2014年8月20日 星期三

2014-08-21 Australia Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   
City spiders are getting bigger - but that's a good thing  Sydney Morning Herald
Find yourself thinking that the spider living in your garden is the biggest you've ever seen? You could be right. New research shows some spiders are getting larger and even doing better in cities than in their natural habitats. In a study published today in ...

Urbanization producing larger, giant spiders   Angle Chronicle
City spiders bigger than country cousins   ABC Science Online
Spiders prefer the city life   Big News Network.com
Los Angeles Times   
Australian Geographic (blog)   
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  Techly   
Watch how a jellyfish sting works in microscopic slow motion, the process may ...  Techly
Getting stung by a jellyfish is a massive downer when you're off work and have time to soak up some sun. But have you ever thought about how they actually sting you? Well, now science has found the answer, and it's somewhat reminiscent of an attack in an ...

Take a look at a jellyfish sting in slow motion   PBS NewsHour
If You've Ever Wondered Why Jellyfish Stings Are So Painful, This Slo-Mo Video ...   Huffington Post
Video Shows How Jellyfish Stings and Injects Venom   Austrian Tribune
Tech Times   
Maine News   
CNET   
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After five years, Aust Montara study urged  The Australian
INDONESIA'S deputy environment minister has urged the Australian government to join new efforts to investigate whether health and environmental problems in Timor Sea communities are linked to the Montara oil disaster. IT has been five years since more ...


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MicroBlitzing is science for the 21st Century  ABC Local
UWA researchers are looking for citizen scientists to help make a microbial map of WA. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. MicroBlitzing is a crowd sourcing science project, explained professor Andy Whiteley on ABC South West Mornings. "We're trying ...


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  AsiaOne   
Malaysia's Transport Minister to lead team for talks on MH370  AsiaOne
KUALA LUMPUR - A delegation of senior government officials will be in Australia next week to attend a tripartite meeting that also includes China pertaining to the missing Flight MH370. Malaysia's delegation, led by Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong ...

'Chinese' hackers target MH370 investigators   Telegraph.co.uk
Fresh underwater hunt for MH370 has a reasonable chance of finding the plane ...   Economic Times
Flight MH370: 19 conspiracy theories from Malaysia Airlines plane's ...   Mirror.co.uk
The Standard Digital News   
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  Independent Online   
Japanese island formed by volcanic eruption could collapse and cause a ...  ABC Online
An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea. The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing island of Nishinoshima, around ...

Tsunami Warning Issued Against Japan Island That was Created by a Volcano ...   International Business Times AU
Japan Island Created By Volcano Could Collapse, Cause Tsunami   The Weather Channel
Volcanic isle may collapse, create tsunami   Independent Online
eNCA   
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  WWL First News   
Analysis of tweets around Ferguson shows Twitter's quick grip on the news  CIO
Twitter posts related to the shooting last week of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, started appearing a full two days before cable news outlets like MSNBC, CNN and Fox News put the story in prime time, according to a report published Wednesday by the ...

Cable, Twitter picked up Ferguson story at a similar clip   Pew Research Center
Here's How Much Cable News Is Talking About Ferguson   Huffington Post
Scoot: Media faults in Ferguson   WWL First News

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  The Guardian   
Horses banned from centenary Anzac parade in WA town of Albany  The Guardian
Light horse brigade Members of the Light Horse brigade taking part in an Anzac Day dawn service on the Gold Coast. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP. Horses have been banned from marching in the first world war centenary Anzac parade in the West Australian ...

Horses banned from WWI march in WA   9news.com.au

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  Famagusta Gazette   
Researchers find life on the outside of the space station, in hot oily tar pits and ...  NEWS.com.au
LIFE it seems is pretty extreme. It's just been found living on the outside of a space station, inside hot tar pools and under almost a kilometre of ice. In space it's cold, it's dark — and utterly airless. So how has plankton been found clinging to the outer hull of the ...

Sea plankton found on the outer surface of the ISS   CNET
Sea Plankton on Space Station? Russian Official Claims It's So   Space.com
Russians find extraterrestrial microbes on International Space Station   Examiner.com
The Moscow Times   
The Week Magazine   
WalesOnline   
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Man freed over sexual assault allegations after 540 days behind bars  Sydney Morning Herald
A man has been freed over the sexual assault of a sleeping Canberra teenager after spending more than 540 days behind bars. Kevin Henry O'Rafferty, 43 and his co-offender Jason Heath Dodd, 41, were convicted in June last year of sexually assaulting a ...


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