Hawaii finds and loses a second native mammal
According to a new study published this week in American Museum Novitiates, Hawaii has one more native land dwelling mammal than it thought it did. Or it would, if that mammal, a newly discovered species of bat, had not gone extinct eleven hundred years ago.Today, Hawaii only has one living native land mammal in residence, another type of bat called the Hawaiian hoary bat. This new bat species, named Synemporion keana, lived alongside the hoary bat before it went extinct around 11,000 years ago..>> view originalMoon Once Looked Different From Earth
(Newser) – "We tend to think that objects in the sky have always been the way we view them," says planetary scientist Matt Siegler. But that most viewable of objects—our moon—hasn't always looked as it does today, according to Siegler and his colleagues. They believe that some 3 billion years ago, in a process that took some 1 billion years to complete, the moon's ax..>> view originalA Japanese fleet killed 333 whales for 'research'
In this September 2013 photo, a minke whale is unloaded at a port after a whaling for scientific purposes in Kushiro, Japan, in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) A fleet of four ships returned to Japan on Thursday after killing 333 whales in the Antarctic as part of the country's controversial hunt. The quota of 333 is a third of what Japan used to haul in on average every year. Now, it's the maximum number of kills allowed under the program, which Japanese off..>> view originalThe Mysterious Thing About a Marvelous New Synthetic Cell
In 2010, a team of scientists announced that they had created a synthetic living cell. The team, led by Nobel laureate Ham Smith, microbiologist Clyde Hutchison III, and genomics pioneer Craig Venter, fashioned the full genome of a tiny bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides in their lab, and implanted the DNA into the empty cell of another related microbe. They nicknamed it Synthia. Some news sources claimed that the team had, for the first time, created artificial life. Others noted that they h..>> view originalBrilliant X-ray auroras glimmer on Jupiter
Scientists observed Jupiter’s X-ray aurora – its “northern lights” – for the first time during the onslaught of a solar storm, with parts flaring to eight times as bright as normal.The observations helped scientists understand how Earth interacts with these enormous solar storms and solar winds, while also shedding light on fundamental planetary processes.The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, also provides a prelude to NASA’s Juno mission, set to b..>> view original'Superstar Doctor' Paolo Macchiarini Fired For Lying On CV, Treating Patients As Guinea Pigs
'Superstar Doctor' Paolo Macchiarini Fired For Lying On CV, Treating Patients As Guinea Pigs Paolo Macchiarini was fired by Sweden's Karolinska University for lying about his scientific achievements and conducting a procedure that he knew was ineffective. By Tyler MacDonald | Mar 24, 2016 02:01 PM EDT Paolo Macchiarini was fired by Sweden's Karolinska University for lying about his scientific achievements and conducting a procedure that he knew was ineffective. (Photo : Getty Images) After m..>> view originalScience-religion conflict may lie in our brains
"Long before it's in the papers" March 24, 2016 RETURN TO THE WORLD SCIENCE HOME PAGE Science-religion conflict may lie in our brains March 24, 2016 Courtesy of Case Western Reserve University and World Science staff The conflict between science and religion may originate in our brain structure, researchers have found. Clashes between the..>> view originalThree Cool Things We've Learned From NASA's Mars Gravity Map
NASA has released a stunning new map of Mars that shows the planet’s terrain in a way not visible to the naked eye—using gravity to reveal new details about everything from the core to the atmosphere. “It’s giving you a signal of the lumps and bumps of the planet’s surface,” says Richard Zurek of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who wasn’t involved with the mapping. “It’s pretty amazing that one can track this out from spacecraft flying 180 miles above Mars’ surface, through the wisp of the ..>> view originalThis weird little fish can walk up waterfalls
Cryptotora thamicola. (New Jersey Institute of Technology) The cavefish Cryptotora thamicola is blind as a – well, blind as a cavefish. But according to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports, the fish uses a unique method of movement that allows it to walk like a four-legged animal. In fact, it can even climb its way up a waterfall. "It possesses morphological features that have previously only been attributed to tetrapods," or four-footed mammals and amphibians, study co-author ..>> view originalCeres' Puzzling Bright Spots, Giant Mountain Feature in New Close-Up Photos
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Ceres is coming into focus, but many mysteries about the dwarf planet remain. Newly released images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal a close-up look at Ceres' odd bright spots and giant mountain, and hint at the existence of ice sheets at the dwarf planet's poles. "Clearly, we have a lot of work to do to put together a self-consistent story [about Ceres]," Dawn's deputy principal investigator Carol Raymond, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasade..>> view original
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