2014年10月20日 星期一

2014-10-21 Australia Science

  Business Recorder   
Aussies hopeful of support for Antartica sanctuary  The Star Online
Protect ing marine life: A file photo taken on March 10, 2014, shows a view of penguins on an iceberg in front of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base in Antarctica. — AFP. SYDNEY: Australia is hopeful of winning support for its plan to create a vast marine reserve ...

AOA calls on CCAMLR to agree on marine protection of the Ross Sea and East ...   MercoPress
Antarctica talks amid global tension   Cowra Community News
Tensions with Russia threaten to derail Antarctic marine reserve proposal   Yahoo!7 News
Gulf Times   
ABC Online   
The Australian   
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  BBC News   
Sex 'emerged in ancient Scottish lake'  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 invented by Scottish square dancing fish   SBS
Ancient fish showed us the way to have sex   Irish Examiner
Scientists discover the awkward origins of sex   Washington Post
ABC Online   
Sydney Morning Herald   
Register   
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  Sky News Australia   
NSW bushfires to cost $800m by 2050  Sky News Australia
The financial burden of bushfires in NSW will more than double by 2050 with the total economic cost predicted to rise to $800 million per year. The costs, detailed by Deloitte Access Economic data cited in a new Climate Council report, measure insured losses ...

Bushfire season 'will be more severe as a result of climate change'   The Guardian
Threat of air pollution to worsen along with global warming, warns Climate Council   Brisbane Times
Get set for more ferocious bushfires in NSW, report says   9news.com.au
BBC News   
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  Daily Mail   
The tractor beam is here! Researchers conduct groundbreaking experiment that ...  Daily Mail
Tractor beams that can attract and repel large objects such as spaceships are a staple of sci-fi plotlines. However, researchers have revealed they are finally a reality - albeit on a slightly smaller scale. The first long-distance optical tractor beam moved ...

Australian physicists build reversible laser tractor beam   Xinhua
ANU physicists build reversible laser tractor   iTWire
Reversible tractor beam can repel and attract objects   Gizmag
9news.com.au   
Financial Express   
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  CIO Magazine   
Vote for us: We're slinging cash at supercomputers!  Register
The government of the Australian State of Victoria has slung AU$6.65 million in the direction of the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLCSI), deeming the investment a vote-winner in upcoming elections . The VLCSI, one of Australia's leading ...

Govt grant buys Victorian supercomputer two more years   iT News
Vic Govt spends AU$6.65m to keep supercomputing facility   ZDNet
Government grant to keep world's biggest supercomputing facility in Melbourne   Business Spectator
CIO Magazine   
ARNnet   
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  Business Insider Australia   
Australia ranked last for leadership  Newcastle Herald
Australia has fallen sharply in international green economy rankings, coming last out of 60 countries for performance on political leadership and climate change, and 37th overall, new research shows. Our performance now lags behind developing nations ...

Australia trailing on 'climate performance' measures   Herald Sun
Australia bombs in Global Green Economy Index   The Fifth Estate
60% of Australians worried about climate change impacts on food   Foodprocessing

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  Astronomy Magazine   
Saturn moon may hide a “fossil” core or an ocean  Astronomy Magazine
The data suggest that something is not right inside Mimas; the amount of wobble measured is double what was predicted. By Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California | Published: Monday, October 20, 2014. RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR SYSTEM ...

Death Star Moon: Saturn's Mimas May Be More Like 'Waterworld' Than 'Star Wars'   The Inquisitr
Is there life on Mimas? Scientists hope so   The Star Online
Does the Saturn moon hide a 'fossil' core or an ocean?   Business Standard
The Ticker   
French Tribune   
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  The Inquisitr   
Mars Orbiters Sought Shelter From Near-Miss Comet  The Inquisitr
NASA billed the event as a once-in-a-lifetime close encounter between a planet (Mars) and a comet. It passed by at about one-third the distance between the moon and the Earth, risking three orbiters currently studying the Red Planet. As previously reported ...

NASA: Stay tuned for images of comet Siding Spring from Mars   Los Angeles Times
Mars spacecraft safe after fortuitous comet encounter   Spaceflight Now
Mars Orbiter Mission was closest to comet Siding Spring   Times of India
Northern Voices Online   
Discovery News   
Tech Times   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
World's deadliest spider hitches a ride into home with groceries  Sydney Morning Herald
A young British family has been left traumatised after they discovered the world's most lethal spider with a sac full of eggs hiding in their groceries. Tim, a father of two from South London, was preparing breakfast when he unpacked a bunch of bananas from ...

Brazilian Wandering spider delivered in Waitrose online shopping   Telegraph.co.uk
Brazilian Wandering spider found under a bunch of bananas in Waitrose home ...   The Independent
Killer spider found in family's supermarket shopping   The Guardian

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  Washington Post   
World has warmest September, hottest 12-month period  Business Spectator
Australia's maximum temperatures were 2.03 degrees above the 1961-1990 September average last month, the fifth warmest since records began in 2010, the US National Climactic Data Center says, while the world recorded its warmest September. The US ...

What freeze? 2014 still poised to become warmest year on record   Shore News Today
Earth on track to have record hot year   MSNBC
After record warm September, 2014 is on track to warmest year, NOAA says   Washington Post (blog)
Summit County Citizens Voice   
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