2014年11月10日 星期一

2014-11-11 South Africa Science

  Headlines & Global News   
Tortoise's Unique Breathing Apparatus: Origins Revealed For The First Time  Headlines & Global News
A Computed Tomography rendering of a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) showing the skeleton (white), lungs (blue), and abdominal muscles (red and pink). (Photo : Emma R. Schachner). Researchers gained a better understanding of the evolutionary ...


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2 metre Cape cobra takes a dip at Hout Bay Beach  Eyewitness News
Snake and reptile education expert, Shaun Macleod, said Cape cobras don't normally grow that big. A nearly two metre long cape cobra decided to spend the afternoon at the beach. A nearly two metre long Cape cobra spent the afternoon on Hout Bay beach ...

Eeek! Cape Cobra spotted having morning slither on Hout Bay beach   News24

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  Counsel & Heal   
Discovered Skull From Madagascar May Help Researchers Understand ...  Counsel & Heal
Researchers have discovered a bizarre fossil skull from Madagascar that reveals that mammals who lived during the dinosaur age were puny and weighed less than a pound, according to a new study. (Photo : George Washington University/James Clark).
Are we closer to understanding mammalian history?   Dumb-Out
Early mammal is 'discovery of the decade'   Independent Online
Fossil Skull Found From Madagascar, Researchers One Step Closer to ...   Uncover California
Chinatopix   
The Star Online   
Beta Wired   
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  GhanaWeb   
Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory Commissioned  AllAfrica.com
A newly ultra-modern laboratory for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been commissioned in Accra. Commissioning the lab, the Executive Director of EPA, Mr Daniel Amlalo, said the Agency was mandated by the EPA Act, 1994 (Act 490) to ...

Minister of Environment visits EPA   BusinessGhana
Environment Minister visits EPA   GhanaWeb

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  Tech Times   
Underwater 'storms' may hold key to melting Antarctic ice  Los Angeles Times
Scientists using robotic ocean gliders to wander frigid Antarctic waters say they may have discovered a mechanism behind the melting of polar ice shelves – miniature submarine "storms" that are lobbing packets of warmer water toward the continent.
Robotic gliders used on frontlines in studying Antarctic ice melt   Tech Times
Robotic ocean gliders discover how polar ice shelves melt   Beta Wired
Robotic ocean gliders aid study of melting polar ice   Science Codex
NDTV   
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  Tech Fragments   
Fantastic Voyage: Robotic Nano-swimmers could Swim through Bloodstream ...  Tech Fragments
Anyone remember the 1966 science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, where a submarine gets shrunk down so that it's crew can travel through the human body, allowing the crew to perform surgery in the brain? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in ...

Micro- and nano-swimmers can be propelled through media similar to bodily fluids   Phys.Org
Micro-scallop robot can swim through blood, eyeballs   SlashGear
Robotic microscallops can swim through the bloodstream, eyeball fluid to deliver ...   Tech Times
News Tonight Africa   
The Inquisitr   
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  AOL Travel UK   
Venezuela's everlasting lightning storm enters Guiness Book of World Records  AOL Travel UK
Venezuela's Catatumbo has secured the title of the place with the most lightning strikes in the Guinness Book of Records. Catatumbo took the title from the Congolese town of Kifuka. According to ITV, lightning occurs during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours ...

Bright spark: Catatumbo claims record   Yahoo News UK
Town thunders into Guinness   Times LIVE

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  PerfScience   
Fossil of ancient shark found by Maryland homeowner  Daily Times
A Maryland man building a home addition unearthed a 15-million-year-old fossil of a snaggletooth shark, the first of its kind ever found, the Calvert Marine Museum said on Friday. Donald Gibson found the skeletal remains, which included more than 50 ...

Snaggletooth Shark Skeleton Discovered in Maryland Backyard   Nature World News
Maryland Family Discovers 15-Million-Year-Old Shark Skeleton In Backyard   Opposing Views
Family finds Skeleton of Ancient Snaggletooth Shark in Backyard   PerfScience
Washington Post   
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  NDTV   
Slow-Moving Lava Sets House Ablaze in Hawaii Town  NDTV
Lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano burns a residential structure Monday, Nov. 11, 2014, in Pahoa, Hawaii. Honolulu: A stream of lava set a home on fire on Monday in a rural Hawaii town that has been watching the slow-moving flow approach for months.
Slow moving lava enters Hawaii town, damages property   Firstpost
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano: First home incinerated since lava began flowing ...   ABC Online
Lava Sets House on Fire in Hawaii Town   Wall Street Journal
West Hawaii Today   
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  Irish Independent   
Where no probe has gone before: bid to land on comet  Irish Independent
An artist's impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to the comet. Photo credit: ESA/PA Wire. European scientists will this week make the first attempt to land a probe on the surface of a comet, the climax of a decade-long project to unlock ...

Mission to land robot on comet to take final step   The Globe and Mail
The countdown to comet interception is on at Blackrock Castle   Irish Examiner
5 things you need to know about the Rosetta landing   Toronto Sun
New York Times   
Telegraph.co.uk   
BBC News   
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