Sunday, March 20, 2016

Comet to swerve near Earth on Monday and other top stories.

  • Comet to swerve near Earth on Monday

    Comet to swerve near Earth on Monday WTSP 3:48 PM. EST March 20, 2016 An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.   (Photo: Custom) An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.The first and bigger of the t..
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  • Red Angry Bird Goes Green On International Day Of Happiness

    Red Angry Bird Goes Green On International Day Of Happiness
    Today's the official International Day of Happiness, say the Angry Birds. Around the world on March 20 every year, the International Day of Happiness acknowledges that happiness and well-being are universal goals and aspirations in the lives of all people.
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  • Fresh evidence signals at dangers of ocean acidification

    Fresh evidence signals at dangers of ocean acidification
    Increased carbon dioxide emissions lead to increase in CO2 concentrations in oceans causing ocean acidification and this is becoming a major threat to marine animals, a new study has said. According to researchers, marine animals along California’s rocky coastline specifically those that develop shells or skeletons from calcium carbonate are at a greater risk from ocean acidification for the increased CO2 levels cause the water to corrosive to calcium carbonate shells and skeletons. Researchers..
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  • 'Dinosaurs Among Us' Exhibit Explores the Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds

    'Dinosaurs Among Us' Exhibit Explores the Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds
    Birds live all around us, and for the most part, they aren’t very intimidating creatures (ostriches duly excepted). But even the daintiest of hummingbirds is endowed with a rich evolutionary heritage that links it to gigantic theropod dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. Whether you are chowing down on chicken fingers or spotting the first robin of spring, you are interacting with the only living heirs of the dinosaurs.This fascinating kinship between dinosaurs and birds is explored in detail in “..
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  • MIT Researchers Plan a World Without Traffic Signals

    MIT Researchers Plan a World Without Traffic Signals
    (Photo : snapwiresnaps.tumblr.com / Pexels) Imagine a world without the frustrating traffic lights, getting from one place to another in less time and enjoying a stress-less drive. While this idea may seem like a dream to you, MIT thinks it is possible. A team of researchers from MIT, Swiss Institute of Technology and Italian National Research Council have come up with a transportation system plan that does not have any stop signals.Like Us on Facebook While the concept seems futuristic for ..
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  • Identified: The universe's most eccentric planet (so far)

    Identified: The universe's most eccentric planet (so far)
    The most eccentric planet ever observed has been identified whipping round a star about 117 light-years from Earth.The research, published February by a group of researchers from eight universities and five scientific institutions, also detected a flash of starlight reflected from the planet’s atmosphere as it made its closest orbital approach to its sun.Planets in our own solar system orbit the sun in an almost circular fashion, but there are some whose orbits are far more elliptical – or “ecc..
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  • This Newly Discovered Alaskan Butterfly Has Antifreeze in Its Blood

    This Newly Discovered Alaskan Butterfly Has Antifreeze in Its Blood
    For the first time in nearly three decades, scientists have discovered a new species of Alaskan butterfly. Dubbed Oeneis tanana, or the Tanana Arctic, the insect may be the only butterfly endemic to Alaska, where it has evolved to survive the state’s extreme seasonal variability and cold temperatures.The butterfly, described in a new study published in the Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, is speculated to be a hybrid butterfly species—the result of interbreeding between two previously kn..
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