2014年10月13日 星期一

2014-10-14 South Africa Science

  Scientist   
Nobel Prize: Jefferson grad wins another for alma mater  San Antonio Express-News
There might be something in the H2O at Jefferson High School, which now has produced two graduates who have gone on to win the Nobel Prize — both in chemistry. William E. Moerner, a 1971 Jefferson graduate, is one of three scientists who will share the ...

The physicist who returned to an 'old problem'   Independent Online
A Conversation with a Laureate   Scientist
Chemistry Nobel awarded for super-resolution microscopy   nanotechweb.org
CapeNews.net   
Vox   
Crain's Detroit Business   
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  TIME   
Think You Could Live on Mars? Think Again  TIME
Hear that? That's the sound of 200,000 reservations being reconsidered. Two hundred thousand is the announced number of intrepid folks who signed up last year for the chance to be among the first Earthlings to colonize Mars, with flights beginning as early ...

Mars colonists doomed to fail?   iAfrica.com
Mars One colonists will die in 68 DAYS, study claims   Daily Mail
The first Mars One colonists will suffocate, starve, and be incinerated, according ...   ExtremeTech
The Inquisitr   
Geek   
UPI.com   
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  inside KOREA   
Korea, China, Japan solidify cooperation on biodiversity  inside KOREA
The second Tripartite Policy Dialogue on Biodiversity among Korea, China and Japan took place on October 11 in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. The dialogue is one of the sideline events at the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the ...

FEATURE: UN biodiversity pact seeks to ensure fair, transparent use of world's ...   UN News Centre
Biodiversity protection pact goes into effect, as Japan lags behind   Asahi Shimbun
Nagoya Protocol takes effect   The Japan News

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  Sydney Morning Herald   
China's east likely to face more hot summers as climate warms: study  Sydney Morning Herald
Eastern China may experience more "extreme warm" summer weather similar to the 2013 heatwave in the coming years, researchers in China and Canada wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change. Within two decades, half the summers in eastern China ...

Eastern China set for record-hot summer: study   DAWN.com
Eastern China set for record-hot summers   Channel News Asia
Half of All Summers Will Soon Be Boiling Hot for Hundreds of Millions of People   Mother Jones

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Curbing the Illegal Wildlife Trade Crucial to Preserving Biodiversity  AllAfrica.com
Pyeongchang — For over five years, 33-year-old Maheshwar Basumatary, a member of the indigenous Bodo community, made a living by killing wild animals in the protected forests of the Manas National Park, a tiger reserve, elephant sanctuary and ...


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Poor Nations Urged to Leapfrog Harmful HFC Refrigerants  AllAfrica.com
Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has ...


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  Chinatopix   
Invasive Alien Quagga Mussels Threaten UK Wildlife and  Chinatopix
A mussel species indigenous to the Ukraine has been discovered in the U.K. for the first time and poses great potential risk to the latter's water supply. It also threatens to disrupt biodiversity and wildlife in the U.K.. Like Us on Facebook ...

Invasive Mussel Species Could Destroy Ecological System in UK   Dumb-Out
Foreign Mussels Invade The UK Waterways Pose Threat To Native Species   FXC News
Alien Mussels Threaten UK Biodiversity   ZME Science
Beta Wired   
Scotsman   
Maine News   
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  Daily Mail   
A Giant 50ft Crabzilla Spotted  malaysiandigest.com
The photo of the 'giant crab' was shared on Weird Whistable -Instagram photoA GIANT 50ft crab dubbed Crabzilla has been spotted lurking in the waters off England. The incredible image dwarfs boats in Whitstable harbour, Kent. Quinton Winter, who collects ...

50ft CRABZILLA spotted lurking in Brit harbour   Daily Star
50ft crustacean, dubbed Crabzilla, photographed lurking beneath the waters in ...   Kent Online
Is this Crabzilla? 'Giant crab' measuring 50ft spotted off British coast   Express.co.uk
NEWS.com.au (blog)   
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  NewsNet5.com   
Robotic Spacecraft X-37B Returns Home from Classified Mission  WallStreet OTC
The U.S. military has announced the end of the 22-month mission of the robotic spacecraft X-37B. The craft has been on a classified mission for almost 2-years and is looking to successfully cease that mission on Oct. 14 and will touch down at the Vandenberg ...

Military's secretive X-37B space plane returning to Earth after two-year mission   Science Recorder
US Air Force prepares for Arrival of its Boeing-created X-37B Space Plane   Maine News Online
Reusable 'space plane' scheduled to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base   KCBX
KERO-TV 23   
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  National Geographic   
5 Sky Events This Week: Moon Buzzes Beehive, Comet Barnstorms Mars  National Geographic
A Mars close encounter with a comet late next year, as portrayed in this illustion An artist rendering shows comet Siding Spring's approaching Mars on October 19, 2014. Sky-watchers using large telescopes may get a glimpse of the close encounter for ...

MOM gears up for comet fly-by   The Hindu
India's first Martian satellite poised to catch glimpse of comet   Beta Wired
Star-gazers await cosmic history   Bangalore Mirror
Space.com   
Steamboat Pilot & Today   
RT   
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