2015年1月30日 星期五

2015-01-31 Australia Science


National Geographic
   
Rochester professor helps make discovery of a notable planet   
News 10NBC
Since the days of Galileo, astronomers have explored the heavens making many discoveries along the way. At the University of Rochester, a discovery was just made that has caused astronomers around the world to take notice. It's called Exoplanet J1407-B ...

'Completely nuts': Faraway planet is lord of the rings   Sydney Morning Herald
Super Saturn: huge planet found lurking in space could offer clues to how moons ...   The Independent
Scientists have found an exoplanet with rings 200 times bigger than Saturn's   Blastr
National Geographic   
Christian Science Monitor   
Forbes   
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Toronto Star
   
Chemists learn how to unboil eggs — and use the process in cancer research   
Toronto Star
Scientists say they've figured out how to unboil an egg, and that this is a very good thing for cancer research and food production. “We're going to be using (the same process) to produce cancer-associated proteins, which drive cancer cells to divide and form ...

What The Cluck? Science Can Now Unboil Eggs   The Escapist
Chemists find a way to unboil eggs   Foodprocessing
That Egg You Boiled Can Now be Unboiled, Say Scientists   NDTV
Christian Science Monitor   
CBS Local   
Syracuse.com   
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The Inquisitr
   
DARPA's Robot AI Learns To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos   
The Inquisitr
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which commissions advanced research on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD), published a press release on January 29, 2015, indicating a DARPA-funded research program at the ...

Robot acquires chef skills via YouTube instructional vids   UPI.com
DARPA develops Robots to perform tasks by Watching youtube videos   BioScholar News
Robots Are Learning To Cook The Same Way You Do — By Watching YouTube ...   Tech Times
Headlines & Global News   
Gigaom   
Computerworld   
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CIO New Zealand
   
MIT randomizes tasks to speed massive multicore processors   
PCWorld
As each new generation of computer processors arrives with a larger number of computing cores, computer scientists grapple with how best to make use of this proliferation of parallel power. Now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have ...

Researchers parallelize a common data structure to work with multicore chips   Phys.Org

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Search for singing blue whales   
3News NZ
Blue whales are the biggest animals ever known, but it's still quite a job to find one. They weigh up to 180 tonnes, reach 30m in length and eat up to 3.6 tonnes of krill a day. The behemoths are now the most high-profile target of the NIWA research vessel ...


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NEWS.com.au
   
Photographer captures incredible pictures of a dragonfly covered in water   
NEWS.com.au
THIS insect looks like it is covered in diamonds as morning dew gathers on its wings and body. Captured in close-up, the dragonfly - which looks like it has been bejewelled - is perched peacefully on a stick. It is joined by an even smaller insect, a damselfly, ...


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The Times (subscription)
   
Turing papers that cracked Nazi code were used as draught excluders   
The Times (subscription)
Top-secret documents that were used to break the Enigma Code have been discovered during renovations at Bletchley Park, the celebrated wartime codebreaking centre. The cache of papers include the only known examples of “Banbury sheets”, ...

Cryptic challenge for a codebreaker   Sydney Morning Herald
The Real Bletchley Park, Where Alan Turing Worked [Gallery]   Lifehacker Australia

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The Inquisitr
   
'Horse Shaped' UFO Captured Hovering Over Mexico's Volcano Colima   
The Inquisitr
As 2015 gallops along, reports of UFO sightings continue to flood in from around the world. Among the latest is from a literal UFO hot spot — Mexico's very active Volcano Colima. Many sightings of UFOs hovering around and flying past the volcano in Mexico ...

Horse-shaped 'UFO' spotted next to erupting volcano - is it an alien spaceship?   Mirror.co.uk

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io9
   
"Dragon" Dinosaur Was 50 Feet Long, Had Most Epic Neck Ever   
io9
Before you get too excited on the heels of today's Game of Thrones news items, we're not talking actual fire-breathing monsters here. However, it's possible this newly discovered dinosaur species could have inspired the dragons that populate Chinese ...

Paleontologists discover long-necked 'dragon' dinosaur discovered in China   Maine News
New species of long-necked 'dragon' dinosaur discovered in China   Full-Time Whistle
Massively long neck marks new dinosaur find   The Weather Network
KMBZ   
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To test or not to test   
Sentinel-Standard
So, January is almost done. How many of your New Year's Resolutions have gone by the wayside? That's why I wrote my own genealogy resolutions in an article at the beginning of the month. Since they have been published I have a reminder to keep at them ...


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