A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week — and the attack didn’t end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal.
She said on Facebook Friday that the moose, after seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn’t leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a high powered rifle and killed the moose with one shot. Read More...
By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos
NASA/R.MARKOWITZIt's been a struggle to open fully the sample mechanism after it returned to EarthNasa's asteroid sample-return mission looks to have come home with a little less material than first thought.
Scientists speculated the Osiris-Rex capsule that landed in Utah in September might hold about 250g of rock from the object known as Bennu.
At the time, the projected quantity was likened by one US space agency official to the weight of a large hamster. Read More...
The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky.
It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone. But it did toss together some powerful personalities. And of all the unlikely collisions of culture and politics, perhaps none was more mind-bending than Kahlo’s love affair with Trotsky.
Trotsky — readers of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” know him better as Snowball — was the Soviet leader and intellectual who founded the Red Army and worked closely alongside Vladimir Lenin. Read More...
