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2015-08-03 Australia Science


Telegraph.co.uk
   
Grumpy cats and friendly dogs? Sure, but what about brazen woodlice?   
Telegraph.co.uk
Dogs can be friendly or hostile, cats aloof or affectionate, and horses moody - but woodlice? They are individual characters too, scientists claim. Tests on the way the creatures respond to being prodded, squeezed and dropped show that some are bold ...
Gardener, spare that clod: slaters have personalities, too   Sydney Morning Herald
Woodlouse have personalities   The Australian (blog)
Woodlice may have personalities as well, researchers suggest   Techie News

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Tech Times
   
Study Shows Plants Exhibit 'Animal-Like' Signals Despite Lack Of Nervous System   
Tech Times
Plants may not feel hunger or pain but they react to environmental stimuli in a way that is comparable to animals. Plants produce the animal neurotransmitter GABA when they are under stress. (Photo : Mark Dixon | Flickr). Although plants do not feel ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Alarm over artificial intelligence 'arms race'   
Sydney Morning Herald
Of all the reasons robots might rise up and destroy humanity, making paper clips is not an obvious one. But the popular theory goes that an artificially intelligent machine programmed to produce as many paper clips as possible, might one day decide to ...

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Science Codex
   
What the Kepler-452b discovery means for religion   
Science Codex
Since the recent discovery of Kepler-452b — more prosaically known as Earth 2.0 — scientific and non-scientific communities have been abuzz with excited speculation. The existence of another Earth-like planet in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone” – the ...

ET hasn't phoned but don't take it personally   The Times (subscription)
Is Earth's Closest Cousin A Dying Planet?   Gizmodo Australia
Heavens above: what Earth 2.0's discovery means for God   The Conversation AU
Vocal Republic   
LubbockOnline.com   
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Business Insider Australia
   
Here are the arguments for building killer robots   
Business Insider Australia
Presented at the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the letter features prominent researchers studying artificial intelligence (AI) including scientists like Google's director of research Peter ...
AI researchers should not retreat from battlefield robots, they should engage ...   The Conversation AU
We should embrace 'killer robots' – not ban them   BusinessTech
Researchers in China pressured not to sign letter on 'killer robots'   WantChinaTimes
Guide2Nigeria   
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CTV News
   
A car drives by HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot in Marblehead, Mass. on July 17 ...   
CTV News
HitchBOT, a friendly hitchhiking robot that became famous on social media during its travels through Canada and Europe has been destroyed while on a trip across the United States. “Unfortunately, hitchBOT was vandalized overnight in Philadelphia,” the ...

Hitchhiking robot's cross-country trip ends in Philly   KOIN.com
Vandals cut short robot's hitchhiking adventure   Boston Globe
Makers of traveling mini-robot say it was mugged - in Philly   Philly.com
Belfast Telegraph   
Daily Mail   
Boston.com   
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Business Insider
   
The scariest part of climate change is what we don't yet know   
Business Insider
“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future": so goes a Danish proverb attributed variously to baseball coach Yogi Berra and physicist Niels Bohr. Yet some things are so important — such as projecting the future impacts of climate ...
The scariest part of climate change isn't what we know, but what we don't   The Conversation AU

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The Express Tribune
   
When the ice retreats   
gulfnews.com
Ny-Alesund, Norway: Not so long ago, skeleton staff overwintering at the Ny-Alesund research centre could walk on the Arctic town's frozen bay and race their snowmobiles across its surface. Now there is liquid water even in the coldest months, the ...
Arctic ice retreating in Norway   Echonetdaily
Tracking the retreat of Arctic ice   The Express Tribune

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Sky News Australia
   
International Space Station dwarfed by moon   
Sky News Australia
The International Space Station (ISS), with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it passes the moon. Taken on Sunday, the ISS can be seen as a black squiggle on the face of the moon. Despite being dwarfed by the moon, the ISS is no small ...
NASA's Latest Image Of The International Space Station Is Breathtaking   Huffington Post
See What International Space Station Looks Like Crossing the Moon   ABC News
See the ISS fly over again Sunday night, weather permitting   The Denver Channel (blog)
Mirror.co.uk   
Astronomy Now Online   
Derbyshire Times   
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Florida Today
   
Aquanauts practice space exploration off Florida Keys   
Florida Today
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano is famous for having water leak into his helmet during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, a malfunction that threatened to drown him if the spacewalk had not quickly been aborted. That scare didn't ...
Why Did NASA End The Space Shuttle Program?   Gizmodo Australia
Veteran astronaut Mike Foreman leaves NASA   SpaceFlight Insider

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