Wild Asian elephants roam through the forest in the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia is a video released on Friday by the environmental group Conservation International. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: January 15, 2016
SpaceX success launches space startups to new heights
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•SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – SpaceX’s successful landing of a reusable rocket booster last month opens a new frontier for commercial space startups by offering tremendous cost savings and attracting venture …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Ex-army major becomes first British astronaut to take a space walk
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•LONDON (Reuters) – Tim Peake became the first astronaut representing Britain to carry out a space walk when he left the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, generating huge interest …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Signs of second largest black hole in the Milky Way
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•Astronomers using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope have detected signs of an invisible black hole with a mass of 100 thousand times the mass of the Sun around the center …read more Source:: Science
Extreme turbulence roiling ‘most luminous galaxy’ in the universe
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•The most luminous galaxy in the universe — a so-called obscured quasar 12.4 billion light-years away — is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of …read more Source:: Science
New theory of secondary inflation expands options for avoiding an excess of dark matter
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•A new theory suggests a shorter secondary inflationary period that could account for the amount of dark matter estimated to exist throughout the cosmos. …read more Source:: Science
China to land probe on dark side of moon in 2018: Xinhua
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•SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China plans to land the first probe ever on the dark side of the moon in 2018, marking another milestone in its ambitious space program, the official …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
NASA adds commercial mini-shuttle to station supply fleet
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – NASA hired a third company to fly cargo to the International Space Station, adding an innovative space plane built by Sierra Nevada Corp to the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Ancient people conquered the Arctic at least 45,000 years ago
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The frozen carcass of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia with unmistakable signs of spear wounds is providing evidence that people inhabited Arctic regions thousands of years …read more Source:: UKScienceNews