2014年10月29日 星期三

2014-10-30 Australia Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   
In US, search for answers after Antares space rocket explosion  Sydney Morning Herald
Washington: With a launch pad in Virginia covered in rocket debris,investigators began to figure out why the Antares rocket exploded catastrophically on Tuesday night just seconds into a planned cargo run to the International Space Station. The failure of the ...

Antares Rocket Explosion Leaves Questions and Dead Mosquito Eggs   New York Times
Probe of Virginia rocket blast begins; space station supplied   Reuters
What caused major US rocket failure?   BBC News
USA TODAY   
Businessweek   
Irish Independent   
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  News24   
China to build Antarctic airfield  News24
David Barnard is a man on a mission: he's training to run 250kms through Antartica for a good cause. Through Greenpeace, he's hoping to raise R250 000 for the installation of solar energy in an underprivileged South African community. Watch.WATCH ...


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  ABC Online   
Long-nosed Potoroos return to Booderee National Park  ABC Online
A native mammal has been re-introduced into a National Park on the South Coast, in a bid to boost their numbers. Parks Australia released several Long-nosed Potoroos into the Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay on Wednesday night.
Potoroo in historic move | Photos   Eden Magnet
Tiny potoroo back in Booderee National Park   Illawarra Mercury

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  The Independent   
Population explosion is unstoppable, say scientists  Times of India
LONDON: Not even a third world war or a lethal pandemic, leave alone a one child policy globally, will be able to slow down the planet's rocketing population rise, scientists say. New multi-scenario modeling of world human population has concluded that ...

A third world war 'would hardly reduce population'   Times of Malta
Earth feels the weight as the population continues to grow   The Daily Titan
​Even World War III Won't Prevent A Population Bomb, Say Scientists   io9
Maine News Online   
Northern Voices Online   
Capital Wired   
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  Laboratory Equipment   
Five Well-known Science 'Facts' are Wrong  Laboratory Equipment
If you answered five; paperclips; red, yellow and blue; the back of the tongue; and gas, liquid and solid, then you would have got full marks in any school exam. But you're wrong. The sixth sense and more. Taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell don't even ...

Five science 'facts' you learnt at school that are plain wrong   SBS

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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Climate change a 'threat multiplier for farming-dependent nations: report  Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change and food insecurity are "threat multipliers", and 32 countries dependent on farming face an "extreme risk" of conflict or civil unrest in the next 30 years, a global analytics firm said on Wednesday. Food shortages and rising prices have the ...

Climate change a 'threat multiplier' for farming-dependent states   AG Week
Climate change a "threat multiplier" for farming-dependent states   Thomson Reuters Foundation
REFILE-Climate change a "threat multiplier" for farming-dependent states-analysis   Reuters Africa
Businessweek   
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  ABC Local   
New EPA monitoring station won't test for CR6 emissions  ABC Local
The Environment Protection Authority says a new temporary monitoring station it has set up at Warrawong will test for a variety of substances, but not hexavalent chromium, or CR6. The station has been set up in the Old Scout Hall site on Flagstaff Road in ...

EPA monitoring Bluescope's sinter plant emissions   Illawarra Mercury

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  Wall Street Journal   
Our chimp cousins were killers: what does that make us?  The Australian
ROUSSEAU versus Hobbes: one of the most famous philosophical smackdowns ever. Are humans noble savages by nature, or are our lives innately nasty, brutish and short? Today, the best insight into this classic question comes from asking how our close ...

Our Ancestors Murdered—and Played Pacifist   Wall Street Journal

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  Entomology Today   
Recent global effort shows four fruitflies most destructive agri pests  fnbnews.com
Four of the world's most destructive agricultural pests are species of fruitflies. These are Oriental, Philippine, Invasive and Asian Papaya fruitflies. This was the result of a recent global research effort. “The findings should lead to the easing of certain ...

Scientists find four fruit fly species believed to threaten Australia's biosecurity are ...   ABC Online
International Researchers Find Major Fruit Fly Pests to be the Same Species   Entomology Today
Researchers say four fruit fly species are the same and can eat more fruit ...   Radio Australia
io9   
AllAfrica.com   
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  Chron.com   
The 20 Most Popular TED Talks Of All Time  Chron.com
It has since become a cultural phenomenon, bringing together thought leaders from around the globe to give short, 18-minute talks about ideas that could change the world. Of the more than 1,800 TED Talks, which have been viewed a total of 2.5 billion times ...


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