Scientists discover ‘Unnatural’ mysterious element in formation of solar system

Researchers have just confirmed the presence of an ‘unnatural’ mysterious element during the formation of our solar system. It is one of the heaviest known elements and does not occur naturally. Interestingly, on our planet curium can only exist when created in laboratories or as a byproduct of nuclear explosions.

Mysterious ‘unnatural’ element present in the formation of solar system

Curium was named after Marie Curie and Peter Curie whose work lay the foundations of the theory of radioactivity.Researchers identified Curium present in a meteorite nicknamed ‘Curious Marie’ by researchers offers new insight into how stars form. The presence of Curium suggests that nearly all ‘heavy radioactive isotopes’ could have formed at the same time.

The research was published in the Journal Science Advances.

According to scientists from the University of Chicago, a rare element known as ‘curium’ which was found in a meteorite during the formation of our solar system, around 4.6billion years ago. Researchers believe that the element does not occur naturally on earth and it was first produced and identified in 1944 by a group of scientists at Berkley, California.

The lead author of the study, François Tissot said that „Curium is an elusive element“.

“It is one of the heaviest-known elements, yet it does not occur naturally because all of its isotopes are radioactive and decay rapidly on a geological time scale.“

Researchers can use it in order to determine an accurate reading on when our planet was created. According to co-author Nicolas Dauphas:  “The possible presence of curium in the early solar system has long been exciting to cosmochemists because they can often use radioactive elements as chronometers to date the relative ages of meteorites and planets.”

Researchers speculate that the enigmatic element could have come into existence as a result of star formations, or massive star explosions that happened before the solar system was born.

Professor Dauphas continued:  “This is particularly important because it indicates that as successive generations of stars die and eject the elements they produced into the galaxy, the heaviest elements are produced together while previous work had suggested that this was not the case.”

According to a report from the University of Chicago, „models predict that curium, if present, was in low abundance in the early solar system. Therefore, the excess U-235 produced by the decay of Cm-247 cannot be seen in minerals or inclusions that contain large or even average amounts of natural uranium. One of the challenges was thus to find a mineral or inclusion likely to have incorporated a lot of curium but containing little uranium.“

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Nikola Tesla reports in 1895 incredible experience, ” I could see the past, present and future all at the same time 

In 1895, while conducting research with its transformer, Nikola Tesla had his first indications that time and space could be influenced by the use of a highly magnetic field. 

Part of this revelation came from Tesla’s experimentation with radio frequencies and power transmission through the atmosphere. Simple Tesla discovery would, years later, lead to the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and time travel projects. But even before these ultra-secret military programs were to arise, Tesla made some fascinating discoveries about the nature of time and the real possibilities of time travel.

With these experiments in high-voltage electricity and magnetic fields, Tesla discovered that time and space could be violated or deformed, creating a “door” that could lead to other times. But with this monumental discovery, Tesla also discovered, through personal experience, the real dangers inherent with time travel.

The first Tesla experience with time travel was in March 1895. A reporter for the New York Herald wrote on March 13, he came across the inventor in a small café, looking shaken after being hit by 3.5 million volts, “I think you will not find me a pleasant companion tonight,” said Tesla, “the fact is that I almost died today. A spark jumped three feet in the air and took me here on the right shoulder. If my assistant had not turned off the power instantly, it could have been the end of me. “

Tesla, in contact with the resonance of electromagnetic charge, found himself out of his reference space / time window. He reported that he could see the past, present and future all at the same time. But he was paralyzed within the electromagnetic field, unable to help himself. His assistant, turning the power off, saved Tesla before any permanent damage was done. The repetition of the same incident would occur years later during the Philadelphia Experiment. Unfortunately, the sailors involved were left outside your window space reference / time long with disastrous results.

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‘I proved human-alien hybrids EXIST’, says scientist who ‘found them living on Earth’

A GREEN energy expert, who helped shape UK renewable power policies, says he is convinced aliens have been secretly implanting extra terrestrial DNA into pregnant humans.

Co-author Barbara Lamb

Half alien? Robert Frost-Fullington

The people interviewed claimed their mission on Earth was to “raise” what they believe is a “frequency” on Earth by increasing an  energy they refer to as “vibrations.”

Intergalactic heritage: Tatiana Amore

Legal alien? Cynthia Crawford

Source www.express.co.uk

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INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?

New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal debate. On one side the largest democracy of the world is eager to explain to its citizens and to the world about the ongoing contacts with the UFOs and extraterrestrials. On the other hand there are invisible untold international protocols that prohibit doing anything that may cause worldwide fear and panic.

It is well accepted between the UFO and extra-terrestrial experts that all the five nuclear powers are in contact with the beings from other stars for quite some time. Recently India has seen enormous news on UFO contacts and secret UFO bases in Himalayas near the Chinese bases. In Ladak, for example the locals clearly point out the everyday phenomenon of large triangular spacecrafts coming out below the ground and Indian security forces protecting them.

Military officials and politicians have confessed the fact that India has been contacted. India has been told the rules of the Universe.

The current debate is on whether to keep it secret like other countries are doing or in tradition of a total transparent society come out and tell the truth. India is so open and democratic; it is very difficult to keep a secret for long. The biggest concern of the Government today is that unlike in other countries, it will be very difficult to keep it secret for long. If the information comes out through unofficial channels first and then the authorities are pressed against the wall to confess, two bad things can happen. First, it can really cause a panic in the country as well as the world. Second, the way the Indian politics is run, the ruling party will be thrown out of power in no time i it is ever found that the Government withheld such information from the public.

