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• The Metaphorical Meaning of a Moth Named After Trump

  Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, named for the distinctive wave of yellowish-white scales that cascades forward from the moth’s head.CreditPhotograph Courtesy Vazrick Nazari / ZooKeys Until this week, the genus Neopalpa consisted of a single species of moth, Neopalpa neonata, about which virtually nothing is known beyond its underwhelming appearance. The size of a thumbnail, with dark, mottled wings folded straight back, N. neonata could be mistaken for a dishevelled roach or a tiny, moth-eaten but..

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• NASA Cassini Spacecraft Grazes Saturn's Rings, Captures Closest View Of Ringed Planet's Tiny Moon Daphnis

  

  Thanks to the ring-grazing passes of NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the outer edges of Saturn's rings, stunning images of Daphnis - the tiny moon of Saturn - have been captured. While clicking the snaps, Cassini was 17,000 miles away from Daphnis and it got the most up-close view, according to NASA. Daphnis is considered the most important among the 62 confirmed moons of Saturn. It may be a tiny dot when compared to the massive Saturn, yet it makes a big impact on its surroundings. Saturn is a gi..

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• Atlas V Rocket Launches US Missile-Warning Satellite

  

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida today (Jan. 20) to put a missile-detection and early warning satellite into orbit for the U.S. military. The 19-story-tall rocket bolted off its seaside launch pad here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:42 p.m. EST (0042 GMT Saturday), kicking off the first of 11 missions on ULA's 2017 calendar. Launch was delayed one day after a plane flew into restricted launch airspace during the final m..

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• Glorious New NASA Video Imagines a Landing on Pluto

  

  GIF Using 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over the course of six weeks, NASA has produced a colorized video showing what it would be like to approach and land on Pluto. Prepare yourself for a marvelous trip. To create the video, NASA scientists had to deduce Pluto’s actual colors from the many black-and-white photos taken by the probe. Following that step, they stacked lo-res color images taken by New Horizon’s Ralph instrument on top of the monochr..

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• Needham Divided On Two Biotech Players: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD), ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ACAD)

  

  Needham analyst Alan Carr is out with a mixed research report today on biotech players Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) and ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ACAD). When considering upcoming events for the new year, though the analyst is ...

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• Huge crack in Antarctic ice shelf grows by 6 more miles

  

  CLOSE A nearly 2,000-square-mile section of the Larson C ice shelf is hanging on by a thread. Video provided by Newsy NewslookThis Nov. 10, 2016, aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf.(Photo: John Sonntag, AP)A crack in an ice shelf in Antarctica grew by six miles in the past few weeks, British scientists say, and now measures more than 100 miles long.Once the crack is complete, a giant iceberg larger than Rhode Island will break or ..

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• Ancient warm period hints at bigger-than-expected sea level rise

  

  A woman is battered by a wave as he walks along the seafront in New Brighton, northern England Thomson Reuters By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Sea levels could rise by a greater-than-expected six meters (20 ft) over many centuries even if governments cap global warming around current levels, scientists said on Thursday, based on clues from an ancient warm period. Sea levels have risen by about 20 cms (8 inches) in the past 100 years, with a thaw of ice from Greenl..

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• Female Shark Reproduces without a Male After Years in Solitude

  

  By Ian Bongso-Seldrup, January 20, 2017 @ 11:25 PM (EST)Source: New Scientist A female zebra shark in an aquarium in Townsville, Australia has proven that she doesn’t need to rely on a man to get what she wants. Despite being separated from any potential suitors since 2012, early last year “Leonie” produced three baby sharks anyway—all by herself. While it is known that certain animals—sharks, rays, turkeys, snakes, and Komodo dragons, for example—can reproduce asexually (even though they usua..

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