2015年7月28日 星期二

2015-07-29 Australia Science


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Spiders alive! Thirteen new species discovered in Queensland   
Sydney Morning Herald
Thirteen new species of spider – including a brush-footed trapdoor spider – have been discovered on Queensland's Cape York peninsula, on the Indigenous Olkola​ people's traditional lands. Some 18,000 new species a year are discovered around the ...

Teachers help scientists and Indigenous rangers find new spider species in far ...   ABC Online
Australia 2015: 13 New Species of Spider Found In A Remote Australian Peninsula   iSchoolGuide
Eek! New spider species found on Cape York   Herald Sun

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Push for 24-hour cat curfew to protect native animals   
Sydney Morning Herald
Cat owners who live near areas containing threatened species could be banned from allowing their pets outdoors as the federal government sets its sights on the potential killing machines. Australia's first threatened species commissioner, Gregory ...
Let's give feral cats their citizenship   The Conversation AU
Hello kitty. Time to die   The Daily Telegraph
The Global Cat Wars   WBUR
Huffington Post   
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Yahoo News UK
   
Australian humpback whale comeback a 'symbol of hope'   
Yahoo News UK
Australia's humpback populations have recovered so well from years of devastating whaling that they could be delisted as a threatened species in a conservation success story scientists Tuesday hailed as "a symbol of hope". Humpback whales were ...

Report: Australia's humpback whales are thriving   Summit County Citizens Voice
The Humpback Whale Might Lose Its Endangered Status, Here's Why That's a ...   One Green Planet
Public Release: 28-Jul-2015 Humpback whale recovery in Australia -- A cause ...   EurekAlert (press release)
CBBC Newsround   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
Once-ridiculed EMDrive may in fact be the future of space travel   
Stuff.co.nz
Nasa's controversial propellantless engine appears to work according to German scientist Martin Tajmar​, but he can't explain why. Ridiculed as impossible by the scientific community, the electromagnetic propulsion engine - which could supposedly take ...
'Impossible' propellantless engine appears to work   Sydney Morning Herald
Nasa's 'impossible' EMDrive propulsion DOES work   Daily Mail
No, German Scientists Have Not Confirmed the “Impossible” EMDrive   io9
Product Design & Development   
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Ancient coral a global warming mystery   
NEWS.com.au
AN ancient coral reef specimen now on display at the Natural History Museum in London is at the centre of a global warming mystery spanning 160 million years. THE exhibit is proof that ancestors of modern corals somehow thrived during the Late Jurassic ...


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Metro
   
Giant sack of squid eggs found off the coast of Turkey   
Metro
Earlier this month, divers just off the coast of Turkey discovered a huge almost transparent sphere. The gelatinous blob measured around four metres and was floating about 22-metres below the sea. They took a video of the mysterious squidgy gloop and ...

Divers Film Strange Blob Dubbed 'The Thing' in Mediterranean. Scientists Say ...   TheBlaze.com
Scientists think they know what this bizarre huge blob found by divers is   Business Insider Australia
This Huge, Gooey Blob Could Be a Clutch of Squid Eggs   Smithsonian
KHQ Right Now   
The Hullabaloo Online   
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Discovery News
   
Ancient Lizards in Amber Identical to Modern Cousins   
Discovery News
A community of lizards from the Caribbean, preserved for 20 million years in amber, have been found to be identical to their modern cousins, say researchers. Play Video · Why Do Limbs Come In Pairs? From humans to monkeys to lizards to frogs, every ...

Ancient fossils reveal remarkable stability of Caribbean lizard communities   Phys.Org
Ancient lizards in amber amaze scientists   ABC Science Online

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The Australian
   
Scientists 'too pessimistic' in carbon emission predictions   
The Australian
Climate scientists have consistently underestimated the capacity of a vast Arctic region to absorb carbon emissions. A report, published overnight in the journal Biogeosciences, has also uncovered broad disagreement among “state-of-the-art” simulations ...
Climate Models Disagree On Strength Of Carbon Land Sink Across Northern Eurasia   Eurasia Review
Models Understimate Eurasian Carbon Sink Says Study   reportingclimatescience.com

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PS News
   
Scientists plug into citizen power   
PS News
Creating a healthy work-life balance for the public sector is a critically important role for PS News, as this entertaining rundown of the cultural and lifestylish shows. After all, your mental health is as important as ours.
Ian Chubb releases report examining citizen scientists' role   The Australian

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Business Insider Australia
   
We May Have Been Wrong About How African Pygmies Grow   
National Geographic
New research suggests that there may have been not one but two separate evolutions of African Pygmies. Picture of Baka women in Cameroon. The Baka are a group of African Pygmies who live as hunter gatherers in Cameroon, in West Africa. Photograph ...

Pygmies' stunted growth explains human success   Phys.Org
This is why African pygmies are so short   Business Insider Australia

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