News in Brief: World's largest volcano lurks beneath Pacific Ocean | Earth | Science News - 0 views
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The most massive volcano in the world, with a footprint the size of New Mexico, crouches in the dark depths of the western Pacific Ocean
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hollowed peak lying beneath 2 kilometers of water
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a basaltic mound, may rival the largest known volcano in the solar system: Mars’ Olympus Mons
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Could People Hibernate? Lemurs Give Clues - News Watch - 0 views
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Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs are the only primates that can hibernate
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lemurs are unique in that they can go the entire hibernation period—up to eight months—without fully sleeping
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hibernation doesn’t necessarily mean sleep
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Computer Game-Playing Shown to Improve Multitasking Skills: Scientific American - 0 views
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a study published this week in Nature
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convincingly shows that if a game is tailored to a precise cognitive deficit, in this case multitasking in older people, it can indeed be effective
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the study found that a game called NeuroRacer can help older people to improve their capacity to multitask
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Rats induced into hibernation-like state | Life | Science News - 0 views
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Rats spent hours in a state of chilly suspended animation after researchers injected a compound into the animals in a cold room
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animals’ heart rates slowed, brain activity became sluggish and body temperature plummeted.
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Lowering the body temperature of a nonhibernating mammal is really hard
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Planetary Resources Raises $1.5M for Crowdfunded Space Telescope | Space Telescopes | S... - 0 views
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Planetary Resources raised more than $1.5 million in 33 days to launch a small space telescope into low Earth orbit in 2015
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17,614 people donated money for the crowdsourced Arkyd-100
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The company hit that goal June 19, then raked in another $505,366 in the final 10 days of the campaign, including $100,000 on June 30 from Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
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Kepler Team Has Some Succes in Reaction Wheel Recovery Attempt - 0 views
Wow! Curiosity Rover Captures 2 Mars Moons Together In Stunning NASA Video | Space.com - 0 views
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Earth's moon
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A spectacular new video from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the Red Planet's two tiny moons eclipsing each other
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Curiosity snapped 41 images of the Mars moons in the night sky on Aug. 1, with rover scientists then stitching them together to make the final 30-second video
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Moon Dance: Curiosity Rover Captures Movie of Phobos and Deimos Together - 0 views
Hobbled Kepler Space Telescope Now On The Hunt For A New Mission - 0 views
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NASA cannot recover the two failed reaction wheels that stopped Kepler from doing its primary science mission
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the spacecraft, which is already working years past when its prime mission ceased in 2010, is still in great shape otherwise
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could be anything from searching for asteroids to a technique called microlensing, which could show Jupiter-sized planets around other stars with the spacecraft’s more limited pointed ability
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Curiosity Rover Snaps Best Mars Solar Eclipse Photos Ever | Space.com - 0 views
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Phobos does not completely cover the sun as seen from the Red Planet's surface, so the Aug. 17 event was an annular or "ring of fire" eclipse
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Phobos is just 14 miles (22 kilometers) wide on average
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Phobos appears
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