2014年8月26日 星期二

2014-08-27 Australia Science

  BBC News   
The relationship between sheepdog and master revealed  BBC News
Researchers have used GPS data to help unravel the mystery of how sheepdogs do their job so well. The research could be used to help develop "shepherd robots" to help in crowd control or cleaning up an oil spill. Claire Marshall met Meiron Owen, ...

Mystery of how kelpies herd sheep solved   Sydney Morning Herald
Dog's life for robots as key to herding sheep found   Irish Independent
Can robots really do the job of sheepdogs? Scientists unlock secret of how they ...   Daily Mail
Stuff.co.nz   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Outback station to track space junk  The Australian
SPACE junk has become a real-life worry of the kind depicted in the hit Hollywood movie 'Gravity', where a storm of debris rips through a spacecraft in orbit, leaving the surviving crew stranded. Now, US defence giant Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT +0.05% has ...

EOS, Lockheed to track space junk from Oz   Register
Laser-Based Space Junk Tracking Site Planned in Australia   NBCNews.com
Australian company signs deal to track space junk   Sydney Morning Herald
Latin Post   
Photonics.com   
Signal Magazine   
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  Sky News Australia   
Drone helicopters versus 'purple plague': CSIRO takes on invasive biosecurity ...  NEWS.com.au
IT IS the invasive purple plague threatening to take over our land. Scientists are desperate to stop it before it completely gets out of control and have unveiled their latest robotic weapon in this massive biosecurity battle. The robot which is capable of flying ...

VIDEO: Flying Robots Are Sweeping Through Remote Australians Rainforests ...   Business Insider Australia
Robot helicopters help find harmful weeds   The West Australian
Drones in the sky help clear forest floor   SBS

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  Inside Science News Service   
Marching In Formation Raises Confidence And Changes Mindset  Inside Science News Service
The police would feel emboldened and strong because they were marching in synchrony; the people they were marching toward would feel threatened and weak, and the police would make decisions they would not have made if they were not in formation ...

Marching in unison makes men feel powerful   ABC Science Online
Military Marching Makes Soldiers Fear The Enemy Less: Study   Business Insider Australia
Marching 'makes soldiers more fearless'   Western Morning News
Science AAAS   
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  GovExec.com   
Will climate change cause new plagues?  New Zealand Herald
His research interests span a broad spectrum of ecological and evolutionary topics, most of which are rooted in population biology, with specific work looking at pest control, harvesting, bio-economics and epidemiology. Some of his best-known work, ...

Climate change hysteria is really a feeling   The Daily Telegraph

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New Great Barrier Reef route for ships  The Cairns Post
CHALLENGE: A coal tanker Shen Neng 1, aground on a reef 70km east of Great Keppel Island. Pic: Maritime Safety Queensland Source: News Limited. SHIPPING companies are expected to stick to a new route through the Great Barrier Reef to ensure they ...

Reef critters provide a key to human condition   Mackay Daily Mercury
Selina fears time is running out to save Great Barrier Reef   Rockhampton Morning Bulletin

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  BBC News   
New Antarctic atlas offers index of marine life  BBC News
The most complete audit ever assembled of Antarctic sea life is to be published this week. Continue reading the main story. Cushion stars, feeding on seal faeces in shallow water off Antarctica. More than 9,000 species, from single-cell organisms to penguins ...

New atlas on Southern Ocean marine life published   Wake, Wind and Surf
Antarctic marine life atlas launched to inform conservation debate   Blue & Green Tomorrow
Atlas of Southern Ocean Marine Life   Hydro International
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  Times of India   
'Supersonic submarine' the future of travel?  NEWS.com.au
CHINESE scientists claim they have developed the technology that could allow a submarine to travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in less than two hours. The team from the Harbin Institute of Technology was inspired by a supersonic torpedo invented by ...

New submarine technology may allow for supersonic travel   Science Recorder
Shanghai to San Francisco in two hours via supersonic submarine   The West Australian
China's Supersonic Submarine? Not Gonna Happen   TIME
Sydney Morning Herald   
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  Sky News Australia   
Kanuka not an Aussie weed: study  NZ City
New research shows New Zealand's kanuka tree is not actually related to an Australian weed and seven new species have been identified. 27 August 2014. For 31 years New Zealand's ubiquitous kanuka tree has been lumped with an Australian weed, but ...

And then there were 10—unexpected diversity in New Zealand kanuka genus ...   Phys.Org

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  The Guardian   
The corncockle kerfuffle, or why Countryfile isn't trying to kill you  The Guardian
The BBC has been criticised after a scheme it promoted on Countryfile distributed packets of wild flower seeds containing a poisonous plant. But the truth is more complicated, and far less alarming. Share · Tweet this. Email. Corncockle: rare, pretty and ...

Project promoted by BBC spreads poisonous wild flowers across Britain   Telegraph.co.uk
Girl Guides spark health scare after planting deadly flowers - for BBC's Countryfile   Mirror.co.uk
Girl Guides plant deadly flowers for BBC's Countryfile, trigger heath scare   Delhi Daily News
THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY   
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