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Five Things About Coral and CORAL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
NASA's new COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) field campaign kicks off its data-gathering phase with an operational readiness test on Oahu, Hawaii, starting the week of June 6 ... How does CORAL work? It uses a new NASA airborne instrument designed specifically to observe coastal environments ... NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records ... http.//www.nasa.gov/earth....

New ‘Einstein Ring’ Discovered By Dark Energy Camera

Edit Universe Today 03 Jun 2016
Gravitational lensing tells us that instead of travelling in a straight line, light from a source can be bent by a massive object, like a black hole or a galaxy, which itself bends space time ... The first is the observer, which in this case means telescopes here on Earth ... This gravity warps space-time so that not only are objects drawn to it, but light itself is forced to travel along a curved path....

Transformers: Earth Wars rolls out on mobile as Backflip releases its second Hasbro game

Edit Venture Beat 03 Jun 2016
Earth Wars, a mobile base-building strategy game (think Clash of Clans, but with the iconic Optimus Prime and Megatron instead of those loony warriors from Supercell’s hit) ... In Earth Wars, you side with either Prime and the Autobots or Megatron and the Decepitcons, and the conflict apparently “decides the fate ... It all happens in real time....

LEAF Festival (Logan City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
The acclaimed Tijuana Cartel will headline on the new music stage at Griffith University's Logan Campus, following performances by fellow Gold Coast bands The Twine and The Hanlon Brothers ... 'Sacred Earth are the one of the nation's leading ambience, spiritual and meditative music performers, and will bring their unique blend of sounds and calming vibes to LEAF for the first time,' she said....

Making bricks from regolith (because there’s no Home Depot on Mars) (College of William and Mary)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
Bob and Dick have to figure out how to make bricks from regolith before their people can leave Earth and begin colonizing Mars ... There are many challenges to establishing a human beachhead on Mars, including finding a water source and dealing with the travel time necessary for making the trip ... 'It's a combination of a lot of things, you know, just like dirt here on Earth....

New maps go beneath Jupiter’s colourful clouds (The University of Melbourne)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
The team will be making further complementary VLA observations at the same time as Juno's microwave instruments are probing for water on the giant planet ... These clouds are easily seen from Earth by optical telescopes. Conversely, the radio maps show ammonia-poor air sinking into the planet, similar to how dry air descends from above the cloud layers on Earth....

Meteor ‘visitor’ turns Phoenix night into day with a boom

Edit Japan Times 03 Jun 2016
An expert in meteorites says a bright flashing light and loud boom over the skies in metro Phoenix looks like a single meteor burning up as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour. Radar footage shows that meteorites — black rocks ranging in size from a pea to a grapefruit — appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Alan Stubbs insists he won’t raid Hibs for top talent

Edit Scotsman 03 Jun 2016
New Rotherham United manager Alan Stubbs has allayed the worst fears of Hibs fans by 
confirming that he will not raid his former club for their leading players ... “I am a down-to-earth guy and I am a respectful guy ... “It was a fantastic time there and I will never have a bad word to say about them or look to slight them....

Record season for Utah ski resorts

Edit Deseret News 03 Jun 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's ski industry set a new record this season with more people hitting the slopes than ever before. Ski Utah reported Thursday that the ski and snowboard industry tallied an all-time high of 4,457,575 skier days for the 2015-16 season — up almost 5 percent from the previous high of 4,249,190 skier days set in the 2007-08 season....

Space X CEO Elon Musk Plans To Send Man To Mars By 2024

Edit Inquisitr 03 Jun 2016
This will be a very big rocket. And it also doesn’t have the capability of getting back to earth ... The first price list came out earlier this year, with prices for two sizes of rockets traveling into two different types of Earth orbit. This is the first time a space company has offered the service of sending payloads to another planet ... Although he plans to build growing cities on the red planet, he said he will not abandon Earth....

The lost (microbe) colony: bacteria make underwater 'ruins' off Greek island

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
@alanyuhas ... A sunken city – or so the snorkelers thought ... They found that methane had jetted, oozed and flowed from within the earth, through a subsurface fault still hidden by the seabed. “The earth’s crust is a rather leaky reservoir,” Andrews said ... Natural gas is more likely to bleed out of the earth in deep water, and most undersea oil fields are found in the deep, making such formations more likely far below the range of divers ... ....

Judd Apatow: ‘Ghostbusters’ haters & Trump supporters ‘are the exact same people’

Edit Zap2it 03 Jun 2016
That movie is made by the great Paul Feig and stars the funniest people on Earth, so I couldn’t be more excited.”. The controversy reached new heights when it was revealed that Leslie Jones, the only African-American Ghostbuster, was also the sole lead in the film not playing a scientist....

Hayley Atwell wants to sign back up as Marvel's 'Agent Carter'

Edit The Examiner 03 Jun 2016
This fall, Hayley Atwell will back in the courts of ABC with her new series "Conviction" ... At the MegaCon Convention in Orlando, Florida, Hayley revealed she would love for a third season of "Agent Carter" and beyond - including seeing Carter becoming one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D, the organization responsible for the initiative of Captain America (Chris Evans) as one of 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' known as the Avengers....
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