2014年10月27日 星期一

2014-10-28 South Africa Science

  New York Times   
For World Record, Alan Eustace Fought Atmosphere and Equipment  New York Times
Alan Eustace, a senior vice president at Google, during a thermal test of his suit before his world-record jump. Credit Paragon Space Development/European Pressphoto Agency. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...

57-year-old computer scientist sky-dives from stratosphere, breaking record   Daily Digest
Alan Eustace breaks Record of Baumgartner by Jumping from 135000 feet   Maine News Online
Google exec hit 822 mph during record near-space skydive   The Seattle Times
News24   
Wired.co.uk   
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  Reuters   
Climate rescue mission 'not hopeless' says IPCC chief  BDlive
PARIS — The head of the United Nation's (UN's) climate science panel urged national policy makers on Monday not to lose heart in the face of a mighty challenge to tackle global warming. "It is not hopeless," Rajenda Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-winning ...

Climate change: Carbon trading edges closer as UN brokers deal   The Independent
UN climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage   Reuters Africa
Nations must keep up hope in battle against climate change: UN envoy   CTV News

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  Washington Post   
Watch Live: Orbital Sciences Launches ISS Resupply Mission  PC Magazine
Orbital Sciences said Monday that its fourth unmanned cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for liftoff at 6:45 p.m. Eastern from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia, pending ...

Space station cargo ship grounded by wayward sailboat   CBS News
Space Station Cargo Launch Spoiled by a Wayward Sailboat   NBCNews.com
Space station supply launch called off after sailboat enters hazard zone   CTV News
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  BBC News   
Population controls 'will not solve environment issues'  BBC News
Restricting population growth will not solve global issues of sustainability in the short term, new research says. A worldwide one-child policy would mean the number of people in 2100 remained around current levels, according to a study published in the ...

Humanity's 'inexorable' population growth is so rapid that even a global ...   The Independent
Wars are no threat to huge population growth   Herald Scotland
Culling The Population Is Not A Realistic Environmental Solution   Science 2.0
Daily Mail   
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  Mashable   
Hawaii Prepares for Evacuations as Lava Flow Moves Within Yards of Homes  Mashable
Hawaii An HVO geologist maps the margin of the lava flow in the open field below ApaÊ»a Street / Cemetery Road. Image: U.S. Geological Survey. 2. By Megan Specia 2014-10-27 23:10:03 UTC. Residents of the village of Pāhoa in Hawaii are preparing for ...

Lava from volcano in Hawaii forces residents to get ready to flee   The Australian
After weeks of watching, Hawaii lava nears home   Auburn Citizen

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  The Space Reporter   
The Sun just produced the most intense solar flare possible  The Space Reporter
AR 12192, a an unusually large sunspot, continues to generate powerful flares, the latest of which occurred at 10:47 EDT on Monday, October 27. The fourth powerful flare produced by the sunspot in four days was X-class, the most intense flare the Sun can ...

Get a Closer Look at the Giant Sunspot's Solar Flares   Nature World News
More X-Class Flares Erupting From Giant Solar Sunspot   Science 2.0
Giant sunspot won't stop shooting solar flares into space   UPI.com
Daily Mail   
Christian Science Monitor   
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  ValueWalk   
Fireball in space: Astronomers capture images of a star going nova  Los Angeles Times
You don't see this every day. For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a nova very soon after the stellar explosion flared into existence and have tracked the fireball's dramatic expansion into space. The discovery, described in the journal Nature, ...

Scientists Catch Novae Explosion on Timelapse   Dumb-Out
Astronomers observe 'stellar atomic bomb' in action   Science Recorder
Timelapse images expanding fireball of Nova Delphini 2013 shed light on events   Inferse
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  Daily Times   
Study reveals link between global warming and cooler winters, melting ice  Science Recorder
Climate skeptics often like to point towards the colder winters being experienced in some areas of the globe as being a sign that global warming isn't actually happening. However, new research, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows just the ...

Study shows melting of Arctic Ice doubles the risk of extreme cold weather in ...   Capitalberg
Arctic ice melt doubles risk of frigid Eurasian winters, study says   The Hoops News
Sea Ice Decline Linked to Global Warming?   Dumb-Out
Telegraph.co.uk   
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  Daily Digest   
European Space Agency announces surprising new endeavor: sci-fi movies  Daily Digest
Known for its staunch support of nothing but pure, hard science, the European Space Agency surprised some with its branching into fantasy film-making. Are sci-fi film aficionados in for smarter works of science fantasy? It is tempting to think so now that the ...

The scent of a comet: rotten eggs and pee   CNET
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Stinking Comets   Dumb-Out
With comet film, ESA boldly goes into sci-fi   Phys.Org
iAfrica.com   
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  Zee News   
These Robots Use Static Electricity To Move Fragile Objects  Popular Mechanics
Brute strength is no problem for robots. It's when they need to be gentle, and handle fragile objects without mangling them, that machines run into problems. GrabIt solves this problem with static electricity. By generating electrostatic energy, the GrabIt's ...

Watch this creepy robotic hand pick up objects using only electricity   ITProPortal
Now, robots that use static electricity to pick up, transport objects   Business Standard

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