Believe it or not, the bees are doing just fine
Look at how happy and healthy this little fuzzball is. (Brad Smith/Flickr) You've probably heard the bad news by now that bees were recently added to the endangered species list for the first time. But if you're part of the 60 percent of people who share stories without actually reading them, you might have missed an important detail: namely, that the newly endangered bees are a handful of relatively obscure species who live only in Hawaii. The bees you're more familiar with — the ones that..>> view originalHarvard, MIT professors win Nobel in economics for research on contract theory
The winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is announced. (Reuters) Harvard's Oliver Hart and MIT's Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for their work on contract theory, the study of how people can efficiently enter into agreements. Their contributions have shaped the thinking in a wide range of fields, from law to economics to political scie..>> view originalNew York City at risk of flooding every two decades: climate study
Metropolitan Transit Authority bring plywood and sandbags to cover subway grates and entrances as New York City prepares for potential flooding from post-tropical storm Hermine Thomson Reuters By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hurricanes could start flooding New York City's coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise and hurricane activity, scientists said on Monday. Water could surge some 9 feet ..>> view originalMars Rover Opportunity to Make Daring Descent into Gully
This image, captured by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity on Aug. 30, 2016, shows "Wharton Ridge," which forms part of the southern wall of Marathon Valley on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. NASA's Opportunity rover is still having grand adventures more than 12 years after touching down on Mars. Now, the agency plans to send Opportunity into a gully that may have been shaped by water in the ancient past. Opportunity's daring descent will ..>> view originalAs billionaires ogle Mars, the space race is back on
In April 2015, at a launch site surrounded by the desolation and scrub brush of West Texas, a stubby, somewhat suggestively shaped rocket lifted off from a small launch facility. There were no big crowds of observers, no phalanx of cheering staffers, no fleet of media satellite trucks to witness the event. The rocket powered its way to just over 57 miles above the Earth’s surface, where a windowed, gumdrop-shaped capsule separated cleanly from the booster section, skirted the edge of space, an..>> view originalAre new types of matter on the horizon? Researchers reveal how Nobel Prize could boost research
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, three theoretical physicists whose research used the unexpected mathematical lens of topology to investigate phases of matter and the transitions between them.Topology is a branch of mathematics that deals with understanding shapes of objects; it's interested in 'invariants' that don't change when a shape is deformed, like the number of holes an object has. Physics is the study of matter an..>> view originalAstronauts going to Mars could face brain damage, study warns
Going to Mars could be bad for astronauts’ brains, a new study using rodents has found. While the Earth’s magnetosphere mostly protects people on this planet from cosmic radiation, any trailblazers on a long-distance trek to Mars would have to contend with the harmful radiation of space. To study this, researchers exposed rodents to charged particles and then analyzed the results. They found that, among other issues, the rodents had brain damage, neural inflammation, and impaired memory. "This ..>> view originalDonald Trump Gets Called Out On Climate Change … By Kids
In a new video from the environmental group Sierra Club, children take turns reading tweets from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump about climate change. And even the kids think they’re bonkers. Trump has a long history of dismissing the reality of climate change. He has repeatedly called it a “hoax” and posited that it was an idea the Chinese created to steal U.S. jobs. Meanwhile, the evidence for climate change continues to build — heat waves, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets..>> view original[ October 10, 2016 ] Critical Antares rocket launch set for Friday night Antares
A view of the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft (right) undergoing final preparations for this week’s launch. Credit: Orbital ATK The debut launch of an upgraded version of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket has slipped to Friday after ground teams resolved a minor vehicle issue and made emergency preparations for Hurricane Matthew, which bypassed the Antares launch site on Virginia’s Eastern Shore this weekend. The two-stage booster, powered by new RD-181 engines from Russia, is set for blastoff ..>> view originalHuman-caused warming doubled how much of the West has burned since 1984, study finds
Scientists have long said that climate change has made wildfires worse in the West — but how much worse?Twice as bad, according to a new study. Human-caused warming in the West has nearly doubled the area burned by wildfires over the last three decades, researchers reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.That’s an extra 16,000 square miles, or an area about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. The West has seen a dramatic increase in wildfires over..>> view original
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