Researchers have uncovered new evidence linking global warming to the migration of fish and other natural resources to the poles reported in New Day Post. These effects are also shifting wealth distribution as certain nations are left at a disadvantage. The study was originally reported in the journal Nature Climate Change.  Analysts predict that investment will follow the new redistribution of resources, particularly in emerging countries.

However, analysts advise that government officials should be more keen to the inherent financial impact than just the scientific repercussions. In other words, policies shouldn’t be designed around the shift of fish populations from one region to another but should consider “inclusive wealth” as a pivotal point.

Researchers reinforced that their studies would help trace the effects of climate change on local and global sustainability. “Naural capital” shifts relocating to the extreme poles because of natural forces intrinsically creates new pricing models inclusive of social variables, which should take precedence, not the biophysical manifestations.

“People are mostly focused on the physical reallocation of these assets, but I don’t think we’ve really started thinking enough about how climate change can reallocate wealth and influence the prices of those assets,” said lead author Eli Fenichel of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in a press statement.  “We don’t know how this will unfold, but we do know there will be price effects. It’s just Economics 101—prices reflect quantity and scarcity and natural capital is hard for people to move … It’s as inevitable as the movement of these fish species.”

Although fish were the focal point, Fenichel reinforces that natural resources include plants, trees, and other naturally occurring elements. But he also adds that the wealth gains produced in those respective countries are disproportionate to those countries losing wealth.“The losers are losing much more than the gainers are gaining,” he added. “And when that happens, it’s not an efficient reallocation of wealth.”

Astronomers have been studying a phenomenon known as Fast Radio Bursts for decades, which are transient astrophysical radio pulses lasting only milliseconds. Researchers have now uncovered part of their source, as reported in the Washington Post. Scientists speculated that FRBs occur thousands of times a day, never repeating. This most recent discovery revealed that only 16 had ever been pinpointed. Randomly spread out over the sky, researchers have been perplexed over their occurrence.

A recent observation captured one of the mysterious flashes at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization‘s (CSIRO)  64-m Parkes radio telescope in Australia. On April 18, a burst was detected and traced to an elliptical galaxy roughly 6 billion light years away, now designated as FRB 150418. Lead author Evan Keane and colleagues made the discovery. “In the past FRBs have been found by sifting through data months or even years later,” Keane, an astronomer with the Square Kilometer Array Organization, said in a statement. “By that time it is too late to do follow up observations.”

Following the discovery, scientists have established a signal response system. If the Parks radio telescope observes the pulses, a ping on the telescope sends out an email blast. “I was awoken by my phone going crazy a few seconds after it happened, saying: Evan, wake up! There was an FRB!” Keane reported to the BBC. After which, the team utilized the Australia Telescope Compact Array, allowing them to capture the FRB’s afterglow. Another telescope, the Subaru telescope located in Hawaii, was employed to locate the far-off galaxy. Once scientists established where the galaxy was, they used the light source to calculate its distance.

The cause of FRBs is still unknown, but the recent observations provide clues. Elliptical galaxies are ancient, according to Slate’s Phil Plait, meaning that’s in unlikely a massive supernova caused this certain FRB, since these types of stars fade out within galaxies this old. Because of the galaxy’s ancient past, scientists believe that a pair of colliding neutron stars could be causing the radio pulses. Scientists even hypothesize that FRBs could materialize from a number of sources.

Virgin Galactic released its newest SpaceShipTwo vessel, the VSS Unity (christened by Stephen Hawking) at the company’s test hangar based in the Mojave dessert reported by PC Magazine. The vehicle is updated from Virgin’s The Spaceship Company, already spearheading commercial space tourism. “Together, we can make space accessible in a way that has only been dreamt of before now, and by doing so can bring positive change to life on Earth,” Virgin Group founder Richard Branson said in a statement.

The newest iteration is designed to carry two pilots and up to six passengers modeled on its younger, X-Prize award-winning sibling, SpaceShipOne fashioned by Burt Rutan. Unity is currently under test flights in California and New Mexico, but Virgin hasn’t announced when commercial flights will commence. Passengers will be catapulted into space 3.5 times the speed of sound and experience the silence and weightlessness of space as well as views of earth.

Stephen Hawking even intimated that “I would be very proud to fly on this spaceship. Space exploration has already been a great unifier—we seem able to cooperate between nations in space in a way we can only envy on Earth,” he said. Yet Virgin hasn’t intimated when the spacecraft would be completed. But Virgin’s other two spacecraft include the WhiteKnightTwo for human space travel and VMS Eve, the 747-400 Cosmic Girl for the LauncherOne small satellite launch service.

