2014年10月1日 星期三

2014-10-02 Australia Science

  The Times (subscription)   
Offspring can look like an ex-boyfriend  The Times (subscription)
Previous lovers are sometimes best forgotten, but scientists have shown that offspring can resemble their mother's former partner — in flies, at least. The discovery is the first evidence for an idea proposed by Aristotle that physical traits of previous sexual ...

Fly Exes Influence Another Male's Offspring   Nature World News
Mom's first boyfriend might influence later offspring (in flies, anyway)   Washington Post
Ghosts of mother's sexual past show up in fly offspring, study shows   Sydney Morning Herald
Telegraph.co.uk   
Daily Caller   
Business Insider Australia   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Back by popular demand: public backs Pluto for planethood  Sydney Morning Herald
Pluto can thank its lucky stars it's got a strong fan base on Earth. Reduced to the rank of "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, it's been waiting in the wings 7.5 billion kilometres away from Earth, bursting for its chance to thrust itself ...

Pluto Is A Planet After All   The Inquisitr
Pluto Is a Planet Again, According to Harvard Astronomers   2paragraphs.com

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  NPR   
When Can A Big Storm Or Drought Be Blamed On Climate Change?  NPR
Nowadays, when there's a killer heat wave or serious drought somewhere, people wonder: Is this climate change at work? It's a question scientists have struggled with for years. And now there's a new field of research that's providing some answers. It's called ...

Drought lengthened by climate change   Stuff.co.nz
Human contribution to hottest year   ABC Online
Australia's 2013 heatwave due to climate change, researchers conclude   Sydney Morning Herald
Yahoo!7 News   
The Age   
Sin Chew Jit Poh   
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  Business Insider   
10 Amazing Photos From National Geographic's 2014 Photo Contest  Businessinsider India
National Geographic opened up its annual photo contest for submissions last month, and the photos have been pouring in. With only a month left until the call for entries closes, this year's batch of entries looks to be as strong as the previous year's, with tons of ...

World's natural beauty captured in images due to National Geographic competiton   Daily Mail
Gallery: Stunning entries in the 2014 National Geographic Photo Competition   ScienceAlert
10 beautiful photos remind us why we need nature   The Daily Star
ABC News   
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  The Guardian   
Time to give up on 2 degrees?  Business Spectator
This is the summary of a response to an article published in the journal Nature by David Victor and Charles Kennel (both of University of California) that international efforts to address climate change should ditch the target of limiting global warming to 2 ...

Scientists scotch 'tenuous' 2C climate goal   The Australian
Could the 2C climate target be completely wrong?   The Guardian
Is 2 Degrees the Right Limit for Global Warming? Some Scientists Say No   National Geographic
Business Insider Australia   
Daily Mail   
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  News24   
Scientists see bleached coral in northwest Hawaii  News24
Honolulu - Warm ocean temperatures have caused large expanses of coral to bleach in the pristine reefs northwest of Hawaii's main islands, scientists said on Tuesday. Mass bleaching has occurred at Lisianski atoll, about 1 600km northwest of Honolulu, ...

Warm oceans 'are bleaching coral'   Yahoo News UK
Scientists explore underwater world in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands   KITV Honolulu
Bleached coral seen in northwest Hawaii   The West Australian

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  ABC Online   
New marine species may have been found in north-west Hawaiian Islands after ...  ABC Online
New marine species may have been discovered off the north-western Hawaiian Islands after a major deep-sea exploration, scientists say. To make the find, scientific divers descended to previously unexplored depths in the area as part of a 25-day National ...


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  Jewish Telegraphic Agency   
Total lunar eclipse  Wauchope Gazette
We're going to be treated to a total lunar eclipse on Wednesday evening, 8 October 2014, with the Moon expected to take on an eerie 'reddish glow. This is due to sunlight being filtered by the Earth's polluted atmosphere falling on the Moon. Airborne ash from ...

October Sky: Lunar eclipses, distant planet in view   The News-Press
Year's second lunar eclipse starts early Wednesday   Arizona Daily Star
Astronomical Events October 2014: Blood-Red Total Lunar Eclipse, Solar ...   International Business Times AU
Shore News Today   
inmycommunity   
Tempo   
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  BBC News   
Sharks can be 'social or solitary'  BBC News
The most feared predators in the sea have individual personalities that affect how readily they socialise, according to a study by UK scientists. Individual sharks, studied in groups of ten, showed consistent social habits - either forming groups with other sharks ...

It's Not all Sharp Teeth And Feeding Frenzies: Sharks Have Personalities As Well   Business Insider Australia
Even sharks can be SHY, according to a new study   Daily Mail
Sharks sociable, but some choose not to be, study finds   New Zealand Herald
International Business Times UK   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
West Antarctica's Meltdown Weakens Earth's Gravity  NBCNews.com
West Antarctica's incredible weight loss can be felt from space, a new study reports. So much ice has disappeared from West Antarctica in recent years that Earth's gravity is now weaker there, researchers reported in the Aug. 28 issue of the journal ...

Antarctica's ice loss is messing with Earth's gravity, scientists say   Christian Science Monitor
Climate change is now affecting gravity   Examiner.com
Changing Antarctic waters could trigger steep rise in sea levels   Courier Mail
Huffington Post   
LiveScience.com   
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