2014年10月19日 星期日

2014-10-20 Australia Science

  CBS News   
NASA's Mars orbiters survive comet flyby and sneak once-in-a-lifetime peek  Computerworld
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope grab images (before and after filtering) of Comet Siding Spring with its Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: NASA. While spacecraft duck and cover, they grab historical data about the comet, its effect on Mars. Sharon Gaudin.
Mountain-sized rare comet whizzes past Mars   Sydney Morning Herald
Comet Siding Spring makes close fly-by of Mars in rare encounter   ABC Online
Comet Siding Spring skims past Mars   BBC News
Register   
The Nation   
Channel News Asia   
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  BBC News   
Ancient Scottish fish 'first to have sex'  BBC News
An international team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, which was about 8cm long, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million ...

Sex first occurred 385 million years ago   ABC Online
Ancient Scottish Fish 'First To Have Sex,' Scientists Say   The Inquisitr
Ancient fish reveals the roots of sex   ABC Science Online
Herald Scotland   
Xinhua   
Scotsman   
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  Rappler   
Antarctic talks hit by global politics  The Australian
TENSE international relations could sway the outcome of vital research and protection proposals for the Antarctic, says the head of a global meeting of scientists. RUSSIA and China are among 25 delegate nations meeting in Hobart for the annual gathering of ...

Australia hopeful of revised Antarctic sanctuary success   Yahoo!7 News
Australia Antarctic Division again proposes marine reserve at international ...   ABC Online
Antarctic Marine Protected Areas international proposal focus of Hobart meeting   Courier Mail
Radio New Zealand   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Cats will dine until their delicacy is rare: University of Sydney research  Sydney Morning Herald
Some cat owners may have noticed their kitty has particular tastes when it comes to the half-eaten presents left on the doorstep. Be it mouse, rat, bird or lizard, a survey of house cats living in Sydney's eastern suburbs has found a good proportion focus their ...


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  CNET   
ANU physicists build reversible laser tractor  iTWire
Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects over a much longer distance than previously achieved. It is the first long distance optical tractor beam, and moved particles one fifth of a millimetre ...

Physicists create reversible laser tractor beam   CNET
Australian Physicists Have Built A Tractor Beam Which Can Repel And Attract ...   Business Insider Australia
ANU scientists build reversible laser tractor beam   Ferret

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  Daily Mail   
Meet 'wombasaurus and OTHER supersize marsupials in prehistoric Australia  Daily Mail
First came the 3m tall kangaroos which were so big they were unable to hop like their modern-day cousins. Now scientists believe they have discovered womba-saurus, a giant wombat-like creature that was bigger than a small family car. At four metres long ...

Kangaroos Didn't Always Hop, Evolutionary Biologists Suggest   The Inquisitr
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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Time running out to have your say on fox control  The Rural
Landholders and community members have until Friday 24 October to have their say on a proposed pest control order for foxes through an online survey run by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI). The proposed pest control order (PCO) for foxes was ...


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  ARNnet   
Vic Govt spends AU$6.65m to keep supercomputing facility  ZDNet
A grant of AU$6.65 million by the Victorian government will enable the state to hold onto the supercomputing facility that its Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) shares with the IBM "Research Collaboratory" research centre. According to the ...

World's most powerful life sciences supercomputing facility to stay in Victoria   ARNnet

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  French Tribune   
Is there life on Mimas? Scientists hope so  The Star Online
Death Star look-a-like: Mimas, one of Saturn's 62 moons (though only 53 are named), bears a passing resemblance to the weapon of mass destruction featured in the "Star Wars" movies. – Reuters. Saturn's battered moon Mimas may have a thin global ocean ...

Is Life Possible On Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon?   The Inquisitr
Saturn's Death Star Look-Alike   Daily Beast
Saturn's Moon Mimas May Hold Ocean of Life-Friendly Water Beneath Crust ...   Yahoo News UK
Zee News   
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We could smell a bit of death in there: Fisherman rescues trapped turtle from a ...  Daily Mail
A fisherman freed a turtle from a ginormous abandoned net that was capturing endless marine life off the Northern Territory coast. Darwin fisherman, Ian Johnson, discovered the estimated one-tonne 'ghost net' floating off the Cobourg Peninsula - 350 km east ...

One-tonne ghost net found drifting off NT coast, fisherman rescues snagged turtle   Yahoo!7 News

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