Since then the study of the CMB with space-based instruments like COBE WMAP and now the Planck Spacecraft continues to be a rich source of information about the early universe and it s deepest structure.</
Park rangers protected some forested areas which teem with monkeys and gorillas while nearby hunted areas were full of rodents such as rats and porcupines.
and Uganda is to pay former hunters to serve as park rangers or wildlife guides for tourists she said.
(which are invisible to the human eye) according to the Earth Observatory of the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA).
And since the Industrial revolution the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
CO2 methane nitrous oxide water vapor and ozone are among the most prevalent according to NASA. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) were used once commonly as refrigerants
A drop in solar activity for example is believed to have caused the Little Ice age a period of unusually colder climate that lasted from about 1650 to 1850 according to NASA.
At the time Hansen was still the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New york. He retired from that position in April in part to pursue political and legal efforts on combating climate change.
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Antimatter Might Just Fall Up</a p><p></p><p>Flies have tiny wings and even tinier brains yet they are capable of flying swiftly and agilely through even turbulent air.
></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.
It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland according to a release from NASA.</
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Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars NASA says.</</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</
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Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs boson the particle thought to explain how other
what is sported now China wings on their legs a new study of fossils suggests.</</p><p>Researchers found evidence of large leg feathers in 11 bird specimens from China's Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature.
The feathers suggest that early birds had four wings which may have played a role in the evolution of flight scientists report in a study published today (March 14) in the journal Science.</
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and apparently flattened reeds and grass which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships;
The same thing is true with other explanations including alien spacecraft; the only things ever caught on camera making the circles are hoaxers.
Since then park rangers have reduced the number of elephants killed in the reserve each year from 400 to 170
In one unsettling incident last June armed attackers descended on the park headquarters killing park rangers
at the Sagehen Creek Field Station near Truckee Calif. as well as the American River Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest.
A fire is burning in the treated area of the American River Ranger District. Once the fire dies out the team will have a rare chance to see how the new technique worked in action Conway said.
The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers) and was seen by Terrasar-X an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space agency (DLR.
Scientists with NASA's Operation Icebridgefirst discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011 as they were flying over
In 1895 a retired Connecticut clergyman named Birdsey Grant Northrop went to Japan and brought his love of trees.
Northrop had researched previously forestry in Europe triggering a wave of environmental self-examination back in Connecticut
At 78 Northrop convinced the Japanese Minister of Education to establish Arbor day in that country. He also evangelized about trees in Australia Canada and Europe according to the Connecticut state government.
NASA comes under particular scrutiny in the 2013 Wastebook. The space agency has a budget of about $17 billion a year and represented 0. 48 percent of the federal budget in 2012.
In the 1960s when the space race was at its peak NASA funding represented as much as 4. 4 percent of federal spending.
One project criticized by Coburn is NASA's Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study a project the senator describes as paying people to lie in bed all day.
Well sort of. In fact the Countermeasure and Functional Testing study is part of NASA's long-term bed-rest research that seeks to mimic the antigravity environment of space On earth by positioning participants in bed head tilted slightly downward day in and day out.
This particular project is a 70-day study to test whether exercise can help stave off the loss of muscle
The findings are important both for the health of astronauts doing long stints aboard the International Space station and for future spaceflight missions.
while lying in bed NASA researchers told the Houston Chronicle in September. After 70 days in bed patients need two weeks of rehab in order to walk safely again.
Another NASA project under fire is a $125000 grant for intergalactic planetary pizza tasting. The goal of this project is to develop shelf-stable palatable 3d printed foods for a mission to Mars
What Astronauts Eat Coburn criticizes both projects as well as several other NASA efforts for being focused on a mission to Mars arguing the agency is nowhere near launching such a journey.
But NASA has to take the long view said Michael Halpern the program manager of the Center for Science and Democracy at the science advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists.
The 10 Most Visited National parks Coburn also criticizes NASA funding for a study on how climate change affects the migration of red crabs on Christmas Island in the Indian ocean.
Perhaps not but the crabs are a test case for how global warming will alter the migration of tropical species according to a Princeton university news release on the study nd Earth science is under the umbrella of NASA's mission.
