2015年2月6日 星期五

2015-02-07 Australia Science


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Unbearable heat 'by 2090 without change'   
NEWS.com.au
SEARING Australian heatwaves will feel cool by 2090 if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced, a leading climate scientist says. A NEW report reveals Australia's hottest year on record would not have happened without climate change. The country ...

Climate change drove Australia's record hot year, report finds   Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change 'drove record hot year' in 2013   SBS
Hot weather: Climate change to blame for Melbourne heatwaves   Herald Sun
Courier Mail   
World Bank Group   
Newstalk ZB   
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The Register
   
ALIENS are surely AMONG US: Average star has TWO potentially Earth-like worlds   
The Register
Boffins in Australia have applied a hundreds-of-years-old astronomical rule to data from the Kepler planet-hunting space telescope. They've come to the conclusion that the average star in our galaxy has not one but two Earth-size planets in its "goldilocks" ...

The Milky Way Could Host Over 200 Planets That Can Support Life   WallStreet OTC
The Average Star in Our Galaxy Has Not One, Existance of Billions of Earth-Like ...   Full-Time Whistle
Starlight Starbright: How Many Planets Will I Find Tonight   Huffington Post
The Australian   
ABC Online   
Sci-News.com   
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Fox News
   
Virginia Tech robot may help Navy fight fires   
WDBJ7
It began several years ago and we are just now learning about it. And it involves robots and fires. wdbj7 New River Valley reporter Orlando Salinas is live tonight to tell us more. This story's about a 5 minute video made last year on the u.s. Navy ship- the uss ...

Navy Unveils Firefighting Robot   CBS Local
Office of Naval Research unveils firefighting robot   WXYZ
This giant, human-like Navy robot uses sensors to fight fires at sea (Video)   PCWorld
Engadget   
Defense One   
Sky News Australia   
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BioScholar News
   
Plants Reprogrammed To Survive Droughts   
BioScholar News
Crops and other plants are constantly faced with adverse environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures and lessening fresh water supplies, which lower yield and cost farmers billions of dollars annually. Drought is a major environmental stress factor ...

Can scientists engineer drought-tolerant plants?   Los Angeles Times
Plants 'Reprogrammed' To Survive Devastating Droughts   Headlines & Global News
One day chemical could activate drought tolerance switch in plants   Genetic Literacy Project
The Land Newspaper   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Guardian
   
Geologists solve tectonic plate mystery with half a tonne of explosives   
The Guardian
Geologists may have finally explained how tectonic plates shift by blowing up hundreds of kilograms of dynamite in New Zealand. Half a tonne of explosive slurry was pumped into a dozen, steel-cased holes spread nearly 100km across New Zealand's north ...

Hidden Molten Channel Beneath Earth Discovered with a Blast   Yahoo News UK
Scientists Have Imaged the Base of a Tectonic Plate - (full-timew)   Full-Time Whistle
Geologists solve mystery of what lies beneath tectonic plates   Descrier
NEWS.com.au   
ABC Science Online   
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NBCNews.com
   
SpaceX Gets Set to Launch DSCOVR Satellite, Then Land Falcon Rocket   
NBCNews.com
Sunday's scheduled liftoff of the DSCOVR satellite could mark the realization of a dream as old as Al Gore's vice presidency and as new as SpaceX founder Elon Musk's vision of rocket reusability. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is due to launch DSCOVR — that is, ...

After crashing last time, SpaceX gearing up for another rocket landing attempt   Blastr
Second time lucky? SpaceX set to try and land rocket onto a barge on Sunday ...   Daily Mail
Space race 2.0 sucks in $US10b from private companies   Sydney Morning Herald
SlashGear   
Globalnews.ca   
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NEWS.com.au
   
The end of the common cold?   
NEWS.com.au
THE days of runny noses, sore throats and blocked everything could soon be over. Yes, the common cold's reign of terror on human beings may be coming to an end. This is all thanks to a team of British scientists who are a step closer to curing the virus that ...

End of common cold could be in sight   Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists just cracked the viral equivalent of the Enigma code   Washington Post
Common cold 'could be stopped in its tracks' thanks to science breakthrough   The Independent
HealthCanal.com   
Times of India   
Market Business News   
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Phys.Org
   
Oats to clean up heavy metals in contaminated soil   
Phys.Org
Researchers from universities in China, Switzerland and Australia have identified that the naked oat is best suited to remove radioactive strontium from contaminated soils. The study, published in the International Journal of Phytoremediation, investigated 26 ...

UWA: Oats could hold key to nuclear clean-ups   WA today

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Nature World News
   
Methane Emitting from Arctic Seabed for Millions of Years   
Nature World News
Apparently a natural seepage of methane has been emitting from an Arctic seabed for the last 2.7 million years, a new study reveals. While carbon dioxide (CO2) usually takes the spotlight among greenhouse gases, the impact of methane on climate change ...

Methane Seepage Has Been Occurring For Millions Of Years   Science 2.0

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Clapway
   
Student To Become First Mom On Mars   
Clapway
Maggie Lieu, an astrophysics doctorate student at the University of Birmingham, UK, is hoping to become the first mom on Mars. Within the next ten years – if all goes according to plan, – she will aboard a one-way flight to her destination, all thanks to the Mars ...

The Hazards of Other Planets   New York Times
Maritimer hopes to make third cut for Mars One mission   CTV News
British student applies to be first mom on Mars   WantChinaTimes
Sun News Network   
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