An alien weed creeping through southern Kenya may threaten the largest wildlife migration on the planet, scientists say. The toxic plant, called Santa Maria feverfew, can also sicken people and kill animals.
The building blocks of rocky planets carry small amounts of water. That water may be what forms the oceans on the young planets according to a report by Lindy Elkins-Tanton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the journal Astrophysics and Space Science.
following Minority Report steps?...soon to be a reality.
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"Apple engineer re-creates ancient computer with Legos"
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The Antikythera Mechanism, is, allegedly, the oldest version of a scientific computer. The Greeks, who used to be so clever that they never endured too much of a financial crisis, built it around 100 B.C.
Somehow, it disappeared into history's cracks, until it was unearthed from a shipwreck in 1901. It took imperfect humans another 100 years to work out that its purpose was to mechanically track the bodies that are in outer space in order to anticipate events up there that might affect life down here.