if some local places put horse meat in their burgers. to mars or bust! It isn't people it isn't deadly so dark beef can be on the menu.
#Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970sroscosmos the Russian Federal Space agency will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015 according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin.
The rocket carrying the robotic probe called Luna-Glob will be the first set off from Russia's new Far east launchpad the Vostochny cosmodrome.
Luna-Glob the first of four planned Russian moon missions will carry scientific equipment to take soil samples
It will be the first Russian trip to the moon since the 1970s. Roscosmos'latest moon exploration project has been postponed several times
since 2010 and will be its first mission after 2011's Phobos-Grunt failure. The probe set to collect samples from the Martian moon Phobos unsuccessfully aimed its course for Mars
and crashed into the Pacific ocean after two months in Earth's orbit. Luna-Glob and its successors are part of a larger plan to revamp development of Russia's space industry.
Plans are also in development to send a manned spacecraft to the moon in 2018.
Washington post I like the moon. I hope we humans and robots settle there. Besides it will give the humans a place to stay after the robots take over the Earth.
When I read the title I thought they were doing a manned mission. It would be good to see people leave the confines of low orbit for the first time in 50 years.
Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation
and launch facilities on the moon. This is what robots should be doing there about now.
The Chinese have aspirations for putting a man on the moon and maybe Putin feels the Russians could make a profit selling a lunar space system to the Chinese.
Well think if we improve our ability to send larger and larger payloads to the moon then we could use it for useful things.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources.
On the moon you have 14 of our days of sunlight and then 14 of our days of dark.
On the moon the sunlight is moderated not by an atmosphere. Agreed d
#A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough.
Our planet cannot sustain such waste. This is totally unnecessary! There are surgical methods that are permanent
-or no-carbon economic development projects such as expanding their energy generation capacity with renewables like sun and wind instead of fossil fuels.
Universe has the same name: sila. It says a lot about our holistic understanding of our environment Hammond says.
Our basic understanding of the universe is changing. Science and our traditional knowledge must go hand in hand for us to go on she says.
He goes on Business cannot succeed on a planet that fails...We need an international carbon price. 10:32 a m.:
#How The World Wastes Food Infographic Every year the planet loses nearly a third of its food staggering 1. 4 billion tons.
The planet may have feed to a global population of 10 billion people by 2050. With that milestone looming organizations like the U n. the Natural resources Defense Council
#Abrasive Organic Herbicide Method Blasts Weeds To Deathone U s. Department of agriculture researcher is experimenting with a sandblasting-style method of killing weeds that could be certified organic Minneapolis'Star Tribune reports.
and pepper plants the Star Tribune reports. Propelled Abrasive Grit Management needs more research before it's ready for commercial farms Forcella
Avocados tomatoes and peppers grown in sunny California have been getting a bit too much sun and not enough rain recently creating shortages of these delicious veggies
The fog clouds and hot sun follow each other in quick succession. The heavy rainfall insures permanent stagnant water where the larvae of the yellow fever
The condition called alpha-gal allergy is caused by the bite of a Lone Star tick species traditionally found mostly in the Southern United states
The connection between Lone Star ticks and meat allergies in America first came to light in 2008.
They discovered that the Ige antibodies in their patients blood samples binded to the Lone Star tick extract;
if all Lone Star ticks carry some factor that causes the condition or if only some do (as is the case with Lyme disease
and the birds may have carried the Lone Star tick with them. A rising deer population may also explain the tick s spread as they are also big carriers of the parasites.
but as the Lone Star tick geographical distribution increases I think it s going to be a regional epidemic in many areas.
However there is a spot of good news for those who fall prey to the Lone Star tick s bite.
since in the limited space only cooperative behavior would allow most plants to thrive. The greenhouse at the center of Viridis appears to be real to judge from photos online (scroll down past the informations) and in its press packet--admittedly slim evidence of existence.
According to Stuart Sumida a biologist at California State university at San bernardino who served as a consultant on Guardians of the Galaxy an alien advanced enough to master space travel would need to have a large brain.
Most of the critters on our planet have six. Natural selection could produce aliens with a more efficient physiological layout:
and tools while on the move an extraterrestrial might have speed more and stability on four or more lower limbs.
