Plastic pollution toll on wildlife expected to rise to 95 per cent, catches attention of G20
More than half the world's turtles and two-thirds of some bird species along Australia's east coast are being found to have ingested plastics as the toll from pollution mounts, a leading CSIRO researcher said.With plastic production almost doubling each decade, the world's oceans are receiving a proportional increase in plastic waste. Play Video Don't Play Up Next Packer's Sydney casino needed a public inquiry Play Video Don't Play More NSW News Videos Previous slide Nex..>> view originalMars far more likely to have had life than we thought, researchers find after new water discovery
Scientists have found that Mars was likely far wetter – and capable of supporting life – than we previously thought. A new study, which simulated Martian meteorites to understand more about its ancient environment, suggests that our history of the planet's surface might be entirely wrong. Until now, a specific mineral found in Martian meteorites was used as proof that the planet had an ancient, dry environment. But in fact it might have contained hydrogen, which may see the history of the Red P..>> view originalNASA Just Released a Bunch of Its Software for Free
NASA has just released its 2017-2018 software catalogue, and everything is available for free download, without any royalty or copyright fees. This is the third time NASA has released such a compilation as part of its Technology Transfer Program. The catalogue includes a tonne of software products with a wide range of technical applications, and several of these are being released to the public for the first time. VIDEO Organised into 15 categories, the catalogue includes software for data pro..>> view originalNight Sights: Venus takes a bow after a brilliant show, with Mercury and Jupiter rising
As spring moves in, Venus moves out of the evening sky, while Jupiter prepares for nighttime dominance.Venus delivered a spectacular show this winter, shining like a diamond high in the southwest. Our closest neighbor currently shines at an incredible apparent magnitude of -4.8 in the west after sunset. Magnitude is a measure of brightness, and the lower number, the brighter the object. For comparison, the full moon is magnitude -12 and the sun is -26. Some of the brighter stars are around 1st ..>> view originalGiant magnetic shield could make Mars habitable: NASA scientists
New York, March 6 (IANS) Scientists at NASA have proposed that launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds could give the Red Planet its atmosphere back and make it habitable for humans.Mars now appears to be a cold desert world and it has no global magnetic field. The cold temperatures and thin atmosphere on the red Planet do not allow liquid water to exist at the surface for long. But it might not have been always so.Scientists believe that the Red Planet once..>> view originalKomodo National Park Google Doodle tests your reptilian knowledge
GoogleTo mark the 37th anniversary of Indonesia's Komodo National Park, Google has designed a Doodle quiz inspired by the world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon. The best Google Doodles celebrating tech, science and culture The best Google Doodles celebrating tech, science and culture ADVERTISEMENT Situated in the centre of the Indonesian archipelago, between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores, the Komodo National Park was set up in 1980 as a conservation site for the reptil..>> view originalMIT Researchers Create Incredible New Form Of Matter
The experts at MIT have produced a new form of matter that is actually a supersolid which also has the properties of a superliquid in it. Such a novel type of material has seldom been seen before.Don't Miss: Today's Best Deals on Amazon.comAlthough physicists had prognosticated such materials, it was all pretty much in the realm of science fiction. That has become “science fact” by now though. The makers of the material predict its use in superconducting magnets and very fast energy relay mecha..>> view originalSolar Storm Warning: New Tool Could Help Protect Astronauts
This composite image shows a coronal mass ejection — a huge eruption of solar plasma — as seen from two space-based solar observatories and one ground-based instrument. The image in gold is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft; the image in red is from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory; and the image in blue is from the Manua Loa Solar Observatory’s K-Cor coronagraph. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO/SDO/Joy Ng and MLSO/K-Cor NASA scientists have developed a new technique..>> view originalWhy is NASA going to visit the giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche?
Why is NASA going to visit the giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche? Posted March 06, 2017 08:35:37 Hiding in the belt of frozen rocks between Mars and Jupiter is a body like nothing else in the solar system. The odds of it even existing are tiny.Its name is 16 Psyche. At 210 kilometres wide, it is easily one of the bigger asteroids, but Psyche's stand-out feature is that it is made almost entirely of metal.That is so unusual that NASA is funding a seven-year mission to vis..>> view originalNASA Proposing Giant Magnetic Shield To Make Mars Habitable To Humans
The idea of humans being able to live on Mars, or at least having the means to explore our closest planetary neighbor up close and personal for long stretches, has always been within the realm of science fiction. But a scientist from NASA, along with his fellow researchers, has proposed an idea that could finally make it possible. According to this scientist, we only need to deploy a magnetic shield around Mars to restore its atmosphere and make it habitable to humans. Nasa scientist suggests ..>> view original
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