2014年8月25日 星期一

2014-08-26 South Africa Science

  NBCNews.com   
Thigh Bone on Mars? It's Just a Weird Rock, NASA Says  NBCNews.com
A photo from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz last week with claims that the robot had found a "thigh bone" on the Red Planet. But not so fast. That so-called bone? Just a weathered Martian rock, NASA says. The bone claim first appeared ...

After two years, Mars' punishing environment has certainly left its mark on ...   The Weather Network
Rover takes most curious selfie   Independent Online
Is curiosity killing Curiosity? 'Before and after' images reveal a battered Mars ...   Daily Mail
Phys.Org   
SurfKY News   
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  News Tonight Africa   
Are Earthquakes Linked To Drought?  KPBS
This weekend, Northern California was rattled by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. That had nothing to do with the drought, right? Actually, a possible increase in seismic activity is one of the things that can result from the massive loss of groundwater we've seen ...

GPS Technology Helps Measure Drought Conditions   Dumb-Out
Drought caused Rise of Ground Level, Responsible for Quake in California Too?   News Tonight Africa

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  Cordis News   
Trending science: New research confirms long coexistence of humans and ...  Cordis News
Ground breaking research has provided the strongest evidence yet that humans and Neanderthals coexisted in Europe for thousands of years. Trending science: New research confirms long coexistence of humans and Neanderthals. © Thinkstock.
Neanderthals lived alongside Modern Humans for 5000 Years   News Tonight Africa

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  ABC Science Online   
Ancient child skull had no soft spot  ABC Science Online
Brain evolution The three-million-year-old skull of a young hominin shows no signs of the kind of soft spot that would be seen in human children with larger brains, CT scans reveal. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Three-million-year-old child skull had no soft spot   Geo News, Pakistan
CT scans show Australopithecus africanus not as 'human' as thought   Examiner.com
SA's Taung Child's skull and brain not human-like in expansion   Science Codex

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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Icelandic scientists predict three possibilities for Bardarbunga volcano  Xinhua
REYKJAVIK, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Icelandic scientists concluded on Monday there were three possibilities for the future development of the Bardarbunga volcano which is still charted in the color-code of orange for possible eruption, according to the Icelandic ...

Iceland lowers aviation alert level from volcano   SFGate
Volcano News: Alert phase in Iceland is still in effect   IceNews
Iceland Monitors Tremors After Retracting Eruption Alert   Businessweek
The Independent   
CBC.ca   
Independent Online   
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  News Tonight Africa   
Researchers Find 'Alarming' level of Plastic Pollution at Sydney harbour  News Tonight Africa
Researchers have found that Sydney harbour's plastic pollution has reached an 'alarming' level. They have also found that toiletries and fibres from clothing are affecting the marine ecosystem. The ongoing Sydney Harbour Research has surveyed 27 ...

Sydney harbour's plastic pollution at 'alarming' levels, scientists find   The Guardian
Tiny plastic particles are polluting our waterways, and potentially our seafood   The Daily Telegraph
Plastic pollution at Sydney harbour reaches 'alarming' levels   Delhi Daily News
Blue & Green Tomorrow   
RT   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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  Sky News Australia   
Euro space boffins narrow down lander sites on comet doing 135000km/h ...  Register
The European Space Agency has identified five possible sites where its Rosetta spacecraft could probe comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Over the past twenty days, spent in the vicinity of the 29 by 25 Brontosauruses (3.5 x 4 km) rock, the craft has taken ...

Rosetta: Landing site search narrows   Jet Propulsion Laboratory
European Probe Has 5 Potential Drop Zones for Historic Comet Landing   Yahoo News UK
European Space Agency: Potential Comet Landing Sites Down to Five   Latin Post
euronews   
Chinatopix   
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  News Tonight Africa   
Isolated droplet combustion experiments aboard ISS lead to discovery of cool ...  News Tonight Africa
An open access publication in the journal Microgravity Science and Technology has provided details about the isolated droplet combustion experiments that were carried out on the International Space Station. The experiment has led to the discovery of new ...

SpaceX Failure Seen Slowing NASA Pick on Capsule Contract   Businessweek
NASA Needs Your Help In ID'ing Night-Time Photos   News 92 FM
Roscosmos Wants $440 Million to Build Inflatable Space Stations   The Moscow Times
International Business Times   
Latin Post   
High Performance Composites   
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Small island states, facing rising seas, seek economic overhaul  Reuters Africa
... * "Frightening" prospect of rising seas - U.N.. * Islands say overlooked, fault inaction over climate. * Small island summit in Samoa from Sept. 1-4. By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent. OSLO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Small island states facing a ...


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Klerksdorp Earthquake - Mining or Nature?  AllAfrica.com
Establishing whether the recent earthquake in South Africa's North West province was purely mining induced, or caused by natural tectonic shifts in the earth's crust, is not a simple matter, experts said during a recent panel discussion hosted by the Council for ...


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