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An Arctic Fox Has Been Tracked Walking 2,700 Miles From Norway All The Way to Canada
At first, the scientists wondered whether it was a mistake.
Just 21 days after leaving the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, an arctic fox had arrived in Greenland. And in less than three months, it made it to Canada. The fox averaged nearly 30 miles a day (50 kilometers) — some days, though, it walked almost 100 (160 kilometers).
“When it started happening, we thought ‘is this really true?’” said Arnaud Tarroux, one of the researchers who tracked the female fox. Was there “an error in the data?”
Final cut: films condensed into a single frame – in pictures
Jason Shulman photographs entire movies with ultra-long exposures, creating impressionist photo masterpieces in the process.
Main image: The Wizard of Oz (1939)Photograph: Jason Shulman courtesy the artist and Cob Gallery.
We should care more about the deep sea than we do deep space
If we loved the deep sea as much as deep space, we might not have so many environmental problems.
Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Make Fuel and Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Says Study
Millions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research from Norway and Switzerland and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS, as NBC News reported. The floating islands could drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels.
The Second Coming of the Robot Pet
Man’s best friend isn’t a dog—it’s a doglike robot, designed to perform tricks and tug at your heartstrings.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says major Starship engine bug is fixed as Raptor testing continues
Starhopper awaits its first truly flightworthy Raptor as CEO Elon Musk says SpaceX may have solved the technical bug delaying hop tests. (NASASpaceflight — bocachicagal, SpaceX)
Scientists succeed in mapping every neuron in a worm, a breakthrough in neuroscience
In a way, the connectome is also a foundation for understanding far more complex nervous systems like our own.
“If a worm can do so much with so few neurons, and we have orders of magnitude more neurons,” Paul Sternberg, a biology professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Scientific American, “then we’re amazing.”
The datasets that were generated from and analysed in the current study are available at wormwiring.org
How fast do we feel pain? Study overturns previous notions
New research into the experience of pain challenges previous beliefs about how quickly pain signals travel in humans compared with touch signals.