2015年2月3日 星期二

2015-02-04 South Africa Science


Irish Examiner
   
Icy plunge for Antarctic conservation   
Irish Examiner
British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is embarking on the “most dangerous swims ever undertaken in the world” to call for a protected area in Antarctic waters. He is braving freezing temperatures, leopard seals, and killer whales in nothing more than his ...

British man to swim Antarctica in Speedos   Sky News Australia
Lewis Pugh to undertake 'world's most dangerous swim' in Antarctic for ...   The Independent
Pugh to push icy boundaries to save 'Polar Garden of Eden'   News24
Belfast Telegraph   
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Newstalk ZB
   
Earth warms as ocean temperatures continue to rise   
University World News
The world's oceans continue to warm, causing the vast mass of water that covers some 70% of the Earth's surface to expand, raising sea levels, and adding to the damage caused by climate change. “Increasing heat content of the global ocean dominates the ...

Dot Earth | A Fresh Look at the Watery Side of Earth's Climate Shows 'Unabated ...   New York Times (blog)
New study confirms world's oceans are warming   Full-Time Whistle
Study: Ocean depths heating steadily despite surface slowdown   Business Spectator
Scripps Oceanography News   
Newstalk ZB   
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Financial Express
   
Effects of Climate Change in Sierra Leone   
AllAfrica.com
Climate change refers to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities such as deforestation, increasing population pressure, intensive agricultural land use, overgrazing, bush burning, extraction of fuel wood and other ...

World has not woken up to water crisis caused by climate change: IPCC head   Reuters UK
The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism   Wall Street Journal
World has not woken up to water crisis caused by climate change: IPCC's ...   Financial Express

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Wall Street Journal
   
NASA Plans to Search for Life on Jupiter's Europa   
Wall Street Journal
NASA is asking for $30 million in its fiscal year 2016 budget request to plan a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa which it calls one of the most likely places to find current life beyond Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Transcript +. This transcript has been ...

NASA Mission to Jupiter's Moon Takes Shape   PC Magazine
NASA plans mission to Jupiter's extraordinary moon Europa   CNET
White House budget would fund NASA's Europa, Mars missions   Los Angeles Times
Christian Science Monitor   
Forbes   
Design & Trend   
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Irish Independent
   
Giant guinea pig's nasty nibble as strong as a tiger's   
Irish Independent
The extinct giant rodent Josephoartigasia monesi, which had a bite as powerful as that of a tiger, scientists have discovered. Photo: (University of York/PA. A "guinea pig" the size of a buffalo that lived three million years ago had a bite as strong as a tiger's, ...

Giant Rodent May Have Used Its Front Teeth Like Tusks   University Herald
Giant Guinea Pig Had Bite As Strong As A Tiger   Sky News
Giant Rodent Used Tusks Just Like An Elephant   Science World Report
SBS   
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ExtremeTech
   
New graphene display creates LEDs at an atomic level   
ExtremeTech
Graphene has had a rough go of it of late. After years of breathless reporting on its potential as a long-term solution for logic circuits (computer processors and memory), interest as waned as fundamental research problems have refused to resolve.
Graphene Shows Obvious Potential for Flexible Electronics   Controlled Environments Magazine
Tiny LEDs pave way to transparent gadgets   Pune Mirror
New Graphene Circuits Will Help Create Even Thinner and Flexible LEDs   Design & Trend
Manchester Evening News   
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Gizmag
   
Organism discovered that has remained unchanged for more than 2 billion years   
Gizmag
Scientists say that a type of deep-sea microorganism has not evolved in more than 2 billion years (Image: J. William Schopf/UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life). Image Gallery (3 images). Claimed to be the greatest lack of evolution ...

Scientists discover organism that hasn't evolved in more than 2 billion years   National Monitor
Deep Sea Microbe Discovered That Hasn't Evolved For 2 Billion Years   Tech Times
Devolution Of Darwinism? Researchers Discover Organism That Has Not ...   Design & Trend
Nature World News   
ValueWalk   
UPI.com   
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CNET
   
Rare part for groundbreaking 1949 British computer found in US   
CNET
An original piece of the EDSAC, a precursor to the first business computer, has been sent from Pennsylvania to the UK to take up residence at code-breaking site Bletchley Park. by Leslie Katz · @lesatnews; 4 February 2015, 11:48 am AEDT. comments. 0.
Lost chunk of pioneering Edsac computer found   BBC News
Rare original part of EDSAC, one of world's first computers resurfaces   Times of India
Parts of one of the world's first computer could be hidden in Cambridge   Cambridge News
KTIC   
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The Economist
   
One of last year's most talked-about scientific results proves to be a mirage   
The Economist
HOW many astronomers does it take to nail a coffin shut? On January 30th two teams of scientists—one the masters of Planck, an orbiting telescope belonging to the European Space Agency; the other the team behind BICEP2, an Earth-bound instrument at ...

Gravitational Waves Discovery Now Officially Dead   Scientific American
Last Year's Biggest Physics Discovery Falls Flat as Cosmologists Mistook Dust ...   Full-Time Whistle
Scientists abandon highly publicized claim about cosmic discovery; new results ...   Fox News
physicsworld.com   
SlashGear   
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Daily Mail
   
Will travelling to Mars give us the body of an elderly person?   
Daily Mail
Spaceflight may be associated with a process of accelerated aging of the immune system, researchers have claimed. Long-term space flight is known to have detrimental effects on the human body, including muscle and bone loss. But now it seems human ...

Space travel found to age immune system prematurely   Siliconrepublic.com
Scientists study the effects of space flight on the immune system   Science Recorder
Beware space travel: Venturing too far from Earth could speed up ageing   CITY A.M.
Business Standard   
The News Reports   
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