2014年12月22日 星期一

2014-12-23 South Africa Science


Record-Searchlight
   
Federal judge upholds restrictions on Delta water shipments   
San Francisco Chronicle
A federal appeals court Monday overruled objections by Central Valley farmers, water districts and a federal judge and upheld the government's reduction of water shipments from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in order to protect salmon, steelhead trout ...

Court upholds cutback in California water drawdown to protect fish   Reuters
Court upholds ruling for salmon in delta   News10.net
Court upholds ruling for California delta salmon   azcentral.com

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DailyTech
   
Campbell's Monkeys Found to Use Different Dialects to Describe Local Threats   
DailyTech
Work by Professor Alban Lemasson -- a primatologist at the University of Rennes, France -- in a 2009 study suggested that Campbell's monkeys were capable of a rudimentary form of "speech". Unlike most animal species who associate specific sounds with a ...

New research translates 'Monkey' to English   The Weather Network
Scientists translate monkey words, find different dialects   Times LIVE
Monkeys far smarter than thought   Daijiworld.com

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CTV News
   
Researchers find new evidence of Viking presence in Canada   
CTV News
A small stone vessel found on Nunavut's Baffin Island more than 50 years ago is proof of a previously unknown Viking presence in Arctic Canada, researchers say. The object, dating back to around 1,000 AD, was first unearthed by American archeologist ...

Evidence of Vikings in Canada   iAfrica.com

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Daily News
   
Tanzanian Ambassadors in Lifetime Climb   
East African Business Week
Moshi — Ambassadors representing Tanzania across the world, recently took on the challenge of a six-day climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Their expedition was coordinated by the ZARA TANZANIA ADVENTURE (a Moshi based tour company). The flag-off ...

13 ambassadors conquer Mount Kilimanjaro   Daily News

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News Tonight Africa
   
A cemetery with a million mummified bodies found in Egypt   
News Tonight Africa
A research team has claimed that they have discovered a cemetery in Egypt which has about a million mummified bodies in it. The research lead Kerry Muhlestein, an associate professor at Brigham Young University informed about the high number of ...

Egyptian culture minister disputes million-mummy cemetery claim   Full-Time Whistle
Million-mummy cemetery claim refuted by Egyptian culture minister   Science Recorder
One Million Mummies Unearthed From Egypt Allegations Could Be False   Headlines & Global News
Examiner.com   
New Hampshire Voice   
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Wheat yields to fall more than expected in warmer world   
Reuters Africa
OSLO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Global warming will cut average wheat yields by six percent for every degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) of temperature rise in a bigger-than-expected brake on food production in a hotter world, a study said on Monday. The report, by a ...


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The Register
   
NASA's 'crazy' plan yields dramatic pictures of our X-ray Sun   
The Register
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) was designed to probe the distant galaxy looking for black holes, but NASA has recently been aiming the orbiting instrument at the Sun to get a close-up view of our star's atmosphere. "At first I thought the ...

Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures berst ever picture of x-rays ...   Daily Mail
NuSTAR Probe Captures a Sizzling X-Ray View of the Sun   NBCNews.com
Stunning X-Ray Portrait Of The Sun Snapped By NASA's NuSTAR Space ...   Huffington Post
Science Times   
Full-Time Whistle   
Space.com   
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The Independent
   
Stonehenge road tunnel to go ahead despite archaeologists' warnings it could ...   
The Independent
The Government says it will go ahead with plans to build a road tunnel past Stonehenge despite warnings from archaeologists that it could destroy new evidence of the monument's mysterious origins. Historical experts said the evidence hidden at a newly ...

Tunnel under Stonehenge could 'wreck chances of unlocking secrets of ancient ...   Daily Mail
Stonehenge discovery puts tunnel project at risk   NEWS.com.au
6000 Year Old Campsite Found at Stonehenge   New Historian
io9   
Business Standard   
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Slate Magazine
   
NASA mulls plan to explore Venus with 'Cloud City'   
Christian Science Monitor
At 800 degrees Fahrenheit, Venus isn't a hospitable place to land, but some NASA scientists are proposing to study the atmosphere from habitable dirigibles. By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer December 22, 2014. close. The northern hemisphere of Venus is ...

NASA Wants To Build Bespin Style Cloud City On Venus   American Live Wire
NASA HAVOC mission aims Could City above Venus   Inferse
NASA wants to build a floating city above the clouds of Venus   CNET
The Independent   
Daily Mail   
Uproxx   
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The Capital Wide
   
Annual bird count held at Grand Isle   
Houma Courier
Groups of birders gathered in Grand Isle last week to spot and record the various avian species calling the island home for the winter. Around 15 observers scoured the island Dec. 18 to participate in the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird ...

Christmas bird count in national park   Dickinson Press
Birders count 28 species and 2141 birds during annual Audubon Christmas bird ...   Price County Daily
115th annual Christmas Bird Count celebrated across North America (and Lake ...   News-Herald.com
Petaluma Argus Courier   
Washington Post   
CBC.ca   
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