2014年12月25日 星期四

2014-12-26 Australia Science


The Age
   
Elon Musk's next trick: Landing a rocket upright on a barge in the middle of the sea   
The Age
The billionaire entrepreneur is on the verge of attempting an audacious manoeuvre that could make his next space flight notable not just for the takeoff, but for the landing. Typically rocket boosters have their few minutes in the fiery, 3-2-1 spotlight, propelling ...


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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Stanford University students create 'gecko gloves' that allow humans to scale ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
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 movies as a kid and ...

Move over Spider-Man: Stanford student invents incredible wall-climbing gloves   Examiner.com

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ABC Online
   
Brisbane's brush turkey explosion heads south   
ABC Online
The number of brush turkeys has exploded in Brisbane and they have got their eyes on Sydney. Behavioural ecologist Professor Darryl Jones said nothing - not cats or cars - was stopping the rise of the birds, which are also commonly known as bush turkeys, ...


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Brisbane Times
   
A single shell could take human evolution into unknown waters   
Brisbane Times
The fossil Pseudodon shell with the engraving made by Homo erectus at Trinil, Indonesia. Photo: Stephen Munro and the Naturalis Museum, Leiden, Holland. Earlier this month, Nature announced the oldest-known engraving from Java, a discovery that has ...


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The Hindu
   
Futuristic Tech That Blew Our Minds in 2014   
PC Magazine
Let's have a look at the coolest new products and technologies that emerged in the past year. Would you believe that the most exciting, future-busting technology of 2014 was a system created more than a decade ago, scarcely improved upon since, and only ...

Rosetta images show soaring 1km comet cliff   Telegraph.co.uk
Rosetta captures steep one kilometre cliffs and boulder-strewn terrains on ...   The Independent
2014: A space odyssey   Gizmag
9news.com.au   
Los Angeles Times   
Gizmodo Australia   
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NEWS.com.au
   
Nanobots will change everything   
NEWS.com.au
WHEN it comes to innovative technology on a truly epic scale there's nothing more exciting (or scary) than nanorobotics. Scientists are developing robots smaller than the width of a human hair with the idea they could be controlled on a molecular level ...


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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 ...

Is Barack Obama a closet geek?   Christian Science Monitor
White House science adviser Holdren says global warming is holding off ice age   Examiner.com

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Minneapolis Star Tribune
   
Climate Change Is Melting Christmas :(   
Macro Insider
"I'M DREAMING OF an ozone layer, Just like the a single I utilised to know / Which kept out UV rays / Prior to aerosol sprays / And allowed for actual snow." OK, so this week's lyrical New Yorker essay on climate change Christmas carols is a... Climate Change ...

Climate Change Is Melting Christmas In The US   Gizmodo Australia

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Lifehacker Australia
   
Delete Your Embarrassing Tweets Now That They Are Searchable   
Lifehacker Australia
Twitter now allows you to search all public tweets, all the way back to your first tweet. Now's the time to delete anything you regret. Entrepreneur explains how you can use Twitter's archive function to download your tweets. The archive function isn't new, but ...


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Money Morning Australia
   
The Robot Uprising is more Pixar than Terminator   
Money Morning Australia
Port Phillip Publishing is closed for the holidays from 25 December until 1 January. After a well-deserved break, the team will be back at work on 2 January to deliver you their unique take on the financial markets and global events. 2015 looks set to be one of ...


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