2.21.2018
- New Quantum Crypto Scheme Looks Ahead to "Quantum Internet" - spectrum.ieee.org - 2.21.2018
- Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected - sciencedaily.com - 2.20.2018
- Amazon Starts Building 10,000-Year Clock Inside a Texas Mountain - techeblog.com - 2.20.2018
- Earth's Anthropocene Era Began In 1965 When Humans Started To Damage The Planet - techtimes.com - 2.20.2018
- Land Plants Colonized Earth 100 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought - 2.20.2018
- This Canadian city is plagued by an obnoxious humming—and it’s getting worse - arstechnica.com - 2.20.2018
- Who Created These Strange, Ancient Sculptures Hidden in the Saudi Desert? - livescience.com - 2.20.2018
- A Top-Secret US Military Base Will Melt Out of the Greenland Ice Sheet - motherboard.vice.com - 2.20.2018
- There's Been An Earthquake Swarm At Yellowstone -iflscience.com - 2.20.2018
- Indonesia's Sinabung volcano unleashes towering ash column - phys.org - 2.19.2018
- Researchers achieve 'Olympic ring' molecule breakthrough just in time for Winter Games - 2.19.2018
- Microwaves could be as bad for the environment as millions of cars suggests new research - manchester.ac.uk - 2.18.2018
- For how long can we treat the suffering of animals as an inconvenient truth? - theguardian.com - 2.18.2018
- Nasa's Opportunity rover captures 'surprising' Earth-like rock features on Mars - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.17.2018
- WHAT IS UP WITH THOSE PENTAGON UFO VIDEOS? - wired.com - 2.17.2018
- Why Does Florida Keep Getting Sinkholes? - nationalgeographic.com - 2.17.2018
- Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on Earth - phys.org - 2.17.2018
- Discovery of alien life might not bring the response you'd expect - nbcnews.com - 2.17.2018
- Is Humanity Ready for the Discovery of Alien Life? – scientificamerican.com – 2.16.2018
- Humans will be happy if aliens invade Earth, scientists find – independent.co.uk – 2.16.2018
- Humanity would welcome the discovery of ET despite fears of an alien invasion, predict psychologists – dailymail.co.uk – 2.16.2018
- How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us) – futurism.com – 2.16.2018
- The Origin Of The Mysterious Radioactive Cloud That Wafted Across Europe Last Year Might Have Been Identified – iflscience.com- 2.16.2018 – See also: Aleutian U-235 – Year of the Dog – Radiation & Solar Storm
- Huge solar storm that will slam Earth TODAY could knockout satellites, disrupt power supplies and spark stunning auroras - dailymail.co.uk - 2.15.2018
- Enriched Uranium Particle Appears Over Alaska — and No One Knows Why - livescience.com - 2.15.2018
- Alien sculpture? Rare 4 billion-year-old meteorite sold off at record-breaking price - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.15.2018
- Mysterious UFO ‘object’ spotted near Area 51 on Google Maps - metro.co.uk - 2.14.2018
- Neanderthals' lack of drawing ability may relate to hunting techniques - prehistoricarch.blogspot.nl - 2.14.2018
- Earth's inner core shouldn't technically exist - foxnews.com - 2.14.2018
- 'Miniature UFO' wreckage discovered in museum - foxnews.com - 2.14.2018
- Engine cover blows off Hawaii-bound United flight in midair - syracuse.com - 2.14.2018
- What is it like to live in the world’s biggest experiment in biometric identity? - howwegettonext.com - 2.13.2018 - See also: Biometric Brainprint
- Scientists Are About to Explore a Hidden World Trapped Under Ice For 120,000 Years - sciencealert.com - 2.13.2018
- We’re Officially On the Path to a Global Pandemic - futurism.com - 2.12.2018
- Oumuamua interstellar object spent billions of years in chaos over violent past - slashgear.com - 2.12.2018
- Millions Of Americans Are Drinking Water That Violates Federal Health Standards - iflscience.com - 2.12.2018
- Scientists can now 3D print nanoscale metal structures - upi.com - 2.12.2018
- Mesopotamia/Iraq: Clay tablets from the cradle of civilisation provide new insight to the history of medicine - sciencenordic.com - 2.12.2018
