World unites to save pangolin and other top stories.

• World unites to save pangolin

  After months of vociferous lobbying, conservationists succeeded in eliciting the support of 19 countries to totally ban all trade, except for scientific research, of the endangered pangolin – an animal that has earned the unfortunate label of “the most trafficked mammal” in the world.Unlike the high-profile marketing drives undertaken on behalf of elephants, rhinos, tigers, leopards and lions, pangolins remained under the radar of mainstream conservation campaigns.In the extensive agenda of the ..

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• Study: Innately murderous humans becoming less so

  

  WASHINGTON — Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species, but civilization has tamed some of the savage beast in us, according to a new study. Scientists calculated the rate at which more than 1,000 mammal species kill their own kind, and noticed how closely related species have similar rates of lethal violence. They essentially found that where a species is on evolutionary tree of life tells a lot about how violent the species is to its own kind..

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• UFO Hunter Spots Glowing Blue Light in NASA Live Feed

  

  Oct 02, 2016 04:24 AM EDT A UFO specialist claims to have caught a blue-light on NASA's live feed at the International Space Station minutes before the feed was cut off. The said blue light is reportedly a UFO and that NASA's move of cutting off the feed is a move to hide UFO evidence. Streetcap1 , the known prolific UFO hunter, caught sight of the alleged UFO during NASA's live stream at the International Space Station (ISS) on September 30. In the video, the UFO reportedly flew close to the..

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• Ocean warriors unveil new high-speed ship

  Sea Shepherd Global was bought at a cost of $9.3m and funded by public lotteries in Britain, The Netherlands and SwedenAMSTERDAM: With its distinctive pirate-like flag flying from the mast, the sleek, high-speed concrete grey Ocean Warrior is the latest weapon in a bitter war between marine conservationists and Japan’s whaling fleet.“The one thing that we were missing in our fleet was a vessel with speed and endurance,” said Alex Cornelissen, chief executive of Sea Shepherd Global.“With the Ocea..

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• Czech Republic home to world's deepest known underwater cave

  

  Explorers knew that the Czech Republic cave called Hranická Propast was deep. But until a team of spelunkers led by Krzysztof Starnawski delved deeper, nobody knew just how deep it was.The team determined on Tuesday that Hranicka Propast was 1,325 feet deep, the deepest cave on Earth yet discovered. The previous record holder, a cave in Italy called Pozzo del Merro, was measured at a mere 1,286 feet deep.To aid in their discovery, the team used a remote operated vehicle (or ROV) to plumb the ca..

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• NASA's Search for Dark Matter Continues with Help of Gamma-Rays

  

  Oct 02, 2016 04:27 AM EDT Despite still not having physical evidence of dark matter, researchers at NASA continue to look for the elusive substance. Theorized to make up about 80 percent of all matter in the universe, dark matter is also an essential component in the formation and rotation of the galaxies. So how close is NASA to finding the mysterious dark matter? In the ongoing search for dark matter, something that does not give off or absorb light, scientists believe Gamma-rays will be ab..

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• Does Elon Musk's Plan Violate The Outer Space Treaty - Planetary Protection For Mars After Human Crashes

  

  Elon Musk does care about the science impact of introducing Earth microbes to Mars. Here he answers a question on this topic, in the 2015 AGU conference in San Francisco, 30 minutes into this video:So, it's clear (as I'd expect actually), he does think it is important we don't extinguish any native Mars life. But he thinks there isn't any present day life on the surface. But is that right?As you see, there's an almost bewildering variety of suggestions for habitats on Mars for life. The main sur..

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