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Brood II Cicadas Starting To Emerge On U.S. East Coast
NEW YORK (UPI) — Cicadas are starting to pop out of the ground on the U.S. East Coast, with bug watchers expecting a major outbreak that will produce loud buzzing this summer. While just a few have shown up so far, billions of the locust-like bugs will emerge — butt-end first — by June from […]
Skeleton Suggests Starving Settlers In Jamestown Colony Went Cannibal
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable, researchers say, as evidence shows they resorted to cannibalism. In addition to the remains of of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the “Starving Time,” a recent excavation at the site uncovered bones […]
Public Invited To Send Their Names, Message With Mars Mission
GREENBELT, Md. (UPI) — NASA says it is inviting the public to submit names and personal messages for a DVD to be carried on a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. The DVD — part of the mission’s Going to Mars Campaign, run by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric […]
Bones Of Britain’s Richard III Give Clues To His Lifestyle And Death
LEICESTER, England (UPI) — Examination of the skeleton of British King Richard III, found buried in Leicester, suggests he was killed “by advanced military weapons,” researchers said. Scientists who analyzed the bones of the king, killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth, found his skull and jaw were badly damaged, lending support to historical […]
Saturn Doesn’t ‘Look Its Age’ Because Of Internal Composition
EXETER, England (UPI) — Astronomers trying to understand why Saturn “appears young,” brighter than it should, say gas generated deep within keeps it looking young and hot. Planets become darker and cooler as they age, but Saturn is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age, researchers in Britain and France said. Scientists […]
Scientists Warn Of Massive Summer Algae Blooms In Lake Erie
WINDSOR, Ontario (UPI) — Conditions are perfect for a massive bloom of algae to grow in Lake Erie this summer, U.S. and Canadian scientists are warning. Heavy April showers are washing fertilizer off farm fields into rivers and into the Great Lake in amounts that will feed huge algae blooms that starve the lake of […]
Engineers Use Laser To Spot Soviet-Era Russian Moon Rover
MARSEILLE, France (UPI) — French scientists said they’ve used a laser to find a Soviet-era lunar rover on the moon, 42 years after the vehicle was launched to land on the lunar surface. Researchers at the Cote d’Azur Observatory successfully bounced laser signals off a reflector known to be on the eight-wheeled Lunokhod 1 carried […]
Orbiting Telescope Observes Effects As Giant Galaxies Collide
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) — Scientists say NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory has yielded details of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. With as much mass as 10 billion suns, the large reservoir of gas spans about 300,000 light years and radiates at a temperature of more than 12.5 million degrees […]
Cell Study Research Targets ALS, Also Known As Lou Gehrig’s Disease
EVANSTON, Ill. (UPI) — U.S. scientists say dressing brain neurons in fluorescent “jackets” could improve understanding of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. A small group of neurons in the brain’s cortex play a big role in the neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, but they’ve proved hard to study because they are […]
Study: Unexpected Volcano Activity Can Still Be Useful Prediction Tool
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Volcanic eruptions that deviate from normal patterns of pre-event unrest can still help improve forecasts of volcanic activity, U.S. researchers say. A research team led by the Carnegie Institution analyzed the period immediately preceding the 2009 eruption of the Redoubt volcano in Alaska, characterized by an abnormally long period of pre-eruption seismic […]
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