‘Bad luck’ mutations increase cancer risk more than behavior, study says

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‘Bad luck’ mutations increase cancer risk more than behavior, study says

CNN
(CNN) For the first time, researchers have estimated what percentage of cancer mutations are due to environmental and lifestyle factors, hereditary factors and random chance.

Scientists get ‘hip’ to major findings and a shakeup in the dinosaur family tree (+video)

Christian Science Monitor
A newly proposed family tree aims to rewrite the history of some of the most famous dinosaurs. Monitor’s Best: Top 5. What we know about Trump team Russia links – and why that matters · Tim Allen, conservatives in Hollywood, and Nazi Germany (+video) …

A 3 billion solar mass black hole rockets out of a galaxy at 8 million kilometers per hour. Yes, seriously.

Blastr
In astronomy, you deal with a lot of ridiculously violent cosmic phenomena. Stars explode, asteroids collide, whole galaxies smash together.

The Proper Role of NASA

Slate Magazine
90638322 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket makes its first successful upright landing on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship on April 8. NASA via Getty Images.

Photo of the Week: Scientists Fire Up the World’s Largest Artificial Sun (Without Melting Earth)

WIRED
If you’ve ever used a magnifying glass to, say, fry an ant under the summer sun, you have a general idea of what the Synlight solar simulator does.

NASA finds new damage to Curiosity Rover’s wheel

Fox News
Mars is a hostile place, and as the latest images beamed back from the surface show, the Curiosity Mars rover is really starting to suffer the effects of an extended stay there.
International Business Times
April the giraffe has kept millions of people waiting for weeks to watch her give birth on live cam. As people wait for the pregnant giraffe to go into labor, the zoo that houses April released an update Thursday night on its official Facebook page to

Space Station Astronauts Are Taking a Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live

Space.com
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (center) poses with crewmates Shane Kimbrough of NASA (right) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency ahead of a Jan. 13, 2017 spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

SpaceX expands Space Coast footprint with long-term lease at Port Canaveral

SpaceFlight Insider
The Falcon 9 first stage is securely docked at Port Canaveral. Scenes like this may become commonplace as SpaceX increases their flight cadence and returns the landed boosters to their facility at Port Canaveral.

World must pull CO2 from the sky to meet Paris goals

E&E News
To hit the Paris climate change goals, the world will need to cut carbon in half again and again, according to a new study. Photo courtesy of the U.S.

Video shows rapid deterioration of Great Barrier Reef

Yahoo News
sydney, March 24 (IANS) Environmental organisation Greenpeace on Friday released a video showing the “silent and high-speed destruction” of the Great Barrier Reef, caused by coral bleaching that has occurred for two years in a row.

Sea Ice, Nature, And The Trump Budget

Huffington Post
These cuts only make sense if we don’t care about the future world we are leaving to our children. 03/23/2017 10:20 pm ET | Updated 8 hours ago.

The endangered listing for the rusty patched bumblebee is finally given wings

Washington Post
The rusty patched bumblebee’s path to the endangered list was as up and down as the way it flies. After a years-long run-up to a determination early this year that it was eligible for the list, and a month-long delay for a newly required review by the

Research shows link between temperature rise and human influence, says head of UN climate panel

UN News Centre
A girl from the Iñupiat community stands on a ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of

Massive Martian Slopes May Harbor Ice

Space.com
Certain areas on Mars in the mid-latitudes contain gullies and flow features, which may provide evidence of ice on the planet, either in the past or currently.

Why Are Martian Volcanoes So Different From Earth’s?

Forbes
Just this week, NASA announced that it had discovered one of the youngest, possibly the youngest major volcano on Mars to date. Arsia Mons – a gigantic, 110-kilometer-long (68-mile-long) caldera, which is also more than twice the height of Everest

Google Street View Cars Are Mapping Gas Leaks in US Cities

Seeker
The natural gas methane packs more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide – and it routinely leaks from aged urban pipelines.

PUFFER: An origami-inspired robot may go places rovers can’t

SpaceFlight Insider
Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) was inspired by an origami design. This little robot could be used as a scout for larger rovers, going places that would be risky or hard to reach.

Cruise Ship Grounding Damaged Five Acres of Coral

The Maritime Executive
Indonesian maritime authorities have reached an agreement with insurers on the extent of the damage from the grounding of the Caledonian Sky, a British-owned vessel that struck bottom in Raja Ampat, a group of islands and coral reefs in West Papua.

Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming! How To Prepare Yourself For The BIG ONE In 2017

YourTango
The year has only just begun and yet people across the world are already gearing up for the biggest astronomical event to take place in North America in almost forty years.

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