Japan Fails Bid To Launch Satellite-Carrying Mini-Rocket Shortly After Liftoff

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Japan Fails Bid To Launch Satellite-Carrying Mini-Rocket Shortly After Liftoff

Tech Times
The SS-520 rocket stopped transmitting signals to the operations center just 20 seconds post-liftoff. It came into being as a likely transporter of mini-satellites, which enjoys growing interest in the space industry.

The DB Cooper case baffled investigators for decades. Now, scientists have a new theory.

Washington Post  
It was “one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations” in FBI history – and to this day remains the only unsolved skyjacking in the United States.

An Ice Shelf Is Cracking In Antarctica, But Not For The Reason You Think

NPR
A group of scientists is gathering today in the U.K. to discuss a slab of ice that’s cracking in Antarctica. The crack could soon split off a frozen chunk the size of Delaware.

NASA’s New App is The Sims in Space, With Plants

Gizmodo
As a life-long, avid Sims player, I was pretty excited to hear about NASA Science Investigations: Plant Growth. Released last month, the educational app lets you zoom around the International Space Station (ISS), complete various astronaut tasks, and

SpaceX Falcon 9 comes roaring back to life with dramatically successful Iridium fleet launch and ocean ship landing

Phys.Org
SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage successfully soft lands on drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean off California coast after launching on Jan. 14, 2017, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to

If Big Oil Drowns Trump, Green Energy Could Cast Him A Lifeline

Forbes
In this Jan. 13, 2017, photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Trump’s meetings this week with CEOs seeking federal approval for major mergers are raising red flags for ethics lawyers concerned …

Menopause evolved to stop females becoming a sexual threat

Daily Mail
Although there are 1.5 million species of animal on our planet, only three are known to go through the menopause – humans, pilot whales and killer whales.

Prince Charles co-authors Ladybird climate change book

BBC News
Prince Charles has co-authored a Ladybird book on the challenges and possible solutions to climate change. It is part of a series for adults written in the style of the well-known children’s books that aims to clearly explain complicated subjects.

Moon Express Gets One Step Closer To Mining The Moon With Enough Fund For First Lunar Trip

Tech Times
Officials of Moon Express say they now have enough money to fund their first trip to the moon. The company aims to land on the lunar surface and eventually mine resources on there.

Beijing’s smog: A tale of two cities

CNN
Beijing (CNN) The first thing Jiang Wang does when she wakes up in the morning is check on her daughter to make sure she’s breathing clean air.

Scientists Activate Predatory Instinct in Mice

The Scientist
A new study reveals how the amygdala is involved in controlling predatory behavior in mice. By Diana Kwon | January 16, 2017. IVAN DE ARAUJONeural circuits in the amygdala are responsible for predatory behavior in mice, according to a study published …

Mysterious seadragon finally spotted alive – and caught on video

Christian Science Monitor
Scientists discovered a new species, but had never actually seen the animal alive. Now they have, and it’s full of surprises. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. Focus Terror and the Mexico border: How big a threat?

Star’s luminosity change could be result of devouring a planet

The Space Reporter
Luminosity changes in the star whose strange dimming prompted speculation that it might be surrounded by an “alien megastructure” may be the result of the star’s having devoured a planet sometime during the last 10,000 years.

Model shows that multiple impacts could have produced our Moon

Ars Technica UK
A new paper in the journal Nature challenges the leading explanation for the Moon’s formation. The predominant idea is that the Moon was created after a planetary body roughly the size of Mars collided with the early Earth.

Scientists Made The Tightest Molecular Knot Ever

Latin Post
To create more strength, material scientists always knot atoms in a tightly complex structure. More tight atomic knots means more physically strength material.

Rusty Patched Bumblebee to be Listed as Endangered

PCT Magazine
… ?The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it has listed the rusty patched bumble bee as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Trump appointees on climate change: Not a hoax, but not a big deal either

Washington Post
As we watch President-elect Donald Trump’s national security appointees seek Senate confirmation this week, a hint of a pattern seems to be emerging in how some of them discuss the global environment and its leading problem, the unambiguous warming …

The 600000 Shares of Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS) Stock are sold by Kevin T. Conroy

DailyQuint
Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ:EXAS) insider Kevin T. Conroy sold 600,000 shares of Exact Sciences Corp. stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 15th.

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