California Professors Sign Open Letter To Trump Urging Action On Climate Change
More than 2,300 faculty members from California public universities signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to take the threat of climate change seriously. The letter, signed by faculty members from the University of California and California State University systems and released on Tuesday, asks Trump to maintain the U.S. commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as specified in the Paris climate change agreement President Barack Obama signed last year. Trump, who has cha..>> view originalSpace Archaeologist Wants Citizen Scientists To Identify Archaeological Looting
Satellite imagery of Machu Pichu in Peru, taken in June 2016. DigitalGlobal2017 hide caption toggle caption DigitalGlobal2017 Satellite imagery of Machu Pichu in Peru, taken in June 2016. DigitalGlobal2017 An archaeologist has launched a citizen science project that invites a..>> view originalAn orangutan will have a chance to find her mate — through Tinder
Female orangutans Conny and Sinta watch videos of potential mates at the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2016. (Courtesy Wilhelma Zoo) The first indication Samboja was being nudged to find a partner came last year, when her home zoo — the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands — took to Facebook to casually point out that the female orangutan was approaching the age where she could start having kids. A year later, the Dutch zoo has announced how exactly they’re hoping the primate wi..>> view originalHumans, meet the ancient sea creature at the other end of your family tree
A tiny wrinkled sack with a big mouth and no anus may well be the earliest-known of humans’ forebears. Meet Saccorhytus coronarius, a 540-million-year-old critter the size of a grain of sand, whose fossil remains were discovered in China.Scientists say Saccorhytus is the most primitive of the known deuterostomes, a group of organisms whose living descendants include a vast array of animals from humans to starfish. The find, described in the journal Nature, sheds new light on the rise of vertebr..>> view originalPatrick Rowan's Skywatch: Earth's sister planet, Venus, shines at her brightest
Venus is fabulous, don't you think? And not just Serena's sister. Venus is also Earth's sister. Some call her Earth's twin. To the ancient Babylonians, she was the goddess Ishtar. For us here in southern New England, she's shining as high and bright in the dusk as anytime since 2012. We won't see her again like this until 2020. Perhaps you've already noticed the planet out your car window on the way home from work — even through the glare of oncoming headlights. Venus is the brightest of all..>> view originalMilky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe
Photos: Wonders of the universe Photos: Wonders of the universe Photos: Wonders of the universeThis is what Earth and its moon look like from Mars. The image is a composite of the best Earth image and the best moon image taken on November 20, 2016 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The orbiter's camera, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, takes images in three wavelength bands: infrared, red, and blue-green. Mars was about 127 million miles from Earth when the im..>> view originalResearchers say long-lost continent lies beneath Indian Ocean island
A long-lost continent once sitting between India and Madagascar now lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to a report published Tuesday. Lewis Ashwal, a scientist at the University of Witwatersrand, initially discovered in 2013 that the island of Mauritius had a stronger gravitational pull than other parts of the Indian Ocean. Ashwal and his team theorized that the island was sitting on a piece of a sunken continent. According to the report, the team of scientists found zircon cryst..>> view original4 People with Locked-In Syndrome 'Talk' Using Their Minds
To allow patients to communicate with their minds, scientists equipped them with a cap with near-infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalography (shown here). Credit: Wyss Center/Creative Commons license Patients with complete locked-in syndrome experience paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body. They cannot move, speak, make facial expressions or even move their eyes to communicate. For years, doctors and researchers believed that these people were unhappy with their qual..>> view originalNASA and Iridium will share a SpaceX rocket to get their satellites into orbit
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launching the first 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base. SpaceX. Satellite operator Iridium announced today that five of its Iridium NEXT satellites will share a ride to space with two NASA satellites. The ...>> view originalTo Catch Prey, Frogs Turn to Sticky Spit
Frog spit might be some of the catchiest spit on the planet. That's according to new research on frog saliva, which shows that the sticky stuff is tailor-made to grab bugs. It helps to explain how frogs can snatch flies out of the air at incredible speeds, and hang on to them using only their tongues. Researchers had suspected a frog's saliva might be an important tool for hunting. A leopard frog catches a cricket using its sticky tongue. ..>> view original
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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