2014年8月29日 星期五

2014-08-30 Australia Science

  Deutsche Welle   
Anne Geddes aids Great Barrier Reef rescue for calendar  Herald Sun
Video; Image. Bob Irwin urges people to fight for the reef 0:15. Play video. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/. This political ad urges people to fight for the Great Barrier Reef after the government announced it would dump dredge spoil in the World Heritage ...

Fix found to reef fears over Abbot Point dredging   The Australian
Coal harbor threat to Great Barrier Reef   Deutsche Welle
Climate Change Is Eating Away The Great Barrier Reef   International Business Times AU
Dredging News Online   
ABC Online (blog)   
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  Daily Mail   
Could facial scrubs be banned? NSW officials calls for crackdown after plastic ...  Daily Mail
The NSW government has called for all microbeads to be removed from personal care products sold in Australia by 2016. During the release of a health review into Sydney Harbour, New South Wales Environment Minister Rob Stokes urged the beauty and ...

NSW calls for 'microplastics' ban after Sydney Harbour review reveals toxic ...   The Daily Telegraph
Tiny Beads Found In Shampoo And Exfoliants Are A Threat to the Sydney Harbour   International Business Times AU
NSW calls for national ban on shampoo additives that are choking the oceans   Sydney Morning Herald
9news.com.au   
Yahoo!7 News   
Sky News Australia   
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  Tech Times   
Crash! Boom! Bang! NASA Spitzer telescope spies asteroid smashup around ...  Tech Times
Alien worlds may be forming around a star called NGC 2547-ID8 and astronomers may have just seen evidence of the collision between two massive asteroids. (Photo : NASA/JPL-Caltech). The Spitzer Space Telescope has seen the eruption of vast ...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Captures a Suspected Asteroid Collision   Capital OTC
NASA's Spitzer scopes out huge asteroid smashup. And just misses it.   Los Angeles Times
Asteroid smash-up process captured by NASA telescope   CBC.ca
Astronomy Magazine   
American Live Wire   
ValueWalk   
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  Stuff.co.nz   
Queensland's 'fluoro' turtles sighted for first time in 20 years  Stuff.co.nz
I'M BACK: The Jardine River Painted turtle, native to Queensland'?s Cape York, has not been formally sighted since 1989 ... until now. Fluorescent turtle. SUPPLIED. FOUND AFTER 20 YEARS: The Jardine River Painted turtle has a crimson red chest plate ...

Queensland's 'fluoro' Jardine River turtles sighted for first time in 20 years   Brisbane Times
Rare 'painted turtles' found in Qld's Cape York region   ABC Message Stick
Rare Jardine River turtles found in Queensland's Cape York region   Yahoo!7 News

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  Marine Trader Online   
Faking it: how animals trick their way to a better life  Marine Trader Online
Ai Hin was showing loss of appetite and reduced mobility, so it was logical for staff at a breeding centre in the Chinese province of Sichuan to assume the giant panda was pregnant. When it became clear she wasn't, shocked staff concluded that she had ...


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Queensland law guarantees public right to sea shore walks  Sydney Morning Herald
Queensland, your long walks on the beach can continue unimpeded. Legislation passed by the government this week will allow "a conditional right of public access, to be assessed on a case by case basis, to an area of beach, which as a result of erosion, ...


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  International Business Times UK   
Transformers Watch Out: Japan Aims to Bring a $1bn Gundam Robot to Life  International Business Times UK
A team of engineers and animators in Japan have started the Gundam Global Challenge (GGC), an ambitious project to bring a huge 18m-tall (60ft) Gundam robot statue to life and walking by 2019. Gundam is a hugely popular Japanese anime franchise that ...

New project aims to deliver a working Gundam to the world   SlashGear
Can 'Gundam' fans build a six-story walking robot?   Computerworld Australia

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  BetaNews   
IBM: Watson, go help those nice scientists with their research  BetaNews
IBM's Watson supercomputer is set to tackle scientific research head-on after being re-programmed to analyze big data in the cloud. Currently, the testing of scientific hypotheses and theories often takes days or months of arduous work, but with Watson's ...

IBM Watson Discovery Advisor brings scale and speed to research   Geekzone
VIdeo Friday: Watson Discovery Advisor Launch   h+ Magazine
IBM Watson cooks up some new dishes   PC World Magazine
Fox News   
Washington Post   
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  WA today   
Sea Shepherd accuses WA government of 'withholding info' on sharks  WA today
Sharks: 'Greg Hunt never received a copy of this survey'. Sea Shepherd's Jeff Hansen said Environmental Minister Greg Hunt allowed the WA Government to kill sharks without having seen a report revealing the community was against it. PT0M53S ...

Sharks: report reveals what West Australians really think   Newcastle Star

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  National Geographic   
Volcano Erupts in Papua New Guinea  Discovery News
ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other Jihadist groups seem to have variations on the same flag. What's the meaning behind the symbols and writing? Tara explains. Read More » · Archaeology · U.S. History · Ancient Egypt · Art history · Religion · History Videos · Animals.
Volcano erupts in PNG, spewing ash and rock   The Australian
Pictures: Volcanoes Erupting Around the World This Week   National Geographic
Villagers flee as PNG volcano erupts   ABC Online
New Zealand Herald   
The Independent   
Mirror.co.uk   
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