Interestingly, the ants working in the sanitation department don’t remove the poop as they do with other waste (other dead ants, etc). This behavior is still a mystery for now.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-designate-space-their-nest-tiny-toilets
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/math-gifs-will-help-you-understand-these-concepts-better-your-teacher-ever-did
Update: The launch got cancelled due to high winds. Both otherwise it would have been a busy day with a launch and recovery on the same day.
“Tuesday will be a busy day, but SpaceX has planned and prepared for this scenario,” spokesman John Taylor said. “We have separate operations and recovery teams on both coasts, so we are equipped to handle both events simultaneously.”
via West to East Coast: SpaceX Ready for Extreme Multitasking : Discovery News.
Thanks to a novel application of earthquake-reading technology, a research team at the University of Illinois and colleagues at Nanjing University in China have found that the Earth’s inner core has an inner core of its own, which has surprising properties that could reveal information about our planet.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-earth-geologists-mysteries-planet-core.html#jCp
biomass electricity production combined with carbon capture and sequestration could actually store more carbon than they emit and make a critical contribution
via Electricity from biomass with carbon capture could make western US carbon-negative.