The recent rush of world leaders to India is remarkable. Starting from Russian President Putin to major Senators from America have visited or are planning to visit India. European Union is in deep discussion with India on cooperation. All sanctions against India’s nuclear programs and Indian Space Research Organization are in the process of being lifted. India is cooperating with Europeans and the Americans in space explorations and technology research program. India is also part of World Trade Organization. India is receiving major outsourcing contracts in IT and call-center service work from America and Europe. India’s Forex reserve is at a level never imagined before because of international direct investments from Western nations, Japan, Korea and others. Interestingly, China the arc rival of India changed its posture in the last few years to make India’s friendship and trade a priority. India is slowly getting to the point when it is accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council. All the five Security Council members China, America, Russia, France and UK support India’s inclusion.

When all these factors are added together and analyzed, it seems like India is being told by the world to abide by the hidden protocols and in exchange be recognized as a major emerging superpower.

The debate the country is facing internally is whether to abide by the laws of the world and the Universe to be recognized as a superpower or be truthful to its citizens and the world.

According to sources close to the Government, the UFO contacts is known by quite a few politicians in the opposition and of course by those who are in power.

The military has legitimate concern of not letting the secrets out either.

Recently, India’s foreign affairs minister Mr. Natwar Singh came out and said that for India it was not necessary to become a nuclear power. He is a strong supporter of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, India’s former Prime Minister who initiated the nuclear program in the mid sixties. India first exploded a nuclear device in Pokhran in early seventies. The whole country including people from his own party questioned Mr. Singh for such an irresponsible statement. But on analyzing his statements, it is evident, that based on what he knows now, being a nuclear power really does not matter much because the technologies controlled by the extra-terrestrials are so advanced that all our technologies mean really nothing. But importantly he may be irritated with this controversial ongoing secret debate and what he really meant was that if India was not a nuclear power, the debate on UFO and extra-terrestrials will never be there in India.

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Biomedical researchers worldwide are learning to use stem cells to create body parts and even entire organs.

Noah Berger / Bloomberg

The medical revolution that delves into humans’ inner aliens

Steve Bassett the Reality of UFO Disclosure 2016

ZIJN DE REUZEN TERUG OP AARDE ( VIDEO )

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32 UFOs in Google Earth Map All In One Video, June 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of discovery: unknown

Location of discovery: unknown

 

I love this video. It has a mixture of 32 different UFOs found on Google Earth over the years. Understand that there were hundreds more, but Google deleted those older ones. 

 

Long ago, about 8 years ago, there were dozens of giant metal silver orbs over different countries around the world. Each one was reported (before I had this site so its not posted) and each one was deleted within weeks. 

This is a great video put together by Argentine Marcelo Irazusta, and I really hope he gives us an update to the coordinates to this green UFO above. 

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Sandra Elena Andrade states: 
32 UFOs in Google Earth is the new work presented by the researcher and ufologist Argentine Marcelo Irazusta. Perhaps the most complete collection of UFO images of Google Earth. A true work that brings definitive evidence of the existence of UFOs between us. 

32 ovnis en Google Earth es el nuevo trabajo presentado por el investigador y ufologo argentino, Marcelo Irazusta. Talvez la coleccion de ovnis mas completa en imagenes de Google Earth. Un verdadero trabajo que trae pruebas definitivas de la existencia de ovnis entre nosotros.

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Man Records UFOs "Dancing" Over Massachusetts Skies! 6/18/16 Amazing Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 18, 2016
Location of sighting: Massachusetts, USA

Here is a cool video by Secureteam10 of Youtube. It shows not one, but a handful of white UFOs shooing around the sky over Massachusetts this week. To see it you really need to make it full screen. I've seen this before over Notre Dame stadium long ago when lightning struck the stadium...small white UFOs shot all around, sucking in the static electricity in the air, due to the storm. 

Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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Beautiful UFO Over Christchurch, New Zealand On June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 Original below, added light altered above. 

Date of sighting: June 2016
Location of sighting: Christchurch, New Zealand
News source: 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81126150/Mysterious-bright-sphere-over-Christchurch-latest-in-record-of-unexplained-Kiwi-UFOs

Guys, this UFO is just beautiful. When I added light to the photo, it really made the colors stand out. The green and the pink boarder are really memorizing. Christchurch is famous for its UFO sightings, and this is the best, most clearest that they have ever presented to us. This could be a UFO with an occupant, or it may be a remote drone, that allows the alien light years away to experience most senses through it...sight, sound, smell...maybe not feeling objects, but drones like that must come closer to gather such info. 

Sorry for the video below, its not on Youtube and I tried to make it bigger, but its still tiny. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
A brightly coloured sphere filmed in the night sky near Christchurch this week joins a tradition, of mysterious objects seen in Kiwi skies, stretching back at least a century. Oisin Lavelle reported seeing and filming one sphere on Monday night and seeing three on Tuesday night. He watched the Monday night sphere for two hours before it sped away amid bursts of bright orange light. 

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Dormant UFO Suddenly Awakens And Shoots Out Of Saturn Ring, April 8, 2016, NASA Source, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 8, 2016

Location of discovery: Saturn's Rings

Photo source: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20485/not-guilty

NASA says its an object that was sitting in the ring and then was dislodged, I agee with that. It looks like a UFO was laying dormant in the ring and was suddenly turned on and shot out to do its job. This UFO was probably a drone, since the UFO may have been hiding there for an infinite amount of years. 

 

Of course there are some dormant ships that have a living human-like pilot...for instance the Apollo 20 mission ship in Deporte crater on Earths moon. The pilot (a woman) had a third eye on her forehead and was attached to the pilot controls with an umbilical cord-like tubes. This woman was recovered by the astronauts, taken back to earth...all the time she was said to be in a stasis, not alive...not dead. I askedWilliam Rutledge on Youtube  (RetiredAFB) for more info (he was an astronaut on the mission), but his account was hacked, videos mostly deleted, and at about 80 years old, decided to give up trying to teach the world about what he saw. He did leave a message I read saying "congratulations to the ones hacking my account, you have great hacking skills." or something like that. That was the last we ever heard of William 8 years ago. 

