Apparently Intelligent Lizard

Researchers from Duke University, USA, found that the tropical lizard Anolis evermanni have the ability to solve problems. Green lizard has high intelligence.

Based on experiments conducted by Prof. Manual Lead from Duke University, the lizard is able to reverse the sort of dish. Behind the plate is hidden worms, the lizard's favorite food.

One way to hit the disc upside down. "I was surprised with this method," said Lead on Wednesday (07/13/2011), told the BBC

Man donates penis to Iceland museum

A 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country’s most bizarre museums.

The Phallological Museum, opened in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, already features extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals, according to curator Sigurdur Hjartarson.

Several people had pledged their penises over the 15 years the museum has operated — including an American, a Briton, and a German — but Arason’s was the first to be successfully donated, Hjartarson said, the AP reported. “I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years.”

Arason was described by Hjartarson as a former tourism worker who died on January 5 in the nearby town of Akureyri.

"I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years," Hjartarson said.

Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls “phallology” began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull’s penis to help him herd cattle, started the museum in Reykjavik but has since moved to Husavik.

It has become an important part of the region’s tourist industry, bringing in thousands of visitors every summer.

Highlights of his collection include a 5.5-foot sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an “unusually big” penis bone from a Canadian walrus.

Hjartarson said he opened the museum with 62 specimens and now had 276.
Most items are donations from friends and well-wishers, people listed on the museum’s website as "honorary members."

Telescope Record Inter-galactic collision

Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft (GALEX) managed to capture the image of the collision antargalaksi from start to finish. Researchers at Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who make this observation, Lauranne Lanz, presenting the image in the American Society Meeting in Boston, Wednesday (05/25/2011).

Two colliding galaxies are NGC 935 and IC 1801. The observations of astronomers shows that when two galaxies collide and form larger galaxies, the destruction spurred the formation of clouds of gas and dust. Furthermore, the accident will spur the formation of more stars.

"This image is the first step to know the story of how galaxies form, evolve, and evolve," said Lanz. According to him, this picture gives a better understanding of what might happen when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide 5 billion next year.

In taking the images, GALEX role emit ultraviolet light to image the young stars in blue. While the Spitzer telescope that emit infrared light illuminates a heated dust in red. Paired two tools that generate rich data.

Lanz said, in each collision of galaxies, the resulting number of stars will vary. Now, he is researching the factors that influence those variations. Lanz also worked hard to test their understanding. "Our understanding will be really tested 5 billion years when the Milky Way in a collision," said Lanz.

Astronomers Reveal Universe Map

Have you ever imagine what the picture of the universe? It may be too complex. However, British astronomers have managed to make a breakthrough: mapping the universe in three dimensions.

It is the scientists from the University of Portsmouth who made the map 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) covering a distance of 380 million light-years, 45 000 galactic neighbors. To note the diameter of the Milky Way just over 100,000 million light years.

This is a three-dimensional map of the universe the most recent and complete - reveal new details about our position in the universe.

"I speak for all of us desire to understand our place in the universe," said Karen Masters from the University of Portsmouth, as published FoxNews, May 25, 2011. But work is still long. "I will not be happy if we do not have a complete map of the Earth. (Similarly, the map of the universe), it would be nice if we had complete."

The new map uses data from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Redshift Survey (2MRS) which took 10 years to scan the night sky, complete with near-infrared light. This survey used two telescopes on Earth that are in Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Mount Hopkins, Arizona and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

The survey also charted in detail the areas that were previously hidden behind the Milky Way to better understand the influence of their movement to other parts of the universe.

Planet Gliese 581d Livable Ascertained

Gliese 581d, a rocky planet orbiting a giant red dwarf stars (stars with masses lower than the sun and the temperature below 4000 degrees Kelvin) is confirmed as the first planet that meets the requirements to accommodate life.

Planet which is about 20 light-years from Earth is one of our closest neighboring planet. He estimated temperature is warm enough and wet enough to cultivate a similar life-owned planet Earth.

