2015年2月24日 星期二

2015-02-25 South Africa Science


News Every day
   
How Stephen Hawking has survived so long with ALS   
Brisbane Times
Stephen Hawking at a press conference last year to announce new communication technology. Photo: AFP. On April 20, 2009, a moment arrived that doctors had foretold for decades. Stephen Hawking, a scientist who overcame debilitating disease to ...

How Has Stephen Hawking Lived With ALS for 52 Years?   WHAS 11.com (subscription)
How Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, is still alive   Washington Post
Hawking: Our Aggression Will Destroy Humanity   Discovery News
Tampabay.com   
iAfrica.com   
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New York Times
   
Don't malign rats for the Black Death - the gerbils were to blame   
New Zealand Herald
Who, me? Researchers say gerbils, not rats, may have been to blame for the Black Death in Europe. Photo / Thinkstock. The Black Death has always been bad publicity for rats, with the rodent widely blamed for killing millions of people across Europe by ...

Gerbils, Not Rats, May Have Caused Bubonic Plague, Study Finds   ABC News
Gerbils, Not Rats Behind Spread of Black Death   Discovery News
Revisionist history: Gerbils, not rats, may have caused bubonic plague, study says   OCRegister
BBC News   
New York Times   
Washington Post   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Mummified monk revealed inside 1000-year-old Buddha statue   
Telegraph.co.uk
Scientific tests have revealed that an ancient Buddhist statue contains the perfectly preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk, in what is believed to be the only such example in the world. The monk, who is sitting in the lotus position, is thought ...

Buddha statue reveals remains of mummified monk inside   Washington Post
CT scan finds mummified monk inside 1000-year-old Buddha   CNET
Mummy Found Hiding Inside Ancient Buddha Statue   Live Science
Discovery News   
ABC News   
Mirror.co.uk   
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New York Times
   
Length of Lashes Keeps Eyes From Drying, Study Finds   
New York Times
Long and luxurious eyelashes have been in fashion at least since Cleopatra. But scientists now suggest that their real function is to help protect eyes from drying out. David Hu at the Georgia Institute of Technology first decided to investigate eyelashes after ...

Ideal lash length follows one-third rule   ABC Online
The Best Length for Eyelashes, According to Science   Live Science
How fake eyelashes can damage your sight   Daily Mail
Astro Awani   
Emirates 24/7   
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ABC Online
   
Queensland fisher locked out of Great Barrier Reef marine park after 'three ...   
ABC Online
A Queensland commercial fisherman has been locked out of the Great Barrier Reef marine park for repeated breaches of "no take" zones. It is the first time the marine park authority's invoked its 'three strikes' provision after an operator was caught illegally ...

Corals face 'slow starvation' from ingesting plastics pollution, experts find   The Guardian
Corals In Great Barrier Reef Are Eating Plastic, Raising Concerns   Tech Times
Fears over plastic-eating coral in Barrier Reef   News24
Independent Online   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Leap in Indian tiger numbers questioned by new research   
Telegraph.co.uk
The large jump in India's tiger population which was announced by officials in Delhi last month was widely greeted as a positive – and hugely unexpected – piece of news. However, doubts have now been cast upon the methodology used to determine ...

Oxford study casts doubt on India's success story in tiger population   Hindustan Times
Indian tiger triumph may be based on shoddy science, study says   The Independent
India's tiger success story may be based on inaccurate census, says study   The Guardian
News Tonight Africa   
Economic Times   
Firstpost   
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Toronto Star
   
Bruins' Tuukka Rask receives a stinging endorsement   
Toronto Star
BOSTON—There's a new buzz surrounding Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. A Boston-area researcher who was part of a team that discovered a new species of wasp in Kenya has named the insect Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski in Rask's honour.
Newly discovered African wasp named for Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask   SI.com
Scientists name new species of wasp after Boston Bruins goalie Rask   Reuters UK

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Chinatopix
   
U.S. and Japan to Hold First Road Race on the Moon in 2016   
Chinatopix
The Google Lunar XPrize might yet turn into the first road race on the dusty plains of the Moon. Two of the 18 surviving teams contesting the Lunar XPrize have announced they intend to have their Moon rovers race against each other on the Moon. The winner ...

Google Lunar XPrize Teams To Literally Race On The Moon   Forbes
Google Lunar XPrize teams partner for a 2016 SpaceX moonshot   CNET
Rival Google Lunar XPrize Teams Partnering for Moon Trip   PC Magazine
NBCNews.com   
Times of India   
Popular Mechanics   
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Headlines & Global News
   
Mysterious Craters in Siberia Caused by Exploding Methane Gas and Climate ...   
Headlines & Global News
Some of the craters, or funnels as scientists call them, are massive and surrounded by smaller holes. (Photo : Vasily Bogoyavlensky). Four new craters have been discovered in northern Russia and some fear that global warming is causing gas eruptions from ...

20 'baby' craters appear near giant hole-turned-lake in Siberia   RT
Giant craters continue to appear mysteriously in Siberia   Christian Science Monitor
Mysterious new craters in Siberia baffle scientists   The Week Magazine
Empire State Tribune   
Pioneer News   
SMN Weekly   
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Live Science
   
Prehistoric predecessors of Hippopotamus is smaller than what you think   
Empire State Tribune
The prehistoric descendants of the Hippopotamuses may have been as big as an adult goat. The unearthed fossil remains of anthrocotheres, believed to be the ancient descendants of the hippopotamuses were discovered in a rock bed in Kenya. The new ...

How hippos are related to whales: Fossils of 28 million-year-old ancestor ...   Daily Mail
Missing link in the form of a molar pegs hippos as evolutionary cousins to whales   Washington Post
Ancient Hippo Ancestor Was Hardly Bigger Than a Sheep   NBCNews.com
InterAksyon   
Live Science   
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