[ad_1] Duck-billed dinosaurs evolved in North America and spread to South America, Asia, Europe and eventually Africa. Photo credit: Raul Martin The first fossils of a duck-billed dinosaur were discovered in Africa, suggesting that the dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometers of open water to get there. The study, published in …
Read More »Mars follows, but Trojan asteroid 101429 may be related …
[ad_1] Mars is infested, not only with people keeping an eye on future missions and potential off-earth colonies, but also with another space rock. This asteroid is much smaller than the red planet. Otherwise known as a Trojan, it follows the orbit of a planet because it is gravitationally trapped …
Read More »Look at the sky next week to see the Tauride …
[ad_1] Amateur astronomers and sky watchers will need to keep an eye on the sky next week as the taurid meteor shower can lead to impressive fireballs. Fireballs are a technical term for extremely bright meteors that roam the atmosphere. For those unfamiliar, Taurids are divided into Northern Taurids and …
Read More »Duck-billed dinosaurs crossed the sea to Africa
[ad_1] A team of paleontologists announces the discovery of a hadrosaur, or “duck-billed dinosaur”, in Africa. This interesting preview brings out the even more intriguing idea that these dinosaurs crossed the sea to reach this continent. The Hadrosauridae, better known as “duck-billed dinosaurs”, are a very common family of ornithopod …
Read More »Fixed a longstanding conundrum about glacial lake flooding
[ad_1] A long-standing secret of the glacial lake is the floods or “Jokulhlaups” that arise suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps. Scientists have long studied the evolution of these floods, which are among the largest in the world. These floods affect the movement of some glaciers and pose …
Read More »Bursts of radio waves in space can come from the nuclei of …
[ad_1] This is an internal scientific story. Astronomers have seen a handful of extremely intense and short radio waves since 2007, but they have yet to determine exactly what creates them. The explosions have sparked all sorts of speculations about their origins, from exploding or colliding stars to alien civilizations. …
Read More »The discovery of a dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago …
[ad_1] The source said a team of researchers from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom discovered the first fossil of a duck-billed dinosaur in Morocco, in the west, at sunset. The team said the dinosaur’s remains were discovered in Rocks near the White House It is currently the …
Read More »How cellular processes round and dispose of damaged proteins
[ad_1] Photo credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent paper with the findings, which Eric Strieter, lead author at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, describes as “incredibly surprising,” he and his chemistry lab team report that they have discovered how an enzyme called UCH37 regulates the system of waste management …
Read More »The discovery of a dinosaur that lived 66 million years ago …
[ad_1] The source said a research team from the University of Bath in Britain discovered the first fossil of a duck-billed dinosaur in Morocco, in the west, at sunset. The team claimed that the dinosaur’s remains were discovered in Rocks near what became a White House town. It is currently …
Read More »Scientists discover part of the moon orbiting Mars
[ad_1] Irish astronomers have discovered that an asteroid orbits Mars, possibly a part that has separated from the moon.Scientists have classified asteroid 101429 as a Trojan asteroid, which are small celestial bodies trapped in balanced gravitational regions in the near-sun orbits of the planets, the so-called Lagrange points, located 60 …
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