2015年4月21日 星期二

2015-04-22 South Africa Science


Health24
   
Aquarium offers endangered penguins 'honeymoon suites'   
Health24
Aquarium experts are playing matchmaker behind the scenes to encourage eight pairs of African penguins to breed more chicks. Biologists say that will help a population that's expected to be extinct in the wild by 2025 to continue to thrive in captivity.
New England Aquarium offering penguins 'honeymoon suites'   Contra Costa Times

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Environment News Service
   
Goldman Environmental Prize Honors Six Heroes of the Environment   
AllAfrica.com
The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced the six recipients of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world's largest award for grassroots environmental activists. Awarded annually to environmental heroes from each of the world's six ...

Goldman Prize Winners 2015: When Art Empowers Society, and So Much More!   Huffington Post
Six Environmentalists Each Win $175000 Goldman Prize   Environment News Service
Goldman Environmental Awards handed out in San Francisco   KTVU San Francisco
abc7news.com   
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Tech Gen Mag
   
Scientists discover the largest known structure in the universe   
Tech Gen Mag
“Supervoid.” It's not just a cool band name anymore. Scientists have long understood voids as part of the topography of the universe, but a team of astronomers led by István Szapudi at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has discovered evidence of a so-called ...

Astronomers Discover a 1.8 Billion Light-Year-Long "Supervoid" In Space   The Escapist
That Enormous Hole In The Universe Might Not Be Alone   Science 2.0
Astronomers find Largest Known Structure in Universe   Maine News
Mirror Daily   
Science Times   
Biotech Wired   
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BBC News
   
Climate change: Paris 'last chance' for action   
BBC News
Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris. The key element is the goal to limit global warming to below 2C by moving to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The UN meeting in December is "the last ...

Global warming: Experts say temperatures could rise by 6C by 2100, with ...   The Independent
International Mother Earth Day: Mushahidullah for united action at all levels to ...   Daily Times
On Earth Day, climate change commissioner announces he's quitting govt post   GMA News
The Guardian   
Herald Scotland   
Rappler   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
New species of glassfrog discovered in Costa Rica looks just like Kermit   
Sydney Morning Herald
Kermit the Frog is alive and living in the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica. Scientists have discovered a new species of glassfrog in the Caribbean foothills with pictures of the amphibian showing a striking resemblance to the famous green puppet. Like many ...

This Newly Discovered Frog Looks Exactly Like Kermit   Huffington Post
Newly discovered glass frog has transparent belly, looks like Kermit   CNET
Kermit the Frog – alive and well?   Telegraph.co.uk
CBS News   
Washington Post   
TIME   
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Mashable
   
Where to watch Lyrid meteors streak across the sky this week   
Mashable
Look to darkened skies this week to see the annual Lyrid meteor shower, which is expected to peak Wednesday night into the wee hours of Thursday morning. The shower has been seen around the world for more than 2,600 years, according to NASA.
NASA NExSS Coalition Leads Search for Life on Exoplanets   NBCNews.com
Lyrid meteor shower is lighting up the night sky   The Space Reporter
Look to the sky, Wednesday calls for a meteor shower   KMTR NewsSource 16
DesMoinesRegister.com   
WOWT   
TIME   
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Daily News & Analysis
   
China's choking air pollution goes west: Greenpeace   
The Straits Times
BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's choking air pollution is moving to the country's west, environmental group Greenpeace said, though air quality may have modestly improved in eastern cities such as Beijing in recent months. Provