2019-03-01
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Global Warming may Uncover Secret Army Base in Greenland — Including its Cache of Toxic Waste
August 23, 2016In 1960, the United States Army launched a program called "Project Iceworm", a plan to build launch sites for nuclear missiles under the northern Greenland ice sheet, to provide the missiles with closer access to the Soviet Union. To test... continued
And You Thought You Were Old: Greenland Sharks can Live to at Least 400 Years
August 19, 2016A new study on the lifespan of the Greenland shark has established that this fish may be the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. While marine biologists have long suspected that this species of shark had a long lifespan -- one individual,... continued
New Findings Overturn Long-Standing Theory on Human Migration into the Americas
August 18, 2016First posited by the 16th century Spanish naturalist, José de Acosta, it has been a long-standing theory that the indigenous human populations in North and South America arrived there at the end of the last ice age, via the Bering... continued
Mind-Controlled Exoskeletons Help Paraplegics Regain Control of their Limbs
August 17, 2016One of the more positive aspects of the development of brain-machine interfaces -- the technology of linking mind and mechanism -- is the promise of allowing paralyzed individuals to regain their mobility through controlling machines via their thoughts. While there... continued
Various Species’ Shared DNA may be the Key to Regenerating Lost Limbs
August 15, 2016Earth is a treasure trove of biodiversity, with over 8.7 million known species alive today, and that only represents an estimated 20 percent of all of the existing species that currently exist. But despite the sheer diversity of lifeforms, be... continued
Massive Flooding along Gulf Coast
August 14, 2016A flood of historic proportions could inundate parts of the Gulf Coast over the next 48 hours. The region has already received record amounts of rainfall, and flooding has killed at least one person and caused enormous amounts of damage... continued
This Week’s Astronomy News: The Stars are Dimming, The Sky is Falling, and Io’s Atmosphere is Collapsing
August 13, 2016Last fall, researchers with the Kepler Planet Hunters program announced that one of the stars they were studying, KIC 8462852, was experiencing brief but dramatic dips in its brightness, leading to speculation that the effect might be caused by extraterrestrial... continued
Researchers Develop a Shape-Changing Liquid Metal
August 12, 2016Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has developed a new method that can allow liquid metal to self-arrange its own shape, using external chemical inputs. The substance is made up of a highly-conductive liquid-metal core, surrounded by a film... continued
The St. Paul Island Mammoths Nearly Survived into the Bronze Age — But What Finally Drove Them into Extinction?
August 10, 2016When we think of woolly mammoths, what typically comes to mind is the classic hairy pachyderm that inhabited what is now Siberia's tundra, megafauna that went extinct shortly after the end of the Pleistocene, nearly 12,000 years ago. But a... continued
Armageddon-Asteroid’s 2169 Impact Risk Isn’t as Dire as Many Fear
August 9, 2016Discovered in September of 1999, asteroid 101955 Bennu is a 500-meter (1,640 foot) asteroid that crosses Earth's orbit once every six years. Because it has been observed for 17 years, astronomers have been able to plot its orbit very accurately,... continued