2014年11月6日 星期四

2014-11-07 South Africa Science

  Discovery News   
Fossil Links Dolphin-Like Dino to Amphibious Past  Discovery News
Fossil evidence has been uncovered that connects the dolphin-like ichthyosaur to an amphibious past, the first specimen to mark the creature's transition from land to sea and one that fills a gap in the fossil record. The evidence comes thanks to researchers ...


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  Free Malaysia Today   
Here's where we get our ideas from  Business Standard
Scientists have theorized that creative ideas should more often accumulated from many small insights, stretching the boundaries just a bit at a time and the data collected has proven ideas nearer the better. Joel Chan and his mentor Christian Schunn of Pitt's ...

The Best Way To Solve A Problem Probably Doesn't Come From 'Outside The Box'   Huffington Post Canada

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Invasive species threaten global biodiversity  Yahoo News UK
Until a few decades ago, there were no beavers in Patagonia. That changed when 20 pairs of the tree-chewing creature were introduced with the hopes of creating a fur industry. Today, their numbers have exploded and they pose a serious threat to the South ...


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  UN News Centre   
Weather forecasters predict better services for women  Reuters Africa
By Michelle Leslie. TORONTO, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Meteorologists from around the world are meeting with women's rights activists and aid workers in Geneva to develop climate and weather services geared specifically to women. The Nov.
UN Conference Aims to 'Bring Women's Voices to the Fore' of Climate Change ...   AllAfrica.com
Amplifying women's voices in climate change solutions focus of UN conference   UN News Centre
'Urgent action' sought to stop climate change from happening too soon   InterAksyon

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  BBC News   
Planet formation captured in photo  BBC News
The clearest ever image of planets forming around an infant star has been taken by the Alma radio telescope. In a vast disc of dust and gas, dark rings are clearly visible: gaps in the cloud, swept clear by brand new planets in orbit. The sun-like star at the ...

Revolutionary image shows planets forming around a star   CNET
Astonishing image of planet-forming disk from ALMA   EarthSky
Planetary birth revealed in best image yet from world's most powerful telescope   Washington Post
Los Angeles Times   
The Independent   
Newsweek   
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  The Malay Mail Online   
DNA shows early Europeans survived the Ice Age  The Australian
DNA recovered from the fossilised remains of a man who lived 36,000 years ago suggests early Europeans survived the Ice Age. An international team of scientists also says the DNA from one of the oldest known modern humans shows that interbreeding ...

Ancient Russian's DNA sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding   Reuters
DNA from 36000-year-old skeleton sheds light on interbreeding between ...   Sydney Morning Herald
DNA Pinpoints When Humans and Neanderthals Interbred   NBCNews.com

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  BBC News   
Bats sabotage rivals' senses with sound in food race  BBC News
A species of bat can interfere with the sound signals of competitors to "steal" their food. Continue reading the main story. A flying Mexican free-tailed bat Mexican free-tailed bats emit specialised signals which scramble the echolocation of competitors.
Hungry bats in a jam   The Times (subscription)
Bats come with built-in sonar jammers, scientists say   Beta Wired
Thieving Bats Employ Sonar Jamming to Steal Meals   Nature World News
Tech Times   
Counsel & Heal   
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  The Atlantic   
A Little Ship Just Saved the International Space Station  The Atlantic
Meet the Georges Lemaître, which helped the orbiting laboratory—currently home to six humans—to avoid a potentially disastrous collision with space junk. Megan Garber Nov 6 2014, 4:24 PM ET. Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Google+; Email · Print ...

ISS Avoids a Near Shave With Space Junk   PC Magazine
See NASA's crazy 3D video from inside a ball of water in space   CNET
NASA arranges 3D tour of International Space Station   Hindustan Times
Christian Science Monitor   
Business Today   
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  Yahoo News   
Scientists unveil secrets of insect evolution  Xinhua
CANBERRA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Using genetic analysis, scientists have been able to conclusively establish that insects originated about 480 million years ago, and that they developed the ability to fly some 80 million years later, the Commonwealth of ...

Intricacies of insect evolution revealed   Natural History Museum
New research study delves into insect evolution   Beta Wired
Genetic Data Clarify Insect Evolution   Scientist
Live Science   
American Live Wire   
Wired   
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  KRWG   
How Sex Organs Got Started: It Was an Evolutionary Quickie  NBCNews.com
If you turn over a mouse and a snake to look for their sex organs, you'd probably gain an appreciation for the diversity of genitalia in the animal world. Down near their tails, male mice have penises studded with tiny spines, and female mice have vaginas.
Limb cells turned into genitals in lab   BBC News
Scientists think they know why snakes get two penises and people only get one   Washington Post
Harvard researchers unravel evolution of genitalia   Boston Globe
The Independent   
Science Now   
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