How to track poverty from space
You can get a pretty good idea of a country’s wealth by seeing how much it shines at night — just compare the intense brightness of China and South Korea to the dark mass of North Korea that’s sandwiched between them.But nighttime lights don’t tell you which neighborhoods or villages within a large region are merely poor and which are home to people living in abject poverty. That’s the level of detail policymakers need when they decide where to deploy their economic development programs. You co..>> view originalSomeone filmed a fake human sacrifice at CERN laboratory
Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have launched an internal investigation after someone filmed a fake human sacrifice ritual at its Geneva headquarters, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the video, posted online this week, a group of people wearing dark robes stand in front of a Hindu statue before "stabbing" a woman, purportedly as some sort of ritual. It was filmed from afar, and the person who shot it pretended to freak out and ran away after the st..>> view originalAstronauts Taking Spacewalk to Install New Space Station Docking Port Today: Watch Live
First-time flier Kate Rubins and veteran spacewalker Jeff Williams will venture outside the International Space Station this morning (Aug. 19) to install a massive, crucial piece of machinery: a vital new docking port that will allow private space taxis to link up with the station on future missions. The spacewalk is slated to begin at 8:05 a.m. EDT (1205 GMT), NASA officials said during a news briefing. You can watch the spacewalk live here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. This s..>> view originalThreatened By Rising Seas, Alaska Village Decides To Relocate
An abandoned house at the west end of Shishmaref, Alaska, sits on the beach after sliding off during a fall storm in 2005. Diana Haecker/AP hide caption toggle caption Diana Haecker/AP An abandoned house at the west end of Shishmaref, Alaska, sits on the beach after sliding off during a fall storm in 2005. Diana Haecker/AP ..>> view originalWhoa! Let's slow down talk of a fifth fundamental force of nature
What holds together the cosmos... and us too? We might not have the whole picture. ESA/Hubble & NASA This week in science and physics nerd circles, facial muscles have been at an increased risk for sprains. That's thanks to the eyebrow-raising over headlines declaring scientists have "confirmed the possibility" a fifth fundamental force of nature exists. If true, it would require rewriting an awful lot of textboo..>> view originalHow Otzi the Iceman outfitted himself: Fur from brown bears and leather from roe deer
What does the 5,300-year-old man wear?Brown bear hats, goat leather leggings, roe deer quivers and striped jackets made from an assortment of sheep hides, according to a study published Wednesday in Scientific Reports. The new work presents the most detailed analysis yet of the many garments of Ötzi the Iceman, who was 45 years old when he died of an arrow wound in the Italian Alps more than 5,000 years ago.Ötzi got his nickname because he was discovered in the Ötztal Alps. He is the oldest kn..>> view original'Neighborhood watch' satellites headed to space
James Dean, Florida Today 6:40 a.m. EDT August 19, 20162016 ROCKET LAUNCHES FROM CAPE CANAVERALEarly morning Delta IV rocket launch | 1:16United Launch Alliance launched a Delta IV rocket at 12:52 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ULA video. Posted Aug. 19, 2016 1 of 132016 ROCKET LAUNCHES FROM CAPE CANAVERALEarly morning SpaceX rocket launch, landing | 1:25SpaceX launched JCSAT-16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and landed the fir..>> view originalRare T-Rex skull lands at Seattle museum
SEATTLE -- Paleontologists with Seattle’s Burke Museum have unearthed the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex that lived more than 66 million years ago, including a rare nearly complete 4-foot long skull.The remarkable discovery includes the dinosaur’s vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones, and represents about 20 percent of the meat-eating predator.Several dozen scientists, volunteers, students and others worked over the summer to excavate the bones in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, a site ..>> view originalWhat we can learn from watching video of coral lose its color
Scientists have long warned of coral bleaching events, but few knew the phenomenon could be so violent.Last week, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology described the first-ever video of coral bleaching in the journal Coral Reefs. They found that under simulated warming conditions, solitary mushroom coral called Heliofungia actiniformis will swell and squeeze, dramatically expelling their algal tenants. The eight-day time-lapse video, which is making the rounds on the internet..>> view original
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