Orbiting Gliese 581d in the Goldilocks zone (the area where possible life forms) belonging to the star Gliese 581. As is known, in the Goldilocks zone, the temperature not too hot, causing the water to boil or not too cold to make it freeze but it was in the right temperature so that water remains in liquid form.

"With a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide will, which is the most probable scenario for giant planet, Gliese 581d stable climate and warm enough to have oceans, clouds, and rainfall," researchers said the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Quoted from the Daily Galaxy, May 19, 2011, according to research published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Gliese 581d has a mass of at least 7 times bigger than the Earth is about 2 times the planet Earth.

Before this, the attention of astronomers precisely the focus to his brother, the planet Gliese 581g, after it emerged that the planet has a mass similar to Earth's mass and also near Goldilocks zone.

Was first discovered in 2007, Gliese 581d candidate was not originally signed as a place to search for extraterrestrial life. One reason is that he only gets a third of solar radiation as Earth and possibly get 'tidally locked' or just one side that always faces its sun and have a permanent day and night.

However, the latest model made by Robin Wordsworth, Francois Forget, colleagues and other CNRS researchers show a surprising result. Planet's atmosphere is able to store heat thanks to the dense gas CO2 and warmed by the light from the star.

"Overall, there temperature allows liquid water is present on the surface of the planet," said the researcher. "The mass of the planet that also means the gravity on its surface approximately two times higher than Earth's gravity," he said.

However, researchers can not simply send astronauts to the planet. From Earth, the spacecraft that can fly at speeds approaching the speed of light takes more than 20 years to get there. Unfortunately, the rocket technology that has been owned human beings has been only able to deliver us to Gliese 581d in 300 thousand years.

"Stalin's Behind Roswell 1947 UFO Incident"

A horrendous incidents related to Unidentified flying object (UFO) in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. At that time, in the middle of a big storm, found a flying saucer crashed. Also, three bodies, three human-like creatures short and wear metallic clothing.

The news sparked a debate and conspiracy theories are an infinite amount. Science fiction lovers believe, are alien spacecraft.

The U.S. Government accused of trying to cover up by saying it was a weather balloon accident. Roswell incident became the inspiration of movies, books, and documentaries about aliens in the 1970s.

Once rumored to appear in the list of secret documents U.S. federal investigators bureau (FBI), is now a new book offers an entirely different explanation: that the Roswell UFO is man-made.

Two 'criminals' in the history, the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin and the 'Angel of Death' Nazi Germany, Dr. Josef Mengele was mentioned was behind the incident.

In a book called 'Area 51', the author Annie Jacobsen claiming what he wrote based on interviews of scientists and engineers who worked at Area 51 - U.S. research sites in the desert of Nevada.

He refused to link the incident with the Roswell aliens and proposed the theory that Stalin, who was inspired by the famous radio play delivered Orsin Welles. Drama adapted from works of HG Wells's famous novel entitled 'The War of the Worlds' or' War of the Universe "presented as a contemporary news. That sparked hysteria in the United States in 1938.

According to the book, the plot began after the Soviet Union seized the single winged jet from Germany's Horten Ho 229 - called the pilot a plane precursor B-2 stealth bomber.

Then, Mengele began to enter into this story. Nazi doctors who had conducted research Auschwitz then flew to South America after the war was supposed to create a 'Grotesque' or child-sized flyer in exchange for a eugenics laboratory.

As contained in the book, found a flying saucer in Roswell contains child-sized alien 12-13 years old.

What is the purpose of Stalin created the plot of a flying saucer? None other than to create a similar hysteria during 1938. However, remote-controlled aircraft was destroyed and the U.S. tried to cover up the incident. According to sources Jacobsen - a technician from the defense firm EG & G -, he admitted that he was involved in a project at Area 51 Roswell in 1978.

"They found the body beside the plane that crashed. It was not an alien, nor the pilot. They are human beings who become guinea pigs. Too small for flight, they look like children," wrote Jacobsen who is the Los Angeles Times.

"High they are less than five feet, with the same defect. They have a large head and big eyes that abnormal size," he said.

