Friday, July 8, 2016

Dwarf Dinosaur Sported Lumpy Tumor on Its Face and other top stories.

  • Dwarf Dinosaur Sported Lumpy Tumor on Its Face

    Dwarf Dinosaur Sported Lumpy Tumor on Its Face
    Two Balaur bondoc predators pick a young duck-billed dinosaur out of the herd while the giant pterosaur Hatzegopteryx soars overheard. Credit: Artwork by Mihai Dumbravă During its lifetime about 69 million years ago, a duck-billed dinosaur dwarf walked around with a tumor on its lower jaw, though the unusual growth likely didn't cause any pain, a new study finds. The same type of noncancerous facial tumor is also found in some modern reptiles and mammals, including humans. But this i..
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  • New Horizons extended mission approved; Sputnik Planum nitrogen ice shows intricate patterns

    New Horizons extended mission approved; Sputnik Planum nitrogen ice shows intricate patterns
    New Horizons extended mission approved; Sputnik Planum nitrogen ice shows intricate patterns Laurel Kornfeld July 6th, 2016 Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt. Image Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/Alex Parker NASA has officially given the green light to the mission extension of their New Horizons spacecraft – a visit to the small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69, located close to a billion miles beyond Pluto...
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  • Researchers find 14-foot great white shark off Cape Cod

    Researchers find 14-foot great white shark off Cape Cod
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  • Why are these microbes playing 'Pac-Man'?

    Why are these microbes playing 'Pac-Man'?
    For a team of Norwegian researchers, a tiny labyrinth modeled on the 1980s arcade game “Pac-Man” provides the ideal environment to study a real-life cat and mouse game involving microorganisms.In a video produced by the researchers at the University College of Southeast Norway, single-celled euglena and ciliates take on the role of Pac-Man as they are chased through a liquid-filled, 3D maze by multi-celled rotifers, much like the original game’s hungry ghosts.The researchers say recreating a ti..
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  • Scientists blame ocean chain reaction for Antarctic ice spread

    Scientists blame ocean chain reaction for Antarctic ice spread
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  • New Crew Begins 2-Day Journey to Space Station Tonight: Watch Liftoff Live

    New Crew Begins 2-Day Journey to Space Station Tonight: Watch Liftoff Live
    Two new astronauts and a cosmonaut will lift off toward the International Space Station tonight (July 6), beginning a two-day journey — and you can watch it live here on Space.com. American astronaut Kate Rubins and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, both first-time fliers, and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, who flew on one previous mission, will lift off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket at 9:36 p.m. EDT (0136 on July 7 GMT), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. You can watch the..
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  • Navy grants $750000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts

    Navy grants $750000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts
    A locust with sensors implanted in its brain to decode neural activity. (Courtesy of Baranidharan Raman/Washington University in St. Louis) Locusts came to fame as agents of destruction during the eighth plague of Egypt in the Bible, but some researchers envision a new occupation for the humble insects: cyborg bomb detectors. Yes, you read that correctly. The Office of Naval Research has given Washington University in St. Louis associate biomedical engineering professor Baranidharan Raman a..
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  • Speculations high on new particle discovery with LHC

    Speculations high on new particle discovery with LHC
    Researchers at CERN are preparing to unveil the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after hiatus of three years of the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs Boson. The researchers said that the probability of finding something new is highest. Scientists have been sifting through the debris from the smash-up of two beams of protons, so as to have hint of previously undiscovered particles. Last year, scientists were able to detect more photon particles than expected. According to the..
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