Mexico's Colima volcano erupts, forcing nearby communities to evacuate
Mexico's Colima volcano erupts, forcing nearby communities to evacuate Updated October 01, 2016 18:47:36 Mexico's Colima volcano has erupted, spewing a large plume of ash and thick black smoke into the sky and forcing the evacuation of two nearby villages.Chief of National Emergency Services, Luis Felipe Puente, said some 350 villagers living in the shadow of the volcano in the towns of La Yerbabuena and La Becerrera had been evacuated to a nearby shelter.The volcano is..>> view originalDid NASA just change your zodiac sign?
Mary Schwalm for The Boston Globe Keri Califano of Boston said that seeing her zodiac sign switched to Capricorn is motivation to have her Aquarius tattoo removed after two decades. It seemed like a good idea at the time. On a trip to Florida a few years back, Lorinda Gevry had her zodiac sign, Gemini, tattooed on her ankle. She’d always taken an interest in the cosmos, and the personality traits said to be associated with Gemini -- artistic, fun, multifaceted -- seemed to fit Gevry perfe..>> view originalWild Medicine: there are greater truths in nature than our brains can comprehend
Illustration by Greedy Hen / The Jacky Winter Group Myrtle, King Billy, Huon Pine, Sassafras – I know these trees now. I know their foliage, their wood, the way the light strikes them in a rainforest and the shapes their shadows make on the forest floor. I know the orange glow of "fagus" (Nothofagus gunnii, Tasmania's deciduous beech) out on an alpine shelf – spread like a patchwork quilt of gold leaf across seemingly endless fields of rocks and jewel-like tarns. The quilt lasts only a..>> view originalMini quadruped robot may bound its way into your heart
Although people are fascinated by quadruped robots such as those made by Boston Dynamics, it's unlikely that they'll ever be able to afford such complex machines themselves. Scale things down a bit, though, and four-legged-robot-ownership starts becoming more of a possibility. Such is the case with Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics' Ghost Minitaur, which could be scuttling down a street near you someday soon. Unlike larger quadrupeds that we've seen before, the Minitaur is just 400 mm long (..>> view original'The money is a nice part of the process': on winning a Nobel prize
On the morning of 28 October 1954, Mary Welsh Hemingway, fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway, was asleep in bed when her husband crawled in alongside her to whisper: “I’ve won the thing.” “What thing?” “The Swedish thing.” He meant, of course, the Nobel prize in literature, but for the novelist, the news was not entirely welcome. “I’m thinking of telling them to shove it,” he said, then paused. “Hell, it’s $35,000 [equivalent to about £240,000 today]. A man can have a lot of fun with $35,000.” Next..>> view originalWatch: NASA's telescope finds record-breaking binary in nearby galaxy
LMC P3 (circled) is located in a supernova remnant called DEM L241 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 163,000 light-years away. (NASA - Image Courtesy). Shares7. Sat, 1 Oct 2016-04:56pm , Washington , PTI. LMC P3 contains a massive ...>> view originalHumans are descended from murderous beasts (but civilization has tamed us)
Some of the 139 skulls in the Hyrtl Skull Collection of Europeans from the 1800s at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Penn. Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species, according to a new study. (Elizabeth Robertson / Tribune News Services file photo) By Seth BorensteinThe Associated PressSat., Oct. 1, 2016WASHINGTON — Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species, but civilization has tamed som..>> view originalExplorers have found the deepest underwater cave on Earth
Explorers in the Czech Republic have just completed an expedition to the underwater cave Hranická Propast - also known as the Hranice Abyss - verifying for the first time since its discovery in 1999 that it really is the deepest underwater cave on Earth. The team, led by Polish diver Krzysztof Starnawski, managed to reach a depth of 404 metres (1,325 feet) using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which means this limestone cavern is 12 metres (39 feet) deeper than the second deepest underwater ..>> view original
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