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

NASA States: 

A bright disruption in Saturn's narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently. This feature was mostly likely not caused by Pandora (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) which lurks nearby, at lower right. More likely, it was created by the interaction of a small object embedded in the ring itself and material in the core of the ring. Scientists sometimes refer to these features as "jets." Because these bodies are small and embedded in the F ring itself, they are difficult to spot at the resolution available to NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Instead, their handiwork reveals their presence, and scientists use the Cassini spacecraft to study these stealthy sculptors of the F ring. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 15 above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 8, 2016. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 105 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

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Paradigm Research Group Wants A Different Form Of Disclosure

It has been reported many times that Hillary Clinton will dig deeper into the UFO issues once she becomes the next U.S. president. UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists have been claiming that several governments have evidence of extraterrestrial visitations, but keeping it secret to the public because of fear of potential impacts on the rule of law and religion. Bill and Hillary have long intrigued the disclosure movement after making moves in the 1990s related to the disclosure.

Things got more interested when Mrs Clinton promised to look into the alleged alien technology that has been hidden at Area 51 in Nevada. She said: “I’m going to get to the bottom of it.” Temperatures raised another level earlier in March when Hillary’s most trusted advisor John Podesta reaffirmed commitment to declassify top-secret UFO files.

However, Paradigm Research Group would rather want a different form of disclosure from Hillary’s camp. The group is not only interested in alien visitation, but also on claims about aliens secretly engage with world leaders. The research organization wants to lift the truth embargo, which it says has been in force since the 1940s. The controversy stems from Clintons’ dealings with friend Laurence Rockefeller, the late billionaire philanthropist.

Rockefeller made a fortune through oil and banking and was part of the family considered as one of the most influential in U.S. history. In 1993, the business person started an approach to the disclosure, including CIA classified files, in what became the Rockefeller initiative. Rockefeller advocated a review of the legendary Roswell case with the help of then director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and advisor to the president, late Dr John “Jack” Gibbons.

However, the Roswell review initiated by Rockefeller concluded there was no alien involvement and the event mainly involved a balloon, but not a weather balloon, as first reported, but a top-secret nuclear-detection balloon being tested at the time. The US Air Force said that the weather balloon explanation was provided at the time for national security reasons. The UFO community labeled the report a whitewash for not explaining any of the testimony from the witnesses.

Aside from Roswell, Rockefeller had planned to write a direct open letter to then President Bill Clinton along with a threat of taking out adverts in the press. Rockefeller wanted a full disclosure and an amnesty for all witnesses to come forward and avoid prosecution. Dr Gibbons reportedly prevented Rockefeller from doing it. However, the threat somehow carries some weight as Rockefeller secured the ears of Mr and Mrs Clinton at his ranch.

During the seven-day vacation of the Clinton family in August 1995 at the Rockefeller Teton Ranch, the 85-year-old billionaire privately talked the First Lady and the President of UFOs and his hopes. No one knows what was said exactly, but Mr Clinton was carrying a review of how the government handled confidential material at that time. Later that day, Mrs Clinton was photographed walking through the ranch in conversation with Rockefeller, carrying a copy of a Paul Davies book “Are We Alone: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extra-terrestrial Life.” (Amazon link) However, until today, no member of the Clinton team ever say a word about it publicly.

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Filer’s Files #25 – 2016 New ET Planets Found - PART II

UFO Sighting s over the United States

Arizona Triangle

Sedona — My life partner and I set out tonight to consciously look for UFOs and to stargaze as we often do. Sedona is the Extra-Terrestrial (e.t.) capitol of the world, so we often engage in long, late night drives like we did on June 9, 2016. We drove on 89A near the Chapel of the Holy Cross and saw several small UFOs, which may have been shooting stars or aircraft. We were the only ones on 89A for several miles. My partner spotted a very bright light off in the distance and seemed to be hovering over the cliff walls to the right of Bell Rock. It was brighter than Sirius and Venus combined together and it just sat there motionless. It was too low for an ordinary plane. My partner stopped the car in the middle of 89A trying to discern whether it was a man-made craft or not. It was silent. I consider extraterrestrials to be my “star family.” The instant I said that, the white light became SO bright that I had to look away for a moment because it hurt my eyes. The white light appeared to be emanating from a dome shaped structure on the top of the craft. Then the craft was rapidly descending and heading straight for our car at astonishing speed. It reached us in seconds. The craft sped SO quickly to us that it was almost scary. It was completely silent and flew at a very low altitude. It was pretty large and definitely not a drone. It was shaped almost like an upside down “Y” and had a definite triangular presence to it and we saw blinking lights in the corners of the “wings” as it literally came to a point right above our car. The craft slowed down above our car.

