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Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/Q8Wcl7dJCPo/">New hammerhead shark species found off South Carolina</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 8th 2013, 19:15 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>When new species are found near populated areas, they are often small and inconspicuous, not, for example, a hammerhead shark.</p> <p>But that's exactly what a team of researchers discovered along the coast of South Carolina. The <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Ftopics%2Fnewfound-species%2F">new species</a> looks virtually identical to the scalloped hammerhead, but is genetically distinct, and contains about 10 fewer vertebrae, or segments of backbone, new research shows.</p> <div> <blockquote> <p>'Outside of South Carolina, we've only seen five tissue samples of the species.'</p> </blockquote> <p>- University of South Carolina fish expert Joe Quattro</p> </div> <p>The new species, named the Carolina hammerhead (<em>Sphyrna gilbert</em>), gives birth to shark "pups" in estuaries near the shore off the Carolinas, according to a study published in August in the journal Zootaxa.</p> <p>To find the <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Ftopics%2Fsharks%2F">shark</a>, scientists led by University of South Carolina fish expert Joe Quattro collected 80 young sharks that looked liked scalloped hammerheads. They then analyzed their DNA, and found that they were distinct from their scalloped cousins. Further analysis found more subtle differences; the new species is slightly smaller, for instance, according to the study. Of these 80 sharks, 54 of them belonged to the new species, the study noted.</p> <p>The study shows that the new species is quite rare. "Outside of South Carolina, we've only seen five tissue samples of the cryptic species," Quattro said in a release from the University of South Carolina. "And that's out of three or four hundred specimens."</p> <p>Populations of scalloped sharks, like those of most other shark species, have plummeted in the past few decades by up to 90 percent, Quattro said.</p> <p>"Here, we're showing that the scalloped hammerheads are actually two things," Quattro said. "Since the cryptic species is much rarer than the [more widespread one], God only knows what its population levels have dropped to."</p> <p>The decline of sharks has been driven in part by demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy. About 100 million sharks are killed each year to satisfy this craving, scientists estimate. But there may be some good news consumption of the soup is down by about 50 percent in China over the past two years, according to the environmental group WildAid.</p> <p>In more shark news, a <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F39331-new-walking-shark-species.html">new species of "walking shark"</a> was discovered near a remote Indonesian island in August.</p> <p><em>Copyright 2013</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F"><em>LiveScience</em></a><em>, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</em></p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-36137155859358698752013-11-08T07:48:00.001-08:002013-11-08T07:48:22.501-08:00FOX News: Track Europe's falling, 2,000-pound satellite in real-time<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/5J_Aqbn2Izs/">Track Europe's falling, 2,000-pound satellite in real-time</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 8th 2013, 14:45 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Sometime this weekend, the sky will actually be falling.</p> <p>A defunct satellite from the European Space Agency the size of a Chevy Suburban is set to plunge to Earth somewhere between Sunday and Monday -- and experts say there's no way to precisely determine where it will crash.</p> <p>Its orbit goes over the poles, and as the planet rotates the satellite whizzes over nearly every point on Earth. But GOCE, or Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, ran out of gas last month and has been steadily sinking towards the Earth. </p> <p>The satellite had been orbiting at a very low altitude for its mission, just 161 miles above the planet. Indeed, GOCE's orbit is so low that it experiences drag from the outer edges of Earth's atmosphere, the ESA said.</p> <dl><dt>GOCE Facts and Figures</dt> <dd> <p><strong>Full name</strong>: Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer</p> <p><strong>Launched</strong>: March 17, 2009</p> <p><strong>Launch site</strong>: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia</p> <p><strong>Mission control</strong>: European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany</p> <p><strong>Number of instruments</strong>: 3</p> <p><strong>Mission cost</strong>: $470 million (including launcher and operations)</p> <p><strong>Mass</strong>: 2,425 pounds</p> <p><strong>Size</strong>: 17.4 feet long, about 3 feet body diameter</p> <p><strong>Propulsion tank</strong>: 88 pounds of xenon</p> <p><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esa.int%2FOur_Activities%2FObserving_the_Earth%2FGOCE%2FFacts_and_figures">Learn more</a></p> </dd> </dl><p>Where is it now? Thanks to a neat widget built just for FoxNews.com by the <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n2yo.com%2F" target="_blank">satellite-tracking website N2YO.com</a>, you can watch the falling satellite as it courses through the heavens.</p> <p>Pinpointing where and when hurtling space debris will strike is an imprecise science. To calculate the orbit, N2YO.com runs information from the U.S. Air Force Space Command through a series of algorithms, and overlays it on mapping data from Google.</p> <p>Not that citizens need to take cover. Although the satellite will break into pieces -- between 25 and 45 with the largest as big as 200 pounds, according to <em>The New York Times</em> -- they are most likely to plunge into the ocean.</p> <p>"It's rather hard to predict where the spacecraft will re-enter and impact," Rune Floberghagen, the mission manager for GOCE, told <em>The Times.</em></p> <p>GOCE has been orbiting Earth since March 2009 at the lowest altitude of any research satellite. With a sleek, aerodynamic design meant to eliminate drag on the craft from the planet -- it's been called the "Ferrari of space" -- GOCE has mapped variations in Earth's gravity with extreme detail, creating a model of the planet's "geoid."</p> <p>The satellite is 17.4 feet long, according to the European Space Agency. A 2014 Chevrolet Suburban is 18.5 feet long, including the bumpers. The slim satellite is only 1/3 the weight of the truck, however.</p> <p>When a NASA satellite fell from orbit two years ago, it plunged into the Pacific. When Russia's Phobos-Grunt failed last year, it too plunged into the Pacific. One day before GOCE re-enters the thick atmosphere of the planet, ESA will be able to narrow down the exact time and location of the crash.</p> <p>As far as anyone knows, falling space debris has never injured anyone -- although <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fscitech%2F2011%2F09%2F21%2Fwoman-gets-hit-by-space-junk-lives-to-tell-tale%2F">one woman came dangerously close</a>. Nor has significant property damage been reported. That's because most of the planet is covered in water and there are vast regions of empty land.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-36519745126631391022013-11-08T05:49:00.001-08:002013-11-08T05:49:25.984-08:00FOX News: NASA photograph shows Comet ISON as it streaks toward sun<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/dGslv_UnKxg/">NASA photograph shows Comet ISON as it streaks toward sun</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 8th 2013, 13:00 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>The potentially spectacular Comet ISON streaks through the constellation Leo (The Lion) in a stunning new NASA photo taken just a month before the icy object's highly anticipated close encounter with the sun.</p> <p><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F19973-comet-ison.html">Comet ISON</a> assumes a greenish tinge in the photo, which was taken with a 14-inch telescope on Oct. 25 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The comet was about 132 million miles from Earth at the time, blazing through space at nearly 88,000 mph, agency officials said.</p> <p>The image also captures the motion of a manmade object, this one much closer to home. "The diagonal streak right of center was caused by the Italian SkyMed-2 satellite passing though the field of view," NASA officials wrote in a description of the photo. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F19372-comet-ison-photos-2013-great-comet.html">See more amazing photos of Comet ISON by stargazers]</a></p> <p>Comet ISON is slated to skim just 730,000 miles above the surface of the sun on Nov. 28. If the icy wanderer survives this flyby, it could put on a great show for skywatchers through the first half of December, experts say.Spotting the comet right now, however, requires a bit of work.</p> <p>"At magnitude 8.5, the comet is still too faint for the unaided eye or small binoculars, but it's an easy target in a <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftelescopes.toptenreviews.com%2Ftelescopes-for-beginners-review%2F">small telescope</a>," NASA officials wrote.