Biz Break: Adobe shines and Zuckerberg jogs in the smog
Top Of The Order: Good Friday Comes Early For Adobe: The actual Good Friday is still a week away. But, based on how Adobe Systems did this Friday, the San Jose-based software company might petition to have this year’s calendar retroactively changed. On Friday, Adobe shares reached an all-time high of $98 in the wake of the company’s strong fiscal fourth-quarter results, which came out late Thursday. Adobe said that for the quarter ended March 4, it earned 66 cents a share on $1.38 billion in r..>> view originalNew US-Russian Crew Launches Toward Space Station on Soyuz
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched a joint U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station Friday (March 18), a space team that includes an astronaut aiming to break an American spaceflight record recently set by NASA's year-in-space astronaut Scott Kelly. American astronaut Jeff Williams of NASA and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Aleksey Ovchinin of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched toward the space station at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in..>> view originalSpring Is Here! Check Out the Equinox's Quirky Math
As the Earth makes its annual trek around the sun, certain events are of special importance, both to astronomers and to the public at large. Arguably the most important of these events is the equinox, which occurs this Sunday, March 20, at half an hour past midnight Eastern Daylight Time. Because of the tilt of the Earth’s axis, the sun appears south of the celestial equator for half the year, and north of the equator for the other half. The points of transition from one hemisphere to the other..>> view originalDiscovery Channel Telescope Helps Identify Incoming Comet
Not one, but two comets will fly past Earth later this month, one of which will be the third closest comet flyby to occur in recorded history. Both comets seem to share astonishingly similar orbits, which is an interesting clue to their origin, but the second object’s true identity was confirmed by the 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) at Lowell Observatory, near Flagstaff in Arizona. PHOTOS: Discovery Channel Telescope’s Epic Cosmic View Discovered by the University of Hawaii’s PanST..>> view originalHyenas, Wolves Appear to Strike Cooperative Pact in Negev Desert
A harsh desert environment seems to have made strange bedfellows out of hyenas and wolves in southern Israel, researchers have observed. In a study recently published in the journal Zoology in the Middle East, scientists from the United States and Israel report sightings of striped hyenas roaming amid packs of grey wolves in the Negev desert. Most Amazing Animal Friendships: Photos Neither hyenas nor wolves usually behave very well in their dealings with other carnivores. Hyenas will fight, usu..>> view originalThe Hubble discovers stars 100 times larger than the sun
NASA recently used the Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 to discover dozens of stars that are 50 times the size of the Sun. Of the dozens of the stars, nine have a size of at least 100 times the size of the Sun.The stars were discovered in the R136 star cluster that is 170,000 light-years away from our solar system. The nine stars together outshine the Sun by a factor of 30 million. NASA said in a press release that the stars raise new questions on the formation of massive stars. NAS..>> view originalDenisovans: Mysterious archaic humans reveal clues to our own history
More than 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made their way out of Africa and into Eurasia. But they weren't the first humans to make this trek. Other human species had already spread across Eurasia. These different groups met and mated, leaving marks in human genomes today.The remnants of those trysts, buried in the genomes of all non-African modern humans, could yield hints into human evolution that won't appear in the fossil record. So researchers have been digging into modern-day human genomes..>> view originalBeautiful, Bewitching Pluto Poses in New Images from New Horizons Probe
This snapshot captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows the western region of the heart-shaped area informally known as Sputnik Planum, which has been found to be rich in nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane ices. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI And the hits just keep on coming. Another batch of Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons probe reveals the majesty and mystery of thi..>> view originalStudy: Ocean acidification putting marine life at risk
A young man takes a picture of a tidepool at Natural Bridges State Park in Santa Cruz. Researchers say ocean acidification is taking its toll on marine life. (Jon Weiand -- Santa Cruz Sentinel file) SANTA CRUZ - A new study, based on the most extensive set of measurements ever made in tidepools, suggests that ocean acidification will increasingly put many marine organisms at risk by exacerbating normal changes in ocean chemistry that occur overnight.Conducted along California's rocky coastline,..>> view original
Friday, March 18, 2016
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