Although the swashbuckling sci-fi flick is part of Marvel s combined cinematic universe (along with The Avengers) most of its larger-than-life characters aren t superhumans but humanoid aliens.
H g wells 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon features the dwarfish insectoid Selenites who wear clothes use tools
The sweltering mosquito-assaulted set of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a minor marvel of engineering a three-story habitat with interlacing tree trunks recessed rooms
Until that is you notice the dozens of motion-capture cameras dotting the structure and the guys in gray full-body suits broiling in the merciless sun and steamy humidity.
While Rise of the Planet of the Apes (released in 2011) relied on stunt people the sequel to the sci-fi reboot has cast Cirque du Soleil performers.
From a VFX standpoint Dawn of the Planet of the Apes isn t a single leap of faith but a series of them.
For Dawn VFX supervisor Joe Letteri decided to gather data on an outdoor set by surrounding the actors with constellations of small motion-capture cameras.
The filmmakers of Jupiter Ascending augmented human characters with animal genes to make them more physically imposing.
or amphibian cells weren t an ethical black hole (and it absolutely is) the brute-force approach could easily backfire:
Inspired by Jupiter Ascendingthe Plot: The universe is filled with human-animal hybrids and ruled by an intergalactic monarchy (news to Earthlings.
When an unassuming janitor is targeted for assassination a part-human part-canine mercenary comes to her rescue.
The most technically challenging scene in Jupiter Ascending shows the movie s hero (Channing Tatum) zipping through the city in antigravity boots fleeing a spaceship in pursuit of his cargo (Mila Kunis.
If the common cold can repel Martian occupiers in The War of the Worlds why not hurl even more virulent weapon ized bugs at the enemy?
If we assume that life evolved similarly in other parts of the universe wherever these creatures came from our tools may work similarly on them he says.
I could pack into a small space and I did the camping routine because it was the only way
And when the sun comes out it is pleasant to lie on your belly in the meadow to refresh your memory of grass and of the tiny flowers that bloom in microscopia.
#John Steinbeck's 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceansthree years before the first humans landed on the moon Nobel-prize winning author John Steinbeck published a passionate plea in Popular Science for equal
efforts to explore inner space. In an open letter to editor-in-chief Ernest Heyn Steinbeck argued that the investigation of Earth's oceans was critical to the success of humanity
and deserved the same funding and organization as space exploration. You can read this letter as it originally appeared in the September 1966 issue of Popular Science.
or a hundred of the same is too high a price for a round-trip ticket to the moon.
I set my clock for two a m. recently to watch a crazy scarecrow-like structure settle gently on the moon a job of such intricacy as to stagger the imagination.
The budget for getting two Americans on the moon is $21 billion and it will necessarily come to much more.
If you ask an American why we want to get to the moon he will usually say To get there before the Russians
But while the lifeless rubbled surface of the inconstant moon becomes increasingly littered with the burnt-out bones of vehicles the bathyscaphe has visited the deep and unknown places of the earth only a few times.
There is never much argument about appropriations for space shots but a recent request for money to explore map
Two men with their pockets full of moon rocks will not solve the situation. On the other hand the planning computing minds which so gently laid that crazy-looking scarecrow on the moon could easily design the means not only for exploring our watery world
but for placing whole producing cities on the sea bottom. If our inventive minds were given the money
Surely all this should have at least equal backing with space. Yoursjohn Steinbeck h
#The Disquieting Delights Of Salt-Rising Breadas befits a nasty pathogen Clostridium perfringens grows aggressively. Its cells can divide every ten minutes a handful turning into trillions of hydrogen makers overnight.
High-tech Lettucein an empty space in its former factory in Fukushima Prefecture Japan electronics-maker Fujitsu is now developing an unusual product:
What Would People Eat in A Permanent Space Colony? Once settled on another planet colonists would likely start with hydroponic farming using small-stature
or dwarf cultivars that can be packed tightly together. It would make the most sense to plant fast-cycle salad crops first says Jean Hunter a professor at Cornell who studies food-processing and waste-management systems for long-term living away
Space scientists would need to figure out how to make foods that can last for four or five years inside sealed pouches.
