LIVE EXPLOSION: A mountain top is about to get blown off to make way for a giant telescope
By Leslie Baehr From Business Insider PHOTO: Artist’s rendering of the future telescope which will be the ‘largest eye on the sky.’ On Thursday at 12:30 p.m. ET, the top of Cerro Armazones, a 10,000-foot mountain in northern Chile’s Atacama…
Bacterial suspects identified in Caribbean coral deaths
By Michael Marshall from New Scientist Three bacteria seem to be responsible for a disease that has killed most of the Caribbean’s reef-building corals. White band disease causes the outer layer of corals to turn white and peel off. First…
Britain’s ‘subculture’ of 15,000 vampires
By Keith Perry From The Telegraph Dr Emyr Williams, a psychology lecturer at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, said real vampires are a “global phenomenon” A psychology lecturer at a British university claims the UK has a population of some 15,000…
NASA captures crazy images of forest fire from space
Nasa Earth Observatory From Business Insider NASA Earth Observatory Spring came early to southern Alaska in 2014, bringing warm and dry weather. By the end of May, vegetation was already primed to burn. So when a fire broke out on…
BVI setting up shark sanctuary
From Caribbean Business The British Virgin Islands declared its territorial waters a sanctuary for all shark species this to help protect the marine predators whose global numbers have been dramatically dwindling. Kedrick Pickering, deputy premier and minister for natural resources,…
Amputee sea turtle gets awesome water wings, is now part fighter jet
By Andrea Romano From Mashable Glide, little sea turtle. Glide like the wind. An amputee sea turtle named Hofesh, which translates to “freedom” from Hebrew, is one lucky amphibian. The kindness and ingenuity of Israeli design student Shlomi Gez has…
This ancient sperm has been preserved for 17 million years
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE From Business Insider The world’s oldest and best-preserved sperm, dating back 17 million years, has been unearthed in Australia, scientists said Wednesday. The sperm from an ancient species of tiny shrimp was discovered at the Riversleigh…
‘Biggest dinosaur ever’ discovered
By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft)…
Caribbean clingfish: Tiny, tenacious and tentatively toxic
From Science Daily, Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Sometimes we think we know everything about something only to find out we really don’t, said a Texas A&M University scientist. Dr. Kevin Conway, assistant professor and curator of fishes with Texas…
Study lists dangerous chemicals linked to breast cancer
Relaxnews Fron Yahoo News Study lists dangerous chemicals linked to breast cancer Certain chemicals that are common in everyday life have been shown to cause breast cancer in lab rats and are likely to do the same in women, US…