</p> <p>Nobody knows exactly how ISON will behave during its close solar approach later this month. It's tough to predict the behavior of any <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F53-comets-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html">comet</a>, especially a "dynamically new" one like ISON that's making its first trip to the inner solar system from the distant, frigid Oort Cloud.</p> <p>Comet ISON was discovered in September 2012 by two Russian amateur astronomers. Scientists have thus had more than a year to prepare for the comet's solar flyby, and they've mobilized a variety of instruments on the ground and in space to track ISON's progress.</p> <p>Researchers hope to learn a great deal about the comet's composition by noting which gases boil off ISON as it gets closer and closer to the sun. This information, in turn, could yield insights about the early days of the solar system, which came together nearly 4.6 billion years ago. </p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-61819837621672896652013-11-07T10:43:00.003-08:002013-11-07T10:43:39.530-08:00FOX News: Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/dPH3MWTompI/">Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 17:53 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p><span>LONDON – </span>The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.</p> <p>Scientists at Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics said Thursday they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was deliberately poisoned with polonium though they don't know if it ultimately killed him.</p> <p>Arafat died under mysterious circumstances at a French military hospital in 2004 but the Swiss say the amounts of polonium and its byproducts, including lead, that they found in his bones and grave soil could not have been accidental.</p> <dl><dt>Espionage?</dt> <dd> <p>Arafat died in 2004 in France, a month after falling ill at his Israeli-besieged West Bank compound. Palestinian officials have alleged Israel poisoned Arafat, a claim Israel denies.</p> <p>Arafat's widow says the Palestinian leadership must seek justice for her husband after Swiss scientists found evidence suggesting he was poisoned by the radioactive substance polonium-210.</p> <p><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2F2013%2F11%2F07%2Farafat-widow-says-his-successors-must-seek-justice-after-findings-suggest-was%2F">Read more</a></p> </dd> </dl><p>Other scientists said the Swiss results were suggestive of poisoning but not definite proof. The Swiss have countered that it might be impossible to get definitive proof since the tests were conducted years after Arafat's death.</p> <p><strong>WHAT IS POLONIUM?</strong><br />Polonium-210 is one of the world's rarest elements, discovered in 1898 by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie and named in honor of her country of origin, Poland. It occurs naturally in very low concentrations in the Earth's crust and also is produced artificially in nuclear reactors. In small amounts, it has legitimate industrial uses, mainly in devices to eliminate static electricity. Polonium is not naturally found in the human body.</p> <p><strong>HOW DANGEROUS IS IT?</strong><br />Very. If ingested, it is lethal in extremely small doses. A minuscule amount of the silver powder is sufficient to kill. British radiation experts say once polonium-210 enters the bloodstream, its deadly effects are nearly impossible to stop.</p> <p><strong>WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?</strong><br />Polonium can be a byproduct of the chemical processing of uranium, but usually it's made artificially in a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator. Dozens of countries including Russia, Israel and the U.S. have the nuclear capability to produce polonium. Derek Hill, a radiation expert at University College London, said if there was enough polonium left in the Arafat samples, it might be possible to trace where the element came from -- providing more clues about whether Arafat was poisoned.</p> <p><strong>IS IT UNUSUAL TO FIND POLONIUM IN PEOPLE?</strong><br />Yes. Alastair Hay, a professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Leeds, said there is no natural amount of polonium you would expect to find in someone -- unless they worked in atomic energy plants or dealt with radioactive isotopes. He said it was difficult to explain why Arafat's body had any traces of it.</p> <p><strong>HOW CAN IT POISON PEOPLE?</strong><br />People can be poisoned if they eat or drink food contaminated with polonium, breathe air contaminated with it or get it in an open wound. Litvinenko apparently drank tea laced with polonium during a meeting at a London hotel.</p> <p><strong>CAN SCIENTISTS PROVE THAT ARAFAT WAS POISONED?</strong><br />Absolute proof is elusive. There have been so few cases of known polonium poisoning that scientists don't know very much about its exact symptoms. Swiss scientists say Arafat had symptoms commonly linked to radiation poisoning, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and liver and kidney failure -- but not two other classic symptoms, hair loss and a weaker immune system. The Swiss scientists also noted their tests faced several limitations. They had to perform their analyses on very small specimens -- such as a single hair shaft or traces of blood and urine. Those tests were also conducted eight years after Arafat's death, so there could have been problems with chemical degradation.</p> <p><strong>WHO HAS DIED FROM IT?</strong><br />In addition to Litvinenko's presumed death from polonium poisoning, some speculate that the Curies' daughter Irene, who died of leukemia, may have developed the disease after accidentally being exposed to polonium in the laboratory. Israeli author Michal Karpin has claimed the cancer deaths of several Israeli scientists were the result of a polonium leak at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1957. Israeli officials have never acknowledged a connection.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-15972901295962499942013-11-07T10:43:00.001-08:002013-11-07T10:43:34.679-08:00FOX News: Lawn sprinkler in space? NASA's Hubble spies asteroid spouting six comet-like tails<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. 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NASA's Hubble spies asteroid spouting six comet-like tails</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 16:58 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>An asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like a rotating lawn mower was spotted for the first time by NASA's Hubble Space telescope.</p> <p>"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles said today in a press release. </p> <p>Astronomers were puzzled over the tiny points of light beaming from asteroid P/2013 P5 found in August. However, it wasn't until September 10 when Hubble was used to take a more detailed image of the flying object that the multiple tails were discovered.</p> <p>When Hubble spotted the asteroid again on September 23, </p> <p>"Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust," Jewitt said. "That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."</p> <p>Astronomers believe the asteroid's rotation rate increased to the point where its surface starting flying apart causing the tails of dust to blast off into space.</p> <p>The mysterious asteroid will continue to be observed by Jewitt and his team of astronomers in hopes of measuring the asteroid's true spin rate</p> <p>"In astronomy, where you find one, you eventually find a whole bunch more," Jewitt said. "This is just an amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many more to come."</p> <p>Jewitt said P/2013 P5 is probably a fragment of a larger asteroid that broke apart in a collision approximately 2000million-years ago.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-19063709580937021192013-11-07T08:33:00.001-08:002013-11-07T08:33:55.034-08:00FOX News: NASA Curiosity Rover spots iguana on Mars<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/X7h9iPQDylI/">NASA Curiosity Rover spots iguana on Mars</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 15:37 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>NASA's Mars Rover has captured the image of a rock that looks just like an iguana.</p> <p>The iguana doppleganger was first spotted by the website <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ufosightingsdaily.com%2Fp%2Fnews-about-us.html">UFO Sightings Daily</a> who found the photograph on NASA's archives of dozens of images of the barren landscape surrounding the Curiosity Rover.</p> <p>The reptile-shaped rock is not the first "animal" to be found on Mars. A <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fscience%2F2013%2F05%2F29%2Fmars-rat-spied-by-nasa-curiosity-rover%2F">rock shaped like a rat was discovered</a> earlier this year.</p> <p>"<span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">This is not the first animal found on Mars, actually there have been about 10-15 to date,"</span> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">UFO Sightings Daily coordinator Scott C. Warring</span> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">told <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agoracosmopolitan.com%2Fnews%2Fufo_extraterrestrials%2F2013%2F11%2F06%2F7062.html">Canadian news site agoracosmopolitan.com.