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 originalIt's really time to go: Alaskan village votes to relocate due to climate change
Residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, voted Wednesday to relocate its ancestral island home to safer ground, escaping eroding shores and rising seas brought on by climate change. Melting sea ice has strengthened the storms that beat along the island's shores, causing chunks to drop off into the ocean, even as the permafrost on which the community is built is rapidly disappearing.Home to about 650 Inupiat Inuit, an Alaskan native people, the village is located on a narrow island just north of the Ber..>> 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 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 originalWhat he wore: What Iceman Ötzi's fashion choices say about his life
An outfit can tell a lot about somebody – particularly if that person died 5,300 years ago.Ötzi the Iceman, a natural mummy discovered frozen in the Ötztal Alps in Italy, has offered scientists a broad variety of clues into the lives of Copper Age Europeans since its discovery a quarter century ago. And now researchers know what leathers and furs the mysterious man wore.But the investigation wasn't just to see if the famous mummy was fashion-forward. Knowing which animal skins Ötzi wore is anot..>> 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 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 original
Saturday, September 10, 2016
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