2014年8月27日 星期三

2014-08-28 Australia Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   
NSW calls for national ban on shampoo additives  Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW government has called for a national ban on the sale and production of shampoos and other products containing microplastics before they inflict worse damage on marine environments. Environment Minister Rob Stokes said on Thursday the ...

Environment Minister to convene an industry group to phase out microplastic ...   The Daily Telegraph

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  BBC News   
Enormous wasp nest takes over bedroom after homeowner forgets to shut window  NEWS.com.au
UNWELCOME guests are sometimes hard to get rid of, but imagine trying to convince 5000 angry wasp's to leave the spare room. This was the case for a homeowner in the UK after the stinging insects invaded her home. In decades of pest control John Birkett ...

Pest Controller Amazed By 5000-Strong-Insect Wasp Nest Covering A Bed   International Business Times AU
5000 wasps build giant nest in woman's spare bed in England   Sydney Morning Herald
Today's Most: Family finds 5000 wasps in their guest room   Tucson News Now
The Independent   
fox8.com   
The Inquisitr   
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  RT   
Space junkyard: New tech designed to combat dangerous trash in orbit  RT
In an attempt to keep space debris from destroying million-dollar projects in Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin is teaming up with an Australian company to track potentially dangerous wreckage. The defense and aerospace company will develop a new tracking ...

Lockheed Martin to Start Tracking Space Trash from Australia   The Escapist
Lockheed Martin to track space junk   Daily Mail
Lockheed Martin in space junk deal with Australian firm   BBC News
www.worldbulletin.net   
The Australian   
Chinatopix   
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  Yahoo!7 News   
New Queensland whale watching rules divide tour operators and conservationists  Yahoo!7 News
Tour operators and whale conservationists are split over a Queensland Government trial that allows people to swim with whales. Queensland has become the first Australian state to allow people to swim with humpback whales, softening otherwise strict ...

Swimming With the Whales in Australia   New York Times (blog)

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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
Every living thing in the Antarctic Ocean mapped   New Scientist
Discovery News   
Hydro International   
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  NEWS.com.au   
Durham Sinkhole Is Terrifyingly Huge... And It's Only Getting Bigger  Huffington Post UK
A colossal, sheep-swallowing sinkhole has appeared in County Durham - and it is only getting bigger. The gigantic chasm, which is so deep the bottom cannot be seen at one end, is thought to be the result of rocks and soil rushing into mine workings deep ...

Phenomenal ... Landowner John Hensby says he heard 'rumbling and smashing ...   NEWS.com.au
Sink hole in at Cowshill in County Durham causes footpath to be closed off   ChronicleLive
Giant sinkhole in Durham is still growing   Telegraph.co.uk

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Stuarts Point seal released back into wild  Nambucca Guardian News
A YOUNG female New Zealand fur seal - first spotted by locals in the lagoon at Stuarts Point several weeks ago - has been released back into the wild at Split Solitary Island off Coffs Harbour. The seal, affectionately named 'Stella', was brought into care by ...

Nursed back to health, Stella heads home   Coffs Coast Advocate

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  Phys.Org   
Water traces found outside solar system  Deccan Chronicle
Washington: Astronomers in the US say that they have discovered first traces of water clouds outside our solar system. Water ice clouds have been found on a “brown dwarf” 7.3 light-years from Earth. The water ice clouds were discovered by Kevin Luhman, ...

Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in brown dwarf atmosphere   Phys.Org
Did astronomers detect the first water clouds beyond our Solar System?   ScienceAlert
Water Clouds Discovered Beyond The Solar System for the First Time   Prensa Latina
CBS Local   
Daily Mail   
The Week Magazine   
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  Reuters UK   
IBM's Jeopardy-Playing Watson Becomes Science Researcher  Businessweek
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM:US) wants you to know that its Watson technology can do more than win “Jeopardy!” -- it can now help accelerate scientific research and discoveries. IBM, in a peer-reviewed paper with Baylor College of Medicine ...

IBM Watson now answers your questions before you ask   PCWorld
IBM's Watson: Can it improve returns on R&D?   ZDNet
IBM launches Watson system for research, hopes for breakthroughs   Reuters
Wall Street Journal (blog)   
VentureBeat   
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  Rappler   
Neutrinos lay bare solar proton reactions  Register
A key prediction of solar physics, that its nuclear reactions should emit neutrinos with a particular signature, has been confirmed according to scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Using the Borexino instrument in Italy's Apennine Mountains, ...

Sun Unplugged: The 'Soul' of The Sun Found   International Business Times AU
Underground lab glimpses 'soul' of the Sun   Rappler
Scientists see the 'soul' of the Sun   ABC Science Online
Astronomy Magazine   
Symmetry magazine   
GazetteNET   
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