Where's Tyche, the 10th 9th planet? Getting the full story. John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette recently made the news when they announced the possible discovery of a gas giant planet they named
Tyche in the Oort Cloud, at the extreme edge of the Solar System (
previously). Now ars electronica breaks down the evidence behind the announcement, what can be done to confirm or disprove its existence & how long it could take.
posted by scalefree
on Mar 3, 2011 -
17 comments
On April 23, 2009 Natalia Rybczynski, Mary R. Dawson, and Richard H. Tedford published their paper "
A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia" in the journal,
Nature, detailing their 2007 discovery of the species they have named
Puijila darwini.
The carnivorous marine mammal,
which lived about 21 to 24 million years ago, was discovered practically by
accident, but as a "transitional fossil" is
re-writing our understanding of pinniped evolution. It could also be noted that it was most likely
cute as all get out, and is already the star of it's
own mini documentary.
posted by vertigo25
on Apr 29, 2009 -
28 comments
So yesterday I posted
the story about how researchers had discovered that both sexes cared about appearance when selecting dates. Today
Stanford (!!) releases the startling discovery that cars get hot when parked in the sun. Meanwhile K State learns that
women feel better about their bodies when complemented, and the other shocker story is that problem gamblers share traits with
substance abusers. And how about that New Scientist story about the fact we're
entering a dark age? So what's up with science lately, particularly in America?
posted by Fozzie
on Jul 5, 2005 -
108 comments
