2014年8月30日 星期六

2014-08-31 Australia Science

  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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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Ask Fuzzy: Are dinosaurs extinct?  Sydney Morning Herald
Question: Are dinosaurs extinct? Answer: Dinosaurs are very much still alive, and are more successful and numerous in terms of species numbers now than they have been at any other point in their roughly-230-million-year history. This is because birds are ...


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  Daily Mail   
NASA's Spitzer scopes out huge asteroid smashup. And just misses it.  Los Angeles Times
Spitzer's observations of the aftermath of an asteroid collision offer insights into how Earth was formed. Spitzer's observations of the aftermath of an asteroid collision offer insights into how Earth was formed. (NASA). By Amy Hubbard contact the reporter.
Crash! Boom! Bang! NASA Spitzer telescope spies asteroid smashup around ...   Tech Times
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Captures a Suspected Asteroid Collision   Capital OTC
NASA Researchers witness an Asteroid Collision   Maine News
Design & Trend   
American Live Wire   
CBC.ca   
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  Maine News   
Japan to revive Gundam Robot  Maine News
Japanese engineers and animators have revealed their plans to bring a huge 18m-tall Gundam robot back to life. They have started working on a project, Gundam Global Challenge (GGC), and planned to revive the robot by 2019. Gundam, Japanese anime ...

Japan to bring Gundam Robot Back to Life   French Tribune
Japan plans to bring massive Gundam robot to life   Delhi Daily News
Transformers Watch Out: Japan Aims to Bring a $1bn Gundam Robot to Life   International Business Times UK
SlashGear   
Computerworld Australia   
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  Fox News   
IBM touts Watson supercomputer to speed up scientific breakthroughs  Fox News
IBM has enhanced its Watson supercomputer, famous for its appearance on the quiz show "Jeopardy," in an attempt to speed up the pace of scientific breakthroughs. This week IBM unveiled its Watson Discovery Advisor, which understands the sophisticated ...

IBM Watson cooks up some new dishes   PC World Magazine
IBM: Watson, go help those nice scientists with their research   BetaNews
IBM Launches Watson Based Cloud Computing Platform for Researchers   Greatresponder.com
Geekzone   
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  Science 2.0   
Philae: Rosetta Lander Will Seek A Close Encounter With Comet 67P's ...  Science 2.0
Artistic rendering of Philae on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA/ATG, CC BY. By Ian Wright, The Open University. There is much excitement about Rosetta at the moment. The European Space Agency's spacecraft has already made a ...

ESA Announces Winners Of Rosetta Arrival Photo Competition   RedOrbit
Comet Landing Like Trying to Put a Toy Helicopter on a Leaking Balloon   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Landing on a comet – what could possibly go wrong?   Dubbo Photo News | Dubbo Weekender

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  Digital Trends   
Awesome online map shows off ISS astronauts' amazing Earth photos  Digital Trends
If you're a fan of aerial imagery, you've probably already got a list of sites tucked away in your bookmarks that you jump t0 during your downtime. So here's another one for you…. Lovingly compiled by Dave MacLean of the Centre of Geographic Sciences in ...

Over 650 Photos From Astronauts Onboard The ISS, In One Amazing Map   Gizmodo Australia
Interactive Map Lets You Browse Over 650 Photos Taken by ISS Astronauts   PetaPixel
Forget Street View, explore the world in SPACE view: Interactive map plots every ...   Daily Mail

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  UN News Centre   
SAMOA: Business execs build partnerships with small islands at UN forum  UN News Centre
UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Gyan Chandra Acharya. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard. Print. 30 August 2014 – Small island developing states offer ...

Fiji joins small island States   Fiji Times
FIJI ATTENDS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES   The Jet Newspaper
The Pacific islands are drowning, we need the world's help   The Guardian
Huffington Post   
Radio Australia   
Big News Network.com   
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  The Malay Mail Online   
Why You Get Nostalgic Over Your Favourite Song  malaysiandigest.com
Pic: www.lifedaily.comGREENSBORO: Music triggers different functions of the brain, which helps explain why listening to a song you like might be enjoyable but a favourite song may plunge you into nostalgia, scientists said on Thursday. Neuroscientists in ...

Songs take your brain down memory lane   ABC Science Online
Why a song takes you down memory lane   Independent Online
Why Your Favourite Song Takes you Down Memory Lane   Naharnet

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  The Maritime Executive   
Submarine: Shanghai to US in 100 Minutes  The Maritime Executive
China is working towards the creation of a supersonic submarine that could in theory travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in less than two hours. New technology developed by a team of scientists at Harbin Institute of Technology's Complex Flow and Heat ...

Shanghai to San Francisco in under 2 hours via supersonic sub   Sail World

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