Cave paintings reveal clues to mystery Ice Age beast
Image copyright Rafał Kowalczyk Image caption The European bison (Bison bonasus) can weigh as much as a car Cave art from the Ice Age has helped solve the mysterious origins of Europe's largest land mammal.The modern European bison, now found only in protected reserves, once roamed widely on the continent.Studies of ancient DNA show the bison arose from interbreeding between the extinct steppe bison and the aurochs, about 120,000 years ago.The scient..>> view originalThose Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?
Enlarge this image Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Haslam/Nature hide caption toggle caption M.Haslam/Nature Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Hasla..>> view originalNASA's Juno Mission: Spacecraft 'Healthy' After Unexpectedly Entering Safe Mode Hours Before Jupiter Flyby
NASA’s Juno spacecraft unexpectedly entered a safe mode early Wednesday, just hours before its eagerly awaited a second close flyby of Jupiter. This means that all its science instruments were turned off, and that the planned data collection during the flyby did not take place.However, in a statement released Thursday, the space agency clarified that the spacecraft behaved as expected during its transition into safe mode, and had since rebooted successfully.“At the time safe mode was entered, th..>> view original[ October 19, 2016 ] ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander News
Artist’s concept of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter firing its main engine to enter orbit around Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A European-built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown. Both spacecraft — part of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program — reached Mars around the same time Wednes..>> view originalDid the Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tilt the Solar System?
Artist's illustration of the putative Planet Nine, which may lie undiscovered in the outer solar system. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC). PASADENA, Calif. — The putative "Planet Nine" may have tilted the entire solar system, researchers say. In January ...>> view original2 quake faults in the Bay Area could rupture together, causing major devastation, scientists say
The most dangerous earthquake fault in the San Francisco Bay Area is connected to another, which means both could rupture simultaneously and unleash major devastation, a new study finds.The Hayward Fault has long been considered a threat because it runs under densely populated neighborhoods east of San Francisco. The new study found that beneath San Pablo Bay, it joins with a second, less active underground fracture to the north. Scientists had already considered the possibility of both faults..>> view originalClouds on Pluto? Dwarf Planet's Weather Gets Weirder
Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission have identified some cloud candidates in the atmosphere of Pluto, using images taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera, during the ...>> view originalDonald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene
Lately I’ve been thinking back to something that John Kerry told The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, earlier this year. Asked about the importance of the Middle East to the United States, Kerry answered entirely about the Islamic State.“Imagine what would happen if we don’t stand and fight [ISIS],” he said: If we didn’t do that, you could have allies and friends of ours fall. You could have a massive migration into Europe that destroys Europe, leads to the pure destruction of Euro..>> view originalAccidental discovery could be renewable energy breakthrough
In an unexpected twist of fate, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a process to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol fuel — a breakthrough with implications for the future of renewable energy.That discovery, which occurred in 2014 and has been replicated multiple times since then in the nanotechnology lab Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is explained in full in a new study published in ChemistrySelect.The finding was serendipitous, lead stu..>> view original
Thursday, October 20, 2016
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