Venus Transit As Seen from the International Space Station - 0 views
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This image is from NASA Astronaut Don Pettit on board the International Space Station
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I knew the Transit of Venus would occur during my rotation, so I brought a solar filter with me when my expedition left for the ISS in December 2011
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This is his first image, and we’ll add more as they become available
A Peek Inside the Manta Ray Womb - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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In November 2008, a female manta ray got stuck in a fishing net off the coast of Okinawa, Japan
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fishermen called up the local aquarium, where scientists were studying how the creatures reproduce
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The ray was pregnant
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How A Mosquito Survives A Raindrop Hit - Science News - 0 views
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A raindrop hitting a mosquito in flight is like a midair collision between a human and a bus. Except that the mosquito survives
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the (relatively) huge, fast drop doesn’t transfer much of its momentum to a little wisp of an insect
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the falling droplet sweeps the insect along on the downward plunge
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China tells embassies to stop issuing pollution data - 0 views
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China said foreign embassies were acting illegally in issuing their own air quality readings and that only the government could release data on the nation's heavy pollution.
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until recently, official air quality measurements regularly rated their air quality as good
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data from the US embassy in Beijing showed off-the-chart pollution
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Earth Threatened By Glowing Green Asteroid? - 0 views
Amazing Transit of Venus Images From Around the World - 0 views
SpaceX capsule back on solid ground after flight - 0 views
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Dragon spacecraft is back on solid ground
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SpaceX capsule arrived by barge at the Port of Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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Dragon is now headed to the company's rocket factory in McGregor, Texas, for unloading
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Dinosaurs were lighter than previously thought, new study shows - 0 views
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Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought.
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biologists used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, including reindeer, polar bears, giraffes and elephants
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discovered that the animals had almost exactly 21% more body mass than the minimum skeletal 'skin and bone' wrap volume, and applied this to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton
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