It’s been a war brewing for the last few months, and Wyoming just entered its Hail Mary pass. Only a day after federal court judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Washington D.C. circuit announced that Gray Wolves would once again be inducted to the endangered species list, the state of Wyoming’s Game and Fish Commission appealed to the Secretary of State’s Office in hopes of commencing with its annual wolf-hunting season.
Over its short-lived history, the United States has come to acquire a small list of territories outside of its continental limits. And as it happens some are more well-protected than others.
Searching the night skies in hopes of finding an Earth-like planet amongst distant stars for signs of life, one team of researchers has found the atmospheric water vapor they’ve been looking for on a Neptune-sized planet only 122 light-years away.
Documenting their findings in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a multicellular fossil that predates the earliest of our known ancestors by nearly 60 million years; setting the evolutionary clock back quite a bit.
Pulling together the greatest resources in the world such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Kepler Space Telescope, one team of international astronomers caught the break they were looking for when they discovered clear skies and more importantly water vapor on a planet 122 light years outside of our very own solar system.
In the hot summer sun, we have all been known to leave our water bottles in the car, only to come back later and sip the warm H2O that we forgot hours before. And though the water is just the same, it has acquired a strange plastic taste. Well it turns out that the strange notes you taste may in fact cause cancer or have major effects on your children’s health.
As the Autumn brings with it cooler temperatures and a sense of nostalgia, the season of family get-togethers comes upon us in a flash. But a recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggests that you may want to steer clear from the familiar party snacks.
While maternal breast milk has proven an effective way of passing vital nutrients and immune-boosting proteins into a newborn baby’s system, a new study published in journal JAMA Pediatrics suggests that it may leave premature infants particularly vulnerable to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. In most cases causing serious disease, and in chronic infections, may even lead to death.
