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New Images Show Enormous Glacier On Mars

 

 

http://www.iflscience.com/space/beautiful-panorama-mars

 

"It's a beautiful shot of the Martian surface, although the warm colors make it easy to forget that the average surface temperature is actually a chilly -63°C (-81°​F)."

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This is a rare phenom that I've witnessed twice in my neighborhood. We are in a valley of sorts and it seems to cause strange weather within the confines of the depression.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

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First seed withdrawal from 'doomsday' vault prompted by Syrian civil war

 

 

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/23/9381273/svalbard-global-seed-vault-first-withdrawal

 

"Scientists are preparing to make the first ever withdrawal from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed bank built in an abandoned Arctic coal mine that's designed to preserve crops and plants in the event of global disaster. The civil war in Syria has prompted the withdrawal, with researchers in the Middle East requesting seeds to replace those previously stored in a gene bank in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo."

 

More info: https://www.croptrust.org/what-we-do/svalbard-global-seed-vault/interactive-visit/

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Now We Know What Causes Tinnitus

 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/now-we-know-what-causes-tinnitus-that-never-ending-ringing-in-your-ears?utm_source=mbfb

 

Chronic pain and tinnitus, the incessant ear ringing that affects up to 30 percent of the adult population, may share a common source, new research shows. The finding may bring millions of people who suffer from both conditions a step closer to finding relief.

 

A study published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences found the “phantom pain” in both disorders often begins as a response to an injury, but continues when a faulty “circuit breaker" in the brain is unable to properly process the pain or noise.

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Now We Know What Causes Tinnitus

 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/now-we-know-what-causes-tinnitus-that-never-ending-ringing-in-your-ears?utm_source=mbfb

 

Chronic pain and tinnitus, the incessant ear ringing that affects up to 30 percent of the adult population, may share a common source, new research shows. The finding may bring millions of people who suffer from both conditions a step closer to finding relief.

 

A study published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences found the “phantom pain” in both disorders often begins as a response to an injury, but continues when a faulty “circuit breaker" in the brain is unable to properly process the pain or noise.

 

Man that would be awesome. My sis has bad tinnitus from hearing loss as a result of cancer treatment. Really bad when she forgets to wear her hearing aids.

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NASA Will Announce A Major Mars Discovery On Monday

 

 

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

 

NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

 

Watch live on NASA Television and ask questions using #askNASA: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

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Supermoon Lunar Eclipse

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11891850/Supermoon-lunar-eclipse-Where-how-and-what-time-can-I-see-it-start-on-Sunday-Monday-and-when-will-it-end.html

 

There's still time to see a rare blood-red eclipse due to begin at 1:10am (BST) Monday.

 

The last time this coincided with a lunar eclipse, when the moon is covered by the Earth's shadow, was in 1982 and the event will not be repeated until 2033. During a lunar eclipse, the moon turns a deep rusty red, due to sunlight being scattered by the Earth's atmosphere.

 

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NASA Will Announce A Major Mars Discovery On Monday

 

 

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

 

NASA will detail a major science finding from the agencys ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

 

Watch live on NASA Television and ask questions using #askNASA: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

I take it the announcement was that they'd found water there phology?

But they can't inspect it due to contamination which instantly made me think then wtf are we doing there in the first place?

 

Kinda selfish ain't we when you look at it like that.

Not content in knackering our own planet 😕

 

As long as they put wifi there I ain't arsed 👌🏽

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You should all come and work with me for a day. Then you'll see the harsh dull reality of the working scientist.

 

As a PhD Student in Embedded Systems... I feel ya hahaha. Resistance to frustration is a must!

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R&D does sound interesting mate, I presume there's going to be loads of tedious bits to it, but I bet people with asthma see the relevance of your efforts. Fair play to ya our kid I'd be buzzin with a job title like that 👍🏽

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To be fair I enjoy my job and can mostly dodge the mega tedious aspects of it. As I tell our young whippersnappers, you can't avoid monotony in empirical science. The experiments can be practically dull but the results and data interpretation are the cool bits. A bit of tedious lab work is alright by me, as long as I have the radio on.

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Thousands of Nasa Apollo mission photos uploaded online

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/page1

 

Around 13,000 scans of images from Nasa's archives, taken across ALL manned Apollo missions between 1961 and 1972 have been given to founder of the Project Apollo Archive Kipp Teague.

 

Kipp launched the gallery in 1999, but following questioning about decisions to edit some images in the past, he was prompted to post unedited, high-resolution images this time around.

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