</a></span> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">"I even found a rock that moved four times in four photos...then vanished on the fifth."</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Proof of life on Mars or just a weirdly-shaped rock? Check out the <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fmsl%2Fmultimedia%2Fraw%2F%3Frawid%3D0153MR0848019000E1_DXXX%26amp%3Bs%3D153">images on NASA's website</a> for yourself.</span></p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-30067934545085024742013-11-07T05:32:00.001-08:002013-11-07T05:32:36.035-08:00FOX News: Fossil captures ancient insects having sex<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/Ks3u9gTX6W8/">Fossil captures ancient insects having sex</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 12:30 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>About 165 million years ago Bam! froghoppers' mating session was interrupted by a volcanic eruption.</p> <p>Now, scientists have unearthed a fossil in China that shows the two creatures immortalized in the act. The discovery, detailed Nov. 6 in the journal <em>PLOS ONE,</em> is the earliest fossil of <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F38931-insect-gay-sex.html">insect sex</a> ever discovered. It reveals that, at least for a group of sap-sucking insects called froghoppers, sex hasn't changed much over the last 165 million years.</p> <p><strong>Rare finds<br /></strong>Fossils of insects copulating usually <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F12835-ancient-life-trapped-amber.html">trapped in amber</a> are fairly rare, with only about 40 found around the world known to date, said study co-author Chung Kun Shih, a visiting professor from Capital Normal University in China. But until now, the oldest fossil showing insect sex dated to about 100 million years ago. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F21045-extinct-turtles-animal-sex.html">See Photos of Fossilized Turtles Caught in the Act</a>]</p> <div> <blockquote> <p>'The male and female organ -- we can see it. That's really rare.'</p> </blockquote> <p>- Chung Kun Shih, a visiting professor from Capital Normal University in China</p> </div> <p>The researchers were excavating a fossil-rich area of Inner Mongolia in China when they discovered the two creatures clinging to each other.</p> <p>In this region, "insect fossils are so good we can see the detailed structure, including the hair," Shih said.</p> <p>The insects, of the species <em>Anthoscytina perpetua,</em> are face-to-face, with the male's sex organ, called the aedeagus, clearly inserted into the female's sex organ, called the bursa copulatrix.</p> <p>"The male and female organ we can see it," Shih told LiveScience. "That's really rare."</p> <p>The fossils dated to the middle <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F28739-jurassic-period.html">Jurassic Period</a>, about 165 million years ago. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F41005-in-images-jurassic-insects-getting-busy.html">See Images of the Fossil Insects Getting Busy</a>]</p> <p><strong>Same old sex<br /></strong>Despite 165 million years having passed, modern-day <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F2917-bug-incredible-leaps-explained.html">froghoppers</a> look anatomically very similar to the Jurassic insects, with symmetric sex organs.</p> <p>Froghopper sex hasn't changed much in those 165 million years, either. The fossilized male's abdominal section is twisted in order to better insert his sex organ a position also seen in modern insect species. Froghoppers today also prefer to mate either face-to-face, when standing on a small twig or side by side on a leaf or tree trunk.</p> <p>The team hypothesizes that the two insects were in a lover's hug when a volcanic eruption released a plume of poisonous gas, killing all life in the area, including the bacteria and fungus that would have normally decomposed their bodies. Later, wind or other natural forces tossed the love bugs into a nearby lake, where they were buried under layers of sediment and protected for millions of years.</p> <p>The team isn't sure whether the insects were truly face-to-face during sex or were originally side by side and later shifted by natural forces after they died.</p> <p><em>Copyright 2013</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F"><em>LiveScience</em></a><em>, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. 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Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/0ItGdcMAj7U/">Report: Genetics breakthrough enables scientists to edit any part of human genome</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 10:16 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>A new technique has enabled scientists to engineer parts of the human genome with extreme precision, a breakthrough which could mean new treatment possibilities for maladies such as cancer, HIV, and inherited genetic disorders. </p> <p>According to the report, published in Thursday's edition of <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience%2Fexclusive-jawdropping-breakthrough-hailed-as-landmark-in-fight-against-hereditary-diseases-as-crispr-technique-heralds-genetic-revolution-8925295.html">The Independent</a> in Britain, the technique, known as Crispr, enables the most detailed and specific possible alteration to any part of DNA of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes without introducing unintended mutations or flaws. </p> <p>"Crispr is absolutely huge. It's incredibly powerful and it has many applications, from agriculture to potential gene therapy in humans," Craig Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, a 2006 Nobel Prize winner, told the paper. </p> <p>"It's one of those things that you have to see to believe. I read the scientific papers like everyone else but when I saw it working in my own lab, my jaw dropped. A total novice in my lab got it to work."</p> <p>The Independent reports that Crispr could be used to hasten the development of genetically-modified crops and livestock, but many experts are most excited about its possibilities in humans. </p> <p>Crispr works by using an RNA guide molecule that can be programmed to match any unique DNA sequence in the human genome. The molecule is attached to a special enzyme that cut both strands of the DNA double helix. Once that is done, the copied DNA is inserted into the double helix and defective DNA is deleted. </p> <p>According to the Independent, some scientists believe the technique could be used to eliminate certain genetic diseases, like Down syndrome or Huntington's Disease, by altering the DNA of an embryo before implanting it in the mother's womb. </p> <p>"It would be difficult to argue against using it if it can be shown to be as safe, reliable and effective as it appears to be," Dr. Daga Wells, an IVF scientist at Oxford University, told the paper. "Who would condemn a child to terrible suffering and perhaps an early death when a therapy exists, capable of repairing the problem?"</p> <p><strong><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience%2Fexclusive-jawdropping-breakthrough-hailed-as-landmark-in-fight-against-hereditary-diseases-as-crispr-technique-heralds-genetic-revolution-8925295.html">Click for more from the Independent</a></strong></p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-7464224087282930442013-11-07T00:34:00.003-08:002013-11-07T00:34:03.302-08:00FOX News: Southern California sky lights up with reported fireball<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/7IlNI_W2PLg/">Southern California sky lights up with reported fireball</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 07:29 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p><span>LOS ANGELES – </span>Southern Californians from Santa Barbara to San Diego have reported seeing a fireball that forecasters said was most likely a meteor streaking across the sky.</p> <p>The National Weather Service says the sightings reported starting at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night are most likely associated with the South Taurids meteor shower that has been especially active in early November. Astronomers say the Taurids don't bring big numbers of visible meteors but a high percentage of extremely bright ones that look like fireballs.</p> <p>Twitter lit up with reports of the sightings, though few if any were able to capture the streak on photo or video.</p> <p>Comedian Eli Braden tweeted that he "just saw an absolutely INSANE meteor in the sky above Glendale, CA ... Either that or the alien invasion has begun."</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-34427328852931858192013-11-07T00:34:00.001-08:002013-11-07T00:34:03.013-08:00FOX News: New tyrannosaur that predates the tyrannosaurus-rex discovered in southern Utah<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/J1ebOtXBuL0/">New tyrannosaur that predates the tyrannosaurus-rex discovered in southern Utah</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 7th 2013, 07:30 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p><span>SALT LAKE CITY – </span>They called him the King of Gore -- but prey probably called him King of Pain.</p> <p>Paleontologists in Utah unveiled a new dinosaur Wednesday named Lythronax argestes (LY'-throw-nax ar-GES'-tees) -- the first part of which means "king of gore." It's an apt name for what turned out to be the great uncle of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, or "Tyrant Lizard."