Stars of the Animal kingdom Cockroaches When you see a cockroach crawling toward you have wished you ever you could just steer it away like a remote-controlled car?
The scientists found that the birds actually traveled three times faster than expected more than 311 miles (500 kilometers) per day the researchers said.
This time the car industry s interest in light natural fibre promoted its use. For such industrial use modern varieties with insignificant content of psychoactive compounds are grown.
Central Asian shepherds did more than transport grains. The archaeologists also found evidence that herders began farming millet wheat barley and legumes by 4000 years ago.
#The route remains in use today though now railroads have replaced camels as the preferred means of travel.
It's almost like we're on a speeding train without a brake but we are continually putting in the coal into the engine.
and low air density conditions of such high elevations to determine the limits of the bumblebee's flight capacity
The team traveled to a mountain range in western China and collected six male bumblebees of the species Bombus impetuosus at about 10660 feet (3250 meters.
Gallery of Colorful Insect Wings The researchers placed the bees in clear sealed boxes and experimentally adjusted the oxygen levels
All of the bees were capable of flying in conditions equivalent to 13000 feet (4000 m) and some even made it past 30000 feet (9000 m) the height of the peak of Mount everest the team reported Tuesday (Feb 4) in the journal Biology Letters.
either need to beat their wings faster or swoop them wider to keep their bodies afloat.
The researchers found that instead of beating their wings faster the bees increased the angle at
which they extended their wings with each beat reaching closer to their heads and abdomens each time.
The findings could also help inform aeronautical engineering projects working to design aircrafts capable of flying at high elevations Dillon said.
Helicopters currently struggle to perform rescues on top of Mount everest due to the low air density. The team is currently following up their study to determine
whether bees living at lower base elevations are also capable of flying at simulated high elevations
#Redwood Poaching Prompts Park Service to Close Roads Raiding and thieving has become a growing problem in Redwood national and state parks in Northern California where poachers enter the parks at night and leave with large burls and other knotty growths from the tallest trees in the world the New york times reports.
and trucks carrying limes into the United states have been hijacked according to the Times. Growers and shippers are forced now to hired armed guards to protect their lime crops.
This image of tule fog was taken Jan 17 2011 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite according to NASA's Earth Observatory
In 2007 for example dense fog on California's Highway 99 near Fresno caused an 108-car pileup that killed two people.
Males will travel up to 100 miles to find food when their current home is overpopulated r
Air Race Showcases Extreme Engineering At the Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth Texas 12 planes are gearing up for a high-flying aerial showdown Saturday (Sept. 6) on the sixth
Reaching speeds of up to 250 mph (400 km h) the planes'pilots are accomplished aerobatics experts from around the world.
But these pros will need more than just flying chops to navigate the challenging slalom course set up inside the speedway.
Whoever wins the race will be aided by advanced light aviation engineering according to Mike Mangold an American aerobatics pilot who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice
and now serves as a test pilot and commentator during races. Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes We're flying with very high G forces at very high speeds and at very low altitudes.
And we're doing this within a compact arena that's less than a mile 1. 6 km across Mangold told Live Science.
Only three models of airplanes are being used for this year's races: the Zivko Edge the Breitling MXS-R and the Corvus Racer.
While they may look slightly different all three planes have streamlined aerodynamic bodies that are designed to maximize speed
and minimize drag (the force that opposes the plane's movement through the air). Much of a plane's exterior can also be customized to make it more aerodynamicor to otherwise improve its design.
However there are certain parts of the planes that simply can't be engineered re. The engine and propeller or power plant is the same on every plane Mangold said.
An airplane's engine sets certain limits on how fast a pilot can go because it controls the amount of torque (the work done by the engine that turns the propeller)
and thrust (force created by the propeller) that a pilot has to work with in the air he explained.
The weight of each airplane is kept also standard at around 1532 lbs. 695 kilograms. Since lighter airplanes can fly faster this rule helps ensure that no one gets an unfair advantage.
But besides the plane's engine and weight the pilots and the engineers and mechanics who work for them are free to experiment with their planes'designs Mangold said.
Some of the parts that can be customized include the cowling or engine covering; the skins or the metal sheets that cover the internal parts of the aircraft;
the wingtips the curved ends of the wings that serve to reduce drag; the wheel pans the bulbous-looking parts that cover the aircraft's front wheels;
the shape of the fuselage or actual body of the plane; and the canopy the transparent part that covers the cockpit.
Of the three planes flying in this year's race Mangold said that one the Zivko Edge is easier to customize than the others.
Nine of the 12 pilots in Saturday's race will be flying some version of the Edge he said.
The Edge has a metal tube frame whereas the Breitling MXS-R is a molded carbon-fiber airplane Mangold said.
