On Sunday Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton explained her platform on environmental policy in a video posted to her campaign website. She said that she plans to set the US on a path toward generating enough renewable energy to power every household by 2027. From CNN: “I am just a grandmother with two eyes and …
On Sunday night, an asteroid with a core containing platinum said to be worth $5 trillion passed within 1.5 million miles of Earth, as researchers drooled over the possibility of one day mining space for valuable minerals, according to Forbes. The first detailed images of Asteroid 2011 UW158 were released last week by Puerto Rico’s …
The United States, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Canada have signed a deal to ban unregulated fishing near the North Pole, where melting sea ice from the Arctic may draw cod, scientists say. The region currently has no commercial fish stocks. The agreement is a preventative measure. David Balton, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for …
Japanese social media (especially twitter) has gone crazy over what probably wins (by a landslide) the award for cutest sea slug Called Jorunna parva, the sea slug’s “bunny ears” are actually rhinopores (chemosensory scent/taste organs). These “sea bunnies” can be found in the Indian Ocean from the Philippines to Japan. Image Credits & to see more
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to NASA TV, you’ll see the last two daily briefings from the New Horizons/Pluto Missions. What will we see? The atmosphere (pardon the pun) is abuzz with excitement. There are even cool campaigns such as the “find your pluto time ” tool on Nasa’s website. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/ Using this …