It didn’t stop but it came at us with the seeming intention of letting us know that its passengers saw us. It started to curve over us a little bit almost like it was going to head towards Airport Mesa behind us. I turned to my partner to see their face (full of pure awe) and when I turned around to see where the craft went, it was completely gone. My partner stated that if we had hit a baseball hard enough, we probably could have hit it. If it had flown towards Cathedral Rock it would have crashed into it because of how low it was. The fact that it shined its light as brightly as it could the minute I addressed it and the fact that it literally zoomed to our car like a little white fireball was extremely intriguing. My partner remembers a blue light, white light, and green light. I saw the massive white light and the green light, but instead of blue I saw a couple of red lights blinking. Sitting there and when I looked at the car clock it said 11:11 p.m. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Lights

Joshua Tree  — On June 4, 2016 by Kristie Cowan’s at Contact in the Desert UFO Conference:  Around 10:00 in the evening. There was a small airport south of us and a Marine Base northeast of us- but all the activity came from the west going due east. At Orion Lookout we set up for our CE-5 protocols. One of us was filming, and I was spotting with Celestron stargazing binoculars and a green laser. As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites. There was a parade of 7 orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east. The orbs were a defused soft green, soft red and soft lilac blue. They gave us quite a show! We pointed our laser pointers and flashed them three times and they flashed us back! The 2nd, 3ed, & 4th ones formed a triangle configuration as they passed us! The crowd of around 100 people went wild with cheers, clapping, and jumping up and down. At this time I did feel a “heart” connection, thanking them and sending love to them. Sadly, my friend that was recording came up with just audio, however a documentary over on Melinda Leslies side got footage of all the activity. Not only are they here, it appears they are friendly! The orbs/UFOs were large enough to be seen with the unaided eye, quite large actually and looked like an orb of soft diffused light. The orbs/UFOs glowed with one single light (unlike recreational and military drones that glow with 2 or more). The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones. I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights. Thanks to Kristie Cowan’s

Colorado Triangle

Loveland — I was out filming in my yard with an old camera on June 12, 2016. I was watching a bunny then I started to look around in the sky (1st look) and saw nothing. I resumed looking around my yard then I looked at the mountains, and then scrolled towards 2 cottonwood trees. In the center, I glanced around. It was until I reviewed the tape that I saw it: Hovering near a cloud, it was a near-transparent pyramid with only the outline visible. In less than a second, it quickly went up and ‘cloaked’ itself. I was pretty spooked… and I showed it to my parents and they said it could be reflection or a cloaked ship. Thanks to MUFON

 Delaware Object

Harrington — I was going for my morning walk on Wednesday June 2, 2016. I walked into town, and was planning to buy some water and head home. I looked up high and it was the colors that made me notice it.  And then it was tumbling and flying upward in a cartwheel-like manner.
It first looked black but then I saw colors. It would flash bright blue, yellow, and red. It started off below the clouds, but as it tumbled, it was rising so that it was very high, above the clouds. I saw it tumbling. On my video, it appeared at the top to jump suddenly from one place to the other. When I finally stopped filming, it was because the drone had reversed its course. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Florida Cylinder

Ormond Beach – I observed something very strange on evening of June 10, 2016 at 9:10 pm. I was outside looking west when I observed what appeared to be a fireball t traveling north. It was three times brighter than Jupiter and very bright white yellow orange and had a slight tail pointing south. I instantly thought fireball, but the object was slowing down, so I thought this object was space junk. This object was “dropping” what appeared to be hot material that was same color as the object. The object continued to slow down and dripped the strange material two times before the object slowed to a complete stop.  As the object remained stationary it dripped the bright material momentarily. It took ten seconds to stop- which is far too long of a time for any fireball or space junk. I observed this object stationary for two minutes and shot one still photo with my iPhone.  I’ve been a dedicated amateur astronomer for over 40 years and I know the sky well. This was neither a fireball or space junk, ISS, satellites or planets. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Boca Raton — My girlfriend and I Observed a cigar-disc type object hovering low (400-500 feet up) on June 12, 2016. It was silent and had very bright colors rotating around it. It would tilt. And I ran through golf course to get a better video angle on my phone. It started moving south, and then hooked around an apartment building. I saw it come from behind building in distance; and change into an orange energy ball before I lost sight of it at 9:17 pm.

An hour later I observed a black triangle with three flashing bright lights (1 red, 2 white although one of the white lights appeared green at some points). It flew from the southwest approx. 800-1000 feet up, and circled over my head. My iPhone camera got static twice, after circling twice it took off fast to the north. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Illinois Object

Rochester – I was taking pictures on June 11, 2016, of sunset when checking pictures to send to local meteorologist I noticed something with four lights in picture.   Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Massachusetts Object

Vineyard Haven — Doing yard work when I noticed the first object passing over at 3:15 PM, on June 14, 2016. I was in the shadow of my roof line and thought that is a strange shiny object. It passed at a good clip in a NW to SE direction. One minute after another traveled the identical route. Then others passed over pretty evenly spaced by about 1-2 minutes between. As the sixth one passed over my son drove up the driveway and I insisted he watch. He saw one pass over and dismissed it as a Mylar balloon. They didn’t look like balloons to me and I felt they were small craft of some kind. I ran into the house and grabbed my Cannon power shot camera and shot two short clips of video.  Took four pictures and the battery died. I got my binoculars and made notes. The sun was reflecting off of them brightly to begin with and they appeared to have a small dome on top and  a faint red orange ring at the base of the dome. The shape overall was a fat disc or squashed basketball with the dome on top. The final one I saw was at 4:03 PM and it passed over a small single engine plane. I have to guess that the plane was about 600 to 800 feet and the object was 200 feet higher. The final orb traveled N to S then took a slight hook to the E. This was so fascinating and I saw 25orbs total. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 New Jersey Disc

Jersey City — My mother and special needs sister went up to a family member’s barn to see the horses on June 4, 2016, to take pictures of my sister and animals. My mother later that day came home and sent me pictures of my sister and the horse.

The first and second picture with the object in upper left hand corner peeked my interest.  My family truly believes that there is so much more then we even know or can explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mantua — Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in NJ and turned on its side over the road and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia at approximately 10 mph. I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life. It made no noise and it seemed to have multicolored lights rotating inside one light. If anyone else witness this at 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Oregon Lights

Salem — I’m posting this. A friend of mine was taking a photo of the morning sunrise from work.

