Cheetahs in Danger of Extinction, Researchers Say
Photo A cheetah cub with its mother in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Researchers called for the International Union for Conservation of Nature to change the cheetah’s status from vulnerable to endangered. Credit Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency The cheetah, as swift as it is in the hunt, will not be able to outrun the threats to its survival without new conservation efforts, according to an international team of researchers who reported their finding..>> view original'New Year's Eve Comet' and More: Three Flybys Will Kick Off 2017 New Year
NASA's NEOWISE mission has detected one definite comet that will pass by Earth in the first week of 2017, as well as a second celestial object, which could be either a comet or an asteroid, that will also fly by. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The "New Year's Eve Comet" that's been streaking across the sky this December isn't the only otherworldly visitor ringing in the new year in Earth's neighborhood. Wednesday (Dec. 28), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tweeted a video about Comet 45P/Ho..>> view originalSeven science stories we can't wait to follow in 2017
Science never ceases to surprise us. In a year jampacked with discoveries, some of the biggest revelations of 2016 seemed to come from out of the blue.Just a few weeks in, the astronomer responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet said there is a ninth planet in the solar system after all — an object about 10 times as massive as Earth that takes up to 20,000 years to orbit the sun. Soon after, cosmologists announced that their decades-long search for gravity waves had finally paid off, al..>> view originalVera Rubin, Who Did Pioneering Work on Dark Matter, Dies - Sci
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If the sparkle from the Times Square ball dropping on New Year’s Eve wasn’t enough, then celebrators can look forward to a comet lighting up the sky Saturday night, too. Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova will be visible near the moon as people ring in the new year.“Say farewell to 2016 in a cosmic style by looking up to see the #NewYearsEve #comet on December 31,” the laboratory said in an Instagram post Wednesday.NASA said the comet, which infiltrates Earth’s..>> view originalSpaceX: A Year Of Highs And Lows
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) celebrated the anniversary of Falcon 9's successful launch and upright landing in Cape Canaveral on Dec. 21but, just as the history-making machine seemed ready to make more history, 2016 reminded it that success comes from learning from failures all throughout the year. Take a look back at SpaceX's rocky 2016 after its historical upright landing of Falcon 9. First Quarter Elon Musk announced on his Twitter account that the Falcon 9 has been inspected is r..>> view originalWhen Bats Squeak, They Tend To Squabble
An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007. Alex Mita/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Mita/AFP/Getty Images An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007. Alex Mita/AFP/Getty Image..>> view originalScientists Stumped By Thousands Of Dead Fish Off Nova Scotia
Weeks of tests have failed to find the cause of the mysterious mass die-off of thousands of fish washing up on the southwestern shores of Nova Scotia. Besides a tsunami of dead and dying herring, creatures that have washed ashore include lobsters, starfish, scallops, crabs, clams and apparently a humpback whale, Canadian TV reported. The number of species impacted has gradually increased over the month, and up to 20,000 animals have turned up dead. Though tests haven’t found any known toxin or..>> view originalWhat Does 2017 Hold for Climate Change Policy?
President-Elect Donald Trump has said that "nobody really knows" if climate change is real. His nominee for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a noted climate skeptic. And his transition team has created a questionnaire for the Energy Department asking which employees have taken part in international climate negotiations and which programs are crucial for meeting President Barack Obama's climate goals. Given this drumbeat of news, climate scientists are worried. They're bl..>> view original2016 Will Be Longer Than Usual, Thanks to a Leap Second
For people who can't wait for this year to end, here is the science behind the Earth's leap second. By The Conversation | Contributor Dec. 30, 2016, at 12:29 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Wait a Moment, 2016 Will Be a Second ...>> view original
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