At the NASA-funded Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation which ended last August Hunter
At fault was a fungus that continues its march around the planet. In recent years it has spread across Asia and Australia devastating plants there that bear the signature yellow supermarket fruit.
A Prettier Greenhouse For Growing Veggies In Spacethe latest design for growing vegetables in space is a bit prettier than its predecessors.
This new growing unit will be the largest ever put into space so astronauts can try growing more and larger vegetables.
Demographers predict that the planet s urban citizenry will double in 36 years increasing the demand for ever-taller structures in ever-denser cities.
Our industry leads all others in terms of its impact on the planet and human health Waugh says.
The boards are cut to custom specification incorporating spaces for windows and utilities using 3-D files sent by the architects
A globe stretching to the furthest fixed star would very soon be covered. I cannot even grapple with the idea even with races of dogs cattle pigeons or fowls;
#Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announcepotluck time! Russian scientists have verified that several plants grown aboard the International Space station are safe to eat Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports.
The space-grown edibles include peas dwarf wheat and Japanese leafy greens. They look great
and has worked on studies of food grown in space. Space crop programs aim to learn
if people would be able to grow some of their own food for longer stays in space.
Space agencies hope the fresh vegetables will feed not only astronauts'bodies but their spirits as well. Caring for a plant every day provides vital psychological relief giving astronauts a small remembrance of Earth NASA project scientist Howard Levine told Modern Farmer in a 2013 feature about space veggies.
Produce in the International Space station grow in a greenhouse named Lada after the Russian goddess of spring.
and bell peppers none of which have been grown in space before. Rice has a special advantage: Its genome has been sequenced fully so scientists will be able to compare space rice with Earth rice to see
if space affects which genes the staple expresses RIA Novosti reports. Updated February 3: Added comments from Bruce Bugbee c
Fifteen years ago the flies looked like little fuzzy UFOS he says. Now the biologists use cameras that can run at 7500 frames per second significantly higher than what was once available to researchers and that work in infrared light.
Recently satellite companies and engineers from Google have provided Academy researchers with high-resolution satellite images of some of the least explored areas of Madagascar.
The researchers based their analysis on a satellite-derived map of current carbon being stored in vegetation.
Stacy Jupiter of the Wildlife Conservation Society; and Matthew Watts and Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland.
We're pleased that the results of our study confirm that the forests that the committee was considering for protection can offer significant downstream benefits to coral reefs said Dr. Stacy Jupiter Fiji Country Program Director
Robert J. Moon a researcher from the U s. Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory; and Zavattieri.
which they were extracted Moon said. They have the potential to be processed at industrial-scale quantities
so we could just add another process to use the leftover cellulose to make a composite material Moon said.
so that it behaves differently with its environment Moon said. Zavattieri plans to extend his research to study the properties of alpha-chitin a material from the shells of organisms including lobsters crabs mollusks and insects.
when the highly flammable vapors rise into confined spaces where they can accumulate. He said flux chambers have been used to measure methane in such spaces
but they don't account for building effects like typically lower interior pressure that would draw vapors in through cracked foundations.
Continuing increases in population and radical reductions in household size put more and more pressure on space.
This would enable the native forest to be introduced within a short space of time. Story Source:
but it's actually quite dramatic compared to other areas of the planet explained Terry Wilson professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.
Wilson said that such extreme differences in mantle properties are seen not elsewhere on the planet where glacial rebound is occurring.
whether soot emitted by human activities in central and southern Europe plays a role--perhaps by darkening the surface of the glacier absorbing the sun's heat and melting ice.
Within the first results of the Project are that in Mexico city's conservation floor the oyamel harness the sun more efficiently in its leafs
Graphene-based electronics promise advances such as faster internet speeds cheaper solar cells novel sensors space suits spun from graphene yarn and more.
if trees are left standing in some regions according to a Dartmouth College study that for the first time puts a dollar value on snow's ability to reflect the sun's energy.
or deforestation may better serve our planet and pocketbooks in high latitude areas where snowfall is common
So it's a great resource for understanding insect evolutionary history and the distribution of insects across the planet in the past.
more detailed forecasting of Europe's climatethe new simulations confirm the projections published last September 3 for the whole planet while providing a far more accurate picture for Europe.
and carry out a simulation exercise of past and future climate covering the entire planet: CMIP5.
