2015年2月19日 星期四

2015-02-20 South Africa Science


CBS Local
   
Google's Online Science Fair Open For Submissions   
CBS Local
The Google search page appears on a computer screen in Washington on August 30, 2010. (credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GettyImages). Related Tags: Edward Cardenas, Google, Google Science Fair. Edward Cardenas. Connect with Edward on Twitter, ...

Google launches fifth annual Science Fair   Telegraph.co.uk
Google Science Fair 2015 challenges students to change the world   Digital Trends
Young scientists, applications for the Google Science Fair are now open   htxt.africa
Memeburn   
The Copenhagen Post   
TechCrunch   
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Kormorant
   
The birders' column   
Kormorant
This is a white bird with an unfeathered black head and neck with a long, decurved heavy black bill. Its iris is dark-brown, and ringed with red when breeding. The elongated, plume-like blue-black scapular feathers are puffed out in display, making it appear ...


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Why does South Africa need a roadkill app?   
htxt.africa
South Africa has no shortage of wildlife spotting apps. From the ambitious crowdsourcing attempts to catalogue our South African reptiles to the world-renowned Latest Sightings for Kruger Park. You might, then, question why we need one more ...


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Manchester Evening News
   
Fossil mistaken as a plastic replica for 30 years is actually priceless relic dating ...   
Manchester Evening News
A fossil originally thought to be a plastic replica has been found to be a 189 million-year-old genuine relic...thanks to a Manchester dinosaur expert. The prehistoric sea animal ichthyosaur fossil had been gathering dust in the Doncaster Museum and Art ...

Forgotten fossil found to be new species of ichthyosaur   BBC News
Forgotten fossil reveals new species of ancient marine reptile   UPI.com
New type of Jurassic reptile identified in UK   Zee News
Buxton Advertiser   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
Meteorite likely nothing but dust now, Bloom prof says   
Sunbury Daily Item
BLOOMSBURG — Trying to find pieces of the 500-pound meteorite that exploded at 45,000 mph over western Pennsylvania early Thursday morning, even with the countryside covered in snow, are slim, says a Bloomsburg University professor after whom an ...

500-pound, two-foot-wide fireball lights up sky over Pennsylvania   The Space Reporter
Nasa films fireball meteor flying over New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio   Telegraph.co.uk
Watch a 500-pound meteor light up the Pittsburgh sky   CNET
Ars Technica   
Space.com   
Mashable   
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Times LIVE
   
Nasa: 'Crash' with star barely scratched the bumper   
Times LIVE
The star, nicknamed Scholz's star after the German astronomer who discovered it, was speeding away from us. File photo. Image by: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester. A recently discovered stellar neighbour penetrated the edges of our solar system at ...

Alien star system buzzed the Sun   BBC News
Transient star grazing our solar system 'just left,' cosmically speaking   CNET
How our solar system survived a 'near miss' with another star – 70000 years ago   Telegraph.co.uk
iAfrica.com   
NBCNews.com   
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BBC News
   
Evolution 'favours bigger sea creatures'   
BBC News
The animals in the ocean have been getting bigger, on average, since the Cambrian period - and not by chance. That is the finding of a huge new survey of marine life past and present, published in the journal Science. It describes a pattern of increasing body ...

When it comes to evolution, bigger really is better   Christian Science Monitor
Sea creatures are getting BIGGER: Researchers say giants of the deep are largest   Daily Mail
Evolution Proved Favourable for Marine Animals: Study   SMN Weekly
Santa Cruz Sentinel   
GlobalPost   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
How a black hole's cosmic burp could change the galaxy   
Christian Science Monitor
A supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy PDS 456 has 'belched up' cosmic winds powerful enough to alter the fate of the galaxy. By Calla Cofield, Space.com February 19, 2015. close. This artist's illustration depicts the furious cosmic winds ...

Black holes might be critical in the formation of galaxies, new study shows   Science Recorder
Dark matter guides growth of supermassive black holes   CNET
Black Hole's Mighty Belch Reshapes Galaxy, More Energy Than Trillion Suns   The Inquisitr
Space.com   
Science Now   
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Tech Times
   
Dark Matter May Have Wiped Out The Dinosaurs...Or Was It Something Else?   
Tech Times
Dark matter could be responsible for extinctions throughout the history of our planet. How does this process work? (Photo : Flickr / Mike Beauregard). Dark matter may have helped end the age of dinosaurs, new research reveals. Our solar system revolves ...

Dark matter may have killed the dinosaurs, claims scientist   Telegraph.co.uk
Mystery Solved? Dark Matter Could Have Killed Dinosaurs and Much More   Sputnik International
Did dark matter kill off the dinosaurs?   The Times (subscription)
Forbes   
Techie News   
Market Business News   
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Dallas Morning News
   
NASA Prepares ISS for Commercial Flights   
PC Magazine
NASA is set to start reconfiguring the International Space Station with docking ports for commercial spacecraft carrying astronauts to the orbiting space laboratory. The space agency said the remodel of the ISS is expected to be completed by the end of the ...

Three spacewalks to kick off big year aboard the ISS   CBS News
NASA Delays Spacewalk to Saturday to Analyze Spacesuit   NDTV
NASA issues new days for upcoming ISS spacewalks   SpaceFlight Insider
New Zealand Herald   
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