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Mike Street saw turkey vultures making their way home after spending a winter in sunny South America. To saw more closely, Street took his binoculars and pointed it towards the sky.

Street has been watching such birds from last four decades as a hawk watcher. Many volunteers count the number of eagles, turkey vultures and several other kinds of hawks that pass across Niagara heading for summer ranges. For Street, events like annual hawk are about collecting raw data about the bird. According to Street, such events help in understanding how the world has been changing.

The American space agency NASA is planning to test out a method to prevent an asteroid impact by launching a non-explosive spacecraft into a nearby asteroid.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) and NASA will be jointly working on this mission. ESA has recently started the development of a non-explosive spacecraft, reported Discovery News.

But so far it seems that the mission will not be launched until 2022. The major goal of the mission will be to check if there are any plausible ways to eliminate other future threats from asteroids.

Collaboratively NASA and the ESA have already started their work on the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission.

American President Barack Obama said that moon is no longer a destination for American astronauts. But recently a senior astronaut with the American space agency NASA said that the agency is planning to set a base for a future mission to Mars.

According to William Gerstenmaier, the chief of human exploration for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, journey to such a far located planet Mars is not feasible.

He said journey to Mars will take nearly 900 days. Rather William said that it will be more feasible for the agency if they utilize the moon.

Astronauts can use the large ice at the lunar poles and convert it to a reservoir of oxygen and hydrogen fuel that can be used to propel rockets towards Mars, he said.

Corporate boards, company executives, and rival investors criticized Carl Icahn. But he is receiving a lot of criticism from casino workers and college students, who consider him as a reason behind struggling seaside gambling resort.

Trump Entertainment Resorts will be taken over by Icahn. He’ll also take over the struggling Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort. But even before it occurs, the company’s elimination of health insurance and pensions for workers has led to a lot of public protests.

Manhattan Human Rights Commissioner has agreed to hold a hearing on Stonehenge Village’s fitness center guidelines after a longtime tenant Jean Green-Dorsey filed a complaint.

Manhattan luxury improvement has banned residents in the affordable-housing units from utilizing the building’s state-of-the-art health club. However, health club ban might violate laws.

Green-Dorsey has lived in the Upper West Side constructing and pays $1,080 month-to-month. The city human rights officials stated that her apartment where only high-paying tenants can use the gym may be illegally discriminating.

A latest study conducted by a researcher from North Carolina State University has suggested that there is a kind of ant species found on Manhattan streets that have developed a taste for human food.

The ants that live on the sidewalks and other paved areas within the city are likely to have the levels of carbon isotope similar to humans.

But at the same time the ants which live in parks have comparatively much decreased isotope levels. This has shown that ants, exposed to human food, adapt their chemistry to the environment.