2014年12月24日 星期三

2014-12-25 Australia Science


Los Angeles Times
   
Rosetta postcard: Could you jump from these cliffs?   
Los Angeles Times
While Philae rests quietly on the dark surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter is continuing to snap amazing images of the comet's nucleus and beam them back to Earth. lRelated For Rosetta mission's ...

Science's top ten breakthroughs of 2014   The Hindu
Rosetta captures steep one kilometre cliffs and boulder-strewn terrains on ...   The Independent
Rosetta images show soaring 1km comet cliff   Telegraph.co.uk
Gizmag   
Full-Time Whistle   
Wired   
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French Tribune
   
UFO Sighting Near Moon? Evidence Of Mysterious Craft Found In 44-Year-Old ...   
Headlines & Global News
Here is an enhanced version of the archival photo, with the UFO highlighted inside a red circle. (Photo : YouTube screen shot). Evidence of a mysterious craft hovering over a lunar horizon was recently discovered by a UFO researcher in an archival photo ...

See UFO 'Mothership' Blast Out Of Sun's Orbit In NASA Video Image — 3rd UFO ...   The Inquisitr
UFO researcher finds a mysterious craft   French Tribune

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Techly
   
Bill Nye explains evolution in under two minutes… using Emoji   
Techly
It's Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! And just in case you get in some kind of boozy argument with a relative, at least it won't be able evolution. Why? Well, it only takes Bill Nye The Science Guy one minute and 52 seconds to explain evolution… using ...

Ken Ham labels Bill Nye's emoji evolution video a 'fairy tale even children won't ...   CT Australia

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AZoCleantech
   
Gliding Lizard Evolves Extendable Gliding Membranes That Match Colours of ...   
AZoCleantech
By mimicking the red and green colours of falling leaves, Bornean lizards avoid falling prey to birds whilst gliding, new research has found. This is the Bornean gliding lizard Draco cornutus. Credit: Dr. Devi Stuart Fox. The work suggests that populations of the ...


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San Jose Mercury News
   
Stanford 'lizard brains' create gecko-like paws that allow humans to scale glass ...   
San Jose Mercury News
PALO ALTO -- It doesn't mean experiments taking place at Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a "Spider-Man" or "Mission: Impossible" movie. "You see those ...

Stanford students design paddles to climb glass   Washington Post
Stanford researchers use 'gecko gloves' to scale glass walls like namesake lizards   LA Daily News

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Uncover California
   
Harvard Researchers create Low-Cost Coloring Technology   
Uncover California
Researchers from Harvard University's Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering have recently created a new lightweight, low-cost coloring technology for both rough and smooth surfaces. An ultra-thin conductive metal coating that can be used with ...

Nanothin Semiconductor Layer Provides Ultrathin Coatings in Vivid Colors   AZoNano.com
Harvard coloring tech could be an attractive alternative to paint   Gizmag
Hands on: Crafting ultrathin color coatings   Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mumbai Mirror   
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Times of India
   
NASA developing gecko grippers to grab space debris   
Jagran Josh
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California are developing gecko grippers to grab space debris which includes the objects like orbital debris or defunct satellites. Gecko gripper is basically an adhesive gripping tool.
Adapting gecko's grippers to tackle debris in space   Bangalore Mirror
NASA tests gecko tech to pick up and recycle space trash   Gizmag
NASA's gecko grippers to grab space debris   Economic Times
CrazyEngineers   
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News-Medical.net
   
Research shows modern humans have less bone density than earlier human ...   
News-Medical.net
New research shows that modern human skeletons evolved into their lightly built form only relatively recently — after the start of the Holocene about 12,000 years ago, and even more recently in some human populations. The work, based on high-resolution ...

Bone Density Drop in Modern Humans Linked to Less Physical Activity   Live Science
Modern human skeleton evolved for sedentary lifestyle   RedOrbit
Sedentary Agricultural Lifestyle Led To Lighter Human Bone Structure   ValueWalk
Xinhua   
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The Inquisitr
   
Climate Change Preventing A New Ice Age, White House Science Advisor ...   
The Inquisitr
Climate change, particularly global warming, might be a good thing according to President Obama's science czar Dr. John Holdren. In a recent online question and answer session from the White House, Holdren suggested that man-made global warming is ...

Advising the President on Science "the Job of a Lifetime"   WCAI
WH science adviser: Obama is a 'science geek'   The Hill
Is Barack Obama a closet geek?   Christian Science Monitor
Examiner.com   
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Courier Mail
   
Swarms of Blue Blubber jellyfish spotted of the Queensland southeast coast   
Courier Mail
MASSIVE clusters of jellyfish have been spotted off Redcliffe, sparking questions as to what has caused the phenomenon. Marine biologist Paul Thomson said the jellyfish are known as Blue Blubbers and were common along the east coast of Australia.

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