Hubble Pictures: Top Five Hidden Treasures - 0 views
Students: Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Needs a New Name! - 0 views
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NASA and the Planetary Society are giving students worldwide the opportunity to name an asteroid
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an upcoming NASA mission will return samples of this asteroid to Earth
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Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) will be heading to an asteroid, currently named (101955) 1999 RQ36
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Disintegrating Alien Planet Has Comet-Like Tail | Space.com - 0 views
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Astronomers have found a dusty tail streaming off a faraway alien planet, suggesting that the tiny, scorching-hot world is indeed falling apart.
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In May, researchers announced the detection of a possibly distintegrating exoplanet, a roughly Mercury-size world being boiled away by the intense heat of its parent star
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a different team has found strong evidence in support of the find
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Humans and Tigers Can Timeshare Territory - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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A field study of tigers in Nepal suggests that, in some cases, people and animals can coexist by "timesharing" the same territory
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Nepal's Chitwan National Park, established in 1973, covers about 1000 square kilometers and is one of only 28 reserves in the world that can support more than 25 breeding female tigers—likely the smallest number needed to maintain genetic diversity
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Local residents
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Study: Tigers take the night shift to coexist with people - 0 views
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Tigers
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a new study indicates that the feared and revered carnivores in and around a world-renowned park in Nepal are taking the night shift to better coexist with their human neighbors.
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Conventional conservation wisdom is that tigers need lots of people-free space, which often leads to people being relocated or their access to resources compromised to make way for tigers
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NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Not Be Near Edge of Solar System After All | Observatio... - 0 views
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Nearly eight years ago, the spacecraft crossed into the heliosheath, the outer region of the solar system where the solar wind (plasma from the sun) begins to slow due to pushback from interstellar plasma
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in 2010, the velocity of the solar wind at Voyager 1’s back unexpectedly dropped all the way to zero
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Researchers expected that
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Video: Cheetah Robot Sets a New Land Speed Record | Popular Science - 0 views
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Boston Dynamics' Cheetah
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fastest a robot had ever run
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was coursing along at 18 miles per hour
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Video: A Ball of Metal Bounces Off a Thin Sheet of Super-Tough Hydrogel | Popular Science - 0 views
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Researchers
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, have already tried to make them autonomous self-healers, ready to repair themselves when they break
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hydrogels
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Endeavour to Take to the Skies One Last Time - 0 views
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Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), will become the last Space Shuttle orbiter to soar aloft when it departs Monday, Sept. 17, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a three-day flight to Los Angeles International Airport.
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In cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, the SCA is scheduled to conduct low-level flyovers at about 1,500 feet above many locations along the planned flight path, including Cape Canaveral, Stennis Space Center, New Orleans and stopovers in both Houston and Edwards Air Force Base in California
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also planned before landing at LAX on the 20th
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NASA | Name That Asteroid! - YouTube - 0 views
'Biotech violin' outdoes Stradivarius - 0 views
Treatment with fungi makes a modern violin sound like a Stradiavarius - 0 views
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Low density, high speed of sound and a high modulus of elasticity – these qualities are essential for ideal violin tone wood.
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In the late 17th and early 18th century the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivari used a special wood that had grown in the cold period between 1645 and 1715
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long winters and the cool summers, the wood grew especially slowly and evenly, creating low density and a high modulus of elasticity
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Higgs boson: landmark announcement clears key hurdle - 0 views
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The announcement two months ago that physicists have discovered a particle consistent with the famous Higgs boson cleared a formal hurdle on Monday with publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Although CERN's announcement was never doubted, it still had to be vetted by peers and then published in an established journal to meet benchmarks of accuracy and openness.
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Further work is being carried out to confirm whether the new particle is the famous Higgs