2015年6月3日 星期三

2015-06-04 Australia Science


Brisbane Times
   
Octopus carries coconut shells as instant shelter   
Sydney Morning Herald
If an octopus' garden is of the sandy, desolate variety, it appears a lovely bunch of coconut shells are just the thing. The shells are hard enough to protect the animal from predators and light enough to be mobile. Indeed, as a video shot by Museum Victoria's ...

Octopus skilfully carries a coconut   Brisbane Times
This Octopus Carrying A Coconut Might Be The Cutest Thing Ever   Popular Science
An Octopus' Surprising Behavior Left Scientist Laughing So Hard He Almost ...   RYOT

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ABC Online
   
Ancient pearl dated as 2000 years old in WA's Kimberley region   
ABC Online
A pearl excavated from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia is believed to be 2,000 years old. The pearl was found in 2011, at a rock shelter in the Admiralty Gulf, 80 kilometres east of Kalumburu, by researchers from the University of Wollongong ...

Australia: Carbon dating reveals 2000-year-old pearl   BBC News
'Irreplaceable' 2000-year-old pearl found in WA   Herald Sun
2000-Year-Old Natural Pearl Found at Remote Australian Site   NDTV

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TIME
   
Experts believe the sex-crazed dusky antechinus is mating itself into extinction   
The Advocate
THERE are several reasons why the newly discovered Tasman Peninsula dusky antechinus is under threat. See your ad here. The Tasman Peninsula dusky antechinus (Antechinus vandycki) is under threat. According to Queensland University of ...

New suicidal, sex-crazed marsupials discovered   Science Now
Fatal Attraction—The Loving That Leads These Marsupials to Death   Latinos Health
These marsupials mate to death   KAGS News
News Every day   
Bustle   
The Silver Ink   
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ABC Local
   
Irukandji jellyfish actively hunt prey researchers find   
ABC Local
Despite being made of more than 90 per cent water and lacking a recognisable brain, irukandji jellyfish are able to actively hunt their prey far north Queensland researchers have discovered. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. Researchers at James ...

WATCH: Irukandji box jellyfish lures then eats a fish   Northern Star
How the Box Jellyfish Actively Hunts for Prey with Deadly Tentacles (VIDEO)   Science World Report
How a box jellyfish catches fish   Military Technologies

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The Weather Network
   
'Radio eyes' capture plasma tubes floating above our heads   
The Weather Network
Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 11:32 - Thanks to the brilliant and creative use of a telescope by an Australian university student, radio astronomy and GPS navigation may have just become easier. Here's how she did it. High above our heads, from about 60 ...

Electrons ride huge plasma tubes above Earth   The Register
Researchers Successfully Observe Huge Energies in Ionosphere Shifting in ...   Maine News Online
University student maps plasma tubes in the sky   Gizmag
From Quarks to Quasars   
NH Voice   
NEWS.com.au   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Single atom experiment gives scientists a reality check   
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian physicists have proved one of the most mind-blowing quantum theories on offer, confirming that reality does not exist until it is measured – at least at the atomic scale. The experiment, constructed and carried out at Canberra's Australian National ...

Is the entire world an illusion? Mind-boggling new study hints it might be   Metro
Test BacksTheory That The World DoesnâÃ-t Exist Until We Look at It   Prensa Latina
Australian Researchers successfully conduct Wheeler's Experiment for First Time   NYC Today
International Business Times UK   
Northern Californian   
Techworm   
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Toowoomba Chronicle
   
There's a terrifying fish that can walk and it's heading this way   
Mashable
A fish straight out of a horror film could be making its way to Australia. The well-named climbing perch is moving south from Papua New Guinea, researchers at James Cook University have warned. See also: The evolution of the spacewalk in pictures.
Angry 'walking' fish could invade Australia   Times LIVE
This aggressive fish can live for days on land, dragging itself along with its gills   Washington Post
Warning — aggressive 'walking' fish are heading to the Australian mainland ...   National Post
Northern Rivers Echo   
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NDTV
   
Tiny birds mimic hawk warning calls to fend off predators   
Web India
A new study has revealed that tiny birds Brown Thornbill protect its nest from predators by mimicking the warning calls of other giant birds. The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Australian National University (ANU) found ...

Tiny bird 'cries hawk' to distract predators   Press TV
This little mimic wards off predators 40 times its size   The Hindu
Tiny thornbills dupe big predators with miming trick   RedOrbit
NDTV   
Business Standard   
Nature World News   
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The Inquisitr
   
UFO Takes Form Of 'Jellyfish' In Bizarre And Stunning Display Over Netherlands   
The Inquisitr
Reports of UFOs around the world are described in many shapes, including horse-shaped, cigar-shaped, baton-shaped, and of course the most common UFO description, disc-shaped. But there's a new shape of UFO that recently appeared in the stormy skies ...

Is it a bird? Is it a jellyfish? Is it a UFO? Picture: Caters News/Picture Media ...   NEWS.com.au
A Photographer Looked up at the Sky–but He Didn't Expect to See Something ...   The Epoch Times
Photographer snaps strange 'jellyfish' UFO in the sky - could it be visitors from ...   Mirror.co.uk
International Business Times UK   
Perth Now   
Austrian Tribune   
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NEWS.com.au
   
Preservation work on Pompeii's frozen victims of a volcanic eruption reveal the ...   
NEWS.com.au
THE earth shook. The air burned. A terrified little boy scrambled for the safety of his mother's lap. Now, more than 2000 years later, he's finally emerged from his tragic embrace in the buried city of Pompeii. It was 79AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

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