</p> <p>Discovered in southern Utah in 2009, the Lythronax skeleton looks like a half-sized tyrannosaur, and it proves giant dinosaurs like T.rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed. </p> <p>A full skeletal replica of the carnivore was on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah alongside a 3-D model of the head and a large painted mural of the dinosaur roaming a shoreline. It should be an eye-opener, because in many ways, it's nothing like what visitors may expect, explained University of Utah paleontologist Randall Irmis, who co-authored a journal article about the discovery.</p> <div> <blockquote> <p>'Dinosaur down probably would have been pretty comfortable as well.'</p> </blockquote> <p>- University of Utah paleontologist Randall Irmis</p> </div> <p>"We're really changing the view of dinosaurs," he told FoxNews.com. For one thing, Lythronax, which was 24 feet long and 8 feet tall at the hip,was covered in feathers that formed a soft-to-the-touch down.</p> <p>"Based on fossils found elsewhere, we now that a lot of tyrannosaurs had something of a downy covering -- protofeathers," Irmis noted. People today stuff their pillowcases with down, he said. "Dinosaur down probably would have been pretty comfortable as well," he said.</p> <p>For another thing, this predator's vision was likely quite sharp; many armchair enthusiasts think dinosaurs had poor eyesight, thanks to an inaccurate description in the movie "Jurassic Park." Stand still and it would have missed you.</p> <p>But Lythronax had a very narrow snout with a wide back to its skull. The creature clearly had forward-facing eyes with overlapping, binocular vision -- acute eyesight befitting a predator, making this terrifying beast even scarier.</p> <p>"They were likely more creepy and fearsome," he said.</p> <p>The Wednesday unveiling was the public's first glimpse at the new species, which researchers found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in November 2009, and then spent the past four years digging them up and traveling the world to confirm they were from a new species.</p> <p>"The discovery is often the most exciting part, but it's just the beginning of the process," Irmis told FoxNews.com.</p> <p>Paleontologists believe the dinosaur lived 80 million years ago in the late Cretaceous Period on a landmass in the flooded central region of North America.</p> <p>The discovery offers valuable new insight into the evolution of the ferocious tyrannosaurs that have been made famous in movies and captured the awe of school children and adults alike, said Thomas Holtz Jr., a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland department of geology.</p> <p>"This shows that these big, banana-tooth bruisers go back to the very first days of the giant tyrant dinosaurs," said Holtz, who reviewed the findings. "This one is the first example of these kind of dinosaurs being the ruler of the land."</p> <p>The new dinosaur likely was a bit smaller than the Tyrannosaurus rex but was otherwise similar, said Mark Loewen, a University of Utah paleontologist who co-authored the journal article. Asked what the carnivorous dinosaur ate, Loewen responded: "Whatever it wants."</p> <p>"That skull is designed for grabbing something, shaking it to death and tearing it apart," he said.</p> <p>The fossils were found by a seasonal paleontologist technician for the Bureau of Land Management who climbed up two cliffs and stopped at the base of a third in the national monument.</p> <p>"I realized I was standing with bone all around me," said Scott Richardson, who called his boss, Alan Titus, to let him know about the fossils.</p> <p>Loewen and others spent three years traveling the world to compare the fossils to other dinosaurs to be absolutely sure it was a new species. The findings are being published in the journal PLOS One.</p> <p>There are about 1 million acres of cretaceous rocks that could be holding other new species of dinosaurs, said Titus, the BLM paleontologist who oversees the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Only about 10 percent of the rock formation has been scoured, he said. Twelve other new dinosaurs found there are waiting to be named.</p> <p>"We are just getting started," Titus said. "We have a really big sandbox to play in."</p> <p>Holtz said the finding is a testament to the bounty of fossils lying in the earth in North America. He predicts more discoveries in Utah.</p> <p>"It shows we don't have to go to Egypt or Mongolia or China to find new dinosaurs," Holtz said. "It's just a matter of getting the field teams out."</p> <p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</em></p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-8565271352983292062013-11-06T14:22:00.000-08:002013-11-06T14:23:02.678-08:00FOX News: Study suggests life began with clay, echoing Bible creation story<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/lXs2X7_dgzg/">Study suggests life began with clay, echoing Bible creation story</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 6th 2013, 20:15 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>A new study suggests clay may have been the birthplace of life on Earth.</p> <p>Cornell University researchers found that clay may have served as the first breeding ground for the complex biochemicals that make life possible, a finding that may reverberate with anyone familiar with the Biblical creation story.</p> <p>"We propose that in early geological history, clay hydrogel provided a confinement function for biomolecules and biochemical reactions," said Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering and a member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, according to <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedaily.com%2Freleases%2F2013%2F11%2F131105132027.htm">Science Daily</a>.</p> <p>The clay absorbs liquids like a sponge and acts as the perfect place for chemicals to react with one another to form proteins, DNA and eventually living cells.</p> <p>According to the Old Testament, God made the first man Adam from earth or clay. Adam comes from the Hebrew word <em>adamah,</em> which means earth. The Quaran, Greek mythology and other creation stories also say God molded man from clay.</p> <p>Scientists found that the clay hydrogel could have protected the chemical processes until the membrane that surrounds living cells fully developed.</p> <p>The study cites further evidence, nothing that geological history shows the first appearance of clay to be at the same time biomolecules began to form into cell-like structures.</p> <p>How the biological machines evolved remains to be explained, Luo said. Luo and his fellow researchers are still trying to figure out why clay hydrogel is such a successful material in cell-free protein production.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-50759932410807124202013-11-06T13:21:00.001-08:002013-11-06T13:21:17.413-08:00FOX News: Russian fireball shows meteor risk may be bigger than once thought<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/v8QkSEMc27g/">Russian fireball shows meteor risk may be bigger than once thought</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 6th 2013, 20:53 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p><span>WASHINGTON – </span>Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.</p> <p>Meteors about the size of the one that streaked through the sky at 42,000 mph and burst over Chelyabinsk in February -- and ones even larger and more dangerous -- are probably four to five times more likely to hit the planet than scientists believed before the fireball, according to three studies published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science.</p> <p>Until Chelyabinsk, NASA had looked only for space rocks about 100 feet wide and bigger, figuring there was little danger below that.</p> <p>This meteor was only 62 feet across but burst with the force of about 40 Hiroshima-type atom bombs, scientists say. Its shock wave shattered thousands of windows, and its flash temporarily blinded 70 people and caused dozens of skin-peeling sunburns just after dawn in icy Russia. More than 1,600 people in all were injured.</p> <p>Up until then, scientists had figured a meteor causing an airburst like that was a once-in-150-years event, based on how many space rocks have been identified in orbit. But one of the studies now says it is likely to happen once every 30 years or so, based on how often these things are actually hitting.</p> <p>By readjusting how often these rocks strike and how damaging even small ones can be, "those two things together can increase the risk by an order of magnitude," said Mark Boslough, a Sandia National Lab physicist, co-author of one of the studies.</p> <p>Lindley Johnson, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object program, said the space agency is reassessing what size space rocks to look for and how often they are likely to hit.</p> <p>The U.S. government gained a new sense of urgency after Chelyabinsk, quietly holding a disaster drill earlier this year in Washington that was meant to simulate what would happen if a slightly bigger space rock threatened the East Coast.</p> <p>After the drill, NASA and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said they should look at the need for evacuations, figure out ways of keeping the public informed without scaring them, and handle meteor threats in a way comparable to how they deal with hurricanes bearing down on the coast.