Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Best Seat in Yosemite

Under a blanket of stars, a man takes in the landscape of Yosemite National Park from the edge of the Diving Board, a rock formation at Glacier Point.

Fernandez’s image was recently featured in Your Shot’s Daily Dozen.




from National Geographic http://bit.ly/1LH99Xx

South Africans used milk-based paint 49,000 years ago


New model of cosmic stickiness favors 'Big Rip' demise of universe


Scientists program solitary yeast cells to say 'hello' to one another


Eye color may be linked to alcohol dependence


Repeated courses of antibiotics may profoundly alter children's development


How small genetic change in Yersinia pestis changed human history


Biodegradable, flexible silicon transistors


Patients with recurrent depression have smaller hippocampi


Platelet-like particles boost clotting, slow bleeding


Smell fingerprints? Each person may have a unique sense of smell


Exit dinosaurs, enter fishes


Seeing a supernova in a new light


New genetic form of obesity, diabetes discovered


Eruption of Wolf Volcano, Galapagos Islands


Monday, June 29, 2015

Getting Their Shot

“The Oslo Opera House is a very special place,” writes Wim Uyttenbroeck, who captured this picture in the Norwegian capital. “These three colorful photographers make a nice contrast against the white stone and plate glass of the building. The white clouds in the sky make the picture complete.”



from National Geographic http://bit.ly/1FMjGIS

How dramatic climate change in Southern Sahara reduced largest freshwater lake on Earth to desert dunes we see today in just a few hundred years


First-ever possible treatments for MERS; researchers identify two promising candidates


Sugary drinks linked to high death tolls worldwide


How petunias know when to smell good


Humans around the world dance to the same beat


How your brain knows it's summer


Key element of human language discovered in bird babble


Spiky monsters: New species of 'super-armored' worm


His and her pain circuitry in the spinal cord


Retreating sea ice linked to changes in ocean circulation, could affect European climate


Even stars older than 11 billion years have Earth-like planets


Spirals in the D Ring


How a newborn baby sees you


Extreme makeover: Humankind's unprecedented transformation of Earth


Sunday, June 28, 2015

Put a Wing on It

In this picture by Mohd Khorshid, a willow warbler splashes in a pool of water in Al Ahmadi, Kuwait. Willow warblers pass through the country in large numbers during their long seasonal migrations.



from National Geographic http://bit.ly/1Ns5af7

Friday, June 26, 2015

Tree Top

A lone tree grows on a pillar of quartz and sandstone in China’s Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. There are more than 3,000 such peaks in the Hunan Province park, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its diverse landscape—dense forest, gullies, cliffs, and valleys—shelter macaque and rhesus monkeys, pangolins, and Chinese giant salamanders, as well as rare birds and trees.



from National Geographic http://bit.ly/1LM16pr

Watching Meteors From the Space Station


3-D heart printed using multiple imaging techniques


Attractive female flies harmed by male sexual attention


Solving Saturn’s 2-billion-year age problem


Unexpectedly little black-hole monsters rapidly suck up surrounding matter


Spiral arms cradle baby terrestrial planets


Rapid Ebola diagnostic successful in field trial


Thursday, June 25, 2015

Bay Breach

“This image was captured as we were returning from a fruitless search for active humpback whales,” writes David Howells, who took this picture on Canada’s Witless Bay. “We had given up as the sun was setting and were returning to harbor when this young humpback started breaching right in front of us. Sometimes you just get lucky!”



from National Geographic http://bit.ly/1Nh3Vzj

Supercomputer model shows planet making waves in nearby debris disk


Some forestlands cool climate better without trees, study finds


Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure


Corals are already adapting to global warming, scientists say


Faster internet? Electrical engineers break power and distance barriers for fiber optic communication


Backward-moving glacier helps scientists explain glacial earthquakes


New class of compounds shrinks pancreatic cancer tumors, prevents regrowth


Chimps are sensitive to what is right and wrong


Experimental treatment sends deadly leukemia into remission


Starfish that clone themselves live longer