Pandamania: Giant panda's produces new itty-bitty zoo resident
A zoo in Vienna welcomed a rare creature on Sunday: a naturally conceived, giant panda cub.The cub, born around 5:05 a.m. local time at Schoenbrunn Zoo, is the fourth that Yang Yang the giant panda has conceived naturally. Such births are extremely rare for a species known for its mating difficulties.Giant pandas are considered endangered and listed on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Species. There are only believed to be about 1,600 individuals left in the wild. ..>> view originalPerseid meteor shower 'outburst' coming this week
Perseid meteor shower 'outburst' coming this week The Perseid meteor shower is one you won't want to miss, with a peak-rate of 200 meteors per hour expected to fly across the night sky. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , WUSA 6:45 PM. EST August 08, 2016 An outburst of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in August 2009 in this time-lapse image. Stargazers expect a similar outburst during next week’s Perseid meteor shower, which will be visible overnight on Aug. 11 and 12. (Photo..>> view originalSpaceVR Will Launch World's First Virtual Reality Camera Satellite In 2017
Virtual space tourism startup SpaceVR has signed a launch agreement with NanoRacks to send the world’s first virtual reality camera satellite into space in 2017. The Overview 1 satellite will reach the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX CRS-12 Mission, the startup announced Monday.From the space station, it will be deployed into Low Earth Orbit using the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer. NanoRacks runs the commercial laboratory aboard the space station and has been working with SpaceV..>> view originalClimate Change May Bring More Tainted Shellfish to Northern Seas
MONDAY, Aug. 8, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Warming oceans may be boosting levels of dangerous bacteria in northern seas, possibly explaining why more people are getting sickened by tainted seafood and seawater, new research suggests."From long-term data, it is apparent that the level of these pathogens is rising in the ocean as a result of global warming," said study author Luigi Vezzulli. He is an associate professor with the department of earth, environmental and life sciences at the University..>> view originalJupiter's Effect Will Make Perseid Meteor Shower One to Remember
The Perseids, the most widely observed and dependable of the annual meteor displays, will peak during the overnight hours of Thursday, Aug. 11 into the morning of Friday, Aug. 12, and this year has all the earmarks of being a spectacular show. First, there is the situation regarding the moon. At first glance, it appears that the viewing conditions aren't very good, as the peak night coincides with a waxing gibbous moon, 63-percent illuminated. Its bright light no doubt will wash out all..>> view originalEarth Overshoot Day: Planet Badly Losing Many of its Natural Resources
Aug 09, 2016 02:59 AM EDT The Earth's nature is slowly deteriorating, and humans are mostly to blame. Every person on earth is guilty not just by being a direct contributor to the negativity, but also indirectly being a part of it. In fact, an event today showed how humans have disturbingly consumed a lot of natural resources. The Global Footprint Network, an international group that is up to the Earth's betterment, shared that this day is officially what they call the "Earth Overshoot Day."..>> view originalOne drug is 'new hope' for three killer infections
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A child with leishmaniasis One drug can treat three deadly and neglected infections - Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness - animal studies show. It has been described as a "new hope" for tackling the parasitic infections which affect millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by testing three million compounds. The new drug is ..>> view originalSterile Neutrino Search Comes Up Empty At IceCube Lab
After conducting a diligent search for a hypothetical subatomic particle — the “sterile neutrino” — that would have filled in another blank of the Standard Model of particle physics, scientists at a particle detector in the South Pole are now almost certain that such a particle does not exist.Three types, or flavors, of neutrinos are already known to science and are part of the Standard Model; they are called muon, electron and tau. Neutrinos have almost no mass and rarely interact with matter, ..>> view originalNASA's High Dynamic Range Stereo X camera captures rocket test in breathtaking detail
This is cool as hell. “While thousands turned out to watch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) recently complete a full-scale test of its booster, few were aware of the other major test occurring simultaneously.” NASA’s High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) camera project captured the test like we've never seen before, and recorded propulsion video data in unprecedented detail. The HiDyRS-X project originated from a problem that exists when trying to film rocket motor tests. Rocket motor plu..>> view originalScientists Find 'Alien Megastructure' Star Mysteriously Dimming
Aug 09, 2016 06:30 AM EDT Kepler's "Alien Megastructure" star has been dimming at an unprecedented rate. The KIC 8462852 was observed by NASA's Kepler mission and has become famous among scientists when it was suspected that its flickering signals could be a result of an alien megastructure. While further observations of the star found no signs of aliens, the luminosity of KIC 8462852 - unofficially named "Tabby's Star" after astronomer Tabetha Boyajian who discovered the signals - has been ..>> view original
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