</p> <p>During the drill, when it looked as if the meteor would hit just outside the nation's capital, experts predicted 78,000 people could die. But when the mock meteor ended up in the ocean, the fake damage featured a 49-foot tsunami and shortages of supplies along the East Coast, according to an after-action report obtained by The Associated Press.</p> <p>The exercise and the studies show there's a risk from smaller space rocks that strike before they are detected -- not just from the giant, long-seen-in-advance ones like in the movie "Armageddon," said Bill Ailor, a space debris expert at the Aerospace Corporation who helped coordinate the drill.</p> <p>"The biggest hazard from asteroids right now is the city-busting airbursts, not the civilization-busting impacts from 1-kilometer-diameter objects that has so far been the target of most astronomical surveys," Purdue University astronomer Jay Melosh, who wasn't part of the studies, wrote in an email.</p> <p>"Old-fashioned civil defense, not Bruce Willis and his atom bombs, might be the best insurance against hazards of this kind."</p> <p>Scientists said a 1908 giant blast over Siberia, a 1963 airborne explosion off the coast of South Africa, and others were of the type that is supposed to happen less than once a century, or in the case of Siberia, once every 8,000 years, yet they all occurred in a 105-year timespan.</p> <p>Because more than two-thirds of Earth is covered with water and other vast expanses are uninhabited deserts and ice, other past fireballs could have gone unnoticed.</p> <p>This week, NASA got a wake-up call on those bigger space rocks that astronomers thought they had a handle on, discovering two 12-mile-wide space rocks and a 1.2-mile-wide one that had escaped their notice until this month.</p> <p>The three objects won't hit Earth, but their discovery raises the question of why they weren't seen until now.</p> <p>The last time a 12-mile-wide rock had been discovered was about 30 years ago, and two popped into scientists' view just now, NASA asteroid scientist Donald Yeomans said. He said NASA had thought it had already seen 95 percent of the large space rocks that come near Earth.</p> <p>Asteroids are space rocks that circle the sun as leftovers of failed attempts to form planets billions of years ago. When asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors. (When they hit the ground, they are called meteorites.)</p> <p>The studies said the Chelyabinsk meteor probably split off from a much bigger space rock.</p> <p>What happened in the Russian city of 1 million people is altering how astronomers look at a space rocks. With first-of-its-kind video, photos, satellite imagery and the broken-up rock, scientists have been able to piece together the best picture yet of what happens when an asteroid careens into Earth's atmosphere. It's not pretty.</p> <p>"I certainly never expected to see something of this scale or this magnitude," said University of Western Ontario physicist Peter Brown, lead author of one study. "It's certainly scary."</p> <p>Scientists said the unusually shallow entry of the space rock spread out its powerful explosion, limiting its worst damage but making a wider area feel the effects. When it burst it released 500 kilotons of energy, scientists calculated.</p> <p>"We were lucky. This could have easily gone the other way. It was really dangerous," said NASA meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, co-author of one of the papers. "This was clearly extraordinary. Just stunning."</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-66853887590830158012013-11-06T11:20:00.006-08:002013-11-06T11:22:15.948-08:00FOX News: Mummy's colorful collar found in Egyptian tomb<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/GxOXvtlcuto/">Mummy's colorful collar found in Egyptian tomb</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 6th 2013, 13:00 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>A collar with "almost pristine" colors that would have been worn by a mummy has been discovered in small pieces in an Egyptian tomb in Thebes and put back together again.</p> <p>People in ancient Egypt wore collars called "wesekhs" made of beads when they were alive. This painted collar is made of a different type of material called cartonnage (a plastered material) and was meant to be worn by a mummy after death. A clay seal found near the collar suggests that it was worn by the mummy of a wealthy undertaker.</p> <p>Dating back around 2,300 years ago and found in modern-day <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F37740-luxor.html">Luxor</a>, the collar is painted in a vivid array of colors, designs and images that show elements of ancient Egyptian religion. The god Horus is signified by two falcons wearing red sun-disk crowns on the top corners, while at top center is a human-headed bird (called a "Ba" bird) that represents, in essence, the immortal soul of the deceased mummy. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F25653-mummy-king-ramessess-iii.html">In Photos: The Mummy of King Ramesses III</a>]</p> <p>Additionally, in the center of the design, there is a drawing of a golden shrine with two goddesses, possibly the sisters Isis and Nephthys, facing a deity in the center that may be the jackal-headed Anubis. The collar is about 8.7 inches (22 centimeters) high (not including the falcons) and about 16.5 inches (42 cm) in width. Near the bottom of the collar lotus blossoms are shown flourishing.</p> <p><strong>Complex tomb</strong></p> <p>The tomb that it was found in is a complex place. Originally it was built more than 3,300 years ago for a butler named Parennefer who served <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F39349-akhenaten.html">the pharaoh Akhenaten</a>. Then, sometime later, an official named Amenemopet excavated his own tomb into part of the butler's courtyard. As the centuries went on more individuals (the precise number is unknown) were buried at the site, one of them being interred around 2,300 years ago with this colorful collar.</p> <p>The re-use of tombs was a common practice in Thebes. "I guess it was much more economical to use these old derelict tombs than to excavate out new tombs at that time," Susan Redford, of Penn State University, told LiveScience in an interview. She and her team found hundreds of cartonnage fragments in excavations at the site, the fragments that made up this collar being discovered in 2000 and 2002. The team's artist, Rupert Nesbitt, carefully put the collar back together again, along with several other coverings that belong to different <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F26574-egyptian-mummy-facial-reconstructions.html">mummies</a>.</p> <p>"These pieces could range from about palm-sized to dime-sized," Redford said. "It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle," added Redford, who detailed the collar discovery in a paper in "Archaeological Research in the Valley of the Kings & Ancient Thebes: Papers Presented in Honor of Richard H. Wilkinson" (University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, 2013). [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F28044-valley-of-the-kings-gallery.html">See Photos of Egypt's Valley of the Kings</a>]</p> <p>Archaeologists cannot say for sure whom this collar belonged to. In addition to being re-used multiple times the tomb site has been robbed in both ancient and modern times and, until recently, was even used to hold dead animals.</p> <p><a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F25738-abydos.html">Egyptian tombs</a> and temples tended to be very colorful places and the collar reflects that, Redford said.</p> <p><strong>An undertaker's collar?</strong></p> <p>The mummy who wore this collar is now gone or otherwise part of the various humans remains found in the tomb. However, an inscription written in a mud-clay seal was found near the fragments of the collar.</p> <p>The seal would have held together the string or binding of a papyrus scroll. While the scroll itself is mostly destroyed, the inscription from the seal says that it is for a man named "Padihorwer," reading (in translation) that he was "privy to the mysteries and god's sealer, 'embalmer,' scribe, prophet of the 'desert' (necropolis) of Qus," which is located north of Thebes.</p> <p>An ancient archival record also survives, telling of "a man of Qus" being buried at Thebes in the same period that the collar has been dated to, Redford said.</p> <p>Padihorwer was basically an undertaker, a profession that could bring some level of wealth. "He's a little higher than just an ordinary necropolis worker," she said, noting that these ancient undertakers arranged for embalming and burial, were paid by families and generally ran their affairs like a business. "We think that they had a guild of sorts," she said, "it was a business just like undertakers are today."</p> <p>If this collar, with its elaborate decorations, was worn by Padihorwer, it would suggest that his business prospered and that he was a relatively wealthy undertaker at the time he was buried.</p> <p><em>Follow</em><em>LiveScience</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter%2Flivescience" title="http://twitter.com/#!