Hold That Thought: Climate Scientists Refute New Study Claiming The Earth Has Warmed 13 Degrees
Scientists have rebuffed the claims made by a new climate study that said Earth's temperature escalated by 13 degrees Fahrenheit because of carbon volumes already dumped by humans into the atmosphere. While the study's author asserted that there is little to wonder if the planet had warmed by 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (5.4 to 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit) because of global warming, critics called it a wrong conclusion. The study was published in Nature. Study author Carolyn Snyder, a former postdoctora..>> view originalMercury Is Tectonically Active Like Earth And Still Shrinking
A research funded by NASA has obtained new images of Mercury, which suggest the planet is not only tectonically active like Earth but is also still shrinking. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, images from NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft showed small fault scraps that were undetected previously. Scarps are landforms similar to cliffs in appearance and look a lot like stair steps. The fault scarps discovered in Mercury are small ..>> view originalBlack moon rising: Friday's rare lunar event explained (+video)
No, it’s not some forgotten Creedence Clearwater Revival B-side. The upcoming black moon, which rises Friday night, is a bona-fide lunar event.Well, sort of.In some ways, a black moon is the opposite of a blue moon. When a full moon rises twice in a month, the second one is called a blue moon. Similarly, a black moon is the second new moon in a single month. It’s a somewhat rare event, only coming around about once every 32 months; the last one occurred in March 2014.In the Western hemisphere, ..>> view originalHere's what Trump said about the world — and what it means
Following the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, American expats, locals and financial markets react with cautious optimism. (Reuters) In his first presidential debate with Democrat Hillary Clinton on Monday night, Republican candidate Donald Trump played loose with the facts on how China is devaluing its currency, made an apparent shift in position on continuing to fund NATO defense of European allies and seemed to call for China to invade North Korea. Washington Post corre..>> view originalDid your zodiac sign change? Don't worry, NASA says astrology is still fake
All over the world, people check their horoscopes to see what's in store for them for the day. For most, it is an entertaining, meaningless diversion, but a few genuinely believe in their predictions based on their astrological signs sign. But NASA is causing waves in the astrological community for its recent suggestion that the astrological signs – constellations that are at a certain point in the sky for certain point in the year – have changed as the Earth's axis has shifted over the centuri..>> view originalIs SpaceX About to Open the Entire Solar System to Human Exploration?
The spaceship that SpaceX is building to colonize Mars could also take people out to Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa and beyond, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), Musk unveiled SpaceX's planned Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), a rocket-spaceship combo that the billionaire entrepreneur hopes will allow humanity to establish a permanent, self-sustaining, million-person settlement on the Red Planet. Mars is the first planned stop for ITS, but it ..>> view originalWe Just Passed A Grim Carbon Dioxide Threshold, Possibly For Good
The world has hit a global warming milestone it may never recover from. Scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced in 2013 that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide reached a daily average above 400 parts per million for the first time in history. CO2 concentrations “haven’t been this high in millions of years,” said scientist Erika Podest at the time. “This milestone is a wake-up call.” But the situation has only gotten worse. Worldwide, 400 ppm, which indicates the r..>> view originalWhy scientists are so thrilled by the icy geysers on Europa
Scientists may have just taken one tiny step forward in the hunt for alien life – and it may be in our own cosmic backyard. Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, is a strong candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. Under its frozen exterior, the moon has a vast subsurface ocean that might be conducive to life as we know it. And now scientists may have found an easier way to investigate Europa's habitability.Giant water plumes appear to be spewing from the southern polar region on Europa in new Hubble..>> view originalControversial 3-parent baby technique produces a boy
The mother previously had four pregnancy losses and had given birth to two children, one who survived less than a year, another who lived only 6 years due to the syndrome. For religious reasons, the mother wanted to use a technique that would not require the destruction of fertilized eggs, which an approved treatment in the United Kingdom would require.Led by Dr. John Zhang, founder of the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City, her doctors left the US, where the technique has not been appro..>> view originalCould ornamented skulls have helped dinosaurs get big?
During the age of the dinosaurs, that horned look was so in. Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Giganotosaurus were among the most humongous predatory beasts that ruled the prehistoric Earth, and they all had strange bony structures sticking out of their skulls. But these cranial ornaments likely weren't just the fashion statements of dinosaur kings, say paleontologists. They might also have something to do with why these fearsome predators came to be so huge.Theropod dinosaur lineages with horns, ..>> view original
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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