2015年4月1日 星期三

2015-04-02 South Africa Science


Telegraph.co.uk
   
Meet Little Foot - the 3.7 million-year-old human ancestor   
Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have said a sophisticated new dating technique shows that Little Foot, an important fossil of an early human forerunner unearthed in the 1990s in South Africa, is roughly 3.7 million years old. "The age of Little Foot has been highly debated," said ...

Clarke wins dating game   Times LIVE
Egyptian Artifacts Salvaged From Raided Tomb in Israel   NBCNews.com
Scientists Finally Determine Age of “Little Foot” Fossil   Pioneer News
Christian Science Monitor   
Live Science   
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Live Science
   
What's Next for the World's Largest Atom Smasher? How to Watch Live   
Live Science
Physicist Jon Butterworth, who works at the world's largest atom smasher, is intimately familiar with the drama that surrounded the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson. Butterworth will recount the trials and tribulations in the hunt for "the most wanted particle," in ...

CERN confirms existence of the Force for April 1   CNET
LHC restart: 'Experimental' current blast fixes glitch   BBC News
Large Hadron Collider: The Sequel   RTE.ie
The Hindu   
NBCNews.com   
Nature.com   
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GOOD Magazine
   
Bionic ants could power tomorrow's industries   
Times of India
Robotic ants the size of a human hand that work together could be the future of factory production systems. The developers, German technology firm Festo, say it's not just the unusual anatomy of real-world ants that inspired the bionic version — the collective ...

A mut-ant workforce   Times LIVE
Festo's insect-inspired robots act like the real things   Engadget
Exciting Developments in the World of Robotics Are Beginning to Influence ...   Empire State Tribune
SlashGear   
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Morning Ledger
   
Scientists Disclose New Plan To Make Contact With Aliens   
Morning Ledger
For a long time, scientists have been trying to get in contact with extra-terrestrial beings. At the annual meeting of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, scientists proposed an idea of sending messages in the direction of the closest stars ...

How Do Scientists Want To Contact Aliens   The Monitor Daily
Is this the best chance we have at contacting aliens?   Metro
Scientists Propose New Idea to How to Contact Aliens   WallStreet OTC
IGN Africa   
Dispatch Times   
PerfScience   
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CNN
   
Shortest total lunar eclipse of the century coming Saturday   
CNN
(CNN) Sky watchers in Western North America are in for a treat: a nearly five-minute total lunar eclipse just before sunrise on Saturday. Here's how it will unfold: Starting at 3:16 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the moon will begin moving into Earth's shadow.
Shortest lunar eclipse of the century: How to see it this weekend   Los Angeles Times
Total lunar eclipse April 4, 2015: Where and when to see blood moon   ABC15 Arizona
How to see Saturday's shortest total lunar eclipse of the century   AL.com
WSBT-TV   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Tiny songbird flies over the Atlantic in autumn migration   
Sydney Morning Herald
A songbird weighing the equivalent of three teaspoons of sugar can fly over the north Atlantic, scientists say. The tiny superbird is the blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata). Tipping the scale at 12 grams, the white-throated, black-capped bird migrates from ...

Not a man, not a plane. Supersongbird!   Times LIVE
Scientists Say Tiny Blackpoll Warbler Travels Thousands Miles on End   American Register
Tiny Songbird, Weighing Only Half Ounce, Makes Epic Transatlantic Nonstop ...   Tech Times
Empire State Tribune   
WCAX   
Mashable   
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KABC-TV
   
JPL scientists working on getting 'flying saucer' to Mars   
KABC-TV
Flying saucers are the stuff of science fiction, but NASA is turning science fiction into just plain science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Embed. <iframe width="476" height="270" src="http://abc7.com/video/embed/?pid=605026" frameborder="0" ...

NASA Takes Its Flying Saucer for a Pre-Flight Spin   NBCNews.com
NASA's Flying Saucer, And Everything Else You Missed Yesterday   Gizmodo Australia
NASA tests 'flying saucer,' could lead to safe landings on Mars   abc7news.com
The Register   
Geek Infinite   
MicroCap Observer   
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The Detroit News
   
Researchers split on if land can nourish polar bears   
The Detroit News
In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A paper published Wednesday, April 1, 2015 says polar bears forced onto land because of melting ice are unlikely to find enough food to replace their diet of ...

Polar bears will not survive on land-based diet, researchers say   Science Recorder
Melting Sea Ice Threatens Polar Bears' Food Supply, And Land-Based Food Isn't ...   Tech Times
Polar Bears Won't Survive Hunting On Land Long   Pioneer News
Summit County Citizens Voice   
Deseret News   
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TIME
   
Isotope Study Shows Which Urban Ants Love Junk Food   
Stanly News & Press
Research from North Carolina State University finds that some – but not all – of the ant species on the streets of Manhattan have developed a taste for human food, offering insight into why certain ants are thriving in urban environments. The findings stem from ...

Urban Ants are also Junk food addicts like many of us according to in depth ...   Empire State Tribune
Some NYC Ants Like to Eat Junk Food, Study Finds   TIME
NY ants eat human-like junk food diet: study   Daily Times
Science Times   
The Australian   
Techie News   
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NASASpaceflight.com
   
International effort to understand asteroids and protect Earth from their threat   
NASASpaceflight.com
Two robotic missions, aimed at gaining further understanding into the threat of asteroids, passed major milestones this week. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) are set to travel deep into space to probe the space rocks ...

Asteroid Redirect Mission, Redefined by NASA   The Market Business
Final pieces of OSIRIS-REx come together during ATLO phase of mission   SpaceFlight Insider
Lockheed Begins Final Assembly of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft   Product Design & Development
Northern Voices Online   
Tech Times   
Clapway   
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