NASA SLS rocket launch rehearsal aborted at 29 seconds | Live Science
So-called pro-life republicans furious - film at eleven.
8-armed Jurassic ‘vampire’ used supersuckers to trap prey, amazing 3D images reveal | Live Science
A Jurassic vampire squid-like creature used supersuckers to snatch prey out of the water column and lock it in place with a watertight seal, 3D imaging of several fossils reveals.
For the first time, scientists used advanced 3D imaging techniques to examine in great detail the prey-snatching suckers of Vampyronassa rhodanica, an extinct relative of the modern vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). The analysis revealed never-before-seen features of the animal’s internal anatomy, scientists reported Thursday (June 23) in the journal Scientific Reports (opens in new tab).
“For the first time, we can show that there was a combination of anatomical characters in V. rhodanica not seen today,” first author Alison Rowe, a doctoral student at the Palaeontology Research Center in Paris (CR2P), a lab backed by Sorbonne University, the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, told Live Science in an email.
The three fossils featured in the study were originally excavated from La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte, an exceptional fossil site located in the Ardèche region of southeastern France. The site is about 164 million years old, meaning it dates to the middle of the Jurassic period (201.3 million to 145.5 million years ago), and it contains a trove of different fossilized marine organisms. …
A truck driver careened into a group of demonstrators in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday as they crossed the street during an otherwise peaceful protest of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The unidentified male driver of a Ford truck rammed into several protesters — all of them women — at the tail end of a procession, rolling over one woman’s ankle and sending her to the hospital, witnesses said.
Hey so this is going to get a LOT of people killed. Not even just in shootouts with police. What the Biden admin believes in this case gives the police a blank check to raid any home they want at any time, and would give them a really convenient way to murder people under the pretense of searching for illegal weapons if Biden’s gun control push passes.
Biden’s assault weapon ban would make America that much more of a violent, dehumanizing police state. We cannot allow this to happen. This is a nightmare for civil rights.
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Mysterious Star Survives a Thermonuclear Supernova Explosion
A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae
A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the complete destruction of a white dwarf star, leaving nothing behind. At least that’s what astrophysics models and observations suggested.
So when a team of astronomers went to examine the site of the peculiar thermonuclear supernova SN 2012Z with the Hubble Space Telescope, they were shocked to discover that the star had survived the explosion. Not only had it survived, but the star was actually even brighter after the supernova than it had been before. First author Curtis McCully, a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara and Las Cumbres Observatory, presented these findings at a press conference at the 240th meeting of the American Astronomical Society and published them in an article in The Astrophysical Journal. The puzzling results provide new information about the origins of some of the most common, yet mysterious, explosions in the universe.
These thermonuclear supernovae, known as Type Ia supernovae, are some of the most important tools in astronomers’ toolkits for measuring cosmic distances. Beginning in 1998, observations of these explosions revealed that the universe has been expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. This is thought to be due to dark energy, the discovery of which won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011. …
