2015年2月4日 星期三

2015-02-05 Australia Science


The Register
   
GROUPTHINK HIVE MIND informs climate change believers   
The Register
Both sides of the climate change debate tend towards group conciousness and define their positions based, in part, on hating the other side of the argument, according to a letter published in Nature: Climate Change. Public division about climate change ...

Overcoming the social barriers to climate consensus   Phys.Org
Different tack needed for climate change skeptics, study says   Cambridge Times
Overcoming Social Barriers To Climate Consensus   Science 2.0
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NEWS.com.au
   
Would you swim Antarctic in Speedos?   
NEWS.com.au
AN ENDURANCE swimmer dubbed “the human polar bear” is set to swim in freezing Antarctic waters — wearing just his Speedos. British environmentalist Lewis Pugh will brave icy temperatures, leopard seals and killer whales to complete five 1km swims ...

Lewis Pugh to undertake 'world's most dangerous swim' in Antarctic for ...   The Independent
British man to swim Antarctic in Speedos   9news.com.au
British man to swim Antarctica in Speedos   Sky News Australia

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ABC Science Online
   
Slippery zone found under tectonic plate   
ABC Science Online
Earth science A surprise discovery has shown scientists how Earth's tectonic plates slide across the top of the planet's mantle. Researchers were using explosives to collect seismic data on the plate boundary, 15 to 30 kilometres below New Zealand's ...

Dynamite used for NZ tectonic plates study   NEWS.com.au
Kiwi scientists reveal what happens beneath Earth's tectonic plates   New Zealand Herald
Dynamite blast opens tectonic plate to Vic researchers   Stuff.co.nz
TVNZ   
Live Science   
Smithsonian   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Can scientists engineer drought-tolerant plants?   
Los Angeles Times
As the California drought enters its fourth year, scientists are trying to genetically engineer plants that survive on less water. After adding a new piece of genetic code to their DNA, tomatoes and other plants were able to hold on to more water and survive for as ...

Creating drought tolerant crops   The Land Newspaper

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Mirror.co.uk
   
Space craft becomes rain of fire upon re-entry into atmosphere   
9news.com.au
February 05, 2015: The European Space Agency has deliberately burnt up a spacecraft in Earth's atmosphere to observe its destruction and compare it to computer modelling. Nicholas McCallum. The European Space Agency disintegrated one of its space ...

Watch dramatic moment a spacecraft burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere   Mirror.co.uk

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Irish Independent
   
Giant guinea pig had bite like a tiger, scientists learn   
Irish Independent
A 'guinea pig' the size of a buffalo that lived three million years ago had a bite as strong as a tiger's, scientists have learned. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Experts believe it may have used its giant rodent teeth ...

One-ton rodent used tusks like elephant   SlashGear
Largest known rodent wielded its enormous teeth like tusks   Los Angeles Times
Humongous prehistoric rodent had foot-long tusks   Christian Science Monitor
Design & Trend   
SMN Weekly   
Tech Times   
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South Wales Evening Post
   
Starfish orgy gone horribly wrong could be to blame for mass 'starmageddon ...   
South Wales Evening Post
Walkers at the seaside beauty spot saw the "starmageddon" as hundreds of the creatures were dumped along the shores. Experts have been left baffled by the "beaching" which turned the coastline into a carpet of pink and orange. They claim it could have ...

Heaps of dead sea stars found washed up on UK beach   9news.com.au

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Business Insider Australia
   
Newly unearthed writings from Isaac Newton describe how trees defy gravity   
Business Insider Australia
Isaac Newton is best known for “discovering” gravity and co-inventing calculus. But newly unearthed writings from Newton's college days show he was equally adept at unlocking the mysteries of plants. During his days as an undergraduate student in the ...

A leaf out of Newton's notebook   The Hindu
Isaac Newton understood how water defies gravity in plants 200 years before ...   International Business Times UK
Long-lost notes by Isaac Newton explained plants' water dynamic 200 years ...   The Week Magazine

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Fears of catastrophic consequences for Port Stephens koalas   
ABC Online
There are predictions of catastrophic consequences for a koala population, north of Newcastle, with heightened fears about their habitat being wiped out. It was a joke in 1983 when Australian comic Austen Tayshus asked, "I mean how much can a koala bear ...


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USA TODAY
   
Robots are learning to cook by watching YouTube   
USA TODAY
We may be inching a bit closer to living like The Jetsons. Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed robotic systems that are learning to use cooking utensils by watching YouTube videos. "We are trying to create a technology so that robots ...

Robots learn to cook with a little help from YouTube   Mother Nature Network
Chef Bot? Robot Learns Cooking from YouTube Videos   Live Science
New Robot learns Cooking from YouTube   News Tonight Africa
Empire State Tribune   
Network World   
Maine News   
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