nir Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 At Live Science, we delve into science news from around the world every day — and some of those stories can get a little weird. Here are some of the strangest science news articles from this week. Dark matter hurricane You may have seen ominous headline recently warning about a "dark matter hurricane" about to collide with Earth. The fact is, that was a bit misleading. The "hurricane" is just a dramatic name for an invisible cloud of dark matter that might be following an old, dead dwarf Galaxy through the Milky Way. Scientists hope that cloud might help them finally, actually detect dark matter particles as it drifts past our solar system. [Read more about the strange cloud] Ice age graffiti Carved outline (highlighted) of a prehistoric deer or reindeer in the Agneux II cave, Rully, Saône-et-Loire, France. Credit: Christian Hoyer, Floss working group, University of Tübingen Cave art dating back 12,000 years recently turned up in a cave in France, hidden under layers of graffiti added much more recentl Scientists used scanning technology to peer through the graffiti layers, reconstructing prehistoric images of a horse and a deer buried underneath. [Read more about the artistic discovery] Sideways reptile This set of 28 footprints, made by an early reptile-like creature about 315 million years ago, are the oldest vertebrate track marks ever to be found in Grand Canyon National Park. Credit: Courtesy of Stephen Rowland Scientists say that a set of 315-million-year-old footprints found at the grand canyon came from a sideways-scuttling reptile from long before the dinosaurs. It's anyone's guess why this ancient, clawed critter walked sideways (although experts have several ideas), but one thing is certain: The animal's prints represent the oldest-known vertebrate track marks ever discovered in Grand Canyon National Park. [Read more about the scuttler] Nearby exoplanet Artist’s impression of Barnard's star planet under the orange-tinted light from the star. Credit: IEEC/Science-Wave - Guillem Ramisa Sitting about 6 light-years away from our sun, the red dwarf named Barnard's star is the nearest solitary star to our solar system and the fastest-moving star in our night sky. It's also really wobbly. Scientists think that wobble is evidence of a "super Earth" closer to our solar system than any previously discovered. [Read more about the possibility of life on that cold world] Quantum bacteria In more recent weird critter news, scientists believe that an experiment in the UK back in 2016 may have created quantum-mechanical bacteria. The single celled, photosynthetic organisms seem to have developed a quantum entanglement with a beam of light bouncing through them. If that really happened, it will have been the first known example of quantum effects in a living thing. [Read more about the quantum critters] Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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