Sunday, February 21, 2016

Looks like a Sharknado brewing, but shark horde is a good thing, people say and other top stories.

  • Looks like a Sharknado brewing, but shark horde is a good thing, people say

    Sharks live in the ocean. That’s the running joke in my circles. Every February it’s kind of become a ritual for news gatherers and social media sharers. Somewhere between Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day every year, it’s time to broadcast the shark migration video clip. During the months of January through March, hundreds of thousands of sharks migrate from the Florida Keys and South Florida northward along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Sunshine State. The migration is timed to follow..
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  • Put Your Artwork On An Asteroid

    Put Your Artwork On An Asteroid
    Put Your Artwork On An Asteroid NASA is inviting you to put your artwork on an asteroid as it will hurdle through space for thousands of years to come. The new call for art submission made by the space agency will seek to encourage those interested in expressing their spirit of exploration. The submissions will be sent via the OSIRIS-REx, to be launched later this year The spacecraft will reach asteroid Bennu in 2018, after which it will remain there Asteroid Bennu is 4 billion years old, aroun..
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  • NASA plans its next giant space telescope, and it's so much cooler than Hubble

    NASA plans its next giant space telescope, and it's so much cooler than Hubble
    With each new innovation, NASA seems to dwarf its previous accomplishments, and this certainly appears to be the case for the agency’s latest and greatest space telescope. Promising to make Hubble look like child’s play, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will be every bit as precise and powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope, but will have 100 times the field of view. The goal? To better understand the dark matter and energy that seems to be the secret of the universe. “This mis..
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  • NASA: record applications for astronaut positions

    NASA: record applications for astronaut positions
    Houston – NASA has received a record number of applications for its 2017 astronaut program. More than 18,300 people have signed out for NASA’s open astronaut positions from mid-December 2015 until February 18th. That is almost three times more the number that applied in 2012 and far more than twice the previous record of 8,000 applicants in 1978. Apparently this rise in applications does not come as a surprise for NASA. It seems that different aspects have helped the company reach the interest ..
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  • Pluto's moon may have had an ocean

    Pluto's moon may have had an ocean
    Rachel Feltman, Washington Post Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2016, 1:08 AM Scientists have been blown away by Pluto's complex geology in the months following NASA's historic flyby of the dwarf planet. But it's not the only interesting world in its system: Charon, Pluto's largest moon, has proved surprising as well. According to the latest data from New Horizons, Charon may once have hosted a large subsurface ocean. The freezing and expansion of this ocean could be to bla..
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  • Neuroscientists have found a basis for the 'I was just following orders' excuse

    Neuroscientists have found a basis for the 'I was just following orders' excuse
    Society has long held that when people commit wrongdoing, they cannot eschew responsibility by claiming that they were “just following orders.” The infamous plea became known as the “Nuremberg defense” during the post-World War Two trials, when Nazi war criminals used it to excuse their actions. But a study published in Cell Biology on Feb. 18, titled “Coercion changes the sense of agency in the human brain,” suggests that this excuse isn’t just a pretext. People who’ve been ordered to do somet..
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  • Archeologist discover ancient wheel at Britain's 'Pompeii'

    Archeologist discover ancient wheel at Britain's 'Pompeii'
    Cambridgeshire, Britain – Archaeologists from the UK’s Cambridge University working at Must Farm, a Bronze Age site dubbed “Britain’s Pompeii“, in Cambridgeshire have found what could be the largest and best-preserved Bronze Age wheel discovered in Britain. The remarkable discovery of the 3000-year-old wheel has provided further information on the technologies and transport systems of the Bronze Age inhabitants of the country. Britain’s oldest intact wheel has been unearthed at a Bronze Age sit..
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