Monday, May 2, 2016

Earth Has A Brother Named C/2014 S3: Astronomers Find 'Manx' Comet Made Of The Same Material As Earth and other top stories.

  • Earth Has A Brother Named C/2014 S3: Astronomers Find 'Manx' Comet Made Of The Same Material As Earth

    Earth Has A Brother Named C/2014 S3: Astronomers Find 'Manx' Comet Made Of The Same Material As Earth
    Astronomers have identified a new kind of tailless “Manx” comet that they believe could hold the key to Earth’s early life. The comet is completely unique in that it is tailless and is made of the same material as Earth. The tailless comet was aptly named a “Manx” comet, after the breed of cat that does not have a tail. Unlike normal comets, the C/2014 S3 likely formed near Earth and is not composed of the standard ice and frozen dust that astronomers typically see in comets. Therefore, Earth’s..
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  • Is free will just an illusion?

    Is free will just an illusion?
    You get to make the decisions? Not necessarily. From the moment we wake up in the morning, we make hundreds of decisions; do we press the snooze button, what do we have for breakfast, what will we wear, are we going to exercise, how will we treat others.We assume these choices are made on the basis of our own free will. It is an assumption that may well be incorrect.A new study has built on 20-year-old research and found we may not be as in control of our choi..
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  • Shark attack not a worry anymore as Australia will soon introduce $1m shark cable with 100% success rate

    Shark attack not a worry anymore as Australia will soon introduce $1m shark cable with 100% success rate
    As the South African government has successfully tested world’s first shark deterrent cable, Australia may soon adopt the cables to keep great white sharks away from the beaches. Researchers successfully tested the cables and conformed that all great white sharks that came close to the cables, off a beach near Cape Town, diverted back, and that’s something that the researchers are rejoicing about. The successful testing of the $1 million cable may mean the end of drum and net lines around the w..
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  • Great Barrier Reef: 93% are Bleached

    Great Barrier Reef: 93% are Bleached
    First Posted: May 02, 2016 04:10 AM EDT The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). (Photo : Wikimedia Commons/Sarah_Ackerman) The Great Barrier Reef is currently under siege from coal and climate change. The report was announced by scientists who revealed that 93 percent of the world heritage i..
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  • Acidic oceans are dissolving shells of tiny sea snails, researchers find

    Acidic oceans are dissolving shells of tiny sea snails, researchers find
    Acidic oceans are dissolving shells of tiny sea snails, researchers find Updated May 02, 2016 17:14:41 Small organisms are struggling to survive as the ocean becomes more acidic, researchers say, including tiny sea snails whose shells are dissolving. Key points:Acidification could severely affect the ocean's food chainSmall organisms are being damaged and scientists fear it could affect large animalsA prominent researcher says reducing CO2 emissions would reduce acidif..
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  • May sky guide: The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, constellations and planets

    May sky guide: The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, constellations and planets
    May sky guide: The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, constellations and planets Posted May 02, 2016 05:37:25 Australian skywatchers will this month get an excellent view of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, the Southern Cross shines, and Mars is at its brightest.If you get up early in the morning from May 6-8 you will see one of the most reliable meteor showers in the southern hemisphere.The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which is due to the debris from Halley's comet, will peak at..
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  • When did our sleep patterns evolve? Slumbering dragons hold clues.

    When did our sleep patterns evolve? Slumbering dragons hold clues.
    Reptile sleep patterns might not actually be all that different from our own.Sleep patterns thought to be used only by mammals and birds have now been discovered in a non-avian reptile, the Australian bearded dragon. Finding those patterns, slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in a reptile could dramatically revise scientists' models of how those sleep patterns evolved. And they may have evolved over 300 million years ago."The status quo, until our study, was that these features ..
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  • 'Bombshell': Just one-sixth of rural land-clearing tracked in NSW, ANU's Philip Gibbons says

    'Bombshell': Just one-sixth of rural land-clearing tracked in NSW, ANU's Philip Gibbons says
    Tough work: Environment Minister Mark Speakman says the burden of biodiversity protection is increasingly falling to farmers. Photo: Brendan Esposito Farmers are clearing land six times faster than detected by the NSW government, and most offsets used to compensate for vegetation destruction merely preserve existing conservation areas, according to unpublished research by Philip Gibbons, a leading biodiversity expert.The results are "a bombshell", the NSW Nat..
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