It’s difficult to imagine a great white shark as anyone’s prey, but carcasses have been washing up on South African beaches this year, and they’re all missing one vital organ. The question, though, is who, or what, is repsonsible. Were this a story on rhinos or elephants, the first and most logical guess would be the human element, but this time the hunters are other ocean dwellers. Terry Goss - Wikipedia Here’s the story from IFLScience: This year, five carcasses of the formidable hunters have been washed up, with the remains ranging in size from 2.

Nobody knows exactly when the Cherokee people came to inhabit the land that now makes up the southeastern United States. Some theorize that they were latecomers to southern Appalachia who migrated down from northern areas during prehistoric times. Others contend that they’d been there for thousands of years. Wikimedia Commons Whatever the case, when they got to their homelands in southern Appalachia, it was already inhabited by a strange people that the Cherokee pushed out.

When a professor used a recent scientific paper to challenge his chemistry students during one of his lectures, little did he know that one of them, would take up the challenge and create a new breakthrough in chemistry. From IFLScience: Inverse.com High school chemistry tells us all about the versatility of carbon. You might recall that carbon is missing four electrons in its outer shell so it’s looking to form up to four bonds.

It seems like every week we’re hearing about some new freaky creature from the depths of the ocean emerging to strike fear into any human even thinking about stepping foot in the water. Such is the case with the creature that researchers spotted swimming off the coast of portugal. Though it’s “new” to most humans, the frilled shark has been around for about 80 million years and is considered a “living fossil,” as Newsweek explains:

The Temple at Kailasa is a marvel to behold. The giant structure, 164 feet deep, 109 feet wide, and 98 feet high, is one of the biggest monolithic structures in the world. And, by “monolithic” we mean that the whole thing was carved out of a single rock. Wikipedia The legend goes that a local king in India suffered from a serious, debilitating disease. His wife offered up a prayer to the Hindu god Ghrishneshwar (Shiva) to cure her husband and, as part of her bargain to save him, vowed to build a temple if he was healed of his disease.

The situation around Kilauea is deteriorating as a giant eruption took place over the weekend at the Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii. The area also saw its first serious injury when a man suffered serious injuries from lava falling from the sky. From EarthSky.org: USGS/DailyMail Kilauea Volcano has been spewing lava and belching hazardous gases on Hawaii’s Big Island since early May, and the BBC reported on Sunday, May 20, 2018, that the situation for residents is “steadily worsening.

Almost a month to the day after launch NASA’s latest planet hunting satellite sent back its first test image to excited scientists back on earth. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to look for nearby exoplanets, and so far it’s performing exactly the way it’s supposed to. NASA Launched on Aril 18, the satellite conducted a moon fly-by in order to get a gravity boos that will help launch it toward its final orbit.

今天是正念日。早上7点的闹钟响起，起床，洗漱，煮上一锅粥，站桩半个小时，吃早饭。吃完早饭，开始收拾房间。随意乱放的衣物整理到衣柜，把脏了的衣物洗净晾晒。没用的纸盒垃圾一并丢弃。最后，用抹布把整个房间擦一遍。有的时候状态不佳、杂念丛生，打扫的过程中会感有些许烦躁，但完成整个过程，看到自己收拾整齐的房间，至少会有小小的成就感。这是我个人的修行。

With Kilauea continuing to rumble and erupt and new development has threatened the homes of the last remaining residents in the Leilani Estates and dashing the hope that this will come to an end sometime soon. There’s now a fast moving lava flow that’s headed straight toward the residential area and isolated about 40 homes, prompting a dramatic helicopter rescue of homeowners who’d been trying to wait out the volcano.

NASA just released some images of nearby galaxies photographed by the Hubble space telescope and they are nothing short of breathtaking. NGC 4490 Galaxy - ESA/Hubble The ultraviolet images were all taken as part of the LEGUS project, which is short for Legacy Extra Galactic UV Survey. As part of this project, scientists studied 50 dwarf and spiral galaxies in our local universe (11 to 58 million light years away) by using old and new Hubble observations.