Doomsday Clock Stays At 3 Minutes To Midnight. The Doomsday Clock stayed fixed at three minutes to midnight — the closest it has been to midnight since 1984.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The Doomsday Clock stayed fixed at three minutes to midnight — the closest it has been to midnight since 1984. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Head transplant has been successfully done on a monkey – The Washington Star-News. Highest concentrations of Fukushima radiation in U.S. waters detected near San Francisco. Fears that ocean currents might carry Fukushima radiation across the Pacific Ocean to contaminate the coast of North America continue to be founded, even four and a half years since the onset of the disaster.
New research out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows not only that Fukushima radiation is still percolating along the U.S. West Coast, but that current levels are at the highest ever recorded. In fact, readings from waters about 1,600 miles west of San Francisco represent the highest of all, where radioactive cesium isotopes were a significant 50 percent higher than any other samples collected along the West Coast.
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Night owls and early birds have different personality traits. Whether you are an early bird or a night owl may not only determine when you prefer to sleep -- it can also affect your personality and quality of life.
And it looks like night owls may have it tougher when it comes to their overall well-being and functioning in a predominantly 9-to-5 world. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Barcelona, Spain, compared "morning people," those early birds who like to get up at dawn, and "evening people," night owls who prefer to stay up late and sleep in. Quora. Quora. Uk.businessinsider. Keep your eyes peeled tonight for some spectacular fireballs lighting up the sky, like this one caught on camera in Thailand on November 2: Fireballs are extremely bright meteors, and right now Earth is in the midst of the Tuarid meteor shower, which is peaking on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 11.
"The best time to view the Taurids is from midnight to 3 am local time," NASA wrote in a Reddit AMA. "There should be a handful per hour. Quora. Astronomers begin building super telescope to see dawn of the Universe. The biggest and baddest telescope in the world stands atop a volcanic peak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
The Grand Canary Telescope, with a diameter of 10.4 meters, is the largest single-aperture optical telescope humans have ever built. Nevertheless, it’s not that exceptional—there are a dozen telescopes scattered around the world nearly as large. Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object So Far In The Solar System. Itoggle caption ESO/L.
Calçada ESO/L. Vinay Kumar's answer to Where did the gold on Earth come from? Stem-cell scientists redefine how blood is made, toppling conventional 'textbook' view from 1960s. Stem-cell scientists led by Dr.
John Dick have discovered a completely new view of how human blood is made, upending conventional dogma from the 1960s. The findings, published online in the journal Science, prove "that the whole classic 'textbook' view we thought we knew doesn't actually even exist," says principal investigator John Dick, Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network (UHN), and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto. Quora. The Real Story of The Secret Space Station. Lilia Aucapina was a beloved face on the East End, a devoted mom and active in community service.
And then she vanished without a trace. From the outside, Lilia Aucapina had it all. Two months before she vanished, the Hamptons house cleaner and her 14-year-old daughter cooked for pediatric cancer patients. Friends said the mother devoted her life to helping others and taught her kids to do the same. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Pearltree001 added: uk.businessinsider. Uk.businessinsider. Flickr/MichelSoucyMichel Soucy caught this coywolf image on a drive through the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Humans are not newcomers when it comes to messing around with nature. While we haven't created Frankenstein's monster yet, what we do transforms the natural world. One recent example is the creation of the coywolf — a hybrid of the coyote and the wolf that is also known as the Eastern coyote. According to a new article from The Economist, their population seems to have reached more than a million. These animals have a completely new genetic makeup: Their genes are about one-quarter wolf DNA and two-thirds coyote DNA; the rest is from domesticated dogs. Human activity likely played a role in the species' creation. Scientists think this intermixing began with wild wolves in southern Ontario about a century or two ago.
Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and skin tightens linkages between dinosaurs and birds. An undergraduate University of Alberta paleontology student has discovered an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue.
