2015年4月16日 星期四

2015-04-17 Australia Science


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Here are 13 remarkable animals facing extinction in NSW ... and there are ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Miriam Margolyes stands up for the threatened tiger quoll. It's an incredible statistic - in NSW around 59 per cent of all mammals, 40 per cent of all reptiles and 30 per cent of all birds are threatened with extinction. As recently discovered by English actor, ...


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RT
   
Earth 'swallowed Mercury-like planet' to form layers and magnetic field – Oxford ...   
RT
Earth may have swallowed up a massive planet similar to Mercury in its early history, which formed our planet's layers and magnetic field allowing life to flourish, researchers at Oxford University suggest. Swallowing a sulfur-rich protoplanet could explain ...

Earth's collision with a Mercury-like planet may have been vital to life flourishing ...   The Independent
Earth Swallowed Mercury Like Planet to Form Layers   Prensa Latina
Earth used to be a bully, absorbing Mercury-like bodies at will   Siliconrepublic.com
The Age   
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The New Daily
   
'Sea monster' washes up in New Zealand   
The New Daily
A deep sea creature that eats itself, and may have inspired some 'sea monster' myths, has washed ashore on New Zealand's South Island, shocking a wildlife expert. The three metre long oarfish, found on Thursday at Aramoana, was one of the most unusual ...

A rare, 3-metre oarfish was found beached in New Zealand   Business Insider Australia
'Sea monster' washes up in NZ   The Australian (blog)
'Sea monster' washes up on Otago beach   TVNZ

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The Guardian
   
Abbott Govt funding Lomborg 'consensus centre'   
Perth Now
A spokesman for Education Minister Christopher Pyne has confirmed the Abbott Government has contributed $4m over four years - around "a third of the total cost" - to controversial Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg's recently established Australian ...

Abbott gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up in Australia   RenewEconomy
Abbott government gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian centre   The Guardian

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Sky & Telescope
   
Ancient Galaxies Seen Dying Inside-Out   
Sky & Telescope
Astronomers have found massive galaxies 3 billion years after the Big Bang that are dying from the inside out. The most massive galaxies in today's universe are bulbous ellipticals easily 100 times the mass of our spiral Milky Way. These galaxies are ...

Giant galaxies die from the inside when they stop making stars   The Conversation AU
Colossal Ancient Galaxies Die from the Inside Out   Space.com

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ABC Online
   
WWII aircraft carrier USS Independence found 'amazingly intact' after 60 years ...   
ABC Online
A World War II aircraft carrier which went through the war in the Pacific and was then used as a target during nuclear bomb tests has been found in an "amazingly intact" condition at the bottom of the ocean. The former USS Independence is resting in 800 ...

'Amazingly intact' WWII aircraft carrier found in Pacific   Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists find radioactive WWII aircraft carrier off San Francisco coast   San Jose Mercury News
Scuttled aircraft carrier located near Farallon Islands   Marin Independent Journal

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NEWS.com.au
   
Apocalyptic storm turns day to night   
NEWS.com.au
DRAMATIC video has emerged showing the moment a massive weather system smashed into a city turning the blue sky a terrifying black. A epic dust storm swept through the Belarus city of Soligorsk — turning day into night in a scene straight out a horror ...

Who turned the lights out? Epic dust storm plunges city into darkness   9news.com.au
Video shows 'apocalyptical' storm that turned day into night in Belarus   Metro
Epic storm turns day into night in Belarusian city (VIDEO)   RT
New York Post   
mirror.co.uk   
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Market Business News
   
Meat sensor tells you when it is safe or not to eat   
Market Business News
Scientists at MIT have created a cheap, portable sensor that can tell you when meat or fish in your fridge or at the grocery store is safe to eat by detecting the gases emitted when it starts to rot. You would be able to take this device to the shops and decide for ...

Carbon Nanotubes Used To Create Sensor That 'Sniffs Out' Rotten Meat   Headlines & Global News
'Smart packaging' detects when meat's gone bad   RedOrbit
MIT sensor detects spoiled meat   MIT News
Controlled Environments Magazine   
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Tech Times
   
Archaeologists Unearth Stone Tools Believed To Be Oldest Ever Found   
Tech Times
A discovery shows our early ancestors were making tools long before the emergence of the modern human lineage, researchers say. Tools unearthed in Kenya have been dated back to 3.3 million years ago. (Photo : Los Alamos National Laboratory).
Stone Tools Predate Homo Genus   New Historian
Ancient Tools Discovered In Kenya Could Change The Way We Look At The ...   The Inquisitr
World's oldest stone tools discovered in Kenya   Science /AAAS
The Independent   
Daily Mail   
TheBlaze.com   
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Amazing bug-sized robots can build microstructures   
CIO India
Researchers in Silicon Valley have developed insect-size robots that can manufacture microstructures that are too small and complex to be built by current machinery or by hand. The robots are part of work by SRI International into next-generation ...


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