Life’s Building Blocks Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres

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Life’s Building Blocks Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres

Space.com
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has detected organic molecules in two different locations on the dwarf planet Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.

No thanks to the new science thing

The Verge
It often seems a parade of researchers are trying to foist new things I don’t want on me: a new organ, a new planet, a new dwarf planet, a new continent.

Is a scientist’s attempt to resurrect the woolly mammoth ethical?

Quartz
A few years ago, bringing back an extinct species was considered science fiction. That’s no longer the case. Developments in cloning and our ability to work with ancient DNA have made some scientists so confident that they claim to be on the brink of …

SpaceX Launching NASA Cargo from Apollo Pad Saturday: Watch It Live

Space.com
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship stand atop NASA’s Launch Pad 39A for a Feb. 18, 2017 launch. It will be SpaceX’s first launch from the historic NASA pad, which saw launches for Apollo moon missions, Skylab and the space shuttle program.

NASA Satellite Spots Mile-Long Iceberg Breaking Off of Antarctic Glacier

Live Science
A massive, 1-mile-long (1.6 kilometers) chunk of ice has broken off Antarctica’s fast-changing Pine Island Glacier, and NASA satellites captured the dramatic event as the icy surface cracked and ripped apart.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch for first time from historic Apollo-era launch site

Washington Post
CAPE CANAVERAL—For decades it has stood like a skyscraper on the Florida coast, its spire stretching more than 400-feet high. The kings and queens of the cosmos—astronauts from Apollo and the shuttle eras, including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and …

Hunt For Planet Nine: NASA Wants Your Help Finding This Mysterious Planet

Tech Times
Ever dreamed of being an astronomer? NASA wants your help finding an elusive and mysterious planet called Planet Nine, which scientists believe is located beyond Neptune.

Antarctic sea ice extent lowest on record

Phys.Org
Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on sea ice at the Brunt ice shelf. Credit: British Antarctic Survey. This year the extent of summer sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record.

MSU scientist co-authors paper on live birth in an ancient reptile

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A depiction of Dinocephalosaurus, a long-necked marine reptile dating to the Middle Triassic period. A 250-million-year-old fossil of the fish-eating reptile found in China contained an embryo in its abdomen.

Ocean oxygen levels drop 2% in 50 years, Nature study finds

CNN
(CNN) Climate change is extending far beyond the threat of melting polar ice caps — it’s putting a dangerous stranglehold on life in oceans, too.

The UAE’s ambitious plan to build a new city — on Mars

Washington Post
Over the past few decades, oil and gas revenue has helped the United Arab Emirates develop at a breakneck pace. Its glistening megacity Dubai is now home to the world’s tallest building and countless other accolades, while just last year there were new …

Facial recognition software for lemurs could help save endangered species

The Verge
A team biologists and computer scientists have created the first ever facial recognition system for lemurs, able to identify more than 100 different individuals with 98.7 percent accuracy.

Saving the Endangered Species Act From the Threatened List

Huffington Post
In the epoch of alternative facts, congressional Republicans are devout truth twisters – especially when they argue for dismantling the Endangered Species Act.

Are Aliens Real? Scientists Discover 60 New Planets Including ‘Super-Earth’ That Can Possibly Support Life

International Business Times
Mankind is one step closer to possibly discovering life outside Earth. A group of astronomers have discovered 60 new extrasolar planets near the Solar System, with some of them having the likelihood to sustain life, the Independent reported Tuesday.

Axovant Sciences Ltd. (AXON) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results

Community Financial News
Axovant Sciences logo Axovant Sciences Ltd. (NYSE:AXON) announced its earnings results on Tuesday. The company reported ($0.48) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.45) by $0.03.

Toxic pollutants persist in deepest ocean

EarthSky
Banned chemicals from the 1970s have been discovered in the bodies of crustaceans in the deepest of Earth’s ocean trenches. 0. Tweet.

Volunteers needed for Michigan’s annual toad and frog survey

UpNorthLive.com
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – State officials need volunteers to help with Michigan’s annual frog and toad survey. Populations of frogs, toads and other amphibians have been falling since the 1980s.

January 2017 Emerges As Third Hottest In 137 Years: NASA

Tech Times
In January 2017, global temperature was 32.36 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than January 2016, the hottest January on record, but it was still warmer than the mean January temperature from 1951 to 1980.

Academics, scientists, coders in mad scramble to rescue federal climate data

ExtremeTech
Politics, it would seem, has reached a flash point – such that it’s no longer sufficient to purge the staff and alter the message every time there’s a new Presidential administration.

Trump Administration Sued Over Protection for Vanishing Bumble Bee

Voice of America
An environmental group sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday for delaying a rule that would designate the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species.

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