2014年9月3日 星期三

2014-09-04 Australia Science

  The Inquisitr   
Deep Sea Mushroom Expands Tree Of Life  The Inquisitr
A 'mushroom'-shaped animal found in a deep sea expedition is forcing scientists to rethink their tree of life. The deep sea mushroom doesn't fit into modern classifications. The mushroom-like creature could be related to groups thought extinct for 500 million ...

Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life   BBC News
'Aliens' Found, Mushroom-Shaped Creatures In The Ocean Depths In Australia   International Business Times AU
Deep-sea Dendrogramma creatures found off Australia could 'reshape tree of life'   The Age
Latin Post   
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  ABC Science Online   
Welcome to Laniakea: our home in the cosmos  ABC Science Online
Milky Way supercluster We are part of a galactic supercluster called Laniakea, which contains a hundred million billion stars, according to a new study. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, provides our most detailed cosmic address yet. "This has ...

New Map Shows Where The Milky Way Galaxy Is Inside Its Supercluster   Gizmodo Australia
Earth's New Address Is...a Tiny Part Of The Laniakea Galactic Supercluster   Science 2.0
Our cluster of galaxies mapped by scientists   Herald Scotland
New York Times   
Sydney Morning Herald   
Christian Science Monitor   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Australia needs a science strategy  Australian Life Scientist
Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, is firing up discussion about building a strategy for science through judicious investment, good planning and long-term commitment. Chubb recently published an editorial in Science and followed this up with the ...

Nation 'needs a sciencestrategy'   The Australian
Australia's chief scientist unveils science strategy   Science AAAS
Chief Scientist's STEM innovation focus gets ACS nod   ARNnet
Ferret   
Cowra Community News   
The Guardian   
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  BBC News   
Economic success 'drives language extinction'  BBC News
A study has found that minority languages in the most developed parts of the world, including North America, Europe and Australia, are most at threat. The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The researchers say that efforts to ...

Study: 25 Percent Of The World's Languages Face Extinction   CBS Local
Language diversity threatened in areas with high economic growth, study   Al Jazeera America
The endangerment of languages: Will economic progress render them extinct?   Tech Times
Hindustan Times   
Huffington Post   
Daily Digest   
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  The Maritime Executive   
Australia and NZ team up to build maritime satellite network  iT News
The Australia Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) have paired up to buy a the region's first next-generation satellite-aided search and rescue (SAR) system that will speed up the location of vessels in distress. France's Orolia ...

New Zealand, Australia jointly upgrade maritime safety surveillance   GlobalPost
Australia and New Zealand Sign Contract to Boost Maritime Safety Response ...   International Business Times AU
McMurdo Group company signs Asian-Pacific contract   Trade Only Today
The Maritime Executive   
The Australian   
Lloyd's List Daily Commercial News   
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  Philly.com   
Scientists can track floating filth  The Australian
SCIENTISTS might soon be able to point the finger of blame at the countries responsible for giant flotillas of filth in the oceans. THE Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one area of environmental concern between Hawaii and California where the surface is littered ...

Scientists Develop Algorithm To Track Movement Of 'Garbage Patches' In Oceans   Design & Trend
Novel Mathematical Model to find major contributor of Plastic Pollution in Oceans   Maine News
Geography in the News: Swirling Ocean Garbage Dumps   National Geographic
AZoCleantech   
Dumb-Out   
Nature World News   
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  Science Codex   
Warning over vulnerability of soil carbon to warming  BBC News
The huge stores of carbon locked in the world's soils are more vulnerable to rising temperatures than previously thought. Researchers found that microbes in the soil were more likely to enhance the release of CO2 in a warming world. Soils from colder regions ...

Soil microbes more sensitive to climate change than thought   Sydney Morning Herald
Soil study finds bugs in CO2 models   The Australian
Carbon stored in the world's soils more vulnerable to climate change than ...   Phys.Org

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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Xi and Modi likely to skip UN climate summit in New York  Sydney Morning Herald
The top leaders of China and India, two of the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases, aren't planning to attend this month's United Nations summit on climate change, according to a diplomat at the UN. President Xi Jinping of China and Indian Prime ...

Doors open at Ban Ki-moon's 'Last Chance Saloon'   eco-business.com
China and Indian Leaders will not attend the UN Climate Summit   iStreet Research
Ban Ki-moon: Time is running out to tackle climate change   Business Green
Latin Post   
Climate Central   
Rome Sentinel   
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  Geek   
Lego moves from the toybox to serious science  Sydney Morning Herald
Many a boozy post-prandial dinner party conversation has explored the vexing question of identifying the single most useful product ever invented. Conclusions usually come to rest on the ball-peen hammer, with which anything may be dismantled, or gaffer ...

Lego Fusion turns real Lego bricks into a virtual world   Geek

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  Techly   
Space-matured whisky returning to Earth? Neat!  Techly
On the 12th of September, a vial of space-matured whisky will be touching down in Kazakhstan, after almost three years orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. In October 2011 a vial of unmatured single malt from the Ardbeg Distillery in Scotland, ...

'Space Whiskey' is Heading Home   Nature World News
'Space Whisky' to Return After Space Station Voyage   Discovery News
Scotland's 'space whisky' will return to Earth next month   ScienceAlert
FoodManufacture.co.uk   
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