While rainbows often arch across wide area of the sky, glories tend to be much smaller and comprise a series of colored concentric rings centered on a bright core.
McCall's latest effort, to plot out bright galaxies within 35-million light years of us, has found galaxies are positioned along relatively thin stretches of space surrounded by dark matter.
The weather veered away from little if any precipitation when Khan came into power into the wettest period for the area during the last millennium, resulting in far more abundance across the countryside.
Researchers ventured to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, where family groups of elephants were played audio recordings of the local Maasai and Kamba ethnic tribes.
The newly developed LED is based off of two-dimensional, flexible semiconductors, making it possible to stack or use in much smaller and more diverse applications than current technology allows.
The study looks to usher in a new era when those who know they are very likely to suffer the degenerative condition in the future can start developing treatment strategies for Alzheimer's at an earlier stage.
The prolific predictions come a little over two months since recreational sales officially started in the Centennial State --- and buyers were immediately met with hour-long waits at pot dispensaries.
Koichi Wakata, 50, had served as space station flight engineer since he and two crew mates arrived to the $100-billion flying research facility since last November.
Scientists out of the University of East Anglia in England have reported four new man-made gases known to damage the earth's protective layer of ozone, even though the production on almost all similar gases has been outlawed since 1987.
An aurora is the visual effect created when charged solar particles hit the Earth's magnetic field, either through a steady stream via solar wind or via a coronal mass ejection, the expulsion of solar particles from the sun's surface.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted funding included in the 2015 budget for a series of robotic exploration missions to Europa, which agency officials suggest will launch in the mid-2020s.
Bloom, a Democrat, explained he was inspired to launch the proposed ban after seeing the documentary film "Blackfish," which was released in 2012 and recounts the story of a SeaWorld trainer who died in 2010.
Comprising 14 industry-leading tax software companies, the Free File Alliance has partnered with the IRS since 2003 to offer assistance to low and middle-income Americans as they prepare their federal tax returns online.
The FAA had asserted Pirker's flight, with a plane that was built with a foam wing and weighed less than 5 pounds, was "careless and reckless," therefore qualifying it under the agency's jurisdiction to enforce flying safety.
The two-week advertising run, which began last Saturday, will air the commercial about 800 times between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., explained Jason Draizin, founder and CEO of MarijuanaDoctors.com.
A just-released study suggests 136 out of 700 locations included on the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture list of World Heritage sites will be affected in the long-term by encroaching ocean water.
Passing six times closer than the moon, the asteroid at its closest will be an estimated distance of 38,300 miles, or, 61,600 kilometers, for the blue planet. That equals about four or five Earth-diameters away, not be visible to the naked eye.
The dinosaur Torvosaurus gurneyi , a distant cousin of the widely-recognized Tyrannosaurus Rex , was a apparently ruled the carnivores of the Iberian Peninsula about 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic period.
Released by the Obama Administration today, the federal government's Fiscal Year 2015 budget sets aside $17.5 billion for the space agency, which Administrator Charles Bolden asserts will push United States research "farther in the solar system" and usher in "a new era" of exploration.
The scientists have also piloted a project that employs probes ingested by sharks and other high-profile ocean hunters, like tuna, to better understand the creatures' feeding habits.
Evidence suggests the prehistoric travelers lived on the Bering land bridge an estimated 25,000 years ago until about 15,000 years ago, when they began pushing into the Americas.
Scientists indicate the condition and placement of the whale bones demonstrates the large animals died at sea, before reaching their final resting place on a tidal flat.
The fresh discoveries were made by the Kepler space telescope, an orbiting observatory trained towards the far reaches of space in search of Earth-like worlds.
