Tel Aviv, Harvard University researchers discover water vapor may have formed in universe earlier than previously believed Tel Aviv-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have long held that water — two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom — was a relative latecomer to the universe. They believed that any element heavier than helium had[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
NASA Research Reveals Europa’s Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt
After tens of hours of exposure to Europa-like conditions, sodium chloride samples turned a yellowish-brown color. The color is spectrally similar to that of dark features on Europa imaged by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s[Read More…]
Hubble Catches Stellar Exodus in Action
(Click to enlarge) The heart of the giant globular star cluster 47 Tucanae in the Hubble Space Telescope image at left reveals the glow of 200,000 stars. The green box outlines the cluster’s crowded core, where Hubble spied a parade of young white dwarfs starting their slow-paced 40-million-year journey to[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Journalism Alumna is on Pulitzer Prize Winning Team
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015. A Roosevelt University journalism alumna is a member of a reporting team for a South Carolina newspaper that recently won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a five-part series on domestic violence called “Till Death Do Us Part.” Jennifer (Berry) Hawes, who graduated from Roosevelt in[Read More…]
Climate Change, Not the Clean Power Plan, Poses the Most Significant Threat to Grid Reliability
The East River overflows into the Dumbo section of Brooklyn in New York during Superstorm Sandy, October 2012. SOURCE: AP/Bebeto Matthews Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015. Today, the Center for American Progress released a column showing that extreme weather events, which will become more severe and frequent as the climate[Read More…]
Trust in Organic Label Suffering as USDA Undermines Organic Integrity
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015. Why do you buy organic? Recent research by Mintel, a business research firm, reveals that Americans buy organic for different reasons. The perception that the products are healthier (72 percent) is the biggest draw, even more so than any environmental or ethical reason (69 percent). Only[Read More…]
Statement by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on the Helicopter Crash in Nepal
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015 Today our hearts are heavy with grief for the U.S. Marines who perished when their helicopter went down in the mountains of Nepal earlier this week while providing aid to earthquake victims there. We also join our Nepalese partners in mourning the loss of their servicemembers[Read More…]
Delta Cephei’s Hidden Companion
Bow shock around star Delta Cephei. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M University of Geneva-(ENEWSPF)- To measure distances in the universe, astronomers use cepheids, a family of variable stars whose luminosity varies with time. Their role as distance calibrators has brought them attention from researchers for more than a century. While it was thought[Read More…]
Missing Helicopter Found in Nepal, Investigation Ongoing
OKINAWA, Japa–(ENEWSPF)– May 15, 2015 – Joint Task Force 505 personnel today identified the wreckage of a Marine Corps UH-1Y Huey helicopter that went missing May 12 in Nepal. The helicopter, assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469, was delivering humanitarian assistance in support of Operation Sahayogi Haat, the[Read More…]
Feds Urged to Investigate Wisconsin Man Who Boasted in Video of Eating Endangered Karner Blue Butterfly
Karner blue butterflly photo by John and Karen Hollingsworth, USFWS MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today urging the agency to investigate a social media video posted last week by a Wisconsin man claiming to chew up[Read More…]