Two of them were found in a coma, but still alive. Confirmed, U.S. Air Force spokesman declined comment. ''We have not yet read this book so as not to make comments related to it. "

Suspected Alien Life on the planet Gliese 581d

There is a great mystery that has not been revealed until now. Is there another life beyond Earth? Moreover, the fact remains, our planet as insignificant dot ', compared to the contents of the universe.

That question inspired the scientists to find another life, and the search for Earth-like planets. One of which continue to be monitored are the planets in orbit that dwarf star, Gliese 581.

And, recent research shows planet Gliese 581d, a distance of 20 light-years from Earth is the first planet outside our solar system that could support life officially declared by scientists.

As loaded LiveScience, May 17, 2011, through the study of the latest atmospheric models, the astronomers found the planet is in the region 'habitable zone' has Earth-like conditions, including having the ocean and rainfall. This conclusion is consistent with some previous research models. Although not definitively find there is life up there.

Although the 'Earth-like' the scientists argue, if one day people can send a fleet expeditions, outer space explorers will find himself in an environment that is truly foreign, compared to Earth.

Red cloudy sky, not blue like the Earth. Also gravity is two-fold, to make weight anyone who stood on it to double. Not only that, the planet's atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide would not be easily inhaled by humans.

A new computer model that can simulate the Earth's climate has been shown outside of the previous assumptions are wrong and and confirm that Gliese 581d is the planet that could sustain life.

Scientists believe the findings could pave the way for the discovery of more potential life among the stars, including some strange and unexpected.

Dr Robin Wordsworth, a team member of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris, said this finding is very encouraging. "Gliese system is very encouraging for us, because it is relatively close to Earth," he said.

"So with the future generation telescopes, we will be able to search for life on Gliese 581d directly."

Actually not only the planet Gliese 581d is targeted to scientists. There is also Planet Gliese 581g or known by the name 'World Zarmina'.

Not only an astonishing resemblance to Earth. But the scientists also found him mysterious signal emitted from the planet. Is Dr Ragbir Bhathal, scientists from the University of Western Sydney which saw a strange signal that in December 2008 - long before it was announced that there is a planet inhabited by creatures that can live in the orbit of dwarf star, Gliese 581.

Scientists Discover Fog On the Formation of Titan

California - Titan, the planet Saturn's largest moon, has been known as the only astronomical object in our Solar System that contains a liquid on its surface in large numbers other than Earth, but recently scientists have discovered the existence of fog there.

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, Berkeley, led by Dr. Mike Brown, analyzing data from a device carried by the Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), which then perform the imaging process called "hyperspectral" on Titan, which cover a large area of ​​both visible and infrared spectrum.

They found that Titan's south pole has a lot of puddles of liquid methane, which resulted in the formation of a layer of fog.

The existence of fog showed hydrological cycle, which is known only on Earth alone.

"The fog-or cloud, dew, or commonly known as condensation-can form when the air humidity reaches about 100%," said Brown in a press release.

"There are two ways to achieve it. The first is obvious: add the water (on Earth) or methane (the Titan) into the air that surrounds it. While the latter is more general: Create a cool air so it can withstand a little water (or liquid methane) , and all that is needed for condensation occurs. "

The formation of fog in a way that both occur in Titan's impossible because it takes a long time to change the temperature of Titan's surface temperature. "Even if for example you put out the sun, the atmosphere of Titan still take 100 years to cool down," explained Brown. "Even the coldest part of the surface (Titan) is still too warm to make the fog to condense."

"Mountains on Titan must have a height of about 15,000 feet (4572 meters) before the air becomes cold enough to condense," Brown said, but because the surface crust of Titan which consists of ice and easily broken, then no mountains higher than 3,000 feet ( 914 meters).

"With the haze on Titan, proving that for the first time in months that have an active hydrological cycle of methane," said Brown.

Evidence Competition, Former Fossil Bite

Ocean life in ancient times was tinged competition. Bite marks on the fossil proves this.

