Neptune's Massive New 'Dark Vortex' Is As Big As The United States
An unusual new feature has appeared on Neptune: a "dark vortex" so massive that it would swallow the United States if it was here on Earth. "Dark vortices coast through the atmosphere like huge, lens-shaped gaseous mountains," Berkeley research astronomer Mike Wong, who led the team that analyzed the Hubble data, said in a news release. "And the companion clouds are similar to so-called orographic clouds that appear as pancake-shaped features lingering over mountains on Earth." A dark vortex on..>> view originalHot Summers In New York May Kill Thousands: How To Avoid Heat-Related Deaths From Climate Change
By 2080, extremely hot summers in New York City could result in the deaths of more than 3,000 residents, new research suggests. Fortunately, there are ways to prevent this from happening. ( Oscar Rohena | Flickr ) There's nothing like summer in New York City, with free concerts in the park, little kids running around open fire hydrants and the overall feeling of being carefree. However, the usually warm summers may take a grim turn, as a new study suggests that by 2080, hot summ..>> view originalNASA Says Earth May Have A New Not-Quite 'Moon'
Anyone who has trouble making new friends should ask Earth how it's done. That's right: Our home world appears to be in the early stage of what could be a very long relationship with a "quasi-satellite," according to NASA. The small asteroid that's orbiting the sun, and which also appears to circle Earth, is called 2016 HO3 -- which sounds more like the name of a "Star Wars" droid -- and was discovered in April by the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope in Hawaii. NASA only recently announced..>> view originalPluto May Harbor a Liquid Ocean
The underground ocean that produced some of the stunning features on Pluto's surface may still be splashing around beneath the crust today. If Pluto's subsurface ocean had frozen over completely, it would have formed highly pressurized ice that would have caused the dwarf planet to shrink, according to new research. The canyons and valleys on Pluto seem to have formed as the dwarf planet swelled up, rather than as it shrank, indicating that a liquid ocean most likely sits beneath the t..>> view originalIn A Deadly Crash, Who Should A Driverless Car Kill -- Or Save?
People can’t make up their moral minds about driverless cars. In a series of surveys published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers asked people what they believe a driverless car ought to do in the following scenario: A group of pedestrians are crossing the street, and the only way the car can avoid hitting them is by swerving off the road, which would kill the passengers inside. The participants generally agreed that the cars should be programmed to sacrifice their passengers if doing ..>> view originalDoubled sensitivity could allow gravitational wave detectors to reach deeper into space
A new squeezed vacuum source could make gravitational wave detectors sensitive enough to study neutron stars. Credit: Eric Oelker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Australian ...>> view originalExperts and activists say saving the bees saves the future
At a “To Bee or Not to Bee” picnic in Buccleuch Park, Environment New Jersey aimed to raise awareness about the issue of bee colony collapse and encourage the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to ban the class of pesticides known. Cheryl MakinEnvironment NJ holds demonstration highlighting the need for beesBuy PhotoMichael Long, owner of Uriah Creek Apiary in Little Egg Harbor spoke at the “To Bee or Not to Bee” picnic in Buccleuch Park Thursday. Environment New Jerse..>> view originalSupermassive Black Hole Belches X-Rays from Shredded Star
A sleeping giant at the center of a galaxy has awoken: A normally dormant, monster black hole has been found shredding a star that ventured too close to the cosmic beast. This stellar slaughter was spotted by scientists who study the X-rays bouncing around the swirling disk of matter surrounding the giant black hole. The method used to analyze this event — named Swift J1644+57 — could help solve the mystery of how the largest black holes in the universe grew to such enormous sizes, the authors o..>> view originalPink Snow Looks Awesome, But Is Another Climate Change Indicator
Some call it pink snow, some call it watermelon snow -- and now, a new study is calling it yet another symbol of the drastic melting in the Arctic. The appearance of the so-called pink snow, which Arctic explorers have observed for centuries, is the result of a red algae that likes to bloom in the frozen water. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found that those algal blooms are causing the ice to melt faster, and the algae is likely to grow more rap..>> view original
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