2015年11月6日 星期五

2015-11-07 Australia Science


Sydney Morning Herald
   
Kangaroo farts experiment has serious side   
Sydney Morning Herald
Aussie biologist Adam Munn gets very excited when he recounts the months he and his colleagues spent capturing kangaroo farts. It sounds like a dangerous pursuit. And just why anyone would want to is baffling on the surface. But this myth-busting ...

Faster digestion in kangaroos reduces methane emissions   HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
Research offers fresh insights on kangaroo's low-methane fart   International Business Times AU
Kangaroo fart theory could help research into livestock methane   Herald Sun
SBS   
Journal of Experimental Biology - The Company of Biologists   
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The Australian
   
Ancient rat discovered in East Timor bigger than a cat   
The Australian
It's every moggy's nightmare — a rat big enough to chase cats. Australian researchers scouring archaeological deposits in East Timor have unearthed the remains of what they say is the world's largest ever rat. And it survived alongside the island's ...
ANU team discover largest known fossils of giant rats on East Timor   The Canberra Times
Canberra archaeologists discover fossils of giant rats the size of dogs in ...   ABC Online
Beware of the MEGARAT: Researchers find fossils of the biggest rodent in ...   Daily Mail
Science World Report   
Washington Post   
Nature World News   
Australian National University   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
How climate change influenced Australia's extreme weather in 2014   
Sydney Morning Herald
Scientists have linked climate change to several extreme weather events that hit Australia last year, including city melting heatwaves, record hot spring temperatures and the sweltering conditions that greeted the G20 meeting in Brisbane. They are part ...
Heatwaves attributed to human induced climate change   ABC Science Online
A year of records: the human role in 2014's wild weather   Business Spectator

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Gizmag
   
New Horizons finishes historic Kuiper Belt maneuver   
Gizmag
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has achieved a great deal, recently sending home a wealth of information on Pluto, including stunning close up imagery and and a breathtaking view of its crescent. Now, the probe has completed the last of four burns that ...

New Horizons is Officially Off to the Kuiper Belt   Gizmodo
New Horizons Completes Kuiper Belt Targeting Maneuvers   Space Ref (press release)
New Horizons Changes Course For 2019 Encounter   Aviation Week
NYC Today   
Daily News & Analysis   
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RFI
   
UN unblocks climate finance to poor countries as France unveils 'dress rehearsal'   
RFI
The UN's Green Climate Fund approved its first projects to help developing nations on Friday, three weeks before a crucial word summit to reach a climate rescue pact. On the same day, France's Foreign minister Laurent Fabius unveiled a 3-day 'dress ...

Australia to lead climate change fund   The Australian (blog)

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Yahoo7 News
   
Pilot whales die after NZ mass stranding   
Yahoo7 News
A pod of 29 pilot whales that got stranded on New Zealand s remote Stewart Island A pod of 29 pilot whales that got stranded on New Zealand's remote Stewart Island have all died. A pod of 29 pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a remote ...
Stranded whales on Stewart Island euthanised by DOC   TVNZ

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Gizmag
   
Hubble data reveals ancient white dwarfs at the core of the Milky Way   
Gizmag
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been analyzed by a team of astronomers, uncovering a population of very old white dwarf stars. It's the first time the ancient stars have been observed, and their study provides clues regarding the early ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered clues to the early ...   Daily Star Gazette
Hubble Uncovers Fading Cinders of Our Galaxy's Earliest Stars   Space Ref (press release)
Milky Way: Young Stars in an Old Bulge   Sky & Telescope
CBC.ca   
R & D Magazine   
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Yahoo News UK
   
Ancient magical Australian plant could help grow food in space   
Yahoo News UK
An ancient native Australian plant species that has survived for almost 750,000 years and even under drought conditions could hold the secret to growing plants in space. It could also have major impact on future plant biotechnology, say scientists from ...

Scientists have found a gene that could be the key to growing food in space   ScienceAlert

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Newsday
   
Applied DNA Sciences to Present at Investor Conferences on November 12, 2015   
CNNMoney
Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based supply chain, authentication and product identification solutions, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology, and product genotyping solutions, announced today that ...

Analyst Price Target Update on Applied DNA Sciences Inc   News Watch International
Hot News : Applied DNA Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ ...   Stock Transcript

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Yahoo7 News
   
10000-year-old iceberg breaks in two - Yahoo7   
Yahoo7 News
Stunned hikers were left in awe when mother nature decided to put on a grand show in Iceland last week. The moment the iceberg broke away from the glacier. Source: Supplied. A massive iceberg broke off the well-known Svínafellsjökull Glacier rolling ...
Majestic blue iceberg breaks off glacier in front of mesmerised onlookers   TVNZ
Viral video: Watch iceberg break off glacier   WMTW Portland
Astonished bystanders witness an ancient iceberg break off a glacier in Iceland   9news.com.au
WMUR Manchester   
Iceland Monitor   
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