/livescience"><em>@livescience</em></a><em>,</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%23%21%2Flivescience" title="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience"><em>Facebook</em></a><em>&</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F101164570444913213957%2Fposts"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. 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Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/DT_cLiZDI3o/">China's Forbidden City built with giant 'sliding stones'</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 6th 2013, 12:45 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found.</p> <p>The <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F22454-ancient-chinese-tomb-terracotta-warriors.html">emperors of China</a> lived in <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F40764-forbidden-city.html">the Forbidden City</a>, located in the heart of Beijing, for nearly 500 years, during China's final two imperial dynasties, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Vast numbers of huge stones were mined and transported there for its construction in the 15th and 16th centuries. The heaviest of these giant boulders, aptly named the Large Stone Carving, now weighs more than 220 tons but once weighed more than 330 tons.</p> <p>Many of the largest building blocks of the Forbidden City came from a quarry about 43 miles away from the site. People in China had been using the spoked wheel since about 1500 B.C., so it was commonly thought that such colossal stones would've been transported on wheels, not by something like a sled. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F40922-photos-the-forbidden-city.html">See Photos of the Forbidden City & Building Stones</a>]</p> <div> <blockquote> <p>'It's humbling to think about a big project like this taking place 500 to 600 years ago.'</p> </blockquote> <p>- Howard Stone, an engineer at Princeton University</p> </div> <p>However, Jiang Li, an engineer at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, translated a 500-year-old document, which revealed that an especially large stone measuring 31 feet long and weighing about 135 tons was slid over ice to the Forbidden City on a sledge hauled by a team of men over 28 days in the winter of 1557. This finding supported previously discovered clues suggesting that sleds helped to build the imperial palace.</p> <p>To discover why sleds were still used for <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F37277-easter-island-statues-walked-there.html">hauling gigantic stones</a> 3,000 years after the <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F18808-invention-wheel.html">development of the wheel</a>, Li and her colleagues calculated how much energy it would take for sleds to accomplish this goal.</p> <p>"We were never sure quite what we would learn," said study co-author Howard Stone, an engineer at Princeton University.</p> <p>The ancient document Li translated revealed that workers dug wells every 1,600 feet or so to get water to pour on the ice to lubricate it. This made the ice even more slippery and, therefore, easier upon which to slide rocks.</p> <p>The researchers calculated that a workforce of fewer than 50 men could haul a 123-ton stone on a sledge over lubricated ice from the quarry to the Forbidden City. In contrast, pulling the same load over bare ground would have required more than 1,500 men.</p> <p>Moreover, the researchers estimated that the average speed of a 123-ton stone hauled on a sled on wet ice would be about 3 inches per second. This would have been fast enough for the stone to slide over the wet ice before the liquid water on the ice froze.</p> <p>All in all, the researchers suggested that workers preferred hauling stones on smooth, flat, slippery, wet ice rather than on a bumpy ride on a wheeled cart. The ancient document Li translated revealed there were debates over whether to rely on sledges or wheels to help build the Forbidden City sledges may have required far more workers, time and money than mule-pulled wagons, but sledges were seen as a safer and more reliable means for slowly transporting heavy objects.</p> <p>"It is humbling to think about a big project like this taking place 500 to 600 years ago, and the level of planning and coordination that was needed for it to occur," Stone told LiveScience.</p> <p>Li, Stone and their colleague Haosheng Chen detailed their findings online Nov. 4 in the journal <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</em></p> <p><em>Copyright 2013</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F"><em>LiveScience</em></a><em>, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. 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A design engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., he's using 3D printed parts (also known as <em>additive manufacturing</em>) to design a combustion chamber for a new 35,000-pound thrust liquid rocket engine. The idea is to launch multiple low-cost "cube" satellites created using 3D printed materials.</p> <p>Another example: Neelanjan Bandyopadhyay is a 29-year-old Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. He's working on something called a quantum cascade laser. Current lasers used to look for life on Mars are too big and bulky, so Bandyopadhyay has developed a laser that is more portable and yet powerful enough to make the search more feasible. </p> <p>"I've developed high-power lasers below 4 microns to as short as 3 microns," he told FoxNews.com. "Right now, interband cascade lasers are in use on the Mars Rovers. However, our lasers can have much higher power due to cascading of many repetitions of the same active region ... and can detect hydrocarbons with greater sensitivity."</p> <p>By focusing on one particularly important wavelength of light that is strongly absorbed by methane, he's improving the hunt for life.</p> <p>"Finding methane, the simplest hydrocarbon, in sufficient quantity, should indicate the possibility of more complex organic compounds for life," Bandyopadhyay said.</p> <p>India on Tuesday launched its first Mars exploration rocket and China has in recent years poured millions into its space program. Citing space policy experts, The Houston Chronicle wrote that <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.houstonchronicle.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Farticle%2FAs-China-s-space-program-rises-will-NASA-rise-4958549.php">the government must step up NASA funding</a> to retain a leadership position. </p> <p>While there are no signs we're ready to go back to the moon today, let alone send someone to Mars, some of these bright ideas might help get us there someday.</p> <p>Sam Rodkey is a propulsion engineer at Blue Origin, the space tech company funded by Jeff Bezos from Amazon. Rodkey is designing new lower-cost rocket technology to compete with NASA. At SpaceX, young rocketeers like Kevin Miller and John Tsohas are also working on next-gen rocket technology. All are recent graduates from Purdue University in Indiana.</p> <p>What's fueling these young rocketeers? It's partly a new funding effort from the U.S. government. In late September, NASA announced the winners of the <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fdirectorates%2Fspacetech%2Fstrg%2Findex.html%23.UnpX3fnkt8E">Space Technology Research Grants Program</a> to help universities invent new ideas. Some of the projects, which each receive $250,000, include an oxygen recovery system, a study of cryogenic fuel for deep-space voyages, and a way to detect asteroids in space using image recognition technology.</p> <p>"A critical element of America's space technology pipeline rests in the cutting edge research in the early stage technologies conducted at the nation's universities," said Michael Gazarik, NASA's associate administrator for space technology, in a statement. "Through this investment NASA will continue to benefit from university-led R and D."</p> <p>Last year, DARPA awarded the <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spacegambit.org%2F">SpaceGAMBIT</a> program a $500,000 grant to build a hackerspace for young rocketeers. So far, one of the proposals includes a self-sustaining biosphere habitat, a new spacesuit, and a low-cost bioreactor that can grow organisms in space.</p> <p>"Exploring and living for extended periods in space will require advances on many, many technologies, especially life support systems," Jerry Isdale, the SpaceGAMBIT program lead, told FoxNews.com. "We can now quickly prototype systems on Earth, refining the designs based on real world usage so the technology will be ready for use off planet."</p> <p>Of course, there's a big difference between these ideas from young adults of today and those that helped start the space program originally. Their work is not nearly as glamorous -- many of these rocketeering programs involve lab work to design new laser systems or methods to communicate in space without as much interference. </p> <p>But they could help us reach Mars or even beyond our solar system in the next 10-20 years. </p> <p>Here's hoping.