Carbon stores up in smoke with vanishing wilderness and other top stories.

• Carbon stores up in smoke with vanishing wilderness

  

  The Conversation* The Earth’s last intact wilderness areas are shrinking dramatically. In a recently published paper the Wildlife Conservation Society showed that the world has lost 3.3 million square kilometres of wilderness (around 10 per cent of the total wilderness area) since 1993. Hardest hit were South America, which has experienced a 30 per cent wilderness loss, and Africa, which has lost 14 per cent. These areas are the final strongholds for endangered biodiversity. They are also essen..

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• NASA Astronaut Thinks Alien Exist And Plan To Destroy Earth

  

  NASA Astronaut Leroy Chiao, 56, has spent multiple missions in space. Leroy thinks that aliens do, in fact, exist, and that they plan to destroy Earth. Why does Chiao have such doubts about Earth’s future? Leroy, a commander of the International Space Station, spent 230 days in space. He completed four missions and six spacewalks. Leroy believes that aliens do not what to be discovered by us. If we do discover them, Leroy does not predict good things to happen here on Earth. [Photo by Mikhail M..

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• White Island alert downgraded

  

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• Inspirational thing about Mars colony

  

  We’re knocking on the door of humanity’s next great project.HUMAN colonisation of Mars could occur in under two decades and the man largely responsible for making it happen is inspired by the amount of people putting their hands up for the mission. Jason Crusan has a pretty tough job, but it may not be as tough as those willing to lead the human settlement on the Red Planet and usher in a new age of galactic colonisation.Mr Crusan is the former chief technologist for space operations for NASA, a..

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• Why Do Soap Bubbles Have Rainbow Swirls?

  

  You know those rainbow-colored patterns that slide and swirl on the surface of soap bubbles? Yeah, well, researchers at Stanford University have figured out a way to stop that. This may seem a little underwhelming, breakthrough-wise, but history has taught us that it's important to keep Stanford grad students busy.Actually, as Trace Dominguez reports in today's DNews dispatch, the new research has plenty of potentially useful applications for industry, medicine and food science.About those swirl..

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• the real trouble with the modern office

  

  If we all work side by side in an open-plan office or “hot desk”, moving from place to place, it’s sure to increase collaboration! It turns out that may be wrong. If you don’t have your own space, perhaps you are better off working remotely with your cat for company. Our research found that in shared working spaces there were increases in “employee social liabilities”: distractions, uncooperativeness, distrust and negative relationships. More surprisingly, both co-worker friendships and percept..

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• Scientists caught black holes swallowing stars — and burping energy back up

  

  Supermassive black holes are voracious beasts. Their tremendous gravitational pull sucks in everything that gets too close, including stars. For the first time, astronomers have clearly observed at infrared wavelengths what happens after a black hole eats a star: it burps back up a brilliant flare of light that echoes through space. Two studies published this week -- one by scientists at NASA, the other by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China -- describe these "tidal..

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