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Astronaut Scott Kelly had an identical twin brother when he ventured into space and set the record for most consecutive days spent in orbit, but not anymore. In a groundbreaking new study, NASA scientists found that Kelly’s DNA had been altered upon his return to earth — with 7 percent of his genes experiencing an “unexpected change,” according to the agency. Research teams from around the country had been analyzing the New Jersey native’s condition and genetic makeup following his year-long stay aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA’s “Twins Study.” Kelly said on Twitter that he didn’t find out about the results until he saw media reports this week about the DNA change. “What? My DNA changed by 7%! Who knew?” he tweeted. “I just learned about it in this article. This could be good news! I no longer have to call @ShuttleCDRKelly my identical twin brother anymore.” According to NASA, Kelly’s 340 days in orbit may have ultimately activated what scientists describe as “space genes.” “This is thought to be from the stresses of space travel, which can cause changes in a cell’s biological pathways and ejection of DNA and RNA,” the agency said. “Such actions can trigger the assembly of new molecules, like a fat or protein, cellular degradation; and can turn genes on and off, which change cellular function.” Researchers said the long-term changes were related to Kelly’s immune system, DNA repair, bone formation networks, hypoxia and hypercapnia. “By studying how space travel can influence chemical changes in RNA and DNA, new ‘space genes’ were reported, indicating significant cell stress and correlations with changes noted by other Twins Study investigators,” explained NASA. “Whole-genome sequencing showed each twin has hundreds of unique mutations in their genome, more than expected, and some were found only after spaceflight.” Full article here: https://nypost.com/2018/03/14/astronauts-dna-no-longer-matches-his-identical-twin/

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Was the settlement of Hop in New Brunswick ? Known as Hop, the settlement has been spoken of in Norse sagas passed down over hundreds of years. Archaeologists have long known that the Vikings founded a settlement in North America around 1,000 years ago, several centuries before famed explorer Christopher Columbus - who is frequently credited with discovering the continent - had even been born. One site known to have been used by these ancient Scandinavian seafarers was L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which today is classed as a United Nations World Heritage site. The whereabouts of Hop, however - a legendary North American Viking settlement famed for its grapes, salmon and canoes made from animal skins - has long remained a mystery. Now though, by studying Norse texts and archaeological finds on America's east coast, archaeologist and Viking expert Birgitta Wallace believes that she may have finally found the answer. Hop, she argues, was likely located in the Miramichi-Chaleur Bay area of New Brunswick, Canada. This particular location fits perfectly, both with historic descriptions of Hop and with the availability of the wild resources, such as grapes and salmon, that the settlement was known for. The idea that Hop was only a single site however may be incorrect, as Wallace believes that the name may have referred to several short-term settlements in the area that changed each year. Given that most of these potential settlement sites are now paved over however, it may be very difficult to prove once and for all that Hop really did exist at this location. Full article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/vikings-canada-settlement-north-america-europeans-birgitta-wallace-archaeologists-discovery-a8247161.html

http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/news.php?id_news=510 Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update. Today we are showing off the third map to make it into our upcoming version 2.53 update. Today's map is Lenino, covering the first major action of the Polish People's Army. This of course means that we have yet another new country to add to Forgotten Hope 2: Poland. Lenino was made by Aserafimov. On 12 October 1943, near the village of Lenino in the Mogilev Oblast, the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kosciuszko Infantry Division prepared to enter action for the first time, under the auspices of the Soviet created "Polish Army of the East." This battle was supposed to mark the beginning of Polish-Soviet fraternity and strengthen combat association between their soldiers. Yet, with Polish morale low as most soldiers had only just been released from Soviet Gulags, and the promised Soviet armoured, aerial, and artillery support never showing, the Tadeusz Kosciuszko Division would face a fiery combat debut against the battle hardened 113th and 337th Infantry Divisions. You can find the minimap and a preliminary vehicle listing here.

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A total of 216 crew members were killed during the battle The final resting place of the US aircraft carrier, which went down during World War II, has finally been located. The ship, which was scuttled during the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, was found, along with 11 of its 35 aircraft, two miles underwater approximately 800km off Australia's east coast. It was discovered by a team led by billionaire explorer and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. "As the son of a survivor of the USS Lexington, I offer my congratulations to Paul Allen and the expedition crew of Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel for locating the 'Lady Lex'," said Adm Harry Harris. The battle which ultimately led to the vessel's demise was considered to be pivtol in halting Japan's advance across the Pacific during the Second World War. According to the US Navy, 216 members of the Lexington's crew were killed during the fighting while 2,000 others were successfully rescued. "Lexington was on our priority list because she was one of the capital ships that was lost during WWII," said Robert Kraft, a spokesman for Allen's company Vulcan. It took around six months of planning to finally locate the vessel, however there are no plans to raise it from the seabed because the US Navy considers it to be a war grave. Full article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43296489

