2015年5月14日 星期四

2015-05-15 Australia Science


Daily Caller
   
University Pulls Funding For Think Tank Because It's Run By A Global Warming ...   
Daily Caller
Professor Bjorn Lomborg has become the target of environmental activists. Last week, activists convinced the University of Western Australia to cancel a plan with Lomborg to create a major research center that would focus on the economics of global ...

Bjorn Lomborg: Centre would have tested climate solutions   The Australian Financial Review
A conversation about consensus   The Australian
The Honor of Being Mugged by Climate Censors   Wall Street Journal

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Whitsunday Times
   
Out-of-this-world stickers in your newspaper   
Whitsunday Times
Kai (left) and Ethan Lister get a sneak peek of our Amazing Space activity and sticker books, which are available this Saturday. Scott Lister. Popular Stories. Whitsundays is on pirate watch as Johnny Depp is spotted · HOTEL'S WHERE THE HEART IS ...

Amazing Space activity books launch tomorrow   The Queensland Times
Reach for the stars with new promotion   Bundaberg News Mail

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The Canberra Times
   
Space station launches would face further delays under House spending plan   
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — NASA's mission to send astronauts to the International Space Station on private rockets launched from the U.S. likely would be delayed once again under a spending plan a key House panel adopted Thursday. That would mean the country ...

Ex-NASA astronaut Dr Sandra Magnus encourages young scientists in Canberra   The Canberra Times

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Gizmag
   
NASA selects concepts for phase I of the 2015 NIAC program   
Gizmag
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts NIAC program has announced 15 phase I winners in its quest to make science fiction science fact. The aim of the program is to encourage the innovation of ideas with the potential to transform future aerospace and ...

Mass Effect: NASA is Funding a Reaper-Like Machine For Space Exploration   SegmentNext
Deep Space Industries to develop space resource usage technologies for NASA   Aerospace Technology
NASA tech chief makes voyage back to Pittsburgh   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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ABC Science Online
   
Flies have feelings: fear and maybe more   
ABC Science Online
Fearful flies Flies likely feel fear similar to the way that we do, according to a new study that opens up the possibility that flies experience other emotions too. The finding further suggests that other small creatures — from ants to spiders — may be emotional ...

Fruit Flies Show Fear And May Have Other Emotions As Well   Tech Times
Can you frighten a fruit fly away?   Futurity: Research News
Flies feel fear and possibly other emotions too   Science Recorder
New York Times   
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The Independent
   
Tens of thousands of bees invade the Surrey town of Farnham in 'biblical' swarm ...   
The Independent
In Ancient Egypt, it was crop-destroying of locusts. In 17th century London, it was rats carrying the plague. Now Farnham, Surrey, has been hit with its own “biblical" animal invasion after tens of thousands of bees converged on the town on Monday afternoon.
Swarm of bees 'turned the sky black' in British town   UPI.com
Swarm of bees turns sky black in Farnham   Get Surrey
'Biblical' swarm of bees sweeps through Surrey town   Yahoo News UK

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Popular Mechanics
   
The United Arab Emirates Wants to Send a Probe to Mars   
Popular Mechanics
The United Arab Emirates Is boldly going where no Middle Eastern country has gone before: Mars. The UAE wants to launch a four-year mission to Mars with the Hope probe (Al Amal in Arabic), which will spend up to four years in orbit studying the ...

The UAE Will Lead The First Arab Mission To Mars   Gizmodo Australia
Arab Mars Probe May Resolve Red Planet's Atmospheric Puzzles   Forbes
Dubai Wants to Send UAE's First Outer Space Mission to Mars by 2020 - Video   autoevolution

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
   
Brain Compass Keeps Flies on Course, Even in the Dark   
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New research hints at strategies fruit flies use to keep track of where they are going, even when it's dark. Highlights. In the human brain, several kinds of neurons help a person to get and keep their bearings. Head direction cells use landmarks to report our ...

Internal Compass Keep Flies on Right Course in Dark   Gazette Herald
Donut-shaped 'compass' glimpsed inside fly brain   BBC News
Neuroscience: Internal compass puts flies in their place   Nature.com
Tech Times   
EurekAlert (press release)   
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R & D Magazine
   
How rivers regulate global carbon cycle   
R & D Magazine
Plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into organic carbon via photosynthesis. Most of this carbon eventually returns to the atmosphere when plant material (or animals that eat plants) decompose. A small fraction of this material, however, ends up ...

Woods Hole Research Center   EurekAlert (press release)

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The Space Reporter
   
Mysterious dark star clusters discovered   
The Space Reporter
Scientists are baffled by the discovery of strange globular star clusters that are far more massive than expected for their level of luminosity. Globular clusters are spherical groupings of stars that orbit galactic cores as satellites. Tightly bound by gravity, they ...

Astronomers discover inexplicably massive "dark" star clusters   Gizmag
Mysterious New Type of Star Cluster Carries Extra Baggage   Discovery News
Astronomers Discover New Type of Star Cluster   Sci-News.com
Astronomy Now Online   
Astronomy Magazine   
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