2014年10月18日 星期六

2014-10-19 Australia Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   
Hope springs from ashes  Sydney Morning Herald
Hope is jagged, deep mauve and rises from the ashes. It is a new flower found after more than 200 homes were lost when a firestorm ripped through the Blue Mountains last October. Highway patrol officer Mary-Lou Keating was photographing a devastated ...


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  Beta Wired   
Scientist Finds A Puppy-Size Spider the Rainforest  Beta Wired
In Guyana, night time walk in the rainforest allowed Piotr Naskrecki to meet with the world's largest spider. He reported that he heard rustling during his walk and expected to see small mammal under his foot, but his flashlight showed much basic animal than ...

ArachNOPEphobia: Harvard Scientist Finds A Spider The Size Of A Puppy   The Inquisitr
Goliath Encounter: Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest   LiveScience.com
Entomologist Finds Largest Spider in the Amazon, Lives to Tell the Tale   Nature World News
Gizmodo India   
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  BBC News   
Top secret space plane lands in California  BBC News
A unmanned US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet.
Secret space plane returns to Earth   Gulf Daily News
Mysterious US military plane back after 22 months in space   The Hindu
Space plane lands after 674-day secret mission   Chicago Tribune
The Space Reporter   
Herald Scotland   
Examiner.com   
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  DigitalJournal.com   
To die on Mars is not an option despite MIT's study  DigitalJournal.com
There has been a lot of media attention over the Mars One mission to colonize Mars in 2025 using known and available technology. That very technology may very well prove to be the undoing of the project. The whole world is aware of the Mars One mission ...

Is Mars One Ready To Colonize the Red Planet?   Sci-Tech Today
Humans to die on Mars in 68 days   NEWS.com.au
Mars One Project Not Feasible Now, May Succeed if Advanced Tech Added: US ...   RIA Novosti
CBC.ca   
Business Insider Australia   
Gizmodo Australia   
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  Brevard Times   
South Jersey sky watch: meteors, an eclipse and a rocket launch  Shore News Today
The South Jersey skies will come alive – weather permitting – over the next several days with an annual meteor shower, a not-so-often partial solar eclipse and a rocket launch. The South Jersey skies will come alive – weather permitting – over the next ...

Watch for Fireballs in the Sky: Orionids Meteor Shower Peak 2014   Patch.com
Weekender: Shooting stars   Herald Scotland
The 2014 Orionid Meteor Shower peaks on Tuesday   YubaNet
Phys.Org   
Lake County News   
Berkshire Eagle   
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  Gizmag   
MAVEN spacecraft provides first look at Martian upper atmosphere  Gizmag
After completing its 10 month-long voyage, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is taking its first look at the Martian atmosphere. Part of the unmanned orbiter's commissioning phase, it limbered up its sensors by observing the ...

MAVEN Captures Solar Storm Hitting Mars   Sci-Tech Today
NASA Spacecraft Explores Climate Change on Mars   Controlled Environments Magazine

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  The Times (subscription)   
Lonely old age? Not with a caring robot  The Times (subscription)
The British think they will “turn evil” and steal everybody's jobs. The Japanese and Americans cannot wait to be pampered by them. Robots could be caring for the country's elderly within 20 years, but only if the British shake off their mistrust of intelligent ...

Kwanda Industries Presents Nextage at Japan Robot Week   News Tonight Africa
A Japanese Coffee-Making Robot Is Coming To Steal Barista Jobs   Businessinsider India
Sick of hipster baristas? Try a robot   Telegraph.co.uk
ninemsn   
Bustle   
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  RT   
Finally detected? Elusive dark matter may be streaming past glaring Sun  RT
A European space observatory picked up an unusual signal which British astronomers believe to be the first direct detection of dark matter's signature. The finding could be a historic breakthrough in our understanding of the universe. Invisible dark matter ...

Strange signal hints at presence of Dark Matter   Science Recorder
Dark matter may have been detected – streaming from the sun's core   The Guardian
Science shines light on dark matter   BBC News
ScienceAlert   
Daily Mail   
The Hindu   
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  The Inquisitr   
Kangaroos Didn't Always Hop, Evolutionary Biologists Suggest  The Inquisitr
Quick! Name three things kangaroos always do. Well, that's easy. They put their young inside pouches, they really like the Australian outback, and they hop around town like nobody's business. Shockingly enough, the last one wasn't always their thing.
Comment: Why extinct giant kangaroos would have walked, not hopped   SBS (blog)
Primordial Giant Kangaroos Did Not Hop, They Walked   Scientific American
Ancient kangaroos likely walked, didn't hop   Toronto Sun
Voice of America   
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  Beach Carolina Magazine   
'Plastic is the deadliest predator': Actor Martin Sheen lends name to new Sea ...  9news.com.au
Award-winning actor Martin Sheen has teamed up with conservation group Sea Shepherd to launch a new ship. (Getty). AFP. Award-winning actor Martin Sheen has teamed up with conservation group Sea Shepherd to launch a new ship and a new ...

Martin Sheen helps christen Sea Shepherd's newest vessel   Voxy
Sea Shepherd founder eyes return as new ship launched   Yahoo News UK

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