News Briefs 20-07-2012

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life… It's just been too intelligent to come here.”

• The galaxy that shouldn’t be.
• Mars-sized lava-world catches astronomers off-guard.
• A piece of Mars is missing.
• Asteroid flyby this weekend. Watch the skies…
• Casting a blind eye to deadly asteroids?
• The first complete simulation has begun.
• A birthing ground for black holes.
• Green fire in the sky.
• A bond beyond the earth’s chemistry.
• Climate change and ocean chemistry.
• A reversal of magnetic proportions?
• Temple of the night sun discovered at El Zotz in Guatemala.
• Set deflector shields to… lunar.
• Namibian aquifer offers new hope to Sub-Saharan country.
• The United States’ continuing drought.
• What lies beneath.
• Answers to questions that keep people up at night.
• If Dr. Strangelove made a short film.
• Rwanda gorillas dismantle traps to outsmart poachers.
• In a world where cats run for mayor… and win for 15 years.
• This week’s proof of the looming robot uprising… the ‘kissinger’ and 'You-Robot'.

With thanks to the one and only RPJ!

Quote of the Day:

“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...”

A.C. Clarke