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“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species.
Ghostly Circles in Space Can’t be Explained by Current Theories–Among them was a picture of a strange circle of radio emission, hanging out in space like a cosmic smoke-ring reports astronomer Ray Norris for The Conversation. None of us had ever seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what it was, report scientists examining new images from pilot observations for the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) project, made with CSIRO’s revolutionary new Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. ....
The Cosmologist Working to Preserve the Night Sky for the Future, reports Becky Ferreira for Motherboard Science.– Dr. Aparna Venkatesan studies the distant reaches of space and time, while advocating for a night sky undamaged by orbital clutter. Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse –We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should. New ultra-precise distance measurements have only intensified the problem, reports Natalie Wolchover for Quanta. Should people take more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? –All these authorizations foretell a world with vaccine choice. Here’s what research says about whether more is better for boosting your immunity, reports National Geographic.. ....
Scientists are rethinking where life originated on Earth, reports Science –Rather than springing up from the sea, the first biological cells may have formed on land, Nature reports. Water is essential to life, but it also breaks apart molecules like DNA and proteins, a paradox that has long puzzled scientists. Now, researchers propose, life may have formed on bodies of water on land perhaps formed by craters, like Canada’s Manicouagan Reservoir where there was intermittent availability of water as well as enough UV radiation from sunlight. Algorithms for Love: Japan Will Soon Launch an AI Dating Service, reports Singularity Hub –Every year for the last 13 years, Japan’s population has shrunk. The country has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, and not enough babies are being born to replace an aging population; Japan also has the highest proportion of people over 65 of any country in the world. The Japanese gov’t has a hopeful solution. ....