Author: Daniel Tom

Many scientists believe Earth can undergo what’s called true polar wander. That’s the idea that the solid outer shell of Earth sometimes shifts, relative to Earth’s spin axis. And it appears the moon also, at times, undergoes true polar wander. In September 2022, researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said their…

Social distancing restrictions and closed businesses have been hard on everyone, dolphins included. One pod in particular, a group of humpback dolphins in Queensland, Australia, has been bringing gifts of coral to shore, seemingly an an attempt to lure back the human visitors who once frequented their waters. Researchers are still stumped as to why…

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 700-year-old, well-preserved ship found at a construction site in the Estonian capital Tallinn on the shores of the Baltic Sea is hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Europe this year. The ship was found five feet (1.5 meters) underground at a site near Tallinn harbor,…

The weird behavior of a galaxy around a billion light-years away suggests that it might contain one of the most highly anticipated events in modern astronomy. Fluctuations in light from the center of the galaxy SDSS J1430+2303 look suspiciously like a pair of supermassive black holes with a combined mass of around 200 million Suns destined for…

Even though astronomers have talked about it for decades, researchers at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, claim to have seen—and in fact, detected—something for the first time in a composite image. They claim that it is a representation of dark matter, a node in the vast cosmic web that is thought to contain…

Keep your eyes on the skies as two meteor showers are peaking this week.The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids showers will be visible over the UK and easy to spot. USA and its neighboring countries will also be see these events.   The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids showers are peaking this week – Credit:…

The unusual shock-darkened meteorites came from a fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013. The origin of these unusual meteorites has remained a mystery, but now, planetary scientists have discovered a possible source: a mile-and-a-half-long near-Earth asteroid. Scientists know…

The UH-1Y Venom is a modern version of the UH-1 Iroquois. It is also called Yankee in reference to its variant letter and also as Super Huey. Since its introduction in the late 1950s the original UH-1 has been constantly improved and upgraded. The latest UH-1Y Venom is a result of H-1 helicopter upgrade program…

Billionaire Elon Musk, days after floating a possible deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine that drew condemnation in Kyiv, suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taipei to Beijing. “My recommendation … would be to figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan…

6 October 1983: First flight of the Bell Helicopter Company Model 406/OH-58D Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter. Developed from the earlier Model 206/OH-58A and OH-58C Kiowa, the D model features a four-blade composite main rotor, an upgraded engine and transmission, and improved avionics. The most visible features are the spherical mast-mounted sighting system above the main rotor…