2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 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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  Capital OTC   
Lasers Can Make Atomic Force Microscope Much More Sensitive  Capital OTC
Optical Microscopes have their limitations and this limitation has to do more with the property of light than the technology of the microscope. On the other hand electron microscopes can be used for higher magnifications but the specimens have to be thin and ...

Zoom into how lasers can make microscopes much cooler   Tech Times
Scientific Study: Laser Microscopes are 20 Times more Sensitive and Advanced   Argyll Free Press
Lasers Could Improve Resolution, Temperature Of Atomic-Force Microscopes   RedOrbit
Design & Trend   
Delhi Daily News   
News Tonight Africa   
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  The Guardian   
Chief scientist cautions Newman on 'theories'  Business Spectator
Australia's chief scientist Ian Chubb says Tony Abbott's business adviser should be careful branching out into areas beyond his expertise, saying the businessman's opinion piece describing climate change as a religion was "a silly response to a very ...

Australia's chief scientist tells PM's business adviser to stick to economics   The Guardian

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  Brisbane Times   
Beware the dragon of runaway climate change  Brisbane Times
In news footage of recent tsunamis there are moments when the astonishment of gaping beachgoers and onlookers turns to terror as they finally realise they will be engulfed and are about to die. We have all seen the same thing in a dozen Hollywood epics: ...


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A New Wave Of Beetles Is About To Enter A Final Battle With The Australian ...  Business Insider Australia
This is a story about the $7.4 billion Australian cattle industry, cow manure, annoying bush flies and dung beetles. And how they're are all linked and why it's important to clean up cow pats. There are 28.5 million head of cattle in Australia each producing an ...

French beetles flown in to clean up Australia's cattle dung   The Conversation AU

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  Science Media Centre   
Kiwis in Antarctica: Secrets of the ice world  New Zealand Herald
This month, 950 scientists from nearly 40 countries will be in New Zealand for high-level meetings on Antarctic research. Science reporter Jamie Morton highlights eight projects that show how Kiwi researchers are playing a leading role on the frozen frontier.
Polar research: Six priorities for Antarctic science   Sail World

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  The Inquisitr   
Black Holes: Kings Of The Universe  The Inquisitr
Black holes have been the celebrity of astronomy since Einstein and friends first thought of their existence in the early 1900s. A century later, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has reported that it captured an “extreme and rare event” ...

Mysterious Shifting Lights Observed Near Huge Black Hole   Huffington Post
Scientists get a rare glimpse at black hole   The Daily Star
NASA telescope sees rare blurring of black hole light   Hindu Business Line
Financial Express   
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  The New Indian Express   
Let's Teach Maths Differently  The New Indian Express
Wednesday was an important day for gender equity in mathematics. For the first time, the Fields Medal was awarded to a woman — my colleague at Stanford University, Maryam Mirzakhani. It is a much-deserved prize for one of the most exciting ...

Maryam, condition your return to Iran on the freeing of political prisoners   Iranian
Gender inequity in maths just doesn't add up   The Australian
1st Female Winner for Fields Maths Medal   Onislam.net
Sierra Sun Times   
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty   
Contra Costa Times   
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  Austrian Tribune   
Asteroid 1950 DA's hit won't kill all life on Earth: say researchers  Austrian Tribune
A giant asteroid in our solar system, dubbed asteroid 1950 DA, could hit Earth in the year 2880 AD, scientists have warned few days back. The chance of asteroid 1950 DA's collision with Earth is merely 1-in-300. Meanwhile, researchers at the University of ...

Huge Asteroid That Could Wipe Out Human Life Is Heading Towards Earth ...   International Business Times AU
Meteorites likely wiped out Earth's earliest life   Science News for Students
Asteroid Defies Laws of Physics on a Collision Course with Earth   Dumb-Out

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  Arab News   
Researchers discover possible first samples of interstellar dust  Daily Californian
Researchers at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, with international collaboration and the help of more than 30,000 online volunteers, may have recovered the first particles of stardust from outside Earth's solar system, according to a paper published ...

Why seven dust particles brought home by Stardust probe are important to humans   Tech Times
Dots of interstellar dust surprise scientists   Columbus Dispatch
Space specks may be our first interstellar stardust   The Durango Herald
Northern Voices Online   
ScienceAlert   
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