2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 South Africa Science


News Tonight Africa
   
Artificial Intelligence to match human intelligence in 2029, expert   
News Tonight Africa
Ray Kurzweil author of five books on artificial intelligence and the founder of the futurist organisation the Singularity University, has written in a recent article that researchers will be able to create human level intelligence by the year 2029. Kurzweil, who is ...

KURZWEIL: Human-Level AI Is Coming By 2029   Business Insider Australia
2029: The Year AI Becomes Human   The Fiscal Times
Is AI a threat to humanity?   CNN

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News Tonight Africa
   
NASA Uses Cost-Effective Method to Stop Soil Erosion at Cape Canaveral   
News Tonight Africa
It has been reported that due to rise in the water level of the Atlantic Ocean, the ocean has started to engulf the shoreline along the Cape Canaveral. Also, it was found that the railroad build alongside the beach in 1960s by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

NASA working to fight beach erosion   Bay News 9
As rising sea level chomps at Cape Canaveral, NASA uses nature-friendly solution   Tampabay.com

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News24
   
Tiny 'life detector' could sense alien movement PH   
News24
Miami - European researchers claim they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, scientists have tried to find signs of extraterrestrial life by listening for sounds that might be emitted from ...

Alien 'Life Detector' Will Find Extraterrestrial Movement In Breakthrough   The Inquisitr
Lausanne scientists step up search for alien life   The Local.ch
Could we find aliens by searching for VIBRATIONS? £6000 nanosensor may ...   Daily Mail
Pune Mirror   
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The Independent
   
Stephen Hawking's wife on their marriage breakdown: 'The family were left behind'   
The Independent
The former wife of Stephen Hawking has described how she and their three children were “left behind” after the cosmologist was surrounded by “sycophantic” admirers following publication of his landmark work A Brief History of Time. In an interview to ...

Stephen Hawking's first wife: 'I would not worship ground under his wheels'   Telegraph.co.uk
The Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking biopic is immensely moving   The Register
How I lost Stephen to 'the goddess Physics'   Independent Online
The Australian (blog)   
TIME   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
UK scientists plan to grow lettuce on Mars   
Telegraph.co.uk
A team of scientists have created a plan to grow lettuce on Mars, and it has been short-listed to be included in a future space flight to the red planet. The project, being run at the University of Southampton, aims to put the first life on Mars by growing the salad ...

This Is the First Possible Plant Life in Mars   Youth Health Magzine
U.K. researchers plan to grow lettuce on Mars   UPI.com
Science experiment would grow lettuce on Mars   Mashable
The Independent   
NDTV   
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Pioneer News
   
​This is what it sounds like when drunk birds slur their songs   
CBS News
When researchers at Oregon Health & Science University wanted to study one of the ways that alcohol affects the brain, they turned to zebra finches -- and got them drunk. "Speech impairment is one of the most intriguing and least understood effects of ...

Drunken birds slur just like humans: Study says   Capitalberg
Scientists show that drunk birds 'slur' their songs   Washington Post
*HIC*... tweet: Sloshed birdsh shlur songs, say boffins   The Register
NPR   
NBCNews.com   
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VICE News
   
The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species   
VICE News
For many Americans, the monarch butterfly is an iconic part of childhood — a real world insect from which to learn about caterpillars, cocoons, metamorphosis, and migrations. But monarch butterfly populations have declined precipitously in recent years, ...

Monarch Butterfly Population Dropped by 90% Last Two Decades Say Scientists ...   Latin Post
'King' of butterflies to be studied for threatened-species status   Charleston Post Courier
Monarch butterflies may get a 'protected' spot to land   Naples Daily News
Northern Voices Online   
Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews   
KCET   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
BC radiation risk from Fukushima disaster 'insignificant:' research   
The Globe and Mail
As radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power-plant disaster drifted across the Pacific, fears that salmon and other marine life could be contaminated spread along the British Columbia coast. But samples gathered by citizen scientists and a more ...

Tracking Fukushima's radioactivity   Stuff.co.nz
Fukushima Radiation to Reach Highest Levels By End of 2015   Nature World News
Fukushima Radiation Will Most Likely Peak In North American Waters At The ...   Headlines & Global News
Los Angeles Times   
CBS News   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Register
   
NASA preps lobotomy for Opportunity rover to cure computer amnesia   
The Register
Engineers at NASA are preparing a radical fix that could help the Opportunity Mars rover regain its fading faculties and continue its mission. The rover, which has spent ten years rolling across the Martian plains, has been having memory problems for the last ...

NASA Tries to Nurse More Life Out of Opportunity Rover   PC Magazine
Computer system 'amnesia' plagues aging Mars rover   The Space Reporter
Computer system 'loss of memory' affects decade old Mars rover Opportunity   Northern Voices Online
The Verge   
Science Times   
Tom's Hardware   
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Mashable
   
The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015   
Mashable
Peru's President Ollanta Humala (right) stands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before the press after a private meeting at the government palace in Lima, Peru, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Image: Juan Karita/Associated Press ...

In 2015, the long march to Paris   Independent Online
Connie Hedegaard: credibility of UN climate process hangs on Paris talks   The Guardian
Carbon Trade, Market As Elixir for Climate Change Mitigation   AllAfrica.com
Sydney Morning Herald   
Huffington Post   
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