Moreover if culling increases movement due to freeing up space or disturbance-mediated dispersal culling could perversely have the opposite of the intended effect on rabies transmission.
Find a comfy space where you can talk to others at the party. The focus of the holiday is family faith and friendship.
and forest lossthe most detailed range-wide assessment of the bonobo (formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee) ever conducted has revealed that this poorly known and endangered great ape is quickly losing space in a world with growing human populations.
This is the first sequenced genome of arbuscular mycorrhizae the type that is dominant on the planet said Igor Grigoriev one of the senior authors on the paper and lead for the Fungal Genomics Program at the DOE JGI.
Laid out on the same design as those above it the timber structure contains an open space in the center that links to the nativity story of The buddha himself.
Coningham and his colleagues postulate that the open space in the center of the most ancient timber shrine may have accommodated a tree.
Brick temples built later above the timber shrine also were arranged around the central space which was unroofed.
and exhibited extensive collinearity across the gene space species-specific genes involved in stress tolerance such as ion transport ATPASE activity transcript factor activity
The study was supported by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs with additional support from the Oregon National aeronautics and space administration (NASA) Space Grant Consortium.
While the word thanks is included in our country's favorite holiday's name we all know the real star of the day is the food.
Silman who has spent his career conducting research in the tropics said data is collected currently via remote satellite sensing or manually from the ground or a crane.
and unroll the bale in the space between adjacent rows of plastic explained Wilhoit and Coolong.
#Algorithm identifies individual grains in planetary regolithinstruments on the Curiosity Mars rover not only measure the chemistry of rocks elemental abundances of soils
The researchers are exploring the use of this algorithm to quantify grain sizes in the images from the Mars Exploration Rovers Microscopic Imager (MI) as well as Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI.
and water supplies but until now there has not been a way to get detailed accurate satellite-based
#Meteor Raspberry Pi cluster used to teach parallel computingresearchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San diego have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children
The system named Meteor to complement Comet-a new supercomputer to be deployed in early 2015 as the result of a recent $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)--will be demonstrated at SC13 the annual conference
SDSC staff will hold a friendly gaming competition using Meteor which will be connected to a large tiled display wall of LCD panels during the show's exhibit hours in the SDSC display space (booth#3313).
The goal of Meteor is to educate kids and adults about parallel computing by providing an easy-to understand tangible model of how computers can work together said Rick Wagner SDSC's manager for high-performance computing (HPC).
One way we achieve this is by using Meteor as a presentation tool for demonstrations with all of its components laid out in front of the audience.
More importantly we present Meteor in a fun informal learning environment where students can try their hands at gaming competition while learning about the benefits of parallel programming.
Like Comet Meteor is all about high-performance computing for the 99 percent said SDSC Director Michael Norman.
Meteor and its Raspberry Pis provide us with a platform to develop methods that prepare middle
and with UC San diego undergraduates on projects supported by Meteor with students creating games that operate across the cluster.
and computing course using Meteor to help visualize data generated by SDSC's HPC systems.
Meteor could then serve as a stage for students to present their work or test it on a larger scale.
To view more images of Meteor and learn about some projects being done using the cluster please visit Rick Wagner's photo gallery 1
and photo gallery 2. The Meteor project complements other educational programs at UC San diego using Raspberry Pi computers.
in spite of the dark cold snowy winters of Northern Sweden the cyanobacteria there fix nitrogen at rates similar to those living the life in the toasty sun-warmed Florida Everglades.
Initially a rapid star-forming period formed the mass at the center of these galaxies followed later by a star-forming phase in the outer regions.
Eventually the galaxies stop making stars and become quiescent said Sara Petty of Virginia Tech Blacksburg Va. lead author of a paper appearing in the October 2013 issue of the Astronomical Journal.
This later star-forming phase could have been caused by minor mergers with gas-rich neighbors which provide the fuel for new stars.
The discovery may also solve a mystery of elderly galaxies. The galaxies in the study known as red and dead for their red color and lack of new star births have a surprising amount of ultraviolet light emanating from the outer regions.
