The latest event to be cancelled as a result of the spread of the novel coronavirus is, ironically, a scientific meeting on coronaviruses. From a report: On March 9, the official meeting of the International Nidovirus Symposium, was postponed to 2021. The meeting, which happens only once every three years, was set to take place this May 10 to 14 in…
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Wild horses in the US are being shot with contraceptive darts
Wild horse populations in the western US are growing out of control, but contraceptive darts may be an effective way to stop them breeding Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230651-wild-horses-in-the-us-are-being-shot-with-contraceptive-darts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stunning Warrior Grave — Complete with Chariot, Horses — Uncovered in England
Inside a 2,200-year-old grave, archaeologists have discovered a stunning Iron Age shield, along with a chariot and two ponies buried in a leaping pose. Source: https://www.livescience.com/warrior-grave-shield-discovered-in-england.html
Aldebaran is the Bull’s fiery eye
Aldebaran – brightest star in Taurus the Bull – is easy to spot at one tip of a V-shaped pattern of stars. If this star replaced our sun, its surface would extend almost to the orbit of Mercury. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/aldebaran-is-taurus-bloodshot-eye…
The Placenta ‘Invades’ the Uterus in the Same Way Cancer Invades the Body
The way human pregnancy works may make us more prone to malignant cancer than cows or horses. Source: https://www.livescience.com/both-cancer-and-the-human-placenta-invade-tissue.html
Quantum Computer Made From Photons Achieves New Record
Slashdot reader hackingbear shared this article from Scientific American: In the race to create a quantum computer that can outperform a classical one, a method using particles of light (photons) has taken a promising step forward. Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, both at the University of Science and Technology of China, and their colleagues improved a quantum computing technique called boson…
Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why
Stone Age artists loved drawing horses. One possible explanation is that this was because they believed horses were the most important of all the animals Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223567-stone-age-artists-were-obsessed-with-horses-and-we-dont-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
This ancient rhino roamed the Yukon
Fossils suggest that a long-extinct cousin of today’s rhinoceroses tromped through the forests of Northwest Canada roughly 8 to 9 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/extinct-rhino-fossils-alaska-yukon…
Samsung Satellite Crashes Into Family’s Backyard
“A Michigan family was shocked to find a space satellite in their yard Saturday morning,” reports a local TV station:
Nancy Mumby-Welke shared the video on Facebook, walking up to a satellite lying on its side. “You never know what’s going to happen,” Welke says in the video. “This baby fell out of the sky and landed in our yard,” she went…
A Growing Community Called Randonauts Believe That Journeying To Random Locations Can Help Put Us in New Realities
A small but quickly growing online community believes that transforming randomly generated numbers into clusters of location data could help us tunnel out of reality. Their name for themselves: Randonauts. From a report: It’s a sad truth that most of our lives are pretty boring, geographically speaking. Live in one place long enough and you will develop routines, walking the same…