It has no metal tubing on it so it's very difficult to make major changes to it.
Two pilots will be flying the MXS-R on Saturday. One pilot Peter Besenyei will be flying the Hungarian-made Corvus Racer a plane designed specifically for him.
Air racing fans can watch a full-length broadcast of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from the Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 15 at 7: 30 pm ET
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#Coffee Genome Reveals Why Your Java Smells So Good Not all caffeine is created equal. Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the coffee plant
and found the caffeine in your morning cup evolved independently from caffeine found in other plants.
The study based on the genome sequencing helps explain how and why the coffee plant might have started producing caffeine in the first place.
It also explores coffee's other likable features such as its eye-opening aroma and its distinctly bitter taste.
And like many exercises in genome sequencing the researchers behind the coffee study say their work could lead to better coffee varieties in the future.
In Africa criminal syndicates are reportedly using helicopters and infrared goggles to kill elephants in the dead of night.
What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
Already authorities are using fixed-wing conservation UAVS to successfully keep track of hard-to-see rhinos in Nepal
Increased battery life and flight duration greater payloads cheaper infrared sensors and affordable real-time transmission of imagery would all make a major difference.
They might consider a fisheries agent based on a coastal atoll who uses a tethered balloon carrying a radar sensor to detect all vessels that enter the community's no-take fishing sanctuary.
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
Vehicle engines and warm bodies provide telltale signs that would otherwise be hidden by the night.
Prizes such as the automotive XPRIZE (vehicle efficiency) the lunar XPRIZE (space exploration) the genomics XPRIZE (genome sequencing)
More than 15000 ivory pieces were pulverized most of them trinkets seized at airports between 1987 and 2007 from tourists who are likely unaware that their souvenirs contribute to a grisly elephant poaching industry.
France's move today sends a strong message to a European audience particularly French tourists
but you can make it fun Donohoe said. 6. Cover up Covering up can prevent ticks from latching on said Holly Donohoe a researcher at the University of Florida who studies the health risks of travel and sports.
or bats'general association with Dracula a lot of people are terrified of nocturnal fliers like this one
And if somehow you find one in the wheel well of your car (as Krieger saw
To learn the route the birds follow an ultralight aircraft piloted by a costume-clad human all the way down to the Southeast.
when they discovered the Amazon forest turns green during the tropical dry season from June through October even during an extreme drought based on data from NASA's Terra satellite.
We think we have uncovered the mechanism for the appearance of seasonal greening of Amazon forests shadowing within the canopy that changes the amount of near-infrared light observed by MODIS lead study author Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images
With each flapping of its wings it sends the message I am vibrant I am powerful and
Besides its beautiful appearance and usefulness as a pollinator the monarch's long-distance round-trip journey is a unique phenomenon that scientists still don't fully understand.
In theory produce that is in-season is less likely to have traveled a great distance and it's more likely to be cheaper per pound than out-of-season produce. 5. Shake it off.
NASA has been funding research into methods of storing food for long periods while keeping astronauts healthy.
In the near term before colonists can construct greenhouses they will have to use artificial light from LEDS for example to power their plants'photosynthesis. NASA has conducted plant-growth research in microgravity aboard the International Space station (ISS) and in the Long Duration Exposure
Placing a laboratory near the International Space station (ISS) would be one logical way of doing this;
the lab's shipment of supplies and crew could travel along with those for the ISS.
and a spent final-stage booster rocket at the other. The lab would have to remain close enough
When working in the plant section crew members would need to wear oxygen masks similar to those worn by high-altitude fliers.
For this to become a viable possibility NASA engineers would have to solve some daunting technological materials-science and physics issues.
Unmanned spacecraft can carry experiments and float freely in Earth's orbit as the Long Duration Exposure Facility did.
and orbit control system part of its onboard systems bus. Engineers could configure this system to emulate Mars'gravity.
Indeed astronauts have grown successfully peas and mizuna lettuce in space along with carbohydrate staples like wheat and rice.
just as astronauts do today. All of the above-mentioned crops can grow hydroponically to conserve space and resources.
NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza. The grasshoppers would make a better dessert if dipped in the 3d printed chocolate.
These warriors who called themselves the Galatai marched into northwestern Anatolia with 2000 baggage wagons and 10000 noncombatants:
#Earth's Oldest Living things Immortalized in Stunning Photos Photographer Rachel Sussman traveled the planet for a decade in search of organisms that have witnessed thousands of years of history.
The Great Green Desert Julene Bair is the author of The Ogallala Road A Memoir of Love and Reckoning.
The technology consists of a ring of jets surrounding the crops which maintains a certain level of carbon dioxide by tracking wind-direction and carbon dioxide concentration.