He posted this photo on Facebook. I noticed this in the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 South Carolina Triangle

Indian Land — A large, black triangle UFO was spotted on May 26, 2016, by a witness that moved away so quickly, it made the witness upset. He was lying in bed when he noticed a light out a bedroom window on May 26, 2016.  The witness saw a white light along with red and blue lights blinking on the UFO. It was moving too fast to be a plane, so he got up and ran to the window. Its light so big and considering the distance. The witness just saw the blue and red strobes on the wings. The witness observed the triangle as it moved behind trees, still traveling at very fast speed. He noticed a smaller white light following the first object. Just before the witness lost sight of it, he realized that the two lights were connected and that he was actually looking at a huge, black triangle craft with lights at the points. He was upset when he got outside because it was gone.  NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website

Pennsylvania Orb

Belle Vernon — Out with my Mom on June12, 2016 she had to go to a few stores that evening; I stopped to get a couple of pictures randomly.

When looking them over later, I found some with an “object” that I hadn’t noticed when taking them originally. I was facing west into the sunset, so these could be artifacts or reflections, but the object shows the same pixilation as the rest of the sky, etc.

So I thought I’d let you guys make that call. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Lights

Killeen — As I was walking out of IHOP with my boyfriend on June 12, 2016, we noticed there was lightening in the sky. We also noticed there were Amber colored lights just falling out the sky at a distance.

We were thinking it was maybe transformers but then I started doing my research and I noticed it could have been a UFO. Yes, my heart dropped. I watch too many movies so of course I was paranoid. I am submitting this so there can be further investigation.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Object

Tacoma – I’m a public school teacher and former lawyer, On June 12, 2016, my birthday, I was at my aunt’s house near the Narrows Bridge and saw what I thought was a helicopter. I watched it through the window for a few minutes, but as it neared I went outside. It had blinking lights that repeated its pattern, much like a plane, but I saw no wings. Once outside, I heard no sound. Once it neared overhead I took this 30 seconds of video. I then went out in the backyard to continue watching it. I showed my uncle and cousin. Neither knew what it was. By the time we got binoculars it was so far in the distance I could no longer spot it. We just saw it within the past 20 minutes.

P.s. After re-examining the footage, it appears the spherical object was rotating on its axis. The light source at its base appears to show this. The object was traveling with the wind (5 MPH from the NNE), too.

Note: The object is not a balloon or helicopter. As stated by witness it has no wings. It is also not a drone. Perhaps it is a real UFO. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Arab Emirates

Dubai — I was in Bin Ladin Signal near the police station around 3 am in Sarah. I didn’t have the remaining balance to pay my taxi so my house is not far from where I stopped. I saw a light moving very fast. From a different direction came three lights forming a triangle. Ten minutes later the craft changed direction and flew different ways. I tried to record but my mobile battery is not charged to record video so I took some pictures with my phone. I can see some high way light and I was scared to even go home alone. When I got home I charge my mobile and zoom the picture in and I can understand the shape., I got home and I feel confused, this is the second time I saw UFO at my company where I live. I asked my boss to get CCTV camera but they did not. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Argentina Disk

 El Cholar – The witness said he found an object on Google Earth in Argentina that he wanted me to take a look at, because it had a disk shape.
When I checked out the coordinates he gave me, I found that the UFO was visible four times. The first three times it’s seen far away, but still a disk shape. The fourth and final time its extremely close and tilted again.
Its also tilted, which is what Bob Lazar (Area S4 scientist) says that disks need to do to move from place to place. It also has an antenna sticking out of it. Purpose may be for magnetic energy waves it harnesses to hover.
This is a very old and secluded farms area from the 1800s. This is the perfect location for UFOs to do research on humans or other creatures and not be noticed.
Google coordinates: 37°26’35.60″S 70°39’13.09″W Scott C. Waring

 Canada Sphere

Hope — I’m contacting you to see if you can help me explain a picture I took on my phone on June 4, 2016, at: 10:46 AM. The blurry object is what puzzles me. I just noticed it when I looked thru my pictures later it freaked me. I will be grateful for any help. Thank you.

Response of Witness to Investigator Questions: This picture was taken in a small town called Hope, in British Columbia. There has been a lot of activity in the Vancouver area for the past 2 to 3 months Note:The object is probably a bird or insect. The camera was zoomed out and the focal length was short. The apparent blurring is probably due to motion and the object is probably close to the lens.  Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

Kenora, Ontario – I was driving down a side road on June 11, 2016, at a remote location.

I stopped and filmed a white object flying at high speed moving right to left. It made no noise.

Perplexing, and my heart was racing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Germany Triangle

Kühren –I was at my friend’s birthday party in a little village that hasn’t many street lights it was already very dark on November 1, 2014. We went outside and played hide and seek. Two friends were hiding in a very dark place and saw three big lights in a triangle shape with a little red light in the middle. It was moving very fast and the lights were steady and not flashing like airplane lights. It made no sounds although it was very big and near to me. It was flying in a straight line and disappeared behind some houses after a couple seconds.

There wasn’t an airport anywhere nearby so why should a plane this size fly so close to the ground and make no sounds. When I saw the object I felt really weird and couldn’t really talk. After it was gone I asked my two friends if they’ve seen it too, they had but they thought it was just an airplane. I am still really confused what this was. Thanks to MUFON CMS

  Italy Crop Circle

Alba – Crop Circle of seven pointed star found in field in Alba, Italy on June 13, 2016.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan Oval

Tokyo — My sister just came back from Tokyo and as we were looking at her photos we saw that strange orange oval shape.

Any idea what this could be? It was taken at 7:00 PM two weeks ago on June 1, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan.