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-83739862275168221932013-11-06T11:20:00.003-08:002013-11-06T11:20:16.992-08:00FOX News: Oldest air on Earth hiding in Antarctic ice<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports. // via fulltextrssfeed.com </span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a name="item_0"></a> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font:13px Helvetica, sans-serif; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; background-color:#fff; padding:8px; margin-bottom:6px; border:1px solid #adadad;"> <tr> <td> <a style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;" href="http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/scitech/~3/EV4CHdi9naI/">Oldest air on Earth hiding in Antarctic ice</a> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:left;color:#999;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;">Nov 6th 2013, 14:37 </div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#494949;text-align:justify;font-size:13px;"> <p><div itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Tiny puffs of air from 1.5 million years ago may be locked inside bubbles in the ice nearly two miles beneath Antarctica's surface. That ancient air, if it exists, would be the oldest sample of Earth's atmosphere ever recovered.</p> <p>Geoscientists recently identified regions of the frozen continent that potentially preserved the not-so-fresh air. Getting a whiff of the Earth's oldest breeze would allow an analysis of chemicals in the air at a crucial point from 1.2 million to 900,000 years ago, known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.</p> <p>"The Mid Pleistocene Transition is a most important and enigmatic time interval in the more recent climate history of our planet," said lead author of the new study published in <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clim-past.net%2F9%2F2489%2F2013%2Fcp-9-2489-2013.html">Climate of the Past</a> Hubertus Fischer of the University of Bern, Switzerland, in a press release.</p> <p>During the transition, the Earth went from extreme warmth and cooling cycles alternating approximately every 41,000 years to having the cycles change only about every 100,000 years. Sediment samples drilled from the bottom of the ocean recorded the temperature differences, but scientists don't know why the global thermostat cycles slowed.</p> <p>Ice samples from other areas yielded 800,000-year-old air bubbles. Those samples showed a lockstep correlation between higher greenhouse gas levels and increased temperatures over thousands of years, according to research published in <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fnature%2Fjournal%2Fv453%2Fn7193%2Fabs%2Fnature06949.html">Nature</a>.</p> <p>Greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide, may have been the culprits behind the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, as well. However, drills will need to pluck a 2.4 – 3.2 (1.5 – 2 mile)-kilometer-long ice core from the Antarctic ice to give scientists the 1.5 million-year-old sample they need.</p> <p>"A deep drilling project in Antarctica could commence within the next three to five years," Fischer said. 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The fossils were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.</p> <p>They've named the dinosaur, Lythronax argestes (LY'-throh-nax ar-GES'-tees). The first part of the name means "king of gore," and the second part is derived from the poet Homer's southwest wind.</p> <p>University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr. says this new dinosaur is the equivalent of a great uncle of the Tyrannosaurus rex.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-35760093655621088432013-11-04T23:19:00.009-08:002013-11-04T23:21:29.257-08:00FOX News: At least 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets found, study says<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. 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That would yield further clues to whether any of these planets do, in fact, harbor life.</p> <p>The findings also raise a blaring question, Marcy said: If we aren't alone, why is "there a deafening silence in our Milky Way galaxy from advanced civilizations?"</p> <p>In the Milky Way, about 1 in 5 stars that are like our sun in size, color and age have planets that are roughly Earth's size and are in the habitable zone where life-crucial water can be liquid, according to intricate calculations based on four years of observations from NASA's now-crippled Kepler telescope.</p> <p>If people on Earth could only travel in deep space, "you'd probably see a lot of traffic jams," Bill Borucki, NASA's chief Kepler scientist, joked Monday.</p> <p>The Kepler telescope peered at 42,000 stars, examining just a tiny slice of our galaxy to see how many planets like Earth are out there. Scientists then extrapolated that figure to the rest of the galaxy, which has hundreds of billions of stars.</p> <p>For the first time, scientists calculated -- not estimated -- what percent of stars that are just like our sun have planets similar to Earth: 22 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 8 percentage points.</p> <p>Kepler scientist Natalie Batalha said there is still more data to pore over before this can be considered a final figure.</p> <p>There are about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, with 40 billion of them like our sun, Marcy said. One of his co-authors put the number of sun-like stars closer to 50 billion, meaning there would be at least 11 billion planets like ours.</p> <p>Based on the 1-in-5 estimate, the closest Earth-size planet that is in the habitable temperature zone and circles a sun-like star is probably within 70 trillion miles of Earth, Marcy said.</p> <p>And the 8.8 billion Earth-size planets figure is only a start. That's because scientists were looking only at sun-like stars, which are not the most common stars.</p> <p>An earlier study found that 15 percent of the more common red dwarf stars have Earth-size planets that are close-in enough to be in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold Goldilocks Zone.</p> <p>Put those together and that's probably 40 billion right-size, right-place planets, Marcy said.</p> <p>And that's just our galaxy. There are billions of other galaxies.</p> <p>Scientists at a Kepler science conference Monday said they have found 833 new candidate planets with the space telescope, bringing the total of planets they've spotted to 3,538, but most aren't candidates for life.</p> <p>Kepler has identified only 10 planets that are about Earth's size circling sun-like stars and are in the habitable zone, including one called Kepler 69-c.</p> <p>Because there are probably hundreds of planets missed for every one found, the study did intricate extrapolations to come up with the 22 percent figure -- a calculation that outside scientists say is fair.</p> <p>"Everything they've done looks legitimate," said MIT astronomer Sara Seager.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-44242600028137149342013-11-04T23:19:00.008-08:002013-11-04T23:20:51.800-08:00FOX News: Ohio zoo using beagle to detect polar bear pregnancies<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. 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A Cincinnati Zoo animal conservation scientist had the idea after reading about studies on using dogs to detect cancer.</p> <p>Confirming pregnancies of the massive bears, a threatened species, has been difficult, and zoo officials say knowing can help make sure they and the mama bears are ready for birthing and raising cubs. They separate them from males, get them into dens with extra bedding, step up video-camera monitoring, and line up staff and volunteers for 24-hour "cub watches" later.</p> <p>"It's always nice to know in advance," said Randi Meyerson of the Toledo Zoo, who coordinates polar bear species survival planning for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. She praised the beagle project as "thinking outside the box" to provide a potentially important new tool. It's non-invasive and simple for zookeepers, who pick up fecal samples for Elvis to check out.</p> <p>"We didn't even know if this was possible," said Matt Skogen, a former police officer who runs Ironheart High Performance Working Dogs in Shawnee, Kan. He was intrigued when Erin Curry, a post-doctoral fellow at the Cincinnati Zoo's Center for Conservation & Research of Endangered Wildlife, reached out for someone willing to test the idea after the center identified proteins present only in pregnant bears' samples.</p> <p>Skogen started with samples of bears that had already delivered babies, and from some known not to be pregnant because they hadn't mated. He also tried training a border collie for the bear pregnancy test but soon determined that Elvis, a former Ozarks rabbit hunter, was more adept.</p> <p>"He was very methodical," Skogen said. "You could tell he was really running it through the think tank."</p> <p>Rewarded with food and getting to play with his favorite squeaky duck toy, Elvis trained for months and was alerting to samples of previously pregnant bears with near-perfect accuracy before Curry drove out a cooler full of current samples last week.</p> <p>She watched as Elvis reacted to a control sample of a bear that had already delivered.</p> <p>"He sat right down. I thought, 'Whew, this works!'" Curry said.</p> <p>Elvis has been checking out samples of 22 female bears from 14 zoos, while Skogen logs his reactions. When Elvis is done, which could be in a matter of days, Curry will inform the other zoos whether Elvis predicts they'll be hearing the pitter-patter of little paws later this year.</p> <p>Meyerson, whose Toledo Zoo produced two of the only three cubs that were born in U.S. zoos last year, recommends that zoos continue monitoring and have female bears go into dens if they have mated, even if Elvis' new sniff test indicates they aren't pregnant.