The worldwide adoption of the hazard analysis critical control points system HACCP originally developed by NASA to protect astronauts from food poisoning makes it less likely that the world food supply could lead to a major epidemic
No law makes a Duke sovereign of the roads I said casually. It was one of those phrases
Very well the Lady said from her carriage. Trattari you are ordered hereby to lay down your weapons.
Brasti turned and stared at the closed carriage. What? You're saying we have to lay down our weapons
There are occasions in the course of a travelling Magister's duties where he or she might not be able to draw a weapon either
and the road belongs to no one but the caravans. Captain Lynniac growled and he and his men charged us.
and looked behind me at a man in one of our wagons holding an empty crossbow.
One granddaddy of this craze Five Guys Burgers and Fries which got its start here in the D c. metro area back in 1986 is joined by Black & Orange Bobby's Burger Palace BGR:
To further differentiate themselves from traditional fast-food burger chains some premium burger chains have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon.
and how to pacify these drivers. I'm going to do it! Thinking about a problem more holistically may leave you with a daunting new problem tree like mine
Today's conventional palm-oil production is one of the world's major drivers of tropical deforestation wiping out habitat for endangered species
All told tropical deforestation currently accounts for a whopping 10 percent of the world's total global-warming emissions equivalent to the annual tailpipe emissions of some 600 million cars.
In the first the person was presented with images of three objects such as a train a bus
Previous research finds that people from individualistic societies tend to pair the train and the bus lumping them into the abstract category of modes of transportation.
People from collectivistic societies take a more holistic relational view typically pairing the train with the tracks. 7 Personality Traits That Are Bad for You The researchers also asked participants to diagram their social networks drawing circles to represent themselves and their friends.
Previous studies have shown that people from individualistic cultures draw their own circle larger than those of their friends.
For example people from historical wheat-farming areas in the North matched objects based on analytic categories (putting together the bus and the train for example) 56 percent more often than people in rice-farming areas in the South.
Common misconceptions and fears about bats have led many people to regard the creatures as unclean disease carriers
and wings of bats and has meant death for hundreds of thousands of the animals in the northeastern United states. Related Devastating Disease Found in Endangered Gray Bats Bats see using echolocation.
To discover this the researchers studied flight patterns of the bats after objects were placed in the animals'paths.
Unmanned aircraft were banned officially from U s. national parks in June 2014. But just last week on Aug 2 an unidentified tourist crashed a drone straight into the famous rainbow-colored Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone national park in Wyoming.
Park officials have yet to recover the drone and have not determined if the crash caused any damage to the site
while park officials aren't yet certain the tourist was likely flying the drone over the hot spring to capture an image or video.
because they have not determined where the vehicles landed in the spring Bartlett said. Measuring more than 300 feet (91 meters) across and reaching depths of 160 feet (49 m) the hot spring is the largest in the United states and the third largest in the world.
We'll probably have to fly a real piloted helicopter over it to get the exact location Bartlett said.
but Bartlett said that other park visitors did witness a tourist on a nearby boardwalk controlling a drone that later fell into Grand Prismatic.
As such the pilot was apprehended not nor identified by park officials. Bartlett said an investigation into the matter is ongoing.
Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.
If you took a cruise along the northern stretch of the Nile some 6000 years ago you wouldn't have seen any pyramids
History's Most Mysterious Extinctions Justin Yeakel a researcher out of the University of California Santa cruz who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa fe Institute in New mexico said the work was inspired first by a trip with a colleague
But the scientists have identified the potential drivers. During the first big change after the African Humid Period for example human populations grew
A third possible driver could have been the climate; the drier environment might have limited the availability of plants at the bottom of the food chain.
We can t have prairie without fire Jason Hartman of the Kansas Forest Service told NASA's Earth Observatory which released the satellite image today (April 9).
This image snapped by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite was acquired March 31.
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and Woodside Calif. before traveling through Palo alto and into the south San francisco bay. Unlike most urban streams the San Francisquito is channelized not
and other Front Range cities but a long-term plan is needed to keep thirsty residents happy while protecting recreation tourism and agriculture.</
This makes Vitamin c a helpful fighter against problems like heart disease atherosclerosis and even joint pain.
Blood clot reduction Bromelain can help prevent blood clots from forming making pineapple a good snack for frequent fliers and others at risk for blood clots.
Wolves hunt and travel in packs. Packs don't consist of many members though. Usually a pack will have only one male and female and their young.
They are known to travel as far as 12 miles (20 kilometers) per day. Wolves have friends.
and a growing tourism Trade in 2012 Lansing s research was used to win recognition for the subaks as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Now he is working with Julia Watson an assistant professor of architecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in New york to design a sustainable World Heritage destination that will preserve the culture benefit the people of Bali
To the chef's surprise and the king's delight the potatoes puffed up like little balloons.
