Hubble takes a nice shot of UGC 3885 | Astronomy

[ad_1] Astronomers using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy UGC 3885. This Hubble image shows UGC 3885, a spiral galaxy about 180 million light years away in the constellation Lynx. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / J. Walsh. UGC 3885 is a … Read more

48,000-year-old fossils suggest Neanderthal-human interbreeding | Anthropology, paleoanthropology

[ad_1] Several hominid teeth found at the Paleolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey may belong to Neanderthals.homo sapiens hybrids, according to new research from the Natural History Museum in London. A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum. The thirteen completely shattered permanent teeth were excavated at the Paleolithic … Read more

Earth’s last mini-moon makes one last turn before leaving us tomorrow

[ad_1] Last September, astronomers discovered 2020 SO, a small near-Earth object approaching our planet. In November, it was temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity and spent a brief stint in close orbit, becoming what is known as a “mini-moon”. But now his time with us is over and on February 2 he will break free and … Read more

Geologists Produce New Timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic Climate Change

[ad_1] A finger points to a small trilobite fossil from the Ordovician strata in Svalbard, Norway. Credit: Adam Jost The temperature of a planet is related to the diversity of life it can withstand. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of Earth’s temperature at the start of the Paleozoic, between 510 and 440 million … Read more

Your Reddit Posts Could Predict A Break Up Months In Advance

[ad_1] These two abrupt breaks seem to have nothing in common, and yet the Reddit posts from both users hinted at a breakup months in advance. The researchers took messages from over 6,800 users who had posted to the r / BreakUps subdirectory and ran them in a word processing program to analyze their language … Read more

Mysterious magnetic fossils offer clues to past climatic conditions

[ad_1] Electron microscope images of giant needles. The needles have a cylindrical shape and some tapers towards one end of the crystal. Credit: Courtney Wagner, Ioan Lascu and Kenneth Livi. There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and composed of just a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a lot about the climate … Read more

Northrop Grumman to launch next Cygnus freighter for NASA on February 20

[ad_1] Experiments with worms and artificial retinas will be shipped to space on February 20 aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, according to a NASA announcement. The freighter is scheduled to take off no earlier than 12:36 a.m. EST (1736 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, if all goes as planned. Only a … Read more