2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 Australia Science

  New York Daily News   
Spiders get bigger, multiply faster in cities: Australian study  New York Daily News
The City That Never Sleeps may be up for a whole new reason. A new study out of Australia has found that spiders get bigger and multiply faster when living in urbanized areas, like New York City. In the report published Wednesday, researchers at the ...

city spiders getting bigger   New Zealand Herald
Bright lights, big spiders: Researchers say city life is breeding giant arachnids   Daily Mail
Cities are breeding bigger spiders, say scientists, but that's definitely a good thing   The Independent
Telegraph.co.uk   
The Inquisitr   
Sky News Australia   
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  The Motor Report   
Easy Hydrogen Production May Be Around The Corner, ANU Researchers Find  The Motor Report
Researchers at the Australian National University have successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, where a plant converts light and carbon dioxide into oxygen. This discovery opens the door to future biological systems powered by ...

Water and sunlight key ingredients in new fuel formula   The Conversation AU
Australians Have Cracked A Major Hurdle In Manufacturing Cars That Create ...   Business Insider Australia
Water and sunlight the formula for sustainable fuel   ECNmag.com

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High-speed video captures terrifying Jellyfish stings in action  SlashGear
Have you ever been stung by a Jellyfish? If you have, you know it hurts (and that everyone's answer to cure that sting is to pee on you, which is just… no). The soft, gelatinous creatures have long befuddled those who couldn't figure out how it could cause so ...


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  Radio New Zealand   
Varroa and bee viruses linked - study  Radio New Zealand
An Otago University study has thrown more light on the role that the varroa honey bee mite plays in spreading diseases through beehives. Honey bee showing pollen sacs on legs, Canterbury, New Zealand. The varroa honey bee mite appears to help spread ...

'Viral landscape' key to NZ Varroa research   The Land Newspaper
The Killer Mite Wiping Out Honey Bees Around The World Has Reached New ...   Business Insider Australia

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  Fox News   
Octopus could hold key to high-tech camouflage  Fox News
The octopus is a cephalopod, a class of marine animals that can change color quickly and its concealment method has inspired technology that automatically reads its surroundings and adapts to mimic them. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT.
New active camouflage device adapts to its environment   Knovel
We Can Make 'Predator'-Style Adaptive Camouflage By Imitating Octopus Skin   Business Insider Australia
Nature inspires new flexi-camo material   3News NZ
The Conversation AU   
News Tonight Africa   
Science World Report   
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Students travel to take part in reef campaign  Mackay Daily Mercury
PASSIONATE FROM AFAR: A group of international Students from China Environmental Protection Foundation with local environmental conservationists Cherry Muddle, Tony Fontes and Brittney Gregory. IT SEEMS the current state of the Great Barrier Reef ...

Residents visit banks in a plea to protect the reef   Whitsunday Times

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Fending off hungry Hawks is quite a buzz  The Age
A small pile of honey sandwiches will be waiting on a bland but functional table in the corner of the changerooms at the MCG on Saturday night. As I arrive at the ground I will head straight to that table. Do I eat two or three sandwiches? The question will be ...

Growing Concern Over Honey Bee Shortage   WSAV-TV
'Bee' friendly Toronto   The Weather Network

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  Daily Mail   
Mysterious Green Glow Spotted In The Ocean From Space  Huffington Post UK
Reid Wiseman has posted a stunning image of Bangkok from space which shows a mysterious green glow surrounding the city which ultimately he couldn't explain. #Bangkok is the bright city. The green lights outside the city? No idea… pic.twitter.com/ ...

'Alien' Green Lights Mystery Solved: Bright LED To Attract Squid   International Business Times AU
Mysterious green lights seen from space have a fishy explanation   The Daily Telegraph
What were the 'alien' green lights seen from space this week? Mysterious glow ...   Daily Mail

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  Irish Examiner   
What a pain in the mass! Euro craft Rosetta to poke its probe in 10-BILLION ...  Register
Vid The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has made the first measurement of the mass of the comet it's chasing – and has come up with a mass of 10 billion tonnes, plus or minus 10 per cent. comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Does my mass look ...

How do you measure a comet's weight?   Irish Examiner
Rosetta's 10-billion-tonne comet   BBC News
Compared To Downtown LA, Celebrated Comet 67P Is Absolutely Enormous ...   Huffington Post
Nature World News   
Science Recorder   
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  Science 2.0   
Earth's rate of light pollution keeps increasing  Valley morning Star
Star-bright jewels of the nighttime sky, ruddy Mars and golden Saturn are racing apart throughout the night against the deepening velvet evening sky while Venus and Jupiter begin a pas de deux in the early pre-dawn hours. If you have not been outside and ...

Mars, Saturn And The Claws Of Scorpius   Science 2.0
Planets, moon will form triangle   Pacific Daily News
The two planets have been slowly drifting towards each other and now Mars ...   The Conversation AU

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