2014年10月15日 星期三

2014-10-16 South Africa Science

  Canada News   
Astronaut Chris Hadfield memoir turned into sitcom  Canada News
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield may soon keep company with a whole new type of star as his 2013 memoir An Astronaut's Guide To Life on Earth is reportedly being adapted into a sitcom by Warner Bros. The tentative series, as yet untitled, will feature an ...

Chris Hadfield TV Show: Canadian Astronaut's Life To Become ABC Sitcom   Huffington Post Canada
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's 2013 memoir to become a television sitcom: report   National Post
Astronauts posting Photos Captured from ISS   French Tribune
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  InsideClimate News   
US considers climate change plan that would mandate emission cuts  Los Angeles Times
The United States is considering a proposal to combat climate change that would require countries to offer plans for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions on a certain schedule but would leave it to individual nations to determine how deep their cuts would be, ...

REUTERS SUMMIT-Global climate deal should be legally binding in parts: US   Reuters Africa
Global Climate Deal Shouldn't Be Legally Binding, Top State Department Official ...   Huffington Post
Why Kenyans need to push for global action on climate change   The Star

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  AmmoLand.com   
Do not underestimate climate change, experts warn  Jamaica Observer
BASED on current trends, Jamaica faces an 11 per cent greater risk of floods, and an accompanying nine per cent greater risk of deaths from floods if the country does not act urgently to put systems in place to deal effectively with climate change -- the global ...

No threat more threatening than climate change   Prospectus
Obama's Twitter account pleads to 'stick it to the climate change deniers'   Washington Times
Study: Climate Change and Temperature Rise Drives Fishes to   Chinatopix
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  Times of India   
Collapsible wings help eagle fight air turbulence: study  DAWN.com
PARIS: Soaring eagles tuck in their wings when encountering turbulence to avoid damaging their muscles, scientists suggested on Wednesday. Zoologists at Britain's Oxford University attached a tiny 'black box' flight recorder to a captive steppe eagle (Aquila ...

Scientists added a black box recorder to an eagle...   Irish Examiner
Birds' Wings Collapse to Counter Turbulence   Laboratory Equipment
Soaring birds tuck in wings to cope with turbulence   Business Standard
Science World Report   
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  Siliconrepublic.com   
Use your smart phone to help track cosmic rays  Science AAAS
The origin of the high-energy cosmic rays that crash into Earth is a long-standing mystery. Part of the problem is that the showers of protons and electrons that the rays produce when they strike the atmosphere last only for a millisecond or two, making the rays ...

Scientists harness smartphones as cosmic ray detectors   PCWorld
Cosmic ray particle shower? There's an app for that.   Ars Technica
Smartphone network could track incoming cosmic rays   Phys.Org
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  Peru this Week   
Peru says country's glaciers shrank 40 pct in 4 decades from climate change  Reuters
LIMA Oct 15 (Reuters) - Climate change has shrunk Peruvian glaciers by 40 percent in the past four decades and the melt-off has spawned nearly 1,000 new high-altitude lakes since 1980, Peru's government said on Wednesday. Nearly 90 percent of ...

Global warming has cost Peru 40% of glacial surface   Peru this Week

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  The Drinks Business   
REUTERS SUMMIT-Australian agriculture needs to adapt, not simply shift, to ...  Thomson Reuters Foundation
A wheat crop grows at a farm near Parkes, 221 miles (357 km) west of Sydney, July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz. Tweet · Recommend · Google + · LinkedIn · Email Print. Leave us a comment. (For other news from the Reuters Global Climate Change ...

Australian Agriculture Needs to Adapt, not Simply Shift, to Meet Climate Change   Sudan Vision
RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-Treasury Wine Estates waters vines underground to ...   Reuters Africa
TWE working to resist climate change   The Drinks Business

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  IBNLive   
Comet Siding Spring to fly by Mars on October 19, ISRO re-positions Mangalyaan  IBNLive
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has repositioned its Mars Orbiter, as the national space agency along with its counterparts around the world are expecting Comet Siding Spring to fly by the Red Planet on October 19.
India repositions its Mars Orbiter to avoid Comet Siding Spring   Khaleej Times
Comet Siding Spring: India repositions its Mars spacecraft 'Mangalyaan'   Zee News
Comet's Close Encounter 'One in a Million'   UANews
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  Mirror.co.uk   
Kangaroo relative may have walked around ancient Australia on two feet  Los Angeles Times
A giant kangaroo relative that lived 100,000 years ago may have used its hind two legs for walking, not hopping, according to a new study. And by "walking," the authors of the paper mean real bipedal walking -- upright, on two feet. Kind of like you and me, ...

Kanga-saurus Rex: Extinct kangaroos weighed 250kg and were too heavy to ...   Daily Mail
Ancient kangaroos walked instead of hopped   Stuff.co.nz
Ancient kangaroos walked not hopped   9news.com.au
Maine News Online   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Probe sends back 'space selfie' as landing craft prepares for historic comet ...  Telegraph.co.uk
Just 10 miles away from its quarry in the depths of space, the Philae landing craft has captured remarkable images of the comet on which it is due to make a historic touch-down next month. The stunning photograph of comet 67P shows a jet blasting off the ...

This isn't a sci-fi movie: It's a human-made probe snapping a comet selfie   Register
Rosetta team gets green light for landing on rubber-duck comet   Los Angeles Times
Spacecraft to attempt comet landing next month   Washington Post
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