India Launches 104 Satellites and Creates New World Record, Beating Russia
India has launched 104 satellites from the Sriharikota Space Station in east India in one mission, beating Russia’s previous record of launching 37 satellites at once. The majority of satellites hailed from the United States, while just three were Indian. One of the satellites launched by India was for cartographic purposes, to map the country’s mountainous northern borders.Commentators see it as a sign that the Indian space program is booming and growing fast. Prime Minister Modi tweeted after..>> view originalAstronomers discover 60 new planets including 'super Earth'
An international team of astronomers has found 60 new planets orbiting stars close to Earth’s solar system, including a rocky “super Earth.” The experts also found evidence of an additional 54 planets, bringing the potential discovery of new worlds to 114. One planet in particular, Gliese 411b, has been generating plenty of attention. Described as a “hot super Earth with a rocky surface,” Gliese 411b is located in the fourth-nearest star system to the Sun, making it the third-nearest planetary ..>> view originalEthicists advise caution in applying CRISPR gene editing to humans
An artist's rendering of the powerful genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9. (Stephen Dixon) Ethicists have been working overtime to figure out how to handle CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technique that could potentially prevent congenital diseases but could also be used for cosmetic enhancements and lead to permanent, heritable changes in the human species. The latest iteration of this ongoing CRISPR debate is a report published Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences and the Nation..>> view originalAstronomers spot last gasps of dying star
February 14, 2017 —What ends with a bang might start with a sputter, according to astronomers.A new paper published Monday in Nature paints the most complete picture yet of a giant star's end-of-life process. Captured a mere six to ten hours after the start of a violent supernova, images of lingering stellar material surrounding the star reveal hints of what the supergiant was doing during its final year of life.While the core collapse that triggers this kind of supernova is common, the trick i..>> view originalForget eggs. 245 million years ago, this long-necked sea creature gave birth to live babies.
Artist’s conception of a pregnant Dinocephalosaurus. (Dinghua Yang) A quarter of a billion years ago, when a shallow sea covered what is now southwest China, a large, long-necked aquatic reptile got pregnant. That is an unusual fact by modern standards — many reptiles, such as birds, turtles and crocodiles, do not get pregnant, which is to say they do not incubate embryos within their bodies and give birth to live young; instead they lay eggs, as the average American, who eats 250 chicken eg..>> view originalTrump administration sued over protection for vanishing bumble bee
File Photo: A rusty patched bumble bee Thomson Reuters By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - An environmental group sued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday for delaying a rule that would designate the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a branch of the Interior Department, in September proposed bringing the bee under federal safeguards. The rule formalizing the listing of the vanishing pollinator, onc..>> view originalIron age potters carefully recorded Earth's magnetic field — by accident
About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem made a big jar. It was meant to hold olive oil or wine or something else valuable enough to send to the king as a tax payment. The jar's handles were stamped with a royal seal, and the pot went into the kiln. Over the next 600 years, despite wars destructive enough to raze cities, potters in the area kept making ceramic tax jars, each one stamped with whatever seal represented the ruler du jour. They didn't know it, but in the process, the ancient ..>> view originalAn Enormous Exoplanet Is Having a Strange Influence on Its Star
Illustration: ESO/L.Calcada There’s a star about 370 light-years from here that’s pulsating in response to its unusually heavy planetary companion. It’s the first time that astronomers have seen this sort of interaction between a planet and its host star. “We thought that planets cannot really excite their stars, but we find that this one does.”A new study published in Astronomical Journal Letters is the first to document planet-induced pulsations in a stellar object. The star, dubbed HAT-..>> view originalSea ice hits record bows at both poles
Arctic temperatures have finally started to cool off after yet another winter heat wave stunted sea ice growth over the weekend. The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice set an all-time record low on Monday in a dramatic reversal from the record highs of recent years. Prelim NSIDC (daily) data indicates #Antarctic sea ice has dropped ..>> view originalIndustrial pollution has contaminated even the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean
Industrial pollution has reached even the most remote corners of Earth: the deepest part of the sea.Scientists have discovered “extraordinary levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in the Mariana and Kermadec trenches, two of the deepest ocean chasms on the planet. “Trenches have been considered as pristine environments, but also (given their locations and topography) as likely sinks for contaminants that enter the marine environment,” Alan Jamieson, a marine ecologist at Newcastle Uni..>> view original
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