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.

Scientists Trapped In Ice for Past Year Return With a Dire Warning Markus Rex, an atmospheric scientist at Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, warned that the trip revealed a dying Arctic ocean, reports Motherboard Science.

New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, reports Quanta.

Unvisited Earth May Exist in a Galaxy of Interstellar Space-Faring Civilizations

How Andrea Ghez Won the Nobel for an Experiment Nobody Thought Would Work She insisted on doing it anywayand ultimately provided conclusive evidence for a supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, reports Scientific American

Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 5050 Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone elses computer may come down to advanced AI researchor measurements at the frontiers of cosmology, reports Scientific American.

Earths New Gilded EraThe world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger, reports The Atlantic,https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50/

Climate Change Helped Drive Homo sapiens Cousins Extinct: Study Sharp drops in global temperatures helped seal the fate of three extinct hominin species, including our close relatives, the Neanderthals, according to thousands of archaeological specimens and a model of past climate conditions, reports The Scientist

Why a Historic Emissions Drop from COVID Is No Cause to Celebrate The greenhouse gas reductions highlight the difficult road ahead to substantially limit global warming, reports Scientific American.

Estonia Is a Digital RepublicWhat That Means and Why It May Be Everyones Future, reports Singularity Hub.

No, Roger Penrose, We See No Evidence Of A Universe Before The Big Bang, reports Ethan Siegel for Forbes. 2020 Nobel Laureate Roger Penroses attempted alternative, Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, cannot match the inflationary Big Bangs successes. Contrary to recent headlines and Penroses assertions, there is no evidence of a Universe before the Big Bang.

Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With LightNo Surgery Required, reports Singularity Hub.Optogenetics. uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. Its a brilliant mind-meld of basic neurobiology and engineering that hijacks the mechanism behind how neurons naturally activateor are silencedin the brain.

Scientists Are Finding a Ton of New and Mysterious Craters on Mars Martian craters appear concentrated in certain areas and we know that physically there is no reason for that, said a JPL researcher. An AI tool may help figure out why, reports Motherboard Science.

The Dire Wolf Might Have Prowled Asia, Fossil Suggests The carnivores likely crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Asia, reports The New York Times.

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