Sorry for bugging you again. I am just curious. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

 Malta Disc

Cospicua — At 9:42 PM, while observing night sky on my roof I saw a very bright silvery shining object round disc-shaped heading east. Its size was as much as five times the size and brightness of Jupiter as visible from Earth. It was at 70 degrees elevation in the Ursa Major constellation and disappeared at once as it reached an elevation of 40 degrees. Its speed if at 40K feet from ground was as much as three times that of an aircraft traveling at 850<900 kms="" hr="" at="" the="" same="" height="" this="" fact="" excited="" me="" as="" i="" realized="" it="" was="" not="" an="" aircraft="" 10:05="" and="" 10:12="" pm="" orange="" point="" source="" noticed="" first="" going="" from="" north="" to="" south="" a="" constant="" elevation="" of="" 70="" 75="" degrees="" then="" back="" on="" track="" estimated="" altitude="" round="" 60="" 65k="" feet="" ground="" traveling="" 2000="" witness="" checked="checked" real-time="" flight="" tracking="" radar="" programmes="" web="" but="" none="" indicated="" any="" in="" areas="" mentioned="" thanks="" mufon="" cms="" span="">

 UK Scotland Orb

Edinburg — We were in a park when we observed the object in the sky on June 5, 2016. It was not like and airplane or something similar. We thought that maybe would be a satellite but we were very suspicious about the object.

It looked very distant and reflective, not very easy to see. We had the feeling that was something weird and tried to take some pictures with a camera (60mm lens).

For our surprise, the camera was able to catch it (We had to use the trees as a reference to take the picture and also to be able to find the little dot later). Thanks to MUFON CMS

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7 Theories on the Origin of Life

Primordial soup

Credit: NASA/JPL

Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. But how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?

One theory involved a "shocking" start. Another idea is utterly chilling. And one theory is out of this world!

Inside you'll learn just how mysterious this all is, as we reveal the different scientific theories on the origins of life on Earth.

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7. Electric Spark

Lighring may have provided the spark needed for life to begin.

Electric sparks can generate amino acids and sugars from an atmosphere loaded with water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen, as was shown in thefamous Miller-Urey experiment reported in 1953, suggesting that lightning might have helped create the key building blocks of life on Earth in its early days. Over millions of years, larger and more complex molecules could form. Although research since then has revealed the early atmosphere of Earth was actually hydrogen-poor, scientists have suggested that volcanic clouds in the early atmosphere might have held methane, ammonia and hydrogen and been filled with lightning as well.

Or could simple clay have fueled life’s beginning? Read on to find out.

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6. Community Clay

The first molecules of life might have met on clay, according to an idea elaborated by organic chemist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. These surfaces might not only have concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped organize them into patterns much like our genes do now.

The main role of DNA is to store information on how other molecules should be arranged. Genetic sequences in DNA are essentially instructions on how amino acids should be arranged in proteins. Cairns-Smith suggests that mineral crystals in clay could have arranged organic molecules into organized patterns. After a while, organic molecules took over this job and organized themselves.

Or maybe life began at the bottom of the sea. Keep going to learn how.

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5. Deep-Sea Vents

The deep-sea vent theory suggests that life may have begun at submarine hydrothermal vents spewing key hydrogen-rich molecules. Their rocky nooks could then have concentrated these molecules together and provided mineral catalysts for critical reactions. Even now, these vents, rich in chemical and thermal energy, sustain vibrant ecosystems.

The next idea is a chilling thought. Read on!

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4. Chilly Start

Ice might have covered the oceans 3 billion years ago, as the sun was about a third less luminous than it is now, scientists say. This layer of ice, possibly hundreds of feet thick, might have protected fragile organic compounds in the water below from ultraviolet light and destruction from cosmic impacts. The cold might have also helped these molecules to survive longer, allowing key reactions to happen. [Related: The Ingredients of Life]

Understanding life’s origin may involve unravelling the mystery of DNA's formation, as we explain next.

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3. RNA World

Nowadays DNA needs proteins in order to form, and proteins require DNA to form, so how could these have formed without each other? The answer may beRNA, which can store information like DNA, serve as an enzyme like proteins, and help create both DNA and proteins. Later DNA and proteins succeeded this "RNA world," because they are more efficient.

RNA still exists and performs several functions in organisms, including acting as an on-off switch for some genes. The question still remains how RNA got here in the first place. And while some scientists think the molecule could have spontaneously arisen on Earth, others say that was very unlikely to have happened. Other nucleic acids other than RNA have been suggested as well, such as the more esoteric PNA or TNA.

A study in 2015 suggests the missing link in this RNA puzzle may have been found.

We have two last ideas to throw at you . . .

2. Simple Beginnings

Instead of developing from complex molecules such as RNA, life might have begun with smaller molecules interacting with each other in cycles of reactions. These might have been contained in simple capsules akin to cell membranes, and over time more complex molecules that performed these reactions better than the smaller ones could have evolved, scenarios dubbed "metabolism-first" models, as opposed to the "gene-first" model of the "RNA world" hypothesis.

The final theory is truly out of this world. Check out the next slide.

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1. Panspermia

Perhaps life did not begin on Earth at all, but was brought here from elsewhere in space, a notion known as panspermia. For instance, rocks regularly get blasted off Mars by cosmic impacts, and a number of Martian meteorites have been found on Earth that some researchers have controversially suggested brought microbes over here, potentially making us all Martians originally. Other scientists have even suggested that life might have hitchhiked on comets from other star systems. However, even if this concept were true, the question of how life began on Earth would then only change to how life began elsewhere in space.

Oh, and if you thought all that was mysterious, consider this: Scientists admit they don't even have a good definition of life!

