Mummies in Chile and Peru are disturbed for the first time in thousands of years due to climate change. Sounds like sauna did not help. The mummies will now enjoy humidity controlled enclosures from now on, for free. Sounds nice hmm. You cant get that luxury since you are alive and not thousands of years old....
We keep getting older and older, I am not talking about our age, i am talking about the claim of crowning the first or oldest human jawbone. Grad students working in Ethiopia made an exciting discovery: when they found a
2.8-million-year-old jawbone of a hominin in the sand. The partial lower
jaw is the oldest known member of the genus Homo and pushes back our origins 400,000 years. NASA opts for boulder-snatch concept in its asteroid redirect mission
NASA
NASA gives out funds to look for a new ranger to scout the space beyond our horizon.They will snatch a small boulder off an asteroid, as illustrated
above, rather than bag up an entire asteroid. The goal of the $1.25
billion mission is to test an idea for protecting Earth from a
potentially catastrophic asteroid impact. Polar bears turn to seabirds for sustenance
Jouke Prop
Polar bears, AKA poor bears are endangered and they are endangering others around them. Polar bears are
being forced to change their diets, scouring dry land for seabird eggs
rather than enjoying their typical staple: seals. The disappearing sea
ice is bad news for both bears and seabirds, as hungry bears are raiding
nests, and the increasing predation on seabirds will likely diminish
their numbers.
Science| DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2433
A stack of four identical spacecraft will study Earth’s magnetosphere –
the comet-shaped magnetic shield that protects us from “space weather.”
Wellcome Images award held in March declared 20 photos as the best from around the world for the originality and the work of the person behind the lens. I chose these five for you to enjoy
Your Cat's tongue
Pregnant pony uterus
Chemical reactions in the kidney
Mouse brain
Mapping brain wiring
Other pictures can be seen at http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2015/
The
Solar Impulse-2 takes off from Ahmadabad, India on March 18, 2015,
beginning the third leg of its’ historic round-the-world trip. The
sun-powered aircraft began its voyage on March 9, 2015 in Abu Dhabi,
UAE, where it is scheduled to return in August of this year. (AP/Press
Trust of India)
Sunset
falls over antennae at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very
Large Array, on March 3, 2015. The radio astronomy antenna array is
located in Socorro County, New Mexico. (AP)
A
mosaic of images taken by the panoramic camera aboard NASA’s Mars
Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of the Red Planet’s “Marathon
Valley.” The images that make up this mosaic were taken on March 13,
2015 during the 3,958th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity’s work on
Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Arizona State University)
This
photo of Ceres was taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015, a
few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously
unexplored dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration. The Dawn
spacecraft was about 48,000 kilometers away from Ceres when this photo
was taken. (NASA)
This
3/11/15 file photo shows an array of some of the 2,000 pressure vessels
used to convert seawater into fresh water in the Carlsbad (California)
Desalination Project’s plant. Considered to be the largest desalination
facility in the western hemisphere, it is scheduled to start operations
some time later this year and is expected to provide 50 million gallons
of fresh drinking water a day. (AP)
In
a study released on March 13, 2015, researchers successfully identified
what they call a “treasure chest” of ancient galaxy clusters. This map
of the entire sky was captured by the European Space Agency’s Planck
mission. The band running through the middle corresponds to dust in our
Milky Way galaxy. The black dots indicate the location of galaxy cluster
candidates identified by Planck and subsequently observed by the
European Space Agency’s Herschel mission. (ESA/Planck Collaboration/ H.
Dole, D. Guéry & G. Hurier, IAS/University Paris-Sud/CNRS/CNES)
A
Soyuz spacecraft carrying a new crew to the International Space
Station, blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on March 28,
2015. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian
cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Korniyenko. (AP)
An
aerial photo, taken on March 31, 2015, shows some of the solar panels
that make up a photovoltaic park in southern France. Considered to be
the country’s biggest solar farm, this facility consists of 112,780
solar modules covering an area of 200 hectares of land and representing
100 MW of power. (Reuters)
A
total solar eclipse is seen through the clouds from Vagar on the Faeroe
Islands on March 30, 2015. The Faeroe Islands is an archipelago located
halfway between Norway and Iceland. (AP)
A robot installation is pictured at the booth of Deutsche Telekom at the CeBIT technology on 3/15/15. The German technology exposition was held in Hanover from 3/16/15-3/20/15 (AFP)
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