Another million left Ireland mostly for Canada and the United states. In 1853 railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt complained that his potatoes were cut too thick and sent them back to the kitchen at a resort in Saratoga springs New york. To spite him the chef
In October 1995 NASA and the University of Wisconsin created the technology to do so with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages
About 60 percent of the city's population has settled in traditional Mongolian tents called gers forming massive ger districts without paved roads electricity sanitation or running water.
This work opens up new trains of thought in terms of what drives human migration and the extension of past empires said Trouet whose research showed that abrupt climate shifts played a role in the fall of the Roman empire.
Aircraft Drops Retardant on Oregon Fire (Photo) Zooming low and tight against a cloud of billowing smoke an MD-87 air tanker drops retardant on the Two Bulls fire
The stunning shot comes courtesy of Jim Hansen of the Central Oregon Fire Management Service who snapped it from a 337 Skymaster airplane on June 7 according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
which shows one of the aircraft used in battling the blaze. Retardants usually mix water with chemicals such as ammonium sulfate
along with Hansen's photograph by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a view of the Two Bulls fire from space.
Taken by an instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite on June 8 this image shows smoke from the fire.
or flown on aircraft or by analyzing emissions directly at the source such as at oil and gas wells.
and aircraft data to provide a comprehensive look at methane which is a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.
Satellite monitoring of methane emissions will get a much-needed boost next year with the planned launch in 2015 of the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument aboard a Sentinel satellite operated by the European space agency.
David Bowman receives funding from ARC NASA TERN and NERP. This article was published originally on The Conversation.
There are several genera of spider that sometimes survive the long trip from banana-producing nations such as Brazil Mexico Nicaragua and Costa rica to other parts of the world.
Sharovipteryx was a glider about the size of a modern crow with wing membranes attached to long hind legs.
Another flying reptile Icarosaurus was much smaller only the size of a hummingbird with wing membranes sprouting from modified ribs.
Dinets never saw any crocs in the process of climbing just at their destinations and when approached the animals in trees always jumped
In recent years changes in the distribution of sea ice have forced the penguins to travel farther
The team traveled down to the eastern coast of Antarctica to observe a colony during a breeding season from Mid-november 2009 through Mid-february 2010
In comparison global average temperatures have risen about 1. 4 degrees F (0. 8 degrees C) according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
There is great emphasis on making sure that the trains run on time. Germans are stoic people who strive for perfectionism and precision in all aspects of their lives.
and biomechanics of flight at the University of California Berkeley has published a book The Drunken Monkey:
</p><p>When the babies are around a month old the mother spider rolls over on her back allowing the spiderlings to clamber over her kill her by injecting their venom
The crucial step to making aircraft was to separate these two functions leaving the wing to do the lifting
but transferring the power function to an engine and propeller something no bird ever possessed.
When we design a component for a car or aircraft we need to ensure that the probability of failure of that part per year is something like one in a million.
Because a vehicle has thousands of parts and is supposed to last for tens of years without catastrophic failure.
But nature is happy to work with much higher failure rates: the chance of breaking a bone
This is important because shaving a few percent off the weight of a component in a car means lower material costs less fuel usage less CO2 emissions and so on.
which is likely to be the stronger driver mood or food? In other words does the consumption of particular foods lead to mood changes
It is 1825 miles from New haven Conn. to Austin Tex. which typically means 30 hours of driving and three nights in motels not an easy trip for anyone.
They made the journey in a minivan with a pet cat and 100000 bees. That was probably the most heroic event in our beekeeping saga to date says evolutionary biologist Nancy Moran a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies symbiosis particularly among multicellular hosts and microbes.
so they couldn't fly around in the minivan and wire mesh over the front
At night they waited to park the minivan until after dark and then opened the windows so the bees didn't overheat in the closed space.
It seemed unlikely that anyone would try to steal something from a van full of bees.
and RNA VIRUSES such as`Deformed Wing Virus'she adds. In some of our experiments we want to infect bees with pathogens to see
because they actually have the benefit of surviving the intestinal transit so they can make it into your colon.
and son 28 years ago after a hiking trip near Utah's Bears Ears Buttes.
#Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar system's Edge a'Cosmic Roadmap'A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of roadmap in the sky for the interstellar
By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions
Photos and Images from NASA's IBEX Spacecraft What I always have been trying to do was to establish a clear connection between the very high-energy cosmic rays we're seeing from the ground
This is a region that only one mission NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached so far
Travelling through the transition zone The sun's sphere of influence in the solar system is known as the heliosphere.
This stands in contrast to findings from NASA and other science groups saying Voyager 1 is definitively in interstellar space.
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