- Denmark: 5,000-Year-Old Scratched Stones Could Be Ancient Maps - livescience.com - 2.12.2018
- Saudi Arabia: The rock art that rewrites history: 10,000-year-old engravings - dailymail.co.uk - 2.12.2018
- German Court Rules Facebook Cannot Use Personal Data - cdrinfo.com - 2.12.2018
- Chimpanzees with higher intelligence have stronger self control - howitworksdaily.com - 2.12.2018
- Day Zero approaches as Cape Town’s water runs out - earthsky.org - 2.11.2018
- Earthquake, wind and fire: extreme conditions hit Olympics - phys.org - 2.11.2018
- A Lunar Corona Above Grand Place in Belgium - space.com - 2.11.2018
- Swiss-made component found in North Korean missile - swissinfo.ch - 2.11.2018
- Talking animals: we aren’t the only species capable of speech - theguardian.com - 2.11.2018
- Why is there no map of the Bermuda Triangle? The U.S. Coast Guard has the answer - bigthink.com - 2.9.2018
- Artist Coats Olympic Pavilion With the Blackest Black Pigment - smithsonianmag.com - 2.9.2018
- Elon Musk launched books to space that could last 14 billion years - mashable.com - 2.9.2018
- 1,800-year-old Roman mosaic with long mysterious inscription unearthed in Israel - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.9.2018
- PyeongChang Olympics begin - koreatimes.co.kr - 2.9.2018
- Interstellar Asteroids Like 'Oumuamua Could Rewrite the Origins of Life on Earth - gizmodo.com - 2.8.2018
- 4,500-Year-Old Buildings Unearthed in Upper Egypt - archaeology.org - 2.8.2018
- Astronomers Just Measured The Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Seen on The Sun - sciencealert.com - 2.7.2018
- Rare spider found at Loch Ness - inews.co.uk - 2.7.2018
- World's Largest Mercury Reserve Found Underneath Arctic Permafrost, And Climate Change Will Release It All - techtimes.com - 2.7.2018
- NASA prepares deep space atomic clock for test flight - financialexpress.com - 2.7.2018
- Mysterious 9,000 years old wells discovered in Central China - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.7.2018
- The universe's oldest sounds will soon be recorded by the world's largest radio telescope array - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.7.2018
- A 40-METRE-wide asteroid is set to blaze past Earth this week, Nasa reveals - mirror.co.uk - 2.7.2018
- False tsunami alert sent to US coasts - phys.org - 2.6.2018 - See also: Missile Island Alert Echo
- Whale and shark species at increasing risk from microplastic pollution – study - theguardian.com - 2.6.2018
- Tuesday night's Minuteman launch abruptly canceled - sandiegouniontribune.com - 2.6.2018
- A new radiation detector made from graphene - eurekalert.org - 2.6.2018
- You thought quantum mechanics was confusing? Check out entangled time - scroll.in - 2.6.2018
- Planets of TRAPPIST-1: Complex atmospheres, probably lots of water - arstechnica.com - 2.6.2018
- Chinese company reveals incredible test flight footage of the world's first passenger drone - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.6.2018
- Missing’ dog mysteriously reappears after 10 years - metro.co.uk - 2.3.2018
- Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle - time.com - 2.3.2018
- Physicists Spot Evidence of 'Odderon' First Predicted in The 1970s - gizmodo.co.uk - 2.3.2018
- New alien planets have just been found outside Milky Way in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away - ibtimes.co.uk- 2.3.2018
- India plans to land near moon's south pole - science.sciencemag.org - 2.2.2018
- Strange things happen when a crystal gets split in two - eurekalert.org - 2.1.2018
- Scientists Have Found A Way To Slow Light To A Complete Stop - iflscience.com - 2.1.2018
- Egypt starts radar scans for secret rooms behind Tut's tomb - phys.org - 2.1.2018
- One of the most energetic phenomena in the universe is heading towards Earth - ibtimes.co.uk - 2.1.2018
- Orange alert over erupting Guatemala volcano - phys.org - 2.1.2018
