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Hubble Spots Stunning Spiral Galaxy 30 Million Light-Years Away – Geek.com
NGC 2903 is located roughly 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo, and it is a stunning spiral galaxy. (Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al.) STAY ON TARGET Hubble Space Telescope Spots ‘Living Fossil’ Galaxy… Read More ›
Should we really bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead with DNA science? | SYFY WIRE
Remember how Dr. Henry Wu, the same geneticist responsible for bringing T-Rex back to life in Jurassic Park, spliced together genes from both the extinct predator and extant animals like frogs and cuttlefish to create the infinitely more vicious Indominus… Read More ›
‘Mission Jurassic’ dinosaur hunt to get under way – BBC News
British scientists are about to undertake one of their biggest dinosaur hunts in decades. They are joining US and Dutch institutions in exploring what is expected to be a treasure trove of fossils in the “Badlands” of Wyoming. The US… Read More ›
NASA has made a whole list of planets that could potentially house aliens | SYFY WIRE
ou know you have to have either done something horribly serious or be some top-secret investigator to be on the list of a government agency. In this case, you only need to be a star whose planets might be crawling… Read More ›
The first dinosaur footprints with complete imprints of skin have been dug up | SYFY WIRE
While we haven’t been able to pull a Jurassic Park yet, since resurrecting dinosaurs from the blood sucked by mosquitoes trapped in amber is kind of problematic, paleontologists have discovered a fossil that is one sci-fi movie short of a… Read More ›
Scientists uncover fossils from moments after Earth’s apocalyptic asteroid collision – CNET
Paleontologists working in the northern United States have uncovered one of the most remarkable collections of fossils ever discovered, dating back to the day a giant asteroid slammed into a shallow sea on the primordial Earth 66 million years ago…. Read More ›
Canadian T. Rex is Officially the Biggest Ever – HISTORY
The massive dinosaur also lived longer than any other T. rex discovered to date. SARAH PRUITT Back in the 1990s, it took nearly a decade for paleontologists in Canada to extricate the massive Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Scotty” from… Read More ›
First mammal species goes extinct due to climate change
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 20, 2019 Editor’s note: This story was originally published June 14, 2016. It was updated February, 20, 2019, when the Australian government officially recognized the species as extinct. A small rodent that lived only on a single island… Read More ›
Mass Death of Baby Penguins in New Zealand Points to Climate Change
The birds starved to death. When scientists opened the stomachs of 11 young penguins that washed up on beaches in northern New Zealand, 10 had nothing in their guts and one had a small amount of grass, according to the… Read More ›
Cancer Has Been Around Since the Dawn of the Dinosaurs – HISTORY
A malignant tumor found in a 240 million-year-old turtle bone shows that cancer has been plaguing living things since the Triassic Period. SARAH PRUITT A 240 million-year-old fossilized leg bone has yielded evidence of what might be one of the… Read More ›
Bees can solve math problems with addition and subtraction now – CNET
Math can be deeply complex and elegant. It can explain how the planets move through space and how the particles that make up the universe interact. And while honeybees can’t yet write out Einstein’s general theory of relativity, new evidence… Read More ›
The Smithsonian unveils a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the black farmer whose cells led to medical miracles – CNN
Her cells are responsible for the polio vaccine, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization to name a few. But for a long time most of the public didn’t know her contribution to modern medicine. Neither did she because her cells… Read More ›
Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal
300 seconds will produce a relatively quick death, which is better than many alternatives. After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and your cells will soon begin to… Read More ›
The World’s Most Popular Coffee Species Are Going Extinct, Study Says – Geek.com
Coffee lovers, here’s one more reason to savor that morning cup o’ joe. Research shows 60 percent of coffee species found in the wild could soon go extinct. In a new study published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday,… Read More ›
Giraffes added to endangered species list of animals under threat of extinction | The Irish Post
TWO subspecies of giraffe have been added to a list of endangered animals under threat of extinction after a rapid decline in their populations. Numbers of the long-necked mammals have gone down by 40% over the last three decades, mostly… Read More ›
Nodosaur, The Dinosaur Mummy Found With Its Skin And Guts Intact
“We don’t just have a skeleton,” said one of the nodosaur researchers involved. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” You can’t even see its bones, yet scientists are hailing it as perhaps the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever… Read More ›
Bristle Mammoth uncovered under Michigan farm | Toledo Blade
ANN ARBOR — He was a mighty beast, a full-grown ice age mammoth in his 40s who stood nearly 13 feet tall, took up 22 feet of land at any given time, and weighed a whopping 6 tons. And he… Read More ›
This British Astronomer Just Donated £2.3M Prize Winnings to Help Minorities Become Scientists
The same discovery was awarded the Nobel prize in 1974 — but it went to her male collaborators. All around the world, women just like Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell have proved that they can achieve great things when they’re… Read More ›
Michigan Farmer Digs Up Woolly Mammoth Bones in Field – HISTORY
Farmer James Bristle and his neighbor were digging a trench to install a drainage pipe in his wheat field on the outskirts of Chelsea, Michigan, when their backhoe suddenly struck something hard about eight feet underground. At first, the pair… Read More ›
