The Transit of Mercury Across the Sun's Face Has Begun: First Videos
GREENBELT, Md. — The small planet Mercury is making a rare transit of the sun today (May 9), the first such event of its kind in a decade, as the world looks on. Case in point: this awesome NASA video captured just as Mercury began its journey across the sun, as seen from Earth. Credit: Space.com Store NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this first Mercury transit video as the planet began a 7.5-hour trip across the face of the sun. Another video shows the Mercury..>> view originalKilling of Famed Yellowstone Grizzly Intensifies Protection Debate
Grizzly bear No. 211, also known as Scarface, was the most well-known and widely beloved of the some 700 identified animals in and around Yellowstone National Park. That is, until he was shot in November by an unknown person near Gardiner, Montana, just north of the park. Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks confirmed the killing in a statement and says it’s investigating.Scarface was already elderly, as Grizzly bears go, and by mid-2015 had lost nearly half of his weight, which in hi..>> view originalFive Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits
Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on coastlines in the Pacific, according to Australian researchers. Related: Sea levels set to 'rise far more rapidly than expected' The submerged islands were part of the Solomon Islands, an archipelago that over the last two decades has seen annual sea levels rise as much as 10mm (0.4in), according to research published in th..>> view originalIt's not about to blow, but magma is moving under Mount St. Helens
Seismologists are using swarms of small quakes under Mount St. Helens as a natural laboratory to study the way magma moves through chambers deep under the mountain. An ongoing swarm of earthquakes under Mount St. Helens doesn’t mean the volcano is likely to erupt soon, but scientists are studying the tiny temblors to see what they reveal about magma movement deep underground. The quakes, none bigger than magnitude 1.3, started chattering under the Northwest’s most active volcano on March 14. Si..>> view originalStarfish babies return in droves to the West Coast following massive die-off
By Will Houston, Eureka Times-StandardAfter whole populations of starfish along the West Coast were decimated by a wasting disease over the last two years, researchers in Oregon and Northern California are finding that droves of baby sea stars are returning to the shores.Data collected by Oregon State University researchers since 2014 showed an unprecedented number of baby sea stars survived during the summer and winter of 2015."When we looked at the settlement of the larval sea stars on rocks i..>> view originalRoyal Botanical Gardens: Mixed report on the world's plants
A Nymphaea Thermarum, an endangered plant, grows at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, Monday, May 9, 2016. Kew Gardens held the launch of the first ever State of the Worlds Plants report. The report is the first of its kind in the plant world.>> view originalGorgeous New Mercury Maps Showcase Planet's Striking Features
A stunning digital model of Mercury unveils the planet's striking landscape, while other new maps provide a closer look at the shadowed northern pole and reveal the highest and lowest points on the closest planet to the sun. Built with data from NASA's MESSENGER mission that orbited Mercury for four years, the new maps offer a bounty of scientific insight, while also delivering an incredible view of the planet. "The wealth of these data, greatly enhanced by the extension of MESSENGER's ..>> view originalJohn Oliver explains why so much 'science' you read about is bogus
VIDEO We at Speaking of Science do our best to deliver you solid, sound science reporting. And that means that we spend a lot of time telling you not to believe what you read about "science." But just in case you haven't been paying attention, comedian John Oliver — host of "Last Week Tonight" — is here to school you. And if you don't feel like laughing your butt off for the next 20 minutes, here's a rundown: 1. A single study means basically nothing. You may notice that we use a lot of phrases ..>> view original'Second Skin' May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
Dr. Murad Alam, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, who also was not associated with the study, was impressed, too, but he cautioned that it was still early.“This is a first step,” he said, “and all these applications will require further work.” But, he added, if the testing is successful, “I think it will be very popular.”The idea for second skin originated more than a decade ago when Dr. R. Rox Anderson, a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, was approached b..>> view originalMachine learning accelerates the discovery of new materials
Researchers recently demonstrated how an informatics-based adaptive design strategy, tightly coupled to experiments, can accelerate the discovery of new materials with targeted properties, according to a recent paper published in Nature Communications.>> view original
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