2014年9月20日 星期六

2014-09-21 Australia Science

  Sky News Australia   
No Clowning: Study Finds Clownfish Can Travel Hundreds of Miles  Latin Post
Clownfish, known to spend much of their lives among the protective tentacle shroud of host anemones, nevertheless take to open waters when young and can travel hundreds of miles, says surprising new research. The study of the dispersal of Omani ...

Clownfish babies can migrate long distances: 'Finding Nemo' no longer fiction?   Tech Times
Clownfish can swim 400km to find new home, New Study   Canada News
Geekend: Finding Nemo Is Real... & Evil   InformationWeek
The Westside Story   
Headlines & Global News   
Examiner.com   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Concrete issues: Sydney Opera House awarded grant to preserve iconic ...  Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Opera House might be one of the world's most iconic buildings but it faces potentially significant conservation challenges, a US philanthropic organisation says. The Getty Foundation has awarded the Sydney Opera House Trust $US200,000 ...

Sydney Opera House testing Giant mechanical Bird to Abstain Seagulls From ...   Austrian Tribune
Opera House trials $6500 giant fake falcons to scare away aggressively hungry ...   Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate
Giant robot monster bird to protect Sydney Opera House from seagulls   Daily Mail
Delhi Daily News   
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  Yahoo!7 News   
UFOs on Sydney beach  Yahoo!7 News
The sands of Dee Why beach, north of Sydney, have been transformed into something of a bizarre landscape, covered in green alien balls. The UFO's - or unidentified floating objects - washed up along the shore leaving locals to ponder what they may be.
Where did the green 'alien eggs' come from? Scientists baffled by UFOs ...   Daily Mail

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  Yahoo!7 News   
Japanese construction giant Obayashi announces plans to have a space ...  ABC Online
Once the realm of science fiction, a Japanese company has announced they will have a space elevator up and running by the year 2050. If successful it would revolutionise space travel and potentially transform the global economy. The Japanese construction ...

Space elevator offers a new fantasy to a terrified world!   Crikey (blog)

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  Sci-Tech Today   
Scientists' colossal squid exam a kraken good show  Worcester Telegram
In this Dec. 2013 photo provided by a crew member of the boat San Aspring of New Zealand fishing company Sanford, Capt. John Bennett shows a colossal squid he and and his crew caught on the boat in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea. The creature, which ...

Kraken find hauled from deep   NTNews.com.au
NZ scientists examine giant squid caught in Antarctica' Ross Sea   MercoPress

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  The Hindu   
In the Arctic to save his tropical nation  The Hindu
Fearing that his Pacific island nation could be swallowed by a rising ocean, the President of Kiribati says a visit to the melting Arctic has helped him appreciate the scale of the threat. President Anote Tong on Saturday ended a Greenpeace-organised tour of ...

Kiribati leader's Arctic climate mission   SBS
Kiribati leader visits Arctic on climate mission   Lynchburg News and Advance
Kiribati president sees melt first-hand   Stuff.co.nz

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  The Australian Financial Review   
China shifts stance on climate change  The Australian Financial Review
China will unveil a “strengthened” policy to combat climate change at Tuesday's United Nations Summit in New York, the latest step in Beijing's evolution from denial and obstruction to what many now hope will be a positive contribution to lowering carbon ...

China plans to introduce ambitious caps on carbon emissions   Asahi Shimbun
Wealthy countries urged to improve emission targets   The Star Online
China insists wealthy countries should improve emission targets   Channel News Asia
The Hindu   
Economic Times   
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  Design & Trend   
Why The Diversity Among Human Faces?  Design & Trend
When compared to animal faces that pretty much all look the same, the massive variation among human faces is quite extraordinary. According to a new study, evolutionary pressures for individuals to be easily recognizable pushed us toward having widely ...

Why did humans evolve to have such different faces?   ScienceAlert
Report: Unique Human Faces Evolved To Signal Individual Identity   Big Think

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  National Geographic   
As World's Population Booms, Will Its Resources Be Enough for Us?  National Geographic
New projections of escalating growth increase the tension between humanity's expanding needs and what the planet can provide. A photo of crowds on the streets of Calcutta. A crowded street in Calcutta, India, reflects the looming threat of overpopulation, ...

On the Path Past 9 Billion, Little Crosstalk Between UN Sessions on Population ...   New York Times (blog)
World Population Could Hit 12.3 Billion By 2100, Surge Threatens American ...   The Inquisitr
Earth's Population Expected to Reach 12 Billion by 2100, say Experts   Uncover California
Haaretz   
Hindustan Times   
Philippine Star   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Ask Fuzzy: How and why do animals mimic ants?  Sydney Morning Herald
Question: How and why do animals mimic ants? Answer: Australia has a remarkable array of animals that mimic ants. Spiders, beetles, bugs, wasps, flies, and juvenile stick insects and mantids all have ant-mimicking representatives. The top reason animals ...


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