2015年1月29日 星期四

2015-01-30 Australia Science


Times LIVE
   
Forget Saturn, astronomers find lord of the rings   
Times LIVE
The rings begin at a distance of about 30 million kilometres from the planet and stretch out to a distance of 90 million kilometres. File photo. Image by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI. Astronomers say they have found the first-ever ringed planet beyond our solar ...

Professor Hanington's Speaking of Science: Super Saturn   Elko Daily Free Press
Researchers discovers J1407b aka Super Saturn with 200 times larger rings   The Hoops News
U of R Astronomer Discovers Rings 200 Times Bigger Than Saturn's   WROC-TV
The Independent   
The Weather Network   
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Firstpost
   
Storms like US blizzard may get stronger but less frequent-study   
Firstpost
OSLO (Reuters) - Large storms like the blizzard that battered New England this week may become more severe but less frequent as the Earth's climate changes, scientists said on Thursday. The Canadian-led study noted that warmer air can hold more ...


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BBC News
   
Chicks place low numbers on the left   
BBC News
Scientists in Italy have found that baby chickens associate low and high numbers with left and right, respectively - just like humans. In a series of experiments, 60 newborn chicks were shown patterns of shapes representing different numbers, before choosing ...

Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More   New York Times
Chicks count left to right, like humans   Calcutta Telegraph
Newborn chicks count left to right just like HUMANS: Pattern suggests the trait is ...   Daily Mail
The Australian   
Irish Examiner   
The Guardian   
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National Geographic
   
La Nina events may spike with climate change   
Mother Nature Network
Many La Niña events happen after an extreme El Niño occurrence, and this creates a weather whiplash for the affected regions. By: Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience. Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 01:30 PM ...

Warming Temperatures Mean More Snowstorms Inbound, Say Experts   Nature World News
Research Shows Climate Change Will Cause More Extreme La Niña's   Insurance Journal
Global warming doubles risk of extreme La Niña event, research shows   (e) Science News
Pioneer News   
Blue & Green Tomorrow   
Full-Time Whistle   
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ABC Online
   
Queensland election 2015: Greenpeace-commissioned poll reveals reef coal ...   
ABC Online
Greenpeace says the results a new poll shows conservation of the Great Barrier Reef is a key concern in regional Queensland. It has commissioned a ReachTEL poll surveying voters, in the Deputy Premier's seat of Callide, about conservation issues along ...

Waters muddied over Great Barrier Reef health   Government News
Labor Reiterates Environmental Credentials   My Sunshine Coast (press release)

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Echonetdaily
   
Scientists 'hunt' singing blue whales and humpbacks   
BioScholar News
Researchers from New Zealand and Australia are undertaking a six-week research initiative in the Southern Ocean on areas of importance to humpback and blue whales and Antarctic toothfish. The 21 scientists will be aboard NIWA's flagship research vessel ...

Whale research trip to Antarctica on the Tangaroa underway   Stuff.co.nz
Scientists to 'Listen' for Blue Whales and Humpbacks   Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
Scientists 'hunt' singing blue whales   SBS
NZ City   
3News NZ   
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The Daily Telegraph
   
Pluto and Ceres. New Horizons and Dawn. These are the names of space in 2015   
The Daily Telegraph
TWO space probes will take us into our solar system's darkest corners this year, and they're already giving us amazing glimpses of what is to come. Space exploration is ramping up: 2014 was the year we landed on a comet and found a host of new worlds ...

New Dawn Ceres image outdoes Hubble   Gizmag
Dawn spacecraft captures best-ever view of dwarf planet   Astronomy Magazine
Old planets   The Economist
Tech Times   
ZME Science   
Bustle   
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Headlines & Global News
   
Moon with hydrocarbon lakes   
SBS
Scientists say they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. By. AP. Source: AP. 25 Jul 2006 - 12:00 AM UPDATED 22 Aug 2013 - 12:18 PM ...

Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind   Space Fellowship

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Volcanic eruption in Tonga creates new island   
Sydney Morning Herald
A volcanic eruption in Tonga created a new island — but the island may not last very long. Plumes of ash filled the air earlier this month when a volcano erupted off of the small island nation. The Associated Press reported the volcano is about 56 kilometres ...

Volcanic islands   The Economist
Land mass forms in the pacific following eruption of the underwater Hunga Ha ...   Daily Mail
Hunga Tonga: Underwater volcano creates new island in Polynesian archipelago   International Business Times UK

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WATCH: The Five Weirdest Science Stories of 2014   
ScienceAlert
Scientists discovered some pretty strange things last year - imagine if YOUR sperm was 10 times the size of your body! - here's the top five weirdest stories, curated by RiAus's A Week in Science. SCIENCEALERT STAFF 29 JAN 2015. Facebook Icon Twitter ...


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