Hundreds of bizarre three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ emerge after heavy rains

[ad_1] The front view of a long-tailed tadpole shrimp, or triops longicaudatus, shows its third eye. The species is called a living fossil because it has had the same morphology for 70 million years. Getty Images Tourists walking through Wupatki National Monument, an ancestral Puebloan site in Arizona, recently came across unlikely visitors – hundreds … Read more

Strange three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp” emerge in lake formed by torrential rains in Arizona

[ad_1] Monsoon rains in northern Arizona this summer woke strange three-eyed crustaceans from decades of sleep. Hundreds of horseshoe crab-like creatures known as Triops emerged from tiny eggs and began swimming around a temporary lake formed at Wupatki National Monument, about 30 miles from Flagstaff. Triops eggs can lie dormant for years until enough precipitation … Read more

Our DNA becomes the world’s smallest hard drive

[ad_1] Researchers propose a faster method of recording data to DNA, promising in the fields of digital data storage, neural recording. Our genetic code is millions of times more efficient at storing data than existing solutions, which are expensive and use immense amounts of energy and space. In fact, we could get rid of hard … Read more

Campaigners wanted NASA to rename their new telescope for the sake of social justice. NASA succeeded – HotAir

[ad_1] In December, NASA is expected to launch the new James Webb Space Telescope into orbit on an Ariane 5 rocket. If you have even a fleeting interest in science and astronomy, you must be very excited about this development. The $ 10 billion, 14,000 pound giant should put the Hubble Telescope’s performance to shame. … Read more

Newly created hydrogel tablet can quickly purify contaminated water

[ad_1] A newly created hydrogel tablet could potentially alleviate the global water shortage by quickly purifying contaminated water. The hydrogel tablet, which acts as a water purifier, can disinfect a liter of river water and make it drinkable in an hour or less. This multifunctional hydrogel tablet is easy to use, highly effective and has … Read more

Scientist turns to AI and seeks to find masses of floating planets

[ad_1] This illustration shows a Jupiter-like planet alone in the darkness of space, floating freely without a parent star. Scientists from the CLEoPATRA mission hope to improve the mass estimates of these planets discovered thanks to the microlens. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Imagery Lab Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most … Read more