The experts found bite marks that have been recovered in the lower jaw ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles like the dolphins that live in the age of dinosaurs. They see the bite marks were evident enough time to clean and reframe ichthyosaurs in the laboratory.

The size and spacing of the teeth that bite marks found on the match with some other animal species. Even so, experts believe, the bite is a bite of other adult ichthyosaurs.

They also concluded, the cause of injury is a battle that occurs when competing for food, mates or territory. Evidence of wound healing showed that these animals survived the attack happened.

"The trail pathological bone and teeth that have become fossilized open horizons of life and new social behavior of animals that have become extinct," said Benjamin Kear, one of the experts involved in the study who is an assistant professor at Uppsala University Palaeobiology Programme, the release his press conference on Wednesday (05/04/2011).

Ichthyosaurs are predatory marine reptile that can swim fast and prey on fish and squid a similar animal. Ichthyosaurs adult body length can reach 6 feet, with long-mouthed head shape like a dolphin. The composition of ichthyosaurs teeth similar to crocodiles, with a total of more than 100 pieces.

Five Years After It to the Moon Tour

Space Adventures, a space tourism company, plans to make a tour around the moon in less than 5 years. This program will use the capsule and Russian rockets.

Russia's Soyuz rocket is set for two tourists who are interested. They and a commander will be launched into Earth orbit to meet with unmanned rockets that have been sent previously. Furthermore, the rocket will launch them to the Moon.

There is also an alternative route. They were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) prior to launch to the Moon. This trip will take eight or nine days.

The tourists will not land on the Moon, but will rotate around it at a minimum distance of about 100 kilometers. Tourists can see the moon's surface is heavily and saw "the publication of the Earth" which until now only witnessed by 24 people.

Tourists are asked to spend about 150 million U.S. dollars for this trip, or about five times the cost of space tourism to the ISS so far. Today, one person is sure to go. Space Adventures is still looking for one other tourists. Are you interested?

Found, Roman Ship Age 2000 Years

Italian Archaeologists discover Roman ship's 2,000-year-old in an ancient port.

Wooden boat was found at a depth of 4 meters when the archaeologists repair bridges modern city with Fiumicino Ostia, where the airports of Rome. The ship has a length of 11 meters, the largest ship ever found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, the port city at the mouth of the River Tiber.

Currently, only the right side of the ship in sight. The remains of the rope that is used by Roman sailors began to appear. "The bow and stern are still missing," said Anna Maria Moretti, an archaeologist involved in the excavation. Thick clay layer covering the entire ship, making wooden ships remain durable.

From some Roman ships ever found, this new vessel is considered important findings by archaeologists. "These findings are unique. At this depth, we have never found the ship," said Moretti. He predicts will find the other ships in that location. "There are indications that this location is where the largest fleet of the Empire," Moretti explained.

Caspian Horse Oldest Fossil Found

Traces Caspian horse bones found in the oldest part of northern Iran. Reported by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (rein). Caspian horse has been known as the king's horses as popular among the kingdom.

Horses are found on the site named Gohar Tappeh is expected to more than 3,000 years old. "It's like living in the late Bronze Age," said archaeologist who participated in Gohar Tappeh dig.

His bones were buried close to humans, showing that the horse is very valuable. In ancient times, royal choose Caspian horse to ride in battle or to pull the chariot.

Caspian horses are smaller than modern horses, or about two-thirds, but, as noted by a renowned horse breeder from the United States, Louise Firouz, Horse Caspian docile, intelligent, and obedient. Caspian horse's rein as the horse describe a slender, small boned, short, nice head with a strong forehead, large eyes, short ears, and small snout.

"They're fast and strong, spirited but good temperament," explained rein.


In modern history, Caspian horse is a horse of the oldest extant. In 1972, Iran presented to Prince Philip's horse then the horse breed.

Meanwhile, research in Gohar Tappeh will continue. "Until we find a 'virgin soil' to find the oldest living human on this site," said Ali Mahforuzi, director of archeology team in Gohar Tappeh.