Every part of the human body has evolved from that of our ancient ancestors - except one

Man's appearance may have changed drastically over the millennia, but one part of our anatomy has stayed very much the same - our feet.

Analysis of the bones of one of our ancient cousins, Homo naledi, revealed striking similarities with modern day man.

The huge haul - as yet undated - were discovered in a small, dark chamber at the back of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa.

The announcement sparked joy among scientists as it filled in another piece of our species' evolutionary history.

Now a team of anthropologists from Dartmouth College have carried out a painstaking analysis of the 1,600 fossil fragments , of which 107 are foot bones.

These include one nearly-complete adult foot and parts thought to have belonged to two other adults and a juvenile.

A study detailing the results of the analysis is to be published in the journal Nature Communications today.

Lead author Doctor Jeremy DeSilva said his team found that the "foot and ankle are very much like those of modern humans in form, structure and probable function".

He added: "It was a striding long-distance traveller with an arched foot and a non-grasping big toe with subtle differences from humans today in having somewhat more curved toes and a reduced arch.

"It looks like what the foot of Homo erectus might look like.

"Homo erectus is the earliest human with body proportions similar to our own, with long legs, short arms.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/every-part-human-body-evolved-6583916

The Universe is expanding Faster than the scientists thought!

The universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.

"This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation," study leader Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement.

Riess — who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating — and his colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study 2,400 Cepheid stars and 300 Type Ia supernovas.

http://www.space.com/33061-universe-expanding-faster-than-thought-hubble.html

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'Assassin' Captures a New Supernova, and Photographers Take Aim - See more at: http://www.space.com/33042-assassin-new-supernova-amateur-astronomer-photos.html#sthash.7ao6672m.dpuf

A star exploded over the weekend. Or rather, the exploding star became visible to telescopes on Earth, and was spotted by a dedicated search for these stellar outbursts. 

In the galaxy M66, about 35 million light-years from Earth, according to NASA, a star somewhere between 8 and 50 times the mass of the sun reached the end of its fuel supply. Without its internal furnace running, the star begins to implode. The in-falling material, combined with an increasingly hot core, caused the dying star to explode into a Type II supernova. 

This particular supernova was spotted by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN, which is pronounced "assassin"). Using a total of eight telescopes in two different locations, ASAS-SN surveys the sky for the sudden appearance of very bright spots of light, which could be supernovas.

- See more at: http://www.space.com/33042-assassin-new-supernova-amateur-astronomer-photos.html#sthash.7ao6672m.dpuf

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Sally’s weary eyes find a vent in the basement; the only thing that could connect her to the outer world. She’s delirious and looks around if she is still being watched. She is assured that there is nobody around. She tries to get up and totters on her unsteady feet. It’s not just hunger that has weakened her rather it’s the wound that she had endured through this adventurous life. Her leg was badly injured the other day when she had accidentally tripped over something and fell down through the wooden planks in the wall of that dark room and then to this horrible basement. There is much less of daylight the left. She adjusts her eyes in the darkness around her to find a stool which she places beneath the vent on which she climbs to reach the vent. The mist in the horizon is crimson red. There are streaks of puffy clouds and the color must have been a reflection thereof from the Lake’s water.
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It’s 2461 AD. Some 400 years ago a woman died of cancer. But technology revived life in her corpse. She finds herself waking up in a ship, on the Earth which is on the verge of extinction. Humanity has axed its own beautiful planet by exploiting it to an irreparable extent. Life has returned to her, but survival is a challenge. Darkness pervades, in the present world outside, in future, below the oceans as well as inside her own self. But she got her second chance because of a purpose which was forgotten with the past life, which is sealed in the time she lay dead for in the cryo. A fight among the instincts of survival, revival, betrayal, revenge and strength of soul. A battlefield set in the apocalyptic future. A war is waging between the atrocities outside and toxicities of the inside; the cruelty of the world outside and the suffering of the heart; a war between hatred outside and revenge inside; a story founding the basis of another world war. The future world turns out nothing as she expected but it is appalling. We'll but have to place the blame on ourselves. But we'll fight for life on our raging planet lost to the aftermath of global warming. The war begins right about now.....!!! 
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Intelligent Alien entities already inhabiting with us!! - Dr Ruggero Santilli

Scientists say these are pictures of entities not visible to the naked eye

Thunder Energies Corporation, an optics, nuclear physics and energy company, claims to have detected "invisible entities" living in Earth's atmosphere.

The corporation is run by controversial Harvard-educated Italian-American nuclear physicist Dr Ruggero Santilli.

He is dismissed by many mainstream scientists as a "fringe scientist" but he has in turn branded the rejection of his work as a conspiracy against "novel science" which often conflicts with established thinking, such as Einstein's theory of relativity.

The nuclear physicist says the discovery was made using the Santilli Telescope he has developed to try to discover proof of theoretical anti-matter galaxies, anti-matter cosmic rays and anti-matter asteroids.

The research team even fears the previously unknown micro-lifeforms may be carrying out covert surveillance on Earth because of where they have been found.

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Read here : http://www.cosmostv.org/2016/02/videonew-telescope-detects-intelligent.html