The skeleton of an ancient sea monster discovered more than 50 years ago in Scotland has paleontologists excited over the quantity of bones found and anxious to learn more about the reptile, VOA reported Sunday. Using modern fossil extraction methods, the bones of the sea monster was able to be removed from hard rock. The previously unknown reptile lived in the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs, the report said ... ....
(CNN)Thousands dead. Millions more driven from their homes. A future far from certain. This is the situation in Iraq today ... READ MORE. High stakes for Iraq's future ... Read More ... THE CRISIS IN NUMBERS ... Replay ... In the two years it has held the city, ISIS has built an elaborate network of defenses, including moats filled with oil that stretch around the outskirts of the city, ready to be set ablaze to obscure the vision of coalition air power....
Ever since the first exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) was discovered in 1995 by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz, there has been renewed activity and interest in this field. The Kepler and K2 missions of NASA have identified thousands of planet candidates. Now there are nearly 5,000 planet candidates, and of these, some 3,397 have been confirmed as planets, according to the NASA exoplanet archive ... This unit began taking data in 2012 ... ....
Click here for reuse options!. JournalistAmy Goodman was faced with charges of trespassing that have since been dropped ...The new charge comes after the prosecutor dropped criminal trespassing charges ... The charge in State of North Dakota v ... Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning public television/radio news program that airs on over 1,400 stations worldwide....
NEW ORLEANS — The NationalWWIIMuseum in New Orleans is a multibuilding behemoth that provides an immersive experience for visitors ... Because of the connection to Higgins, it was decided that New Orleans was the ideal setting for a new NationalD-DayMuseum, which opened June 6, 2000, in an old warehouse ... Within a decade, the museum had swallowed up five buildings and had a bigger purpose ... The National WWII Museum....
The world’s military powers are quietly readying for a war in outer space — at the risk of fueling a dangerous new arms race ... Initially, the reserve of the US and the Soviet Union, space has now become accessible to an ever-expanding multitude of nations and private firms ... A ‘militarized’ space ... I believe it’s essential that we go faster in our responses,” US AirForceSpaceCommand head GeneralJohn Hyten told lawmakers last month....
the world's military powers are quietly readying for a war in outer space -- at the risk of fueling a dangerous new arms race ... And Moscow and Beijing are keen to show off their space-attack capabilities, a deep worry for US strategists ... A ';militarized' space ... I believe it's essential that we go faster in our responses," GeneralJohn Hyten, head of the AirForce's SpaceCommand, told lawmakers in September....
Publicspaces for the next generations ... Public spaces for the next generations ... The Minister said initiatives by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority to revitalise the area through space activation and new programming had created an urban space where people were now comfortable to linger and enjoy. 'The newmuseum, which is due to open in 2020, ......
According to Prof Lochan, during his tenure he was successful in bringing 1.4 million visitors to the museum that boasts of more than 17,000 permanent collections ... He defines, “Museum is not a warehouse ... If you believe what you have thought, and what you have believed once is the only way possible, there shall be no inference and museum is that space which allows you that opportunity.”....
MEMPHIS -- Five miles due north of Graceland, the Stax Museum of AmericanSoul Music sits in a neighborhood that Yelp! commentators call "sketchy" and locals call "Soulsville." ... And a movie theater marquee announcing the Stax Museum... But the Stax Museum of American Soul Music has invited us to compare and contrast the styles by hosting an exhibit, which will be up through Nov ... The aural space is different....
China is ready for its longest-ever manned space mission with a spacecraft carrying two astronauts set to lift off tomorrow to dock with an experimental lab for a month-long stay under the Communist giant's ambitious plans to establish its own permanent space station by 2022 ... The mission will be carried out with a Long March-2F carrier rocket, Wu Ping, Deputy Director of China's manned space engineering office said....
The 50-year-old Jing will be commander of the mission, Wu Ping, deputy director of China's manned space engineering office, told a press conference ... The spacecraft will dock with orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 within two ......
The park (commonly referred to as Retiro Park) used to be a royal preserve, but now it’s one of the most democratic spaces in Madrid... I first discovered Retiro Park following a visit to the PradoMuseum (located next to it) ... Whether I’m walking along the waterfront promenade past the buildings all faded to pastels or exploring the streets of the medieval quarter, the air always seems filled with light....
In addition to this, the space is one of the last open spaces in the area and has massive potential ... He celebrated the move to clean air, as well as the reduction in tariffs when compared with previous administrations and the EU average for both commercial and house-hold electricity rates....