New map of the Milky Way shows where stars are born
One of the most detailed photos of the Milky Way was released Tuesday after a successful survey of the Galactic Plane and it will make you feel so small.In short, the stunning image is a map of the Milky Way and it took an international team of astronomers and many sensitive instruments to make it. The Galactic Plane, visible from the southern hemisphere, was imaged with infrared and radio waves.The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment or APEX telescope, based in Chile allows astronomers to study the ..>> view originalEarth's first critter was a sea sponge
The first animal to inhabit our planet was probably the sea sponge, according to a new study. Researchers with MIT performed a genetic analysis on 640-million-year-old rocks and found a molecule hailing from the lowly sea sponge. Based on this, scientists believe the creature was probably Earth’s first animal, with it arriving a considerable amount of time before most other animals. The notion that sea sponges were the first animal on Earth is not new — rather this latest study has further un..>> view originalSpaceX launch scrubs for second time in two days, webcast says
Countdown was aborted Thursday at 6:45 p.m., just before a SpaceX launch was scheduled to go up from Cape Canaveral, according to SpaceX's online webcast.It was the second try to launch an SES communications satellite, which was scrubbed shortly before takeoff Wednesday too. Because there was no more time to reload propellant again Thursday, the launch was scrubbed again, and SpaceX gave no time for another attempt at the launch yet. There was no immediate reason provided for the second scrub i..>> view originalDid Global Warming Slow Down in the 2000s, or Not?
The global warming “hiatus,” a controversy that spawned congressional hearings and thousands of skeptical blog posts before being curbed last year, is back. The “hiatus” refers to the observation that global warming has slowed in the past 15 years. The planet is still warming, but just not as quickly as some climate scientists expected it to. The debate between researchers and doubters reached a crescendo last summer, when scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updated..>> view originalA new algorithm from MIT could protect ships from 'rogue waves' at sea
Predictive analytics can already help prevent churn and anticipate equipment failures, but MIT has applied it to a new realm altogether: protecting ships at sea from so-called "rogue waves."Also known as killer waves, rogue waves swell up seemingly out of nowhere and can be eight times higher than the surrounding sea. They can strike in otherwise calm waters with virtually no warning, causing untold devastation even to large ships and ocean liners.Now, MIT has developed a predictive tool it..>> view originalMysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Pinpointed for First Time
Powerful transient radio flashes in the universe pop off randomly and appear to defy explanation, but astronomers have made a breakthrough in pinpointing the exact source of one of these fast radio bursts, known simply as “FRBs.” Top 10 Astronomical Discoveries Of All Time Only a handful of FRBs have ever been positively identified by looking back through the data archives of radio telescopes. They may be extremely short lived, but they are so powerful that, for the briefest of moments, come fr..>> view originalAstronaut Scott Kelly: 'I Could Go Another Year' Aboard Space Station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly talks to reporters on Feb. 25, 2016, less than a week before the end of his 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV Scott Kelly is about to head home after 11 months aboard the International Space Station, but the astronaut says he could have stayed in orbit for another year if NASA had so desired. Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will come back to Earth Tuesday (March 1), wrapping up an unprecedented 340-day stay on the orb..>> view originalBearded Human Bullies Poor, Defenseless Robot
A new video from Boston Dynamics shows a defenseless robot being taunted and knocked to the ground by a bearded human. The video begins with the robot, a humanoid named Atlas, making a treacherous journey through the snow to the Boston Dynamics lab. Emerging from the wilderness, Atlas arrives at the office to begin the day's work shelving boxes of unspecified goods. Without warning, Atlas is viciously attacked by a bearded human with a hockey stick. Witness the cruelty of the human manageria..>> view originalQuantum dots take a giant leap forward
Quantum dot technology has taken another leap forward, as researchers have discovered a way to make near-perfect superstructures out of these infinitesimal crystals.Scientists have long harbored high hopes for these tiny crystalline structures that can precisely convert and tune incoming light, but an apparently insurmountable hurdle has been the inability to fuse them together directly. Until now.This latest research, published Monday in the journal Nature Materials, has obliterated that obsta..>> view original
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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