Month: April 2012

Jaime Velazquez Johannesburg, 20 mar (EFE).-the rhino is poised to disappear in South Africa by 2020 by poaching, alert reserves private country, measures requiring the Government to prevent the extinction of the mammal with the famous horn on the snout. “According to a study presented by the Association of owners of rhinoceros, continue poaching at this rate, the species could be extinct in eight years”, he told Efe Lorinda Hern, owner of the Park of lions and rhinos, a reserve private on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In South Africa there are about 400 private reserves that keep one of every four rhinos of the country, where at least 108 copies have been killed in the first two months and a half this year, according to the data of national parks (SANPARKS) of South Africa. In 2012, the figure could reach 1,300 animals, tripling the record reached in 2011, with 448 killed animals according to Jabulani Ngubane, responsible for security of the reserve of Ezemvelo in Kuazulu-Natal (East). According Ngubane, quoted this week by the South African newspaper “The Star”, the poachers are moving their activity of the national parks, where the security, to the smaller private natural reserves has increased. Experts estimate that in South Africa go on about 20,000 “frinos”, as he is popularly known to these animals in English, although the exact number is unknown. “We need...

London (Reuters) – new research suggests that neutrinos that seemed to violate a basic physical law to travel faster than the speed of light are, after all, within the universal speed limit. The last measurement of time of flight of the subatomic particles made by the Research Centre CERN in Geneva, for the Italian Gran Sasso laboratory contradicted a first reading on the ultra fast speed reported last September, which caused great excitement in the scientific sphere. Since then, have increased the doubts about the original statements, especially after the news of the last month of the first conclusion of the so-called experiment OPERA could have been distorted by a defective cabling. “Evidence is beginning to point toward which the result of OPERA is born of a measuring device”, said Friday the director of research at CERN, Sergio Bertolucci, in a statement. The new analysis was performed by researchers working in an experiment separately called Icaro. They used time-independent data and measured seven neutrinos in the beam of light sent from CERN. All these produced a consistent time with the speed of light, the Research Center said. Many scientists had been sceptical about the original measurements, which missed the theory of special relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905, stating that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light, a statement on which much of modern...