</p> <p>Polar bears have complicated reproductive cycles, and zoos have found that false pregnancies are common. Better results from captive breeding of polar bears can help zoo scientists learn more about their reproduction and also help public awareness. With the long-term survival of polar bears believed to be under threat by climate change impacts on icy habitats, species advocates such as Polar Bears International say zoo bears can play important roles.</p> <p>"They serve as ambassadors for their species, and there are studies that can be done in zoos that would be impossible in the wild," spokeswoman Barbara Nielsen said.</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932678223917448000.post-3691132848883788052013-11-04T23:19:00.007-08:002013-11-04T23:19:34.743-08:00FOX News: Spectacular 3D Mars video brings Red Planet to life<table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; margin-bottom:6px;"> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:16px;">FOX News</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;">FOXNews.com - Breaking news and video. 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Researchers around the world combine data from Mars Express with other NASA missions at the Red Planet, to better understand the foreign world. </p> <p>"This has enabled the creation of the most comprehensive data set that has ever been acquired by a German instrument designed to study our solar system," Jaumann said.</p> <p>Nine light-sensitive detectors aboard Mars Express sweep across the surface of the planet, capturing images in sequence from nine different angles. This data is then processed into three-dimensional images by planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center.</p> <p>"We can see the entire topography almost as well as if we were standing on Mars ourselves," Jaumann said.</p> <p>Researchers can use these topographical maps to study <a target="_blank" href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F13599-photos-mars-volcanoes-volcanic-red-planet.html">volcanism on Mars</a>, including some of the planet's shield volcanoes in the Tharsis region that were still active just a few million years ago.</p> <p>Mars Express was launched toward the Red Planet 10 years ago, on June 2, 2003. The spacecraft arrived at Mars six-and-a-half months later, and has maintained its Martian orbit ever since. 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Wait, Maine has volcanoes? Yes, and their eruptions could have been among the biggest ever on Earth, geoscientist Sheila Seaman reported Tuesday at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.</p> <p>"Long before there were these things called <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F39286-supervolcano-ash-turned-to-lava.html">supervolcanoes</a>, we've known about giant, big, horrific silicic volcanic eruptions," said Seaman, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The most massive of these blasts in recent history was <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F29130-toba-supervolcano-effects.html">Toba, which blew up an island in Indonesia</a> 2.5 million years ago. The explosion heaved 700 cubic miles of magma out of the Earth's crust.</p> <p>Around 420 million years ago, a series of super-eruptions dropped thick piles of ash and lava fragments along the proto-East Coast. There are at least four volcanoes spread out along 100 miles of Maine's coast, Seaman said. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F16679-science-photos-week-oct-22-2011.html">Countdown: History's Most Destructive Volcanoes</a>]</p> <p>The huge volcanic rock piles are consistent with caldera-forming eruptions, Seaman said. These explosions empty a magma chamber, leaving a gaping wound in the Earth think Yellowstone National Park, or the San Juan volcanic field in Colorado.</p> <p>Since they formed, the ancient volcanic layers have been tilted up by tectonic forces, providing a top-to-bottom slice through a supervolcano. For example, Isle au Haut, part of <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F29532-acadia-national-park-glacier-carved-beauty.html">Acadia National Park</a>, exposes the heart of a volcano. "The whole magma chamber is lying on its side," Seaman said.</p> <p>Building on years of geologic mapping and tectonic reconstructions by other researchers, Seaman has traced a direct connection between the cooled and crystallized magma chambers, called plutons, and their enormous ash deposits.</p> <p>Volcanic rock layers on Maine's Cranberry Island have a 2,300-foot-thick layer of welded tuff, a rock formed from volcanic ash. The welded tuff from Toba's most recent blowout is 2,000 feet thick, Seaman said. On the remote Isle au Haut, part of Acadia National Park, the volcanic rocks are more than 3 miles thick, Seaman said. They're capped by an immense ash flow, more than 3,200 feet thick.</p> <p>Seaman estimates the caldera at Mount Desert Island would have been about 15 miles long and 15 miles wide. For comparison, Toba's caldera is 62 miles long and 18 miles wide.</p> <p>"The coast is so serene and so beautiful and has such a terrible, violent past," Seaman told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.</p> <p>Seaman thinks the super-eruptions struck between 424 million to 419 million years ago, in the Silurian period, after islands the size of Japan slammed into the eastern edge of Laurentia, the continental core of North America. Afterward, tectonic forces stretched and tore Earth's crust behind the collision zone, making space for magma to rise from the mantle, the layer beneath the crust.</p> <p>She plans further work to better understand the conditions that caused the super-eruptions, such as mixing of different kinds of magma.</p> <p><em>Copyright 2013</em> <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2F"><em>LiveScience</em></a><em>, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. 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It will begin as an annular or <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F15780-photos-annular-solar-eclipse-may20-2012.html%22%3E"ring of fire" eclipse</a> along the path of totality, then shift to a total eclipse as the moon's shadow sweeps across our planet.</p> <p>What you'll observe depends on where you live. Skywatchers in the eastern United States, northeastern South America, southern Europe, the Middle East and most of Africa will be treated to a partial <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F15584-solar-eclipses.html">solar eclipse</a>, while people along the path of totality in central Africa will see the sun totally obscured by Earth's nearest neighbor for a few dramatic moments. </p> <p>If you live in eastern North America, you'll have to get up early to enjoy the show. The partial eclipse will be visible at sunrise — about 6:30 a.m. local time — and last for about 45 minutes, experts say. Viewers in Boston and New York will see the sun more than 50 percent covered by the moon, while our star will appear 47 percent obscured from Miami and Washington, D.C. [<a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F15613-solar-eclipses-observing-guide-infographic.html">Solar Eclipses: An Observer's Guide (Infographic)</a>]</p> <p>All of the action in this part of the world will be occurring low in the sky, less than 8 degrees from the east-southeast horizon. (Your fist held at arm's length measures about 10 degrees.) So you'll want to find a spot that affords a good look at the horizon, without any buildings or hills blocking the view.</p> <p>The path of totality, meanwhile, starts in the Atlantic Ocean off the eastern U.S. and runs through Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and several other African nations before petering out in southern Ethiopia and Somalia around sunset.</p> <p><strong>Warning</strong>: If you are planning to watch Sunday's solar eclipse in person, be extremely careful. Never look directly at the sun, either with the naked eye or through <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftelescopes.toptenreviews.com%2Ftelescopes-for-beginners-review%2F">telescopes</a> or binoculars without proper filters. To safely view solar eclipses, you can buy special solar filters or No. 14 welder's glass to wear over your eyes. Standard sunglasses will NOT provide sufficient protection.</p> <p>You can also build a simple pinhole camera, or look at the shadows filtering onto the ground through the leaves on a tree. (The spaces between leaves often create many natural pinholes).</p> </div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> </div> </td></tr> </table> <img src="https://blogtrottr.com/spot/239/0/63L" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="3" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; border:1px solid #adadad; background-color: #F3F1EC; color: #666666; padding:8px; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; line-height:16px; font-size: 11px; color:#666;"> <tr> <td>You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/">blogtrottr.com</a>.<br><br> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/unsubscribe/fR9/86XmtQ">unsubscribe from this feed</a>, or <a href="https://blogtrottr.com/subscriptions/">manage all your subscriptions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04377528165823302326noreply@blogger.com0