Photos of this week's moon and planets
Don’t miss these 2 photos of the moon and planets from Chile See all 5 bright planets after sunset Greg Diesel-Walck wrote on August 5, 2016: “I’ve taken over 30,000 pictures of the moon. Tonight I had a chance to get chills again like it was the first time :-) Jupiter over the moon as a thunderstorm drifted across the horizon here in Moyock, North Carolina tonight.” Kurt Zeppetello caught the moon and Jupiter on August 5, too, from a parking lot Lebanon, New Hampshire. View larger. | Helio C. ..>> view originalGreat white feast takes a bite out of beach days
Beachgoers ordered out of the water in Truro until tomorrow after great white sharks were seen feasting on a dead whale need to brush up on their swimming safety.The toothsome critters, one expert said, are settling in along Cape Cod.“You’re going to see more and more sharks in the area,” Cathrine Macort of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown said last night. “It’s time to proceed with caution. One theory is the seal population is rebounding and so, too, are the sharks.”Macort said sh..>> view originalHow do sunflowers follow the sun's path? A circadian clock revealed.
True to their name, young sunflowers greet the sun each morning with their heads turned east to catch its rays. Throughout the day, they follow its movement until the sun sets in the west at night, and the cycle begins again.But just how sunflowers can do that has long been a mystery – until now. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the heliotropic sunflower uses both circadian rhythms and heliotropism (bending and turning toward the light) to enhance its performance in th..>> view originalNew Form Of Light Could Makes Study Of Quantum Phenomena Easier
In a development that could greatly help the study of quantum phenomena, scientists have created a theoretical model for a new form of light that combines the properties of photons and electrons. If turned into reality, the new light form could also be used to make electrical circuits which at present use electrons for conduction.Scientists from Imperial College London published a study in the journal Nature Communications on Friday that shows “it is possible to create a new form of light by bin..>> view originalWhat to do about toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political.Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly.Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland ice..>> view originalDinosaurs, like modern animals, had septic arthritis too
Septic arthritis, as it seems, is an age-old affliction that doesn’t just cause great pain to humans and some present-day animals. In fact, it had existed at least 70 million years ago, and caused a certain type of dinosaur to feel such pain. A new study published earlier in the week details how a dinosaur found in what is now the southern part of New Jersey suffered from septic arthritis, which is a condition that can also be found in humans, crocodiles, and some birds. This makes it the fir..>> view originalNo Myth! Scientific Evidence Proves China's Legendary Emperor Yu and the 'Great Flood' Could Be Real
Aug 06, 2016 04:00 AM EDT Chinese researchers have come across scientific evidence that could prove the Great Flood in China is not mythical at all. The Famous Chinese Legend Legend has it that the Yellow River valley in China was once devoured by flood nearly 4,000 years ago. It all started with an earthquake that caused boulders to form a massive dam across the Jushi Gorge. It blocked the Yellow River for up to nine months. When the dam broke, the water went downstream. The water rose so h..>> view originalSpectacular comet suicide: Does that happen often?
Between Wednesday and Thursday this week, astronomers at NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) noticed something special - a comet in close proximity to the sun.And then it was gone.Astronomers watched the comet plunged towards the sun, where it was rapidly devoured by solar forces. Comet suicides aren’t necessarily the result of a direct impact with the sun, but typically occur when a comet passes too close to the sun to withstand the sun's gravitational forces and heat, and disint..>> view original
Monday, August 8, 2016
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