What could a nuclear bomb test site and the moon have in common?
February 8, 2017 —How did the moon form? Scientists base their models largely on data from moon rocks and meteorites. But those just provide momentary snapshots, not geological processes in action. To test their models, scientists need to figure out just how, and under what conditions, those rocks may have formed. And one team may have just found a new way of thinking about lunar formation.Moon-building happens on a massive scale, so "we were looking for an analogue that was large-scale enough ..>> view originalNASA's future deep space rocket gets critical endorsement from commercial space group
Yesterday, NASA's Space Launch System — the giant, expensive rocket the space agency is building to take astronauts into deep space and onto Mars someday — got a crucial endorsement from an unlikely ally: the commercial space industry. Alan Stern ...>> view originalFebruary Full Moon 2017: When to See the 'Snow Moon' Eclipse
February's Snow Moon will be no ordinary full moon for skywatchers in most parts of the world, as it coincides with a special lunar eclipse that will cast a shadow over the full moon's usual bright, glowing face. On Friday (Feb. 10), just 10 minutes after the full moon peaks, so will a penumbral lunar eclipse. The moon will spend more than 4 hours coasting through Earth's outer shadow, called the penumbra, and it will appear darker than normal. While penumbral eclipses can be difficu..>> view original12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered in Israel
Researchers have discovered a new cave in Israel that they say once held Dead Sea Scrolls, making it just the 12th such cave of its kind found. The find is thus a milestone, according to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The cave was looted long before the archeologists excavated it, but inside they found telltale signs that scrolls had been there: broken storage jars and lids on its edges and in a tunnel in the back. "This exciting excavation is the closest we’ve come to discovering new Dead..>> view originalSpaceX readies rocket for tests at historic pad 39A
An aerial view of launch pad 39A from late 2015. Credit: NASA SpaceX engineers are preparing to mount a Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A for the first time this week as the company declares the modified facility ready to support a new era of commercial space missions. The two-stage rocket, without its payload, could roll out of SpaceX’s hangar at the southern perimeter of pad 39A and up the ramp to the launch mount as soon as Thursday. SpaceX aims to fill the ro..>> view original5000-Year-Old Chinese Beer Recipe Tastes Fruity: Stanford Students
The ancient Chinese must have liked their beer fruity and cider-like, as revealed in an experiment conducted by students from Stanford University. In May 2016, archeology professor Li Liu and her students uncovered an ancient pottery that contained clues to the ingredients of a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe. Nine months later, the same research team asked Stanford students to brew and recreate the ancient Chinese drink, which is now considered as one of the world's oldest known alcoholic b..>> view originalLargest Undersea Landslide Revealed on the Great Barrier Reef
James Cook University scientists have helped discover the remnants of a massive undersea landslide on the Great Barrier Reef, approximately 30 times the volume of Uluru. JCU's Dr Robin Beaman said the remains of the slip, known as the Gloria Knolls Slide, were discovered 75 kilometres off the north Queensland coast near the town of Innisfail while the scientists were working from the Marine National Facility's blue-water research ship Southern Surveyor. "This is all that remains after a massive..>> view originalThis new gecko species slips out of its scales to evade threats
February 7, 2017 —If you try to catch a Geckolepis, you might find yourself left with just a handful of scales as a naked gecko wriggles away to safety. The Madagascan lizards have large, fish-like scales that they shed when encountering friction, like that of a predator's mouth or a scientist's hand. But don't worry about the scale-less lizards: the geckos don't stay denuded forever. The scales regenerate within weeks.Researchers have known about these weird lizards for 150 years, but their ev..>> view originalMajor global warming study again questioned, again defended
WASHINGTON — Another round of bickering is boiling over about temperature readings used in a 2015 study to show how the planet is warming.The issue is about how readings gathered decades ago were adjusted to try to get a clearer picture of how the Earth’s temperature is changing now. Those adjustments have been questioned by some who reject mainstream climate science and have tried to claim there has been a pause in global warming.A January study in a scientific journal used another set of measu..>> view originalCrack In Antarctica's Ice Shelf Larsen C Heading To Full Split
The expanding giant crack in Antarctican ice shelf is raising concerns that its break off from the continent is only a matter of time. The situation worsened in January with the crack growing rapidly by 6 miles in the middle of the month. According to experts, the crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf that is floating off the coast of northwestern Antarctica has been adding space equivalent to five football fields every day. Even as it floats, Larsen C is attached to the land and its origin comes fro..>> view original
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