What should you do if you're stung by a box jellyfish? It may not be what you think
You’ve heard all the “cures” for jellyfish stings, from meat tenderizer to rubbing sand on it. But do any of them actually work? University of Hawaii professor Angel Yanagihara and John A. Burns School of Medicine postdoctoral fellow Christie Wilcox studied commonly recommended remedies to jellyfish stings from two box jellyfish species, the Hawaiian box jelly (Alatina alata) and the Australian box jelly (Chironex fleckeri). The researchers say box jellies are among the deadliest animals in th..>> view originalThis Valkyrie R5 humanoid robot is put to the test with Mars colonization on the horizon
NASA's Space Robotics Challenge awarded Northeastern University with a $2-million Valkyrie Robonaut 5 (R5) robot, which is now undergoing tests in a Massachusetts warehouse to prepare for the finalist round this June in a virtual simulation of a red-planet landing. The robot arrived at Northeastern in 2015 as part of a proposal that Engineering Professor Taskin Padir sent to NASA for the Space Robotics Challenge software testing, reports Tech Crunch. "They've done all of the hardware and we're ..>> view originalThe Cheerios bee rescue: Can corporations help save pollinators?
March 20, 2017 —All over the world, bees are vanishing, but not just from the wild. The Cheerios cereal mascot, a cartoon honeybee named Buzz, has also disappeared from his usual position on cereal boxes around the United States.The missing mascot is one of the company's attempts to leverage their considerable brand recognition to raise awareness about the plight of missing pollinators, while also calling attention to their product. In addition to the vanished Buzz, the company has also been se..>> view originalStephen Hawking to Visit Space Aboard Virgin Galactic
World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking plans to join an eager lineup of customers for Virgin Galactic suborbital flights.In an interview on Monday with the British program Good Morning Britain, the physicist and cosmologist said that he's been wanting to visit space ever since he experienced a weightless flight aboard a plane that flies parabolic loops to simulate zero gravity. He was likely referring to a Zero Gravity Corp. flight in 2007 aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft call..>> view originalSpaceX's Dragon arrives in San Pedro, delivers groundbreaking research
Research into new life-saving drugs and an array of biological studies arrived in San Pedro early Monday inside the Hawthorne-made SpaceX orbiter Dragon.The pressurized capsule carrying about two tons of science projects splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California on Sunday after a five-hour free-fall from the International Space Station. Parachutes were deployed to soften the Dragon’s ocean landing just before 9 a.m., and the worn-but-intact capsule was picked up by the ship NRC Qu..>> view originalDelta IV delivers daunting display powering international military WGS-9 satcom to orbit
ULA Delta IV rocket streaks to orbit carrying the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) tactical communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force and international partners from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl, at 8:18 p.m. EDT on Mar. 18, …more. On the ...>> view originalThe Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter
Raoul Schwing remembers sitting on a New Zealand mountaintop, watching a kea hovering in front of him, just an arm’s reach away. The large green parrot had jumped into an updraft, and was flying into the rushing air with such skill that it stayed in exactly the same spot. And then, it made an almost imperceptible shift in its wings, and shot off like a cannon. Keas do this a lot, and since they rarely hover more than a meter or so off the ground, they’re clearly not doing it for the view. Inst..>> view originalA new definition would add 102 planets to our solar system — including Pluto - Pittsburgh Post
Is Pluto a planet? It’s not a question scientists ask in polite company. “It’s like religion and politics,” said Kirby Runyon, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University. “People get worked up over it. I’ve gotten worked up over it.” For years, astronomers, planetary scientists and other space researchers have fought about what to call the small, icy world at the edge of our solar system. Is it a planet, as scientists believed for nearly seven decades? Or must a planet be something bigge..>> view originalWhy Scientists Are So Excited About This Solar Eclipse
Darkness settles in. The soft colors of morning quickly dampen and shadows sharpen. As you look up, the sun transforms into a black hole, winter constellations appear, and the seldom-seen corona — that ghostly halo of light that wraps around the sun's surface — becomes visible. The temperature plummets causing birds to grow quiet, farm animals to shuffle to their barns, and crickets to begin their nightly tune. You're now in the shadow of the moon. "It is this incredible multi-sensory experi..>> view original'Cosmos' host Tyson spreading love of science - The Herald
When Neil deGrasse Tyson goes to the movies, he keeps his mouth shut. That’s why he described Wednesday’s presentation at the Indiana University Auditorium as a little self-serving.“The whole talk, I’m saying out loud things that I’ve thought in private watching each film for the first time,” he said in a phone interview recently.Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. But ..>> view original
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