A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich will end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday, making Donald Trump the party's presumptive nominee. Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the Ohio governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday. The officials spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to disclose Kasich's decision ... ---....
(Source. University of Cambridge) ... The researchers say the method can be used to monitor biodiversity change and complete information on bat species distributions in remote and understudied regions in Mexico ... Co-author, ProfessorKate Jones, UCL and ZSL, said ... Inset image. The western yellow bat (Lasiurus xanthinus) is a species of vesper bat found in Mexico and the south-western United States (UCL/ZSL) ... OriginalDocument ... (noodl....
Researchers have long thought that the only living terrestrial mammal endemic to the islands is the Hawaiian hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus semotus, which dispersed from mainland North America between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago... The genus name comes from Greek "synemporos," for "fellow traveler or companion," a reference to its co-occupation of the tectonically mobile islands with Lasiurus cinereus semotus....
Hawaii just doubled the number of known land mammal species that are native to the islands, thanks to the discovery of a number of fossils representing a tiny bat named Synemporion keana ... [Photos. The Creatures That Call Lava-Tube Caves Home]. S ... Many of S ... The bats coexisted for thousands of years until S ... View gallery ... Skulls and jaws of Synemporion keana (A., top) and the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus semotus (B., bot …....
(Source. Duke University). Durham, NC - A first draft of the "tree of life" for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released ... "Think of it as Version 1.0." ... It is also described in an article appearing Sept ... The eastern red bat, for example, is often listed under two scientific names, Lasiurus borealis and Nycteris borealis ... (noodl....
Bats have an image problem. Who likes the idea of flying mice?. Sure, they can fly – they’re actually the only mammal capable of true and sustained flight. But they are not rodents. Take this quiz to find out how much – or how little – you know about bats ... Museum of Natural Sciences. John Bordsen ... True ... The largest bat, and generally one of the most spectacular in appearance, is the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) ... ....