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The family tree covers the last 500 years of human history. Covering 11 generations over a period of 500 years, the family tree is thought to be the largest ever created. Providing insight in to the genealogical history of Europe and North America, the new tree is also helping scientists to better understand how genes play a role in influencing human lifespans. It was created by a team of computer scientists using publicly available genealogy data. "Through the hard work of many genealogists curious about their family history, we crowdsourced an enormous family tree and boom, came up with something unique," said senior author Yaniv Erlich. The results have helped to paint a more detailed picture of immigration across the Atlantic over the last few centuries as well as how this has influenced marriage. Prior to 1750, for instance, most Americans found a spouse within a distance of six miles from their birthplace. By 1950, this average distance had increased significantly to 60 miles. It was also discovered that, while women had a tendency to migrate more than men, the men who did migrate tended to travel over larger distances. By incorporating conventional genetic studies in to their findings, the researchers were also able to determine that having 'good' genes could add an average of five years to a person's lifespan. "That's not a lot," said Erlich. "Previous studies have shown that smoking takes 10 years off of your life. That means some life choices could matter a lot more than genetics." Full article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/family-tree-13-million-people-migration-europe-north-america-scientists-creation-a8234911.html

On Wednesday, at about 12:15pm ET, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai Prolexic. Prolexic took over as an intermediary, routing all the traffic coming into and out of GitHub, and sent the data through its scrubbing centers to weed out and block malicious packets. After eight minutes, attackers relented and the assault dropped off. The scale of the attack has few parallels, but a massive DDoS that struck the internet infrastructure company Dyn in late 2016 comes close. That barrage peaked at 1.2 Tbps and caused connectivity issues across the US as Dyn fought to get the situation under control. “We modeled our capacity based on fives times the biggest attack that the internet has ever seen,” Josh Shaul, vice president of web security at Akamai told WIRED hours after the GitHub attack ended. “So I would have been certain that we could handle 1.3 Tbps, but at the same time we never had a terabit and a half come in all at once. It’s one thing to have the confidence, it’s another thing to see it actually play out how you’d hope." Akamai defended against the attack in a number of ways. In addition to Prolexic's general DDoS defense infrastructure, the firm had also recently implemented specific mitigations for a type of DDoS attack stemming from so-called memcached servers. These database caching systems work to speed networks and websites, but they aren't meant to be exposed on the public internet; anyone can query them, and they'll likewise respond to anyone. About 100,000 memcached servers, mostly owned by businesses and other institutions, currently sit exposed online with no authentication protection, meaning an attacker can access them, and send them a special command packet that the server will respond to with a much larger reply. Full article here: https://www.wired.com/story/github-ddos-memcached/

The seed vault is designed to preserve valuable food crops The most recent consignment to arrive at the facility has brought its total number of deposits up to 1,059,646. Built in 2008 around 810 miles from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is an underground depository that preserves food crop seed samples in case of a global disaster. Now, just in time for the vault's tenth anniversary, a consignment of 70,000 new crops has brought the total number of deposits stored at the facility to over one million. Some of the new additions include the rather unusual Estonian onion potato and a type of barley traditionally used to brew Irish beer. "Hitting the million mark is really significant," said Hannes Dempewolf, a senior scientist at Crop Trust. "Only a few years back I don't think we would have thought that we would get there." Eventually, the total number of seed varieties stored at the vault could exceed two million. "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is an iconic reminder of the remarkable conservation effort that is taking place every day, around the world and around the clock - an effort to conserve the seeds of our food crops," said Crop Trust executive director Marie Haga. Full article here : http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43171939

There is much we still don't understand about the universe's expansion New data from the Hubble Space Telescope has shown that the universe is expanding faster than expected. Known as the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding was previously determined by studying the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. By using data from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, physicists calculated that the actual expansion rate was approximately 67 kilometers per second per megaparsec. Now however, a team of researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a completely different figure - 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec. "The community is really grappling with understanding the meaning of this discrepancy," said lead researcher, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of dark energy Adam Riess. It is possible that dark matter interacts with normal matter more strongly than expected or that Einstein's cosmological constant may not be quite so constant after all. "While it's possible dark energy plays a role, to me it looks more and more like it could be a new particle or something about the way dark matter interacts," said Riess. "We normally assume dark matter is something we call a WIMP, a weakly interacting massive particle. Well, maybe it's not so weakly interacting." "That would change things, that would cause something like what we see." Full article here - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/improved-hubble-yardstick-gives-fresh-evidence-for-new-physics-in-the-universe

We are now ready to start the FH2 TEAM CUP 2018! A few changes had to be made to adapt the number of teams that have registered. There will be an updated version of our TeamCup minimod. A more strategic and teamwork play style will be implemented. More info about it in the TeamCup forum. We will now play a group system. All teams will play once between eachother. The top 4 teams will go into a single elimination playoff. And the winner wins it all! Check the group below. http://challonge.com/TeamCup2018 New players are still free to join and play! If you do not have a team and want to be a part of one, go to the thread below and follow the instructions. On behalf of the CMP Community we would like to wish good luck to all the participants.

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