Near-Perfect Free Fall in Space Sets Stage for Gravitational Wave Hunt

Artist's illustration showing the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft in space.

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A European space mission has achieved the closest thing to a true free fall ever observed for a human-created object, demonstrating the technologyneeded to build a future observatory that will hunt for gravitational waves far from Earth, scientists said.

The two gold-platinum cubes inside the European Space Agency's (ESA)LISA Pathfinder spacecraft are virtually motionless with respect to each other, with a relative acceleration equivalent to the weight of a virus here on Earth, mission team members announced today (June 7).

"With LISA Pathfinder, we have created the quietest place known to humankind. Its performance is spectacular and exceeds all our expectations by far," Karsten Danzmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz University Hannover, both in Germany, said in a statement. [The LISA Pathfinder Mission Explained (Video)]

"Only by reducing and eliminating all other sources of disturbance could we observe the most perfect free fall ever created," added Danzmann, the co-principal investigator of the LISA Technology Package. "And this has shown us that we can build LISA, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory."

What are gravitational waves?

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Gravitational waves: The hunt is on

Moving masses generate waves of gravitational radiation that stretch and squeeze space-time.See how gravitational waves work in this Space.com infographic.

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Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity a century ago.

According to Einstein's equations, the acceleration of massive objects generates gravitational waves, which then propagate through the universe at the speed of light. Dramatic events such as black-hole mergers andsupernova explosions produce the strongest gravitational waves.

These ripples cause tiny distortions of space-time that should be identifiable, given a precise enough instrument. And in February, the first such direct detection was announced, by scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consortium, which operates huge detectors in Louisiana and Washington state. 

The announcement made a big splash among scientists and laypeople alike, because gravitational waves offer a new way to study the universe. The waves don't interact with matter, so the information they carry across billions of light-years is "pure," free of distortion or alteration, researchers have said. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]

But ground-based instruments such as the LIGO detectors can spot only a subset of gravitational waves, because of interference from seismic activity and other factors here on Earth, ESA officials have said. Space-based observatories will therefore be needed to hunt for lower-frequency waves, such as those generated by mergers between the supermassive black holes that lurk at the hearts of galaxies, the officials added.

ESA aims to launch such an observatory, provisionally known as LISA, in 2034. The mission will likely consist of three spacecraft arrayed in a triangle, with each leg about 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) long. Inside each craft will be a "free-falling test mass"; lasers will measure the distance between these masses, spotting the minuscule anomalies caused by passing gravitational waves, researchers have said.

Such work will require incredible precision, which means that the test masses will have to be in near-perfect free fall, unperturbed by sunlight pressure and other forces. And that's where LISA Pathfinder comes in.

'We have detected gravitational waves!', breakthrough discovery confirmed (FULL PRESSER)

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Paving the way

LISA (short for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Pathfinder — whose total cost to ESA is $490 million (430 million euros) — launched on Dec. 3, on a mission to demonstrate the technology required for the future observatory.

At the heart of LISA Pathfinder are the two identical gold-platinum cubes, each of which weighs 4.3 lbs. (1.96 kilograms) and measures 1.8 inches (4.6 centimeters) on a side. The cubes are separated by 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), and they hang inside the spacecraft, which surrounds but does not touch them.

A laser precisely measures the cubes' positions, orientations and distance from each other.

"We can determine the distance of the two free-falling test masses to less than the diameter of a single atom," Gerhard Heinzel, leader of the Interferometry in Space research group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz University in Hannover, said in the same statement.

On Jan. 22, LISA Pathfinder reached its destination in space, a gravitationally stable spot known as Lagrange Point 1, which lies about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth, in the sunward direction.

Then, on March 1, the probe began its six-month science mission, performing a variety of experiments, including a crucial one that attempted to place the test masses in a virtually perfect free fall. LISA Pathfinder used its thrusters to maneuver precisely, shielding the masses from external forces — and did so incredibly effectively.

Artist's impression showing the core of the LISA Pathfinder technology package, which consists of two gold-platinum cubes kept in close to a perfect free-fall state.

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The relative acceleration between the two test masses was lower than 1 part in 10 millionths of a billionth of Earth’s gravitational acceleration, mission team members said. This result — which is based on the first two months of datacollection, and was published today in the journal Physical Review Letters — proves out the key technologies required to detect and study gravitational waves in space, Danzmann said.

"At the precision reached by LISA Pathfinder, a full-scale gravitational-wave observatory in space like LISA would be able to detect fluctuations caused by the mergers of supermassive black holes in galaxies anywhere in the universe," he said.

"The results reported by the LPF team are, quite simply, a tour de force in precision measurement," LIGO executive director David Reitze, who's based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, wrote in an accompanying "Viewpoints" piece that Physical Review Letters also published today.

"These results bode extremely well for the future LISA mission," added Reitze, who was not involved in the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) study. "The LPF experiments firmly establish that the precision needed by LISA for measuring test-mass displacements are well in hand, setting the stage for the next era in gravitational-wave detectors."

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Methanol, a Building Block of Life, Found Around Newborn Star for 1st Time

Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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Some of the building blocks of life are likely present on many planets from day one, a new study suggests.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array(ALMA) in Chile spotted methanol in the dusty disk around a newborn star, marking the first time this carbon-containing organic molecule has been spotted in a planet-forming environment.

"Methanol in gaseous form in the disk is an unambiguous indicator of rich organic chemical processes at an early stage of star and planet formation," study co-author Ryan Loomis, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a statement. "This result has an impact on our understanding of how organic matter accumulates in very young planetary systems."

ALMA — a collection of radio telescopes high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile — looked at the sun-like star TW Hydrae, which lies about 170 light-years from Earth.

