Short Takes.* DANGEROUS BEAUTY Cloud experts have sighted beautiful noctilucent clouds Noctilucent clouds, also known as polar mesospheric clouds, are bright cloudlike atmospheric phenomena visible in a deep twilight. The name means roughly "night shining" in Latin. , or silvery sil·ver·y adj. 1. Containing or coated with silver. 2. Resembling silver in color or luster: "A fountain threw high its silvery water" Harriet Beecher Stowe. blue ice clouds, over Colorado--1,000 kilometers farther south than usual. Is air pollution to blame? * WING OR DRUMSTICK drumstick /drum·stick/ (-stik) a nuclear lobule attached by a slender strand to the nucleus of some polymorphonuclear leukocytes of normal females but not of normal males. ? Scientists recently inserted in·sert tr.v. in·sert·ed, in·sert·ing, in·serts 1. To put or set into, between, or among: inserted the key in the lock. See Synonyms at introduce. 2. a chicken-leg gene, (hereditary/unit) into a chicken embryo's wing. The result? Them wing turned into the chicken's third leg! * MOON CHIP Just discovered: a small asteroid circling the sun near Earth's orbit. Scientists believe the 50 meter- (160 foot) wide space rock chipped off the moon. |
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