2014年12月4日 星期四

2014-12-05 Australia Science


The Hindu
   
Australia won't give to UN Green Climate Fund   
Washington Post
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's foreign minister says her government will continue to directly pay for climate change mitigation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a United Nations' Green Climate Fund ...

Hottest year on record as climate talks heat up   Sydney Morning Herald
China broadens pollution pledge in call for more climate funding   Brisbane Times
China says climate aid inadequate, especially Australia   Reuters
The Hindu   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Great white shark filmed swimming in Lake Macquarie   
Sydney Morning Herald
A fisherman was flicking out a lure on Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle. when a 2.5 metre-long predator with a fearsome reputation came by for a look. The great white shark, still believed to be a juvenile, circled about 50 metres off a Murrays Beach jetty for an ...

VIDEO: 300kg shark gives jetty angler a fright   The Reporter
Here's The Video Of A Great White Shark Swimming Just Metres From The ...   Business Insider Australia
Great white shark in Lake: video, poll   Newcastle Herald

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Laboratory Equipment
   
Birds Keep Local Traditions Alive   
Laboratory Equipment
Great tit wearing a PIT tag. Image: OxfordBirds learn new foraging techniques by observing others in their social network, their copycat behavior can sustain foraging traditions that last years, according to a study of how innovations spread and persist in wild ...

Birds conform to local "traditions": study   Xinhua
Birds can learn and pass on new skills via social networks   ABC Science Online
Milk bottle-raiding birds pass on thieving ways to their flock   Phys.Org
Daily Times   
Discovery News   
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Fox News
   
Dead pregnant shark sliced open to save babies   
9news.com.au
A family of beachgoers in Georgia got a remarkable life lesson when they discovered a dead beached shark was pregnant with young that were still alive inside it. In the remarkable footage, which was filmed in May but has just gone viral, a woman who says ...

Baby sharks cut from dead mother in beach rescue   The West Australian
Watch man rescue three live shark pups from inside dead mother   Digital Journal
Man Cuts Dead Shark in Beach to Give Birth to Three Live Baby Sharks [Video]   International Business Times AU
The Australian   
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National Geographic
   
Giant Blast Shuts Down Starburst Galaxy   
National Geographic
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a critical moment in the life of galaxies: high-speed eruptions of gas that may halt the birth of stars. Galaxies, such as our own Milky Way, are vast islands of stars littering space. How galaxies' star populations grow, ...

Galactic 'Blow Out' Shoots Dense Gas from a Compact Galaxy   Science World Report
Hot young stars limit galaxy growth   ABC Science Online
Observing galactic 'blow out': Stellar growth spurts stunt future growth   Phys.Org

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Wired
   
DNA Test That Distinguishes Identical Twins May Be Used in Court for First Time   
Wired
In 2004, two young women were abducted at gunpoint while walking home near Boston at night. The crimes happened eight days apart, but the pattern was the same: The women were shoved into a car by two men, pistol-whipped, driven to a different ...

How A New DNA Test Can Distinguish Between Identical Twins   Gizmodo Australia

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CNET
   
Scientists scratching heads over 'cookie' landform on Mars   
9news.com.au
NASA researchers are puzzled by a "giant cookie" that has been spotted on the surface of Mars. The circular landform is 2km in diameter and rises up like an island surrounded by a smooth plain of lava flows. It is located in the Athabasca region of Mars, and ...

NASA image shows bizarre circular mound on Mars   SlashGear
Another Mars mystery: What's that circular 'island' in its lava flows?   CNET
What Is This Strangely Circular Outcrop On Mars?   Gizmodo Australia
Daily Mail   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Earliest known engravings found on a clam shell   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were carved at least 430,000 years ago by a Homo erectus, ...

Homo erectus engraving could re-write human history, and might show art ...   The Independent
Indonesian shell has 'earliest human engraving'   BBC News
ANU archaeologist helps discover earliest human engravings   Sydney Morning Herald
NPR   
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Washington Post   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
West Antarctic ice sheet melt accelerating   
Stuff.co.nz
SEA LEVELS RISING: The Thwaites Glacier is one of six glaciers in West Antarctica locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming as it is eaten away from below by warming of sea waters. For two decades, scientists have kept a close watch on a vast, ...

Why is Antarctica melting? Scientists reveal clues.   Christian Science Monitor
Rapid Warming Hits Antarctica's Shallow Seas   Live Science
Boffins revealed clues about melting of Antarctica   Frontline Desk
Washington Post   
Wall Street Journal   
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ABC News
   
Giraffes In Danger Of Extinction: Why Their Numbers Have Dropped   
malaysiandigest.com
Giraffe numbers are dwindling across Africa because of poaching and habitat loss caused by human population growth, according to wildlife experts, and it's happening largely unnoticed. “It's a silent extinction,” Dr. Julian Fennessy, Executive Director of the ...

Giraffe population decline has conservation groups ringing alarm bells   Yahoo!7 News
Giraffe Population Dropped Drastically in Last 15 Years: What's Causing Decline?   Tech Times
Giraffes: The 'Silent Extinction'   Nature World News
Voice Chronicle   
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