This artist’s impression shows the closest known protoplanetary disc, around the star TW Hydrae in the huge constellation of Hydra (The Female Watersnake). The organic molecule methyl alcohol (methanol) has been found by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in this disc. This is the first such detection of the compound in a young planet-forming disc.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Astronomers think TW Hydrae is about 80 percent the mass of the sun, and much younger — barely 10 million years old. (The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago.) TW Hydrae is surrounded by a disk of dust and gas that could one day form a planetary system.

ALMA mapped the chemical composition of the disk and found methanol, also known as methyl alcohol (CH3OH). Methanol is a relatively simple organic molecule, but it's one of the largest molecules ever found in a protoplanetary disk, researchers said.

Methanol forms as a solid (an ice) on the surface of grains in frigid dustclouds. That means the dust grains are releasing it into space, study team members said.

The methanol was found in a region where comets may be forming, some 30 to 100 astronomical units (AU) out from TW Hydrae. (One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)  

A cosmic rainbow in ultra HD

Comets might be one source of the organic molecules that formed the basis of the first self-replicating molecules on our own planet, so the new results could have bearing on the origins of life on Earth, study team members said.

The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on May 13.

You can Follow Jesse Empsak @Mad_Science_Guy. Follow us@Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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CO2 Gets Stoned: Method Turns Harmful Gas Into Solid

Researchers have captured carbon dioxide from Iceland's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant and turned it into a solid.

Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Engineers have taken a tip from Medusa, it seems. They have stared down the pesky greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and turned it to stone.

The process they used was not as easy as simply eyeballing the gas, though. Essentially, they relied on a sped-up version of natural processes to take the carbon dioxide (CO2) spewed from a power plant in Iceland and transform the gas into a solid.

This ability to capture carbon dioxide and store it indefinitely may help curb the levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and stem global warming, the researchers noted. [Changing Earth: 7 Ideas to Geoengineer Our Planet]

"We need to deal with rising carbon emissions," lead study author Juerg Matter, now an associate professor of geoengineering at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. "This is the ultimate permanent storage — turn them back to stone."

Natural carbon storage

Human-caused global warming occurs mostly because of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that get poured into the air by humans burning fossil fuels for energy and other processes. These gases trap heat before it can escape out into space. Carbon dioxide is the biggest factor in this warming, scientists have said, because billions of tons of the gas are released every year and it stays in the atmosphere for long periods of time.

Ordinarily, this gas is drawn out of the atmosphere by plants, which use it for photosynthesis, and a chemical process called weathering of rocks. This process happens when carbon dioxide and other gases that dissolve in water form weak acids that then chemically react with minerals in rocks to form other solids, like clays. However, both of those uptake processes are relatively slow, and they can't keep up with human output, the study researchers noted. [The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted]

As such, engineers and other scientists have been working on several efforts to somehow inject the carbon dioxide into the ground. For instance, carbon dioxide is pumped into the tiny holes, or pores, in sedimentary rock — the kind laid down by layers of sand, for example, on the ocean floor.

The problem is that the carbon dioxide is a gas, and tends to rise. To keep it underground requires a placing a layer of less porous rock on top of the porous rock where the gas is stored. The carbon dioxide will eventually react with the porous rock and turn into a solid, carbonate compound, but that process can take centuries, if not millennia, according to study co-authorSigurdur Gislason, research professor at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

A new way to hide CO2

The team, led by Juerg Matter, now an associate professor of geoengineering at the University of Southampton, tried something different. The researchers took the carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant in Iceland, pressurized it to 25 atmospheres. They then pumped the CO2 into a borehole that was filled with water, dissolving the gas and making something like seltzer water. The mixture was then pumped into a layer of porous, volcanic rock located some 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the surface of the ground. The rock reacted with the mixture and formed carbonate compounds.  

Study co-author Sandra Snaebjornsdottir holds a sample of volcanic rock that is loaded with solidified carbonate, formed when the researchers pumped carbon dioxide into the rock.

Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Essentially, the researchers sped up the weathering of rocks, Gislason told Live Science. Here's how it works: The carbon dioxide in the water forms carbonic acid, which dissolves the basalts and makes them more porous. Meanwhile, the carbonand oxygen from the CO2 make new compounds, largely magnesium, iron and calcium carbonates, which are solids that can't go anywhere. "Calcium, iron, magnesium can all form carbonates," Gislason said.

The process is very like what happens naturally, except that when stone — either as mountains or stone buildings – weathers, it happens as it rains, and rainwater only converts a small amount of carbon at a time. In addition, because the CO2 added to the water is under a lot more pressure than it is in the atmosphere, the concentration of carbonic acid is many times higher than in rainwater, or even in the carbonated water that people drink.

The study was conducted over a two-year period, noted study co-author Martin Stute, a research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. In that time, the team monitored the water as it percolated through the rock using monitoring stations placed some distance from the injection site. They detected no CO2.

Even though the process requires a lot of water initially, that water can be recycled, because the other elements in it — the carbon dioxide and the compounds in the rock — are all removed in the reactions that form the carbonates, said Stute. He added that another advantage is that the water needn't be fresh; seawater should work just as well, though that hasn't been tried yet.

The next steps will be conducting more experiments and scaling up, the researchers said.

Both Gislason and Stute noted that the carbon dioxide would need to be transported to pumping sites if projects like this were built commercially, so the technique probably lends itself best to power plants that are close to areas with porous basaltic rock. Gislason said that describes many areas with power plants. "There are opportunities for this in Indonesia, or Japan," he said.

Still, the method offers a possible way to get rid of carbon dioxide quickly and cleanly, he said. "In a sense, you just mimic nature," Gislason said. "Just speeding up the process."

The study is detailed in the June 10 issue of the journal Science. 

Original article on Live Science.

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