Obama joins other world leaders to create new ocean sanctuaries
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Our Ocean Conference held at the State Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque. Don't miss stories. Follow Raw Story! Follow @rawstory. The United States on ...>> view originalArctic sea ice just tied for the second-lowest level ever recorded
An extraordinary collage of melting sea ice in the Kane Basin between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island. (Chris Mooney for the Washington Post.) Earlier this year, it appeared that we might be on pace for a startling new record in the Arctic. Back in May, the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by floating sea ice was even smaller than it was at the same time in 2012, the year that went on to set the all-time record for low sea ice extent in the month of September. September, you see, is ..>> view originalChina Successfully Launches Its Second Space Station
5229502China successfully launched its second space station into orbit Thursday, significantly accelerating the new space race with America. China’s new space station, dubbed Tiangong-2, will host three crew members for up to 20 days. Once in orbit, it will be visited by manned mission Shenzhou 11 in October. Tiangong-2, which translates to “Heavenly Palace 2,” is carrying 14 scientific payloads. Tiangong-2 is quite small compared to the first Soviet and U.S. space stations. The station weighs..>> view originalDeep-Sea Volcano a Hotspot for Mysterious Life
By CALEB JONES, Associated Press GEOLOGIST SEAMOUNTS, Hawaii (AP) — The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts. The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea. Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to exa..>> view original6000-year-old fabric reveals Peruvians were dyeing textiles with indigo long before Egyptians
Take a good look at the piece of cloth pictured at the top of this story. That was made 6,000 years ago by people living on the coast of Peru.Now check out those faint blue lines running through it. Yes, they’re washed out, but you can still see them. This square of striped cotton, and a few others like it, represents the first known instance of people using indigo to dye a textile blue. The ancient Peruvian fabric is more than 1,500 years older than the earliest known Egyptian fabrics with i..>> view originalFishermen Upset Over Creation of Atlantic's First Monument
Fishermen in New England say President Barack Obama needlessly dealt a big blow to their industry when he created the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument and circumvented the existing process for protecting fisheries. The new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument consists of nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the New England coast. The designation will close the area to commercial fishermen, who go there primarily for lobster, red..>> view originalThis cute, colorful dinosaur wore brilliant camouflage
A fossil of Psittacosaurus, a little dinosaur with a parrotlike beak and bristles on its tail. (Jakob Vinther/University of Bristol and Bob Nicholls) By puzzling out the colorful skin of the dinosaur Psittacosaurus, researchers have determined its likely habitat: a dense, dark forest. Psittacosaurus (which means, of all things, parrot lizard) lived in the early Cretaceous, around 120 million years ago in what is now China. At the time, many large predators — close relatives of the infamous ..>> view originalCassini begins epic final year at Saturn
Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, the planet's appearance has changed greatly. This view shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016, as that part of the planet nears its northern hemisphere summer solstice in May 2017. Credit: ...>> view originalHow SpaceX is looking past its failed rocket launch (+video)
The president of SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company, says it will aim to resume flights in November after its Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a Sept. 1 fuel test in Cape Canaveral, Fla."We're anticipating … being down for about three months, getting back to flight in the November timeframe," said Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating offer of Space X, at a satellite industry conference in Paris on Tuesday, according to Reuters.SpaceX has not said how much damage the ex..>> view originalChandra detects Pluto X-rays; Charon's red polar cap mystery solved
Chandra detects Pluto X-rays; Charon’s red polar cap mystery solved Laurel Kornfeld September 16th, 2016 The first detection of Pluto in X-rays has been made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in conjunction with observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Image Credits: X-ray – NASA/CXC/JHUAPL/R.McNutt et al.; Optical – NASA/JHUAPL Observations conducted with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory for comparison with data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft surprised scientists by discov..>> view original
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
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