2014年8月16日 星期六

2014-08-17 Australia Science

  The West Australian   
Whales' feeding secrets revealed  The West Australian
The feeding habits of Antarctic minke whales have been recorded for the first time - and they are out-eating their much bigger cousins by a long shot. WA-trained Nick Gales is chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division and said researchers from the US ...

Minkes tracked going for the krill   Herald Sun
Minke Whales Lunge 100 Times Per Hour To Feed Under Sea Ice   RedOrbit
Minke whales' feeding frenzy observed   The Japan Times
Delhi Daily News   
ABC Online   
News24   
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  Upstart Magazine   
Accuracy of atomic-force microscopes will increase by New Technique  Upstart Magazine
Accuracy of atomic-force microscopes will increase by New Technique At the Australian National University Researchers have found the easiest way to form magnifier probes twenty times more sensitive and able to direct forces as little because of the weight ...

New Techniques Make Microscopes 20 Times More Sensitive   Chinatopix
Microscopes sensitivity can be increased by 20 times with Laser   WallStreet OTC
Atomic Microscopes' resolution Enhanced by Incredibly Sensitive Lasers   Uncover California
Auto World News   
Tech Times   
iStreet Research   
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  Austrian Tribune   
Hubble Space Telescope's Image Solves Old Cosmic Mystery  Austrian Tribune
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of globular cluster IC 4499. The image shows a diamond shaped cluster of stars, which is around 50,000 light years away from Earth and orbits in Milky Way galaxy. Scientists claimed that the image will ...

New Hubble image shows sparkling stars, reveals their age   Delhi Daily News
New Hubble image shows us sparkling stars and solves old mystery   Tech Times
This Gorgeous Image From Hubble Shines New Light On Old Cosmic Mystery   Huffington Post
Discovery News   
ABC Science Online   
Space.com   
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  Northern Voices Online   
New interstellar map and stardust: Myth or reality  Northern Voices Online
New interstellar map and stardust is being talked about across the world. But is it myth or reality. ​Right now scientists at NASA are busy studying star dust brought by its Stardust robotic mission. Since 2006 when the dust gathered from the flyby comet Wild 2 ...

Scientists Find Seven Dust Motes, claim they are from Interstellar Space   News Tonight Africa
Dusting Up Distant Stars—Online 'Dusters' Find Interstellar Stardust Deep in Space   Latinos Health
Researchers find possible interstellar particles returned by Stardust spacecraft   Examiner.com
Maine News   
ScienceAlert   
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  The Hindu   
The queen who challenged the kings  The Hindu
The queen has made her last move. Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player in history, has retired from competitive chess. Statistics would also tell you that the 38-year-old Hungarian is the greatest sportswoman of all time, that too without ever ...

A trio of champion women? Steady on, old girl…   The Guardian

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  Oman Daily Observer   
Harvard Develops 1000 Micro Robot Swarm That Works Together  The Interrobang
The geniuses at Harvard have invented “kilobots” that work together to form different shapes and patterns without human interaction. The programmers call this the first “thousand-robot swarm”. Brilliant invention – because things that come in “swarms” have ...

Harvard's Miniature Robots Demonstrate Collective Artificial Intelligence (WATCH)   Headlines & Global News
Watch a thousand robot swarm form complex shapes by working together   Geek
Swarm of robots can assemble into various shapes, scientists say   gulfnews.com
ScienceAlert   
News Tonight Africa   
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  Daily Mail   
Jupiter and Venus Line Up Tomorrow  The New Indian Express
HYDERABAD: A celestial phenomenon, Venus in conjunction with Jupiter, will occur on August 18, giving people an easy opportunity to see the two planets with the naked eye. According to Raghunandan Kumar of Planetary Society of India, Jupiter and ...

Venus and Juptier to make closest approach in 14 years   myfoxny.com
Venus and Jupiter in Conjunction   Dumb-Out
'Double star' on the horizon tomorrow   Gulf Today
Butler Eagle (subscription)   
Uncover California   
Herald.ie   
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  Business Insider Australia   
A Changing World Is Creating These Hybrid Animals  Business Insider Australia
As the Arctic warms and natural habitats are transformed by human activity, strange new hybrid animals are starting to wander the earth. New animals have started to appear when two similar species have been forced into the same territory. In 2006, a white ...


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Enough with the media's dumb whale nicknames  Illawarra Mercury
I dunno know about you but I breathed a massive sigh of relief after hearing about the humpback whale that almost came to grief in the tricky flows off Kiama last Saturday. The seven-metre behemoth got all twisted up in ropes and other debris in Loves Bay ...


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  The Independent   
Huge asteroid that 'could end human life' defying gravity as it moves towards ...  The Independent
Scientists have moved closer to being able to stop a huge asteroid colliding with the Earth and potentially wiping out human life. Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that blowing the space rock up could make the collision worse by ...

Now We Know How This Giant, Earth-Bound Asteroid Is Held Together, We Can ...   TIME
Giant Asteroid is Likely to Collide with Earth...in 2880   Latino Post
Near-Earth Asteroid Held Together by Unknown Force   Scientific American
Techsonia   
Chinatopix   
Tech Times   
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