Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Some Idiot In Australia Thought It Was A Good Idea To Put A Shirt On A Dolphin and other top stories.

  • Some Idiot In Australia Thought It Was A Good Idea To Put A Shirt On A Dolphin

    Some Idiot In Australia Thought It Was A Good Idea To Put A Shirt On A Dolphin
    Boaters off the coast of Western Australia have spotted a bottlenose dolphin that appears to be wearing some kind of shirt. Wildlife officials suspect it was a deliberate act — one that could have caused the aquatic mammal to suffocate. Alarmingly, the dolphin hasn't been since since. Image: Department of Parks and Wildlife Western Australia The T-shirt clad dolphin was spotted in Koombana Bay, Bunbury, on Australia Day (January 26). Photographs of the animal were sent to Australia's Departmen..
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  • Humans, meet the ancient sea creature at the other end of your family tree

    Humans, meet the ancient sea creature at the other end of your family tree
    Nation/World Humans, meet the ancient sea creature at the other end of your family tree Author: Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Updated: 4 hours ago Published 4 hours ago Artist’s reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds, whose actual size was probably no more than a millimeter in size, is shown in this image released on Monday. (Courtesy illustration by Jian Han/Handout via Reuters)
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  • Data on climate change progress is disappearing from the US State Department website

    Data on climate change progress is disappearing from the US State Department website
    Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to pull the US out of a landmark international accord to cut carbon emissions. “Trump has made it clear he will withdraw from the Paris Agreement,” Myron Ebell, the former head of Trump’s EPA transition team, told reporters in London on January 30. “He could do it by executive order tomorrow or he could do it as part of a larger package.” Although the formal process for removing the US from the agreement would actually take ..
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  • ESO's OmegaCam captures a two billion pixel nebula view

    ESO's OmegaCam captures a two billion pixel nebula view
    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a staggeringly detailed visible light image of the famous Cat's Paw and Lobster nebulae, made up of around two billion pixels. Officially called NGC 6334 (Cat's Paw) and NGC 6357 (Lobster), the nebulae are located in the "tail" of the constellation Scorpius, and represent regions of intense star formation.The pair were first discovered on consecutive nights in June 1837 by the renowned British scientist John Herschel, as he undertook a three-y..
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  • Brain scanner that helps 'locked-in' patients communicate could give clues to quality of life

    Brain scanner that helps 'locked-in' patients communicate could give clues to quality of life
    Brain scanner that helps 'locked-in' patients communicate could give clues to quality of life Updated February 01, 2017 16:59:45 Patients suffering from locked-in syndrome may soon be able to communicate with their doctors and loved ones through a scanner linked to their brain. Key points:Locked-in syndrome causes paralysis of the body while the mind remains consciousA new technique using a computer linked to a patient's brain can indicate a 'yes' or 'no' responseThe l..
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  • Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel

    Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel
    Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene - a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial. Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties - it's 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be turned into a superconductor that carries electricity with zero resistance.  That means the material has the potenti..
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  • Our galaxy is hurtling through the universe at two million kilometres per hour

    Our galaxy is hurtling through the universe at two million kilometres per hour
    Scientists have realised why we’re hurtling through Space so quickly, and the reason is pretty grimSCIENTISTS have discovered the grim reason why planet Earth and the galaxy it belongs to is hurtling through Space at an incredible speed.The Sun reports they claim the Milky Way is being accelerated by an abyss of bleak nothingness.Scientists reckon we orbit the Sun at speeds of roughly 100,000km/h and that our Milky Way galaxy moves through the Universe at more than 2 million km/h.Researchers at ..
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  • Lava 'firehose' causing cracks to Hawaii's main island

    Lava 'firehose' causing cracks to Hawaii's main island
    A "firehose" of lava has been filmed creating mesmerising steam clouds as it trickles from Hawaii's most-active volcano into the Pacific Ocean. Kilauea is the most-active of the five volcanoes which form the island of Hawaii. Footage captured by the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory shows the lava stream converging into a "single large spout". The 'firehose' of lava produces mesmerising steam clouds (Image: USGS) The large spout makes it appear like a constant bucket of hot r..
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  • Prototypes hit the track in Hyperloop Pod Competition

    Prototypes hit the track in Hyperloop Pod Competition
    SpaceX may not be developing the Hyperloop technology itself, but the company is playing a key role in getting the high-speed transportation system up and running. Over the past year, teams of engineers from universities around the world have been designing and building their visions of the Hyperloop pods, and this past weekend they were finally put to the test on a track near SpaceX's Californian headquarters. Hyperloop, a transportation system that could ferry people and cargo through vacu..
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  • 'Never been this many': plague of jellyfish invade beach

    'Never been this many': plague of jellyfish invade beach
    No, that's not high tide, but a plague of jellyfish beached at Deception Bay north of Brisbane.Local Charlotte Lawson, who took the pictures on Sunday, said she's never seen that many jellyfish on the beach. Play Video Don't Play Up Next Bleach festival: highlights reel Play Video Don't Play More QLD News Videos Previous slide Next slide Jellyfish beach 'creepy' Jellyfish beach 'creepy' Hundreds of jellyfish wash up on a beach at Deception Bay, north of Bris..
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