Landing a spacecraft on a comet, flowers that look monkeys and fish trapping birds, are some
It was undoubtedly the scientific event of the year. The live broadcast of the landing module Philae, as part of the ESA Rosetta mission in the 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 500 million miles of our planet, certainly a milestone in the history of astronautics. The maneuver was exciting, because the module bounced a few times before finally settle and after many complications, the comet's surface.
Snake devoured from within
Sometimes the simplest studies are the most striking. In April, a team of herpetologists Serbs announced the discovery in the island of Golem Grad in Macedonia, a female horned viper (Vipera ammodytes) with a centipede (Scolopendra cingulata), leaving the lower abdomen . The latter, after being swallowed by the serpent, had tried to go inside the snake bites. Neither survived.
The strange green ray of the Moon
A mysterious green beam reaching a strangely Red Moon, was captured in April. The capture was achieved during a lunar eclipse and hence the reddish hue of our natural satellite is explained. As regards the beam of green light, it was a laser was fired from a 3.5-meter telescope located at Apache Point Observatory in southern New Mexico, USA. This colorful astronomical method used to measure the distance from Earth to the Moon, by reflecting the light beam into a retroreflector left by the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
Cloud enigmatic stalking our galaxy
A rapid hydrogen cloud 9,800 light-years long and 3,300 wide, which has preserved its consistency after millions of years of travel throughout the cosmos, goes straight to the Milky Way, so unavoidable ... but arrive for another 30 million years. The key to the amazing consistency of this looming cloud, called Smith's Cloud is to be mobilized within a covering of dark matter.
Misleading Flores, strange birds and fish that hunt birds
Other of the most amazing scientific research in 2014 revealed: the curious imitation of certain orchids, which, as a means of survival, to attract or repel certain animals, ducks resemble wasps females, white doves and different kinds of monkeys; a list of the hundred most curious and endangered birds in the world, thanks to the work of researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University in Connecticut (the list includes species such as the kakapo, giant ibis and the California Condor), and habits of hunting tiger fish the lakes of Mapungubwe National Park, between Botswana and Zimbabwe, which is able to catch birds in flight, after leaving the water suddenly giving formidable jumps.