But between 1999 and 2010 these forest fires burned more than 33000 square miles (85500 square kilometers) an area larger than the state of South carolina according to a NASA release.
or frequency of these understory fires Doug Morton a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. and the study's lead author said in the statement.
and then gradually disappear as the rain forest recovers the NASA statement said. NASA scientists are using an instrument on the Terra satellite to detect these signs of damage which include slight alterations in the amount and condition of foliage present.
These fires kill between 10 and 50 percent of the trees in the areas they burn
and are likely an important source of carbon emissions that hasn t been accounted adequately for in climate models according to NASA.
and other human sources NASA said. Â Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Goldenfeld is leading a new NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team that aims to provide a clearer understanding of this early stage of evolution.
This story was provided byâ Astrobiology Magazine a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program o
because birth defects in the external genitalia are among the most common congenital defects in humans said study researcher Martin Cohn a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Florida.
By combining the techniques researchers could collaborate with wildlife rangers to protect certain hotspots Wasser told Livescience.
In Washington D c agriculture department official David Fairchild imported 100 Japanese cherry trees in 1906 to his own Maryland property to see how well they grew.
though it also has wings like a bat. Some say it has a tail like a lizard;
He painted a kangaroo green attached fake wings to the helpless creature and had exhibited it to the public The 1909 hoax
The most obvious biologically implausible feature is its wings: they would need to be much bigger
you'd have better luck putting butterfly wings on a rhino. Most images of the Jersey Devil look like a monster that a high school Dungeons & dragons player might dream up as a composite of different unrelated animals
Eyewitnesses who described huge wings may have seen sandhill cranes (which can stand four feet tall and have an enormous wingspan)
Even after rainfall levels bounced back in the next several years the forest continued to suffer according to a NASA-led group of scientists.
The study's leader Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. said that more frequent droughts due to climate change could drag on rainforest ecosystems and the carbon cycle in the long run.
Forest fires alone destroyed more than 33000 square miles (85500 square km) of forest between 1999 and 2010 according to a recent NASA release.
#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
The ESA hopes the resulting data and 3d forest maps will help researchers measure the total amount of carbon stored in forests
and global warming Hank Shugart an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA said in a statement.
and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites of which three are currently in orbit.
The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The towering Saturn V launched from the Kennedy space center in Florida. It stood 363 feet (110 m) high
He ruled France for 72 years and in that time transformed Versailles by encompassing LOUIS XIII s chateau with a palace that contained north and south wings as well as nearby buildings housing ministries.
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Astronauts Drink Urine and Other Waste</a p><p>The trend of new moms eating their placenta after giving birth has been on the rise in certain segments of the U s. population for years now.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
#Radar Plane Scans South american Landscapes NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King. Undeterred Egyptologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the tomb to worldwide fanfare in 1922.
After generating massive amounts of data using next-generation gene sequencers they used the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to align organize
Before we had access to Ranger it would take weeks and months to run. Ranger does the same analyses in hours.
So it's been a very powerful tool to give us quick ideas about how different strains are related to each other.
The time that Ranger saves the researchers doesn't just get them to an answer faster.
With Ranger we can redirect our time away from just finding the best tree for a dataset towards asking how different that best tree is from
 It was as it turns out bugs said Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who designed the computer program inâ a NASA statement.
but will if the insects return in following years NASA reported. Landtrendr is still in development
but has changed already the way the U s. Forest Service monitors ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest according to the NASA statement.
but they didn't have big broad wings Persons said. What else are used pygostyles for?
a longstanding cooperative agreement between UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center;
and even tiny spaceships made of deep fried scallops. Novelty food suppliers have become early adopters of similar technology.
And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.
Beyond providing cosmic delivery food would also be tailored for astronauts'daily activities. will printed food go beyond novelty value?
The researchers using NASA imagery and historical data found that every time there is a major flood terraces fail
That s the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover
Curiosity's smaller older cousins NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers found plenty of evidence of ancient Martian water after touching down in 2004
NASA satellites that studied the parched land determined that the drought depleted the region's aquifers to low levels that had rarely been seen
Since the start of the Industrial revolution human activities have increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by a third according to NASA.
