Scientists Discover Prehistoric Giant Otter Species In China

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Scientists Discover Prehistoric Giant Otter Species In China

NPR
Six million years ago, giant otters weighing more than 100 pounds lived among birds and water lilies in the wooded wetlands of China’s Yunnan province.

Satellite’s 1st Views of Earth (and Moon) Are Jaw-Dropping

Space.com
A new weather-tracking satellite has beamed back its first images of Earth from orbit, and the view is absolutely beautiful! The new satellite, called GOES-16, is the first of four cutting-edge weather satellites – collectively known as GOES-R – to

Earth Still Being Hit By Meteorites That Formed In An Outer Space Collision 466 Million Years Ago

International Business Times
The planet we live on today has been shaped and molded by collisions – both large and small. Although it’s next to impossible to determine the exact number, some estimates suggest that up to 84,000 celestial objects weighing more than 10 grams (0.35 …

NASA to Webcast Funeral for Eugene Cernan, Last Man on the Moon

Space.com
Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan, known as “the last man on the moon,” died Jan. 16 at age 82. Credit: Mark Craig/Last Man on the Moon.

Famed snake trackers from India are latest weapon in Florida war on pythons

Miami Herald
What Judas snakes, snake-sniffing dogs and even hunters from around the globe have struggled to accomplish may finally be pulled off by a pair of singing snake catchers from India: solving the riddle for finding Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades.

Fake news’ power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning, study finds

TechCrunch
Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread of misinformation online – involving the use of pro-active warnings designed to …

Biologists breed life form with lab-made DNA. Don’t call it ‘Jurassic Park’.

Washington Post
For billions of years, life has danced that same old DNA jig. At some point after Earth’s formation, but before bacterial slime formed the planet’s oldest fossils 3.7 billion years ago, DNA became the system by which virtually every organism stored and

New Horizons to continue mission of discovery with Kuiper Belt encounter News

Spaceflight Now
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI/Alex Parker.

Actually, That Is A Moon: NASA Releases New Image Of Saturn’s ‘Death Star’

Huffington Post
NASA says it resembles an eyeball. But it’s hard to look at Tethys, one of the moons of Saturn, and not see the Death Star, especially in the image just released by the space agency: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Strangers in Their Own Land: The ‘Deep Story’ of Trump Supporters

NPR
Researchers have long been confused by what seems like a paradox: many people in America vote against their economic self-interests.

SpaceX won’t attempt a landing after its next launch

The Verge
Over the past year, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 missions have become major online spectacles, mostly because each launch has been followed by an attempt to land the rocket after takeoff.

Camera able to capture imagery of an optical Mach cone

Phys.Org
A graphic depicting the capture of a superluminal photonic Mach cone using loss-less encoding compressed ultrafast photography. Credit: Jinyang Liang and Lihong V. Wang.

Japan puts its first military communications satellite into orbit H-2A

Spaceflight Now
The H-2A rocket’s four solid rocket boosters and LE-7A main engine are seen firing seconds after liftoff Tuesday. The rocket flew in the rarely-used most powerful “204” configuration designed to loft heavier cargo.

ESA to livestream primary school students talk with ISS astronaut

Siliconrepublic.com
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet prior to his spacewalk aboard the ISS on 11 January 2017. Image: ESA/NASA. Share on Facebook · Tweet about this on Twitter · Share on LinkedIn · Share on Google+ · Pin on Pinterest · Share on Reddit · Email this to …

How did galaxies like ours form? Elusive galaxy gangs hold clues.

Christian Science Monitor
Astronomers have finally spotted elusive groups of dwarf galaxies that could help inform researchers’ models of the universe. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. Trump’s inauguration speech: tough and strikingly different (+video) · Trump’s slow start: Is that a

Moon Beer? Brewing Experiment Short-Listed for Indian Lunar Lander

Space.com
A team of University of California San Diego (UCSD) engineering students is in a ferment, all hopped up to see if beer can be brewed on the moon.

Trump’s Speech Suggests This Is What He Talked To Elon Musk About

Daily Caller
President Donald Trump celebrates after his speech during the Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.

Stock’s Earning Overview: Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD)

News Oracle
Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) will report its next earnings on 7-Feb-17. The company reported the earnings of $2.75/Share in the last quarter where the estimated EPS by analysts was $2.86/share.

Appeals court to decide future of California carbon auctions

Washington Post
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Businesses looking to invalidate California’s fee for carbon pollution take their arguments to a state appeals court Tuesday in a case that could determine the future of one of California’s signature efforts to combat climate change.

Microbes Can Survive On Mars, Claim Scientists

Tech Times
Researchers from the University of Arkansas have conducted a year-long experiment and claim that microbes can survive on Mars. Per the study, microbes i.e.

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