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Paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning
Transitive interference (or TI) is the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships. An example of this is if A B, B C, C D, and D E, then it can be said that B D. Elizabeth Tibbetts, an evolutionary biologist at the University of MI, believes wasps perform better than bees because they display types of complex social behaviour which isn't seen in bees. [Full Article...]
NASA to crash spacecraft into asteroid in 2022
While much of the work on DART so far has been modeling and simulation, many parts of the spacecraft have started to take shape. It's a spacecraft that's set to launch in 2021, on course to deliberately smash into an asteroid in the fall of 2022. [Full Article...]
Flooding Mississippi River Breaches Levees
The Mississippi's levels slowly fell north of St. Louis after they reached record or near-record highs in many communities. Four deaths last week were blamed on floods. Charles County, near St. Louis, forcing evacuations. National Weather Service hydrologist Mark Fuchs says a levee also broke in Pike County, near Clarksville. [Full Article...]
Paleontologists Discovered A New, Small T-Rex Dinosaur Species
This new one's name is Suskityrannus hazelae . Suskityrannus is one of the last smaller tyrannosauroids, which at 9 feet long would have likely weighed less than 100 pounds and stood only about 3 feet at the hip. The first included a partial skull that was found in 1997 by Robert Denton, now a senior geologist with Terracon Consultants, and others in the Zuni Basin of western New Mexico. [Full Article...]
Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024
Interested in Amazon? Add Amazon as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Amazon news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Bezos, who was dwarfed by his mock-up of the Blue Moon vehicle at his presentation Thursday, says, "This is an incredible vehicle and it's going to the moon". [Full Article...]
Amazon's Bezos says he'll send a spaceship to the moon
Blue Origin is due to lay out plans for missions to the moon and a lunar lander at an event in Washington DC on Thursday night. Bezos said he liked Vice President Mike Pence's challenge to send someone to the moon by 2024 because, "we can help meet that timeline but only because we started three years ago". [Full Article...]
UK has first week without burning coal for electricity
This Easter, it generated 90 consecutive hours of non-coal. But operators already know the grid will not be using any coal to power British homes and businesses before then. The National Grid believes that by 2025 it will be able to fully operate Britain's electricity system with zero carbon. This is backed up by Drax Electric Insights' tracking - providing data courtesy of Elexon, Nationa... [Full Article...]
Reverse vending machines to give cash for recycled bottles
PET-based fizz and water bottles are the main target here. She also detailed her decision not to include high density polyethylene plastic - primarily used for packaging milk - in the scheme, due to concerns over potential contamination. The government says an independent, privately-run, not-for-profit company will be in charge. When will this plan be implemented? Significantly, the Scotti... [Full Article...]