Often ultraviolet light is generated by hot young stars but these galaxies were considered too old to host such a young population.
The solution to the puzzle is likely hot old stars. Petty and colleagues used a new multi-wavelength approach to show that the unexplained ultraviolet light appears to be coming from a late phase in the lives of older stars
when they blow off their outer layers and heat up. GALEX and WISE turned out to be the ideal duo for the study.
GALEX was sensitive to the ultraviolet light whereas WISE sees the infrared light coming from older stars.
GALEX is no longer operating but WISE was reactivated recently to hunt asteroids a project called NEOWISE (see http://www. jpl. nasa. gov/news/news. php?
release=2013-257. Both telescopes have large fields of view allowing them to easily capture images of entire galaxies.
The synergy between GALEX and WISE produces a very sensitive measurement of where the hot older stars reside in these red-and-dead galaxies said Don Neill co-author of the paper from the California Institute of technology Pasadena.
The WISE mission was selected competitively under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan Utah. The spacecraft was built by Ball aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder Colo.
The mission was developed under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Md.
The Mid Pleistocene Transition is a most important and enigmatic time interval in the more recent climate history of our planet says Fischer.
Seventy years later T. reesei is a star in the world of biofuels because of its ability to churn out enzymes that chew through molecules like complex sugars.
These three occupation groups often work in settings that are covered either not by the law such as outdoor space or private homes or in
CLASLITE differs from other satellite mapping methods. It uses algorithms to detect changes to the forest in areas as small as 10 square meters about 100 square feet allowing scientists to find small-scale disturbances that cannot be detected by traditional satellite methods.
This particular ant is one of the most widely distributed found in nearly every tropical and subtropical location on the planet due to accidental human transport
A land sea and space-grant university UNH is the state's flagship public institution enrolling 12300 undergraduate and 2200 graduate students.
and to visualize how that has changed across space and time Carter said. It's a simple way to assess how different policies
Just like physicists'models tell them that dark matter accounts for much of the universe our models tell us that species too rare to find account for much of the planet's biodiversity.
#Suns magnetic field going to flip soon: 11-year solar cycle wimpy, but peakingin a 3-meter diameter hollow aluminum sphere Cary Forest a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor is stirring and heating plasmas to 500000 degrees Fahrenheit
to experimentally mimic the magnetic field-inducing cosmic dynamos at the heart of planets stars and other celestial bodies.
Ninety-three million miles away the Sun's magnetic field--and presumably its dynamo--is churning
and undulating as the star experiences the height of the so-called solar maximum where the sun's magnetic field contorts and eventually flips.
Solar max as scientists call it is an 11-year cycle where the sun's magnetic field reverses polarity typically spawning sunspots flares auroras
and geomagnetic storms that if large enough can disrupt satellites and fry power grids On earth. Over a period of about two years the sun's magnetic field switches directions and we know that
because the polarity of the sunspots changes explains Forest an expert on cosmic dynamos and the magnetic fields they generate in planets stars and other objects.
Sunspots are just magnetic fields emerging from the sun. They are the diagnostic feature of what's happening deep inside the sun. Flowing streams of electrons
and protons are what create the magnetic fields deep in the sun's interior. Those surging fields generate sunspots
which can sometimes erupt and release vast amounts of energy in the form of solar flares or hiccups of material known as coronal mass ejections.
Unlike Earth's magnetic field which moves up or down as a familiar dipole the sun's huge magnetic field oscillates
and is less evident at the poles of the sun than at its midsection where sunspots typically occur.
The sun has an AC rather than a DC dynamo says Forest. Although solar max usually gives rise to numerous sunspots as well as big solar flares
and storms the current edition is characterized by tranquil inactivity. There are few sunspots and no massive storms to speak of says Forest.
Although this cycle of sun activity is so far relatively wimpy past episodes of the solar maximum have been quite violent
In 1859 a solar superstorm known as the Carrington Event after The british astronomer who was the first to observe a massive flare on the sun created auroras that were so bright that people could read by their light
We see these events on stars all the time he says. From our sun he adds superflares would likely cause serious problems disrupting power grids satellites
and other system we depend on. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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