Tiny Mercury Will Be Revealed During May 9 Transit
This photo of the November 2006 transit of Mercury shows the rocky planet as a clean-edged disc in the lower hemisphere of the sun. Sunspots can also be seen near the right and left edges of the sun. Credit: TheBrockenInAGlory Amateur astronomer and retired chemistry teacher Patricia Totten Espenak has published a book about the 2017 Great American Eclipse called "Total Eclipse or Bust! A Family Road Trip." She is the wife of retired astrophysicist and NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak. ..>> view originalThe primates of China reveal climate change vulnerability
A study released by the University of Kansas and the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology showed a “mother lode” of newly found fossil primates. The species was found in southern China, which revealed the species that first emerged in Asia. The existence of these primates, according to the scientists, began after Eocene-Oligocene transition. The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) functioned as a critical filtering episode during the evolutionary..>> view originalNASA Technology Databases Now Available To Public Domain
May 08, 2016 10:00 PM EDT In line with NASA's Spinoff Program, they have released 56 databases making them public domain material which are now free of use for anyone interested. Not only is this a patent-free release, the technologies can also be easily downloaded through NASA's searchable database according to Engadget. Free #NASATech? Yes, please! Check out the selection of patents here: https://t.co/75oBvNgoYV pic.twitter.com/AIdHlq3jl5 — NASA Tech Transfer (@NASAsolutions) May 6, 2016..>> view originalThere's no hive jive at this bee business
Jeff Tensfeldt, co-owner of Carpe Bee'm in Westford, gets a close-up look at some of the honeycombs and bees. SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / JOHN LOVE Sentinel and Enterprise staff photos can be ordered by visiting our SmugMug site. WESTFORD -- Leanne Terry was looking for a career change, and when she stumbled upon an article that explained colony collapse disorder and the amount of bees vanishing quickly, a spontaneous idea to become a beekeeper became a reality. Terry got her husband Jeff Tensf..>> view originalPluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All
Pluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All Seti | NASA | JHUAPL | SwRI Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed. This frigid globe is able to interact with solar wind in a way that is much like its larger cousins. The New Horizons team is still interpreting vast amounts of data recorded by the spacecraft as it whizzed past Pluto in the summer ..>> view originalWas this hammerhead herbivore the ocean's first vegetarian reptile?
Scientists are gradually opening a window into the mysterious world of the rare herbivorous marine reptiles.Most recently, in a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, paleontologists have documented the earliest known marine reptile whose diet was herbivorous, the aptly named Atopodentatus unicus, Latin for "unique strangely toothed."Not only is this hammerhead creature fascinating in its own right, said coauthor Olivier Rieppel, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in..>> view originalSupermassive black holes: Just how supermassive are they?
In a galaxy far, far away, a supermassive black hole sits at the center with a gravitational pull that sucks in everything from planets to stars to light. And for the first time, scientists knows precisely how massive it is. Scientists have been able to measure precisely the mass of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy called NGC 1332, roughly 73 million light years away from Earth. The findings suggest the black hole has a mass 660 million times greater than the mass of the sun..>> view originalReliving The Mount St Helens Eruption Of 1980
Reliving The Mount St Helens Eruption Of 1980 Mount St. Helens is experiencing earthquakes as vast amounts of magma move underneath its rocky exterior. Although there are no definite signs of an impending eruption, the rumblings are bringing back memories of the massive explosion that took place there decades ago. On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens unleashed massive quantities of rock, ash and debris into the air as a powerful eruption shook the once-quiet mountainside. The accompanying explosi..>> view originalQuestioning the delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly bear
In a house up a creek just south of Livingston, David Mattson walked to his office and turned on his computer. The retired government scientist pulled up a document he has been working on for weeks. The words have piled up by the tens of thousands, all to explain why the Yellowstone grizzly bear should remain on the Endangered Species list. "I'm at 56 pages," he said, scrolling through the sea of words and graphs. "And every issue I raise I consider to be a fairly significant failing."Mattson, ..>> view original
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