Iceberg Size Of Delaware Poised To Break Off From Antarctica

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Iceberg Size Of Delaware Poised To Break Off From Antarctica

NBCNews.com
An oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica, on Nov. 10, 2016. NASA/JOHN SONNTAG HANDOUT / EPA.

Newfound Source of Mysterious Cosmic Bursts Poses Deeper Enigmas

Scientific American
This composite visible-light image from Gemini Observatory reveals a faint, faraway dwarf galaxy thought to be the source of the fast radio burst 121102.

Zombies Would Wipe Out Humans in Less than 100 Days

Live Science
A mathematical model, done tongue-in-cheek, reveals zombies, if left unchecked, could wipe out humanity within 100 days. Credit: solarseven, Shutterstock.

Atlantic Ocean circulation could collapse with climate change influence, study says

CBC.ca
New research from scientists suggests that, as a result of climate change, Atlantic Ocean currents may not be as stable as current climate models suggest and could collapse in 300 years.

What really happened during the supposed climate change ‘hiatus’?

Christian Science Monitor
Researchers have independently replicated NOAA’s recalibration of sea surface temperature data to uncover what really happened from 1998 to 2012.

Fossil fruit from 52 million years ago revealed

BBC News
A fossilised fruit dating back 52 million years has been discovered in South America. The ancient berry belongs to a family of plants that includes popular foods such as potatoes, tomatoes and peppers.

Stop making our children sick: Beijing parents force government action over smog

Washington Post
Even in an authoritarian one-party state, the government listens to public opinion – especially when the middle class gets angry. And make no mistake, many middle-class Beijingers are mad.

Deepest-Ever X-Ray Image of Space Captures Countless Black Holes

Space.com
This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Space Station Astronauts Taking Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live

Space.com
NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station during the STS-126 space shuttle mission in 2008.

VIDEO: NASA Moon Data Provides More Accurate Path For Total Solar Eclipse In Late August

SpaceCoastDaily.com
ABOVE VIDEO: When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon’s shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new and more accurate representation of the …

EVA-38: Spacewalkers begin process of upgrading ISS batteries

NASASpaceflight.com
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are conducting the first spacewalk of a long-planned process to upgrade the power storage batteries outside the station.

SpaceX Jan. 8 Rocket Launch Puts Iridium’s Future Up in the Air

Bloomberg
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is set to launch 10 Iridium communications satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, possibly as soon as Sunday, marking the company’s return to flight after its Falcon 9 rocket blew up on

Lending a fin: How US Navy dolphins are helping save endangered vaquitas

Christian Science Monitor
There might be less than three dozen vaquitas in existence. US Navy-trained dolphins could help find them in order to help protect their endangered population.

See Weird Metal Asteroid Psyche in Slooh Webcast Today

Space.com
You can see and learn about the huge, bizarre metallic asteroid 16 Psyche – the target of a newly announced NASA space mission – during a free webcast by the Slooh Community Observatory Friday evening (Jan. 6).

Comet watch: Look for the first comet of 2017 this week

Yahoo News
January 4, 2017 —Stargazers who missed the New Year’s Eve comet will have two more chances in the coming weeks to watch orbs streak across the sky, according to a statement NASA issued last week.

Climate Change This Week: Nuclear Climate Change Threat, Solar Pathways, and More!

Live Science  – ‎2 hours ago‎
And the chances of Donald Trump’s family and fortune surviving climate change are small, dwindling daily and irreversibly. 2017-01-05-1483658378-3612407-physicsdoesntcare2016mehccr362.

It’s time to get beyond low earth orbit

Boing Boing
Whenever a new presidential administration takes office, there’s a surge of gossip in the space exploration community about what the new president’s ambitions will mean for NASA.

99% of coral reefs to be impacted by climate change, study says

Sacramento Bee
Climate change is having a damaging and long-lasting impact on the health of the ocean’s coral reefs, a new study has found. By the end of the century, 99 percent of coral reefs will be impacted each year by bleaching, a process in which reefs lose

The mesentery: A ‘new’ organ you didn’t know you had

FOX 61
In case you’ve ever wondered what connects your intestine to your abdomen, there’s a word – and now, a single organ – for that: the mesentery.

Alarming ‘doom spiral’ reveals the drop in global sea ice levels were in 2016

Daily Mail
Global sea ice levels are decreasing almost every day, but it can be difficult to visualise the extent of the melting. Now a new alarming ‘doom spiral’ animation puts the damage done last year into perspective.

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