[ad_1] On Monday, May 13, 2019, NASA said: "We will stay on the moon to stay" by 2024. It's an exciting announcement; returning to a place where humans have not set foot for more than 45 years. A serious goal that will test the capabilities of technology and engineering, as well as the courage of … Read more
[ad_1] The "powerful mouse", affectionately named by its researchers for its similarity to the current mouse, traveled the meadows of the present village of Willerhausen in Germany, three million years ago. As published Tuesday in Nature Communications, this incredibly well-preserved mouse fossil has a reddish brown fur on its main body and a snow-white belly. … Read more
[ad_1] Giant tiger sharks eat farmyard birds, according to a startling National Geographic study Why do so many sharks have bird feathers in the belly of the Atlantic Baby sharks eat a surprising number of land birds The Week Magazine Surprised scientists discover that baby sharks eat your favorite birds CNET Baby sharks eat the … Read more
[ad_1] Why the moon has TWO faces: Scientists now think that a dwarf planet or an ancient second moon has crushed against the dark side of the lunar surface and caused huge craters The hidden face of the Moon, full of craters, has intrigued scientists for decades The rind on the opposite side is also … Read more
[ad_1] The idea of the article was aroused by a "toy problem" that Emory mathematician Ken Ono (left) presented as a "gift" to entertain Don Zagier (right) of the book. Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Zagier. The problem of toys is visible on the whiteboard behind them. … Read more
[ad_1] Artist's impression of the mouse 3 million years old with a reddish color. Illustration: Stuart Pond and Greg Stewart / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory About 3 million years ago, a tiny mouse with a reddish fur on the back and a white belly roamed the landscape of what is today Germany. We know this … Read more
[ad_1] Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely melted iron core, our planet actually looks like a magnetic bar. It has a north and south magnetic pole, separated from the geographical poles, with a field connecting the two. This field protects our planet from … Read more
[ad_1] Planet Nine is a theoretical world hidden in the darkness of space, outside the solar system, beyond the so-called Kuiper belt – an asteroid belt beyond Neptune's orbit. Astronomers are certain that an object representing 10 times the mass of the Earth exists beyond the Kuiper Belt because of the way some asteroids seem … Read more
[ad_1] Posted on May 21, 2019 New simulations of Pluto suggest the possibility of a long-lived liquid ocean existing under the ice crust of Sputnik Planitia located near the equator and about the size of Texas. The simulations showed that without an insulating layer of gas hydrate, the groundwater would have completely froze hundreds of … Read more
[ad_1] Matt9122 / shutterstock.com By Alex FoxCan. 21, 2019, 12:00 Every fall, birdwatchers on the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico look forward to the arrival of many songbirds. They are not the only ones. New research shows that baby tiger sharks regularly eat seasonal travelers, nibbling dead or dead birds. The study dates … Read more