“Outer space is the province of all humanity, and we think it is about time that all of humanity has a chance to explore it: not just pilots but also painters, not just engineers but also everyday explorers,” Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides said. Other entrepreneurs including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have their space darlings, SpaceX and Blue Origin.  respectively.

A 3,000-year-old wooden wheel dating from the Bronze Age was excavated in an England, pre-historic town, reported by the BBC. The wheel is the best-preserved artifact of its kind according to archaeologists in an ancient town that collapsed into a river.

The wheel measures roughly 3 feet in diameter with its hub still in place, and was unearthed during a dig at a Must Farm site located in Peterborough. The find was released by Historic England, a heritage organization that is partly sponsoring the excavation.

“This remarkable but fragile wooden wheel is the earliest complete example ever found in Britain,” Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said in a statement, and added that the discovery adds insight into the technological sophistication of our ancestors that dwelled in the region 3,000 years ago.

Must Farm was discovered in 1999, classified as “Peterborough’s Pompeii.” Like Pompeii, the site has been well-preserved with ornate murals and graffiti art. It was a former river society comprised of circular wooden houses built above a defunct River Nene channel. A fire, however, destroyed the river-town plunging into the sandy river where it’s been preserved until recently.

Excavators also dug up rare items not typically found in archeological records, such as a a wooden platter, wooden utensils, and clothing made from the fiber of lime trees; and even jars housing the remains of food, perhaps abandoned when the fire broke out, the researchers said. Archaeologists partially excavated the site in 2006 but is currently under a more complex eight-month undertaking costing $1.58 million.

Other antiquities recovered pointing to our ancestor’s sophistication include eight Bronze Age boats lifted from the same river in 2011, which suggest that Must Farm inhabitants traveled to and had connections to the dry land beyond the river.

A new study indicates that fish bred in hatcheries result in genetic alterations, as reported in Tech Times. The research, conducted at Oregon State University, pointed to evidence that wild and hatchery steelhead trout have different DNA levels, which are passed on to progeny. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications and documents mounting evidence that fish raised in synthetic environments showed differences in 700 genes.

Hatcheries have swelled in the last couple decades to compensate for depleted fish stocks in many parts of the world. But scientists have been discovering the side-effects of artificial breeding. One consequence is inbreeding, arising from small stock populations in incubators creating malformed offspring. “A fish hatchery is a very artificial environment that causes strong natural selection pressures,” said Professor Michael Blouin of the integrative biology in the OSU College of Science. He adds, “A concrete box with 50,000 other fish all crowded together and fed pellet food is clearly a lot different than an open stream.”

Researchers have targeted the dysfunctional traits hatchery fish produce, but some are embedded in the immune system and tissue regeneration, which explains why posterity is more prone to disease outbreaks, metabolism deficiencies and wounds. If scientists can pinpoint where genetic mutation happens the problem can be addressed and could lead to other ways of breeding fish populations without the deformities.

Both natural aquatic environments and hatcheries provide necessary conditions for the offspring to develop. Years of culturing under synthetic conditions results in mutations. Incubated fish populations are accustomed to hand-feeding, whereas wild fish hunt for their food and have naturally adapted to the environment’s dangers.

Shark attacks spiked last year to 98 confirmed cases setting a new record. A new report, from the International File of Shark Attacks, sites that the reasons have not yet been determined, but researchers suspect El Nino’s effect on ocean currents is to blame while others claim that the attacks increased proportionally to the swimmer population. George Burgess, a shark expert, revealed in an interview that the rising number of swimmers needs to be taken into account.

Burgess also provided audiences with a few take-home tips to avoid being bitten. For instance, a person should not surf, dive or swim alone. If venturing into waters, a company of two or people would help prevent a related attack. Sharks customarily feed at night, dawn and dusk, and they stalk prey closer to the shoreline because its an easier find. Shark bites in Hawaii mostly happen between 7:30 AM and 3:30 PM.

And watch bodily fluids. Sharks have an ultra keen nose and can smell blood miles away, so an open wound would signal them. Be sure to let wounds entirely heal before considering a dip in shark-infested waters. They also have a special appetite for wounded prey. If spearfishing for example, make sure the catch isn’t impaired because a shark may be nearby. If caught, keep the fish at a safe distance away in the event a shark tries to grab it.

Avoid harbor entrances, muddy waters, stream and channel mouths and steep drop-offs, areas where sharks lurk. And at the beach, stay away from clothing with high-contrasting color schemes and anything shiny because these qualities signal to the sharks that you belong in the water.

Erratic movements such as playing in the water tell sharks that you’re vulnerable and an easy target. And if you spot dolphins, don’t swim near them, as they are a sign that sharks are approaching the coast. Despite following these guidelines, if a shark approaches, do not turn your back and attempt to swim away, as they will catch you. Simply move out of the way and strike it on the snout, which disorients them, giving you a window to escape.