Critically endangered black rhinos set up home at Doncaster's Yorkshire Wildlife Park and other top stories.

• Critically endangered black rhinos set up home at Doncaster's Yorkshire Wildlife Park

  

  Award-winning Yorkshire Wildlife Park is about to welcome two critically endangered black rhinos as part of its £3.6m expansion and improvement plan. The two-year-olds – Hodan and Dayo - are destined to become star attractions in the new Into Africa reserve, which gives visitors amazing views of mixed African wildlife including eland antelope, endangered Grevy’s Zebra, Lechwe antelope, ostrich and some other visitor favourites – the four giraffes, Behansin, Palle, Jambo and Jengo. . Thei..

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• Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Enormous Space Blob

  

  It’s a happy day when astronomers figure out what’s up with an enormous space blob — and the answer doesn’t imply the immediate destruction of humanity. A cosmological simulation of a Lyman alpha blob that traces the evolution of gas and dark matter from a central star-forming region. Image: J.Geach/D.Narayanan/R.Crain You probably haven’t heard of SSA22-Lyman-alpha blob 1, but rest assured, telescope jockeys have been scratching their heads over it for years. Now, a team of astronomers has fi..

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• UQ and NASA team up to study Great Barrier Reef

  

  University of Queensland researchers are playing a key role in a NASA airborne mission designed to transform understanding of earth's valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs. The mission has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef ecosystem, using UQ’s Heron Island Research Station as one of its bases. Scientists from NASA's Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) mission and their Australian collaborators discussed the mi..

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• Rare jellyfish-shaped sprite lightning flashes above storm clouds

  

  Rare jellyfish-shaped sprite lightning flashes above storm cloudsAn otherworldly flash of light appears in a thunderstorm, giving a glimpse at a strange and rare weather phenomenon.

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• Canadian, Chinese scientists teleport quantum information

  

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• China launches its second space lab

  

  BEIJING With the launch of the Tiangong-2 space laboratory on Sept. 15, China has moved closer to its goal of building and operating its own space station.In October, China plans to launch a manned spacecraft to the lab. Astronauts will be able to conduct experiments and China's space program will gain experience with docking and extended stays in space. With construction of a space station scheduled for completion in about 2022, Beijing is laying the groundwork to join the small club of space ..

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• How scientists read an ancient and fragile biblical scroll without unrolling it

  

  When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read: It had been found in the Holy Ark of a Jewish community dating to around 700 BC and had burned along with the rest of the settlement in the year 600. The scroll was little more than a tiny, charred lump of animal parchment. To unroll those lumps of ancient scroll would be unthinkable, as the gentlest touch might crumble the text to dust.Now, more than 40 years later, researchers at the University of..

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• NASA: 'surprising activity' on Europa

  

  Alien Ocean: NASA?s Mission to Europa3:09Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter?s moon Europa have the ingredients to support life? Here's how NASA's mission to Europa would find out. Courtesy NASA. NASA’s Hubble Telescope has detected some surprising activity on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.NASA has a big announcement to make. The US space agency issued a press release early Thursday morning telling the world it had some noteworthy news to tell us about Europa.In a sparsely worded..

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• World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians

  

  World-first genome study reveals rich history of Aboriginal Australians By Dani Cooper, additional reporting by Tom Forbes Updated September 22, 2016 07:40:00 The most comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians to date has revealed modern humans are all descendants of a single wave of migrants who left Africa about 72,000 years ago. Key pointsAboriginal and Papuan ancestors left Africa around 72,000 years agoArrived on supercontinent 'Sahul' around 50..

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• Goddard space center mission-critical for ISS astronauts

  

  The International Space Station may bring to mind launch pads in Florida or control rooms in Houston, but humanity's longest continuously inhabited outpost in space also requires near-constant support from a small community just outside Washington, D.C. That's where, in Greenbelt, Maryland, resides NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the station's communications network and some of the capabilities that support scientific research on station. Like any NASA mission, particularly t..

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