The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by the oceans the land and the atmosphere according to NASA.
and methane levels have increased a whopping 148 percent according to NASA and most of that increase has been in the past 50 years.
Though the existence of global warming was considered once controversial it is acknowledged now as real by an overwhelming majority of researchers throughout the international scientific community according to the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA.
About 30 percent of the radiation striking Earth's atmosphere is reflected immediately back out to space by clouds ice snow sand and other reflective surfaces according to NASA.
It's this equilibrium of incoming and outgoing radiation that makes the Earth habitable with an average temperature of about 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) according to NASA.
Since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the early 1800s the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially CO2 according to NASA.
If global warming continues unchecked it will cause significant climate change a rise in sea levels increasing ocean acidification extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts according to NASA the EPA
Service whose Climate Change Tree Atlas forecasted the shift. Though trees that currently populate more Southern states might move in to fill that space few
It also became part of a long line of animal astronauts. But since science has proved time and again that humans can survive the extraterrestrial trip why do countries bother sending monkeys and other living creatures up into space at all these days?
And for a price a Texas-based company called Nanoracks will send scientists'projects up to the International Space station Szewczyk said.
During that time a space capsule wouldn't completely insulate life from bombardment with cosmic radiation zero air pressure and cold temperatures.
and some new places where they hadn't been said previously wildlife biologist Thomas Hughes of the National Wild Turkey Federation an organization that has reintroduced the animals into the wild.
They can be found in 49 U s. states with the only exception being said Alaska Hughes.
There have been problems from turkey droppings on the lawn to roosting on the roof to pecking the side of a car where they see their reflection to chasing the mailman from time to time Hughes told Livescience.
Gobbler restocking Prior to the 1950s efforts to restock the wild turkeys mostly failed Hughes said That's
In the Southeast the traditional stronghold of the iconic animal populations have declined in some areas Hughes said.
and farmland but don't do well in dense thickets they need open spaces where males can display to females as a part of their breeding ritual Hughes said.
Hughes first got interested in wild turkeys when hunting them with his father as a child in northern Florida.
or growing Hughes said. We consider them a real delicacy on the table in my house Hughes said.
Especially at Thanksgiving he added. Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Of course the biggest efficiency booster of all could be President Barack Obama's climate action plan
and if they're not altered by the courts they should be very effective in reducing CO2 emissions from the power sector said NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies researcher Drew Shindell.
Gallery of Colorful Insect Wings The researchers placed the bees in clear sealed boxes and experimentally adjusted the oxygen levels
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.
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
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;
Already authorities are using fixed-wing conservation UAVS to successfully keep track of hard-to-see rhinos in Nepal
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
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;
and a spent final-stage booster rocket at the other. The lab would have to remain close enough
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
and RNA VIRUSES such as`Deformed Wing Virus'she adds. In some of our experiments we want to infect bees with pathogens to see
#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
This stands in contrast to findings from NASA and other science groups saying Voyager 1 is definitively in interstellar space.
Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening. Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
#Bizarre Dinosaur Had 4'Wings, 'Long Tail Feathers The largest four-winged dinosaur known has been found
as if it had two pairs of wings. Its fossil was unearthed in 2012 in Liaoning province in northeastern China
whether a four-wing body is something unique to microraptorines or something the common ancestor of birds and microraptorines had that was lost later in the bird lineage.
Supplement makers market Vitamin b12 as an energy and endurance booster particularly for athletes. People also take Vitamin b12 to improve their mood and concentration as well as their immune system.
former NASA astronaut Mike LÃ pez-Alegrã a told Live Science last week ahead of the party.
retired NASA astronaut Franklin Chang DÃ az; and planetary scientist Maria Zuber. Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast.
Longtime growers are even pulling in new talent with rã sumã s featuring university professorships and stints at NASA.
Denver Relief just hired a former NASA scientist Neil Yorio who worked on lighting technology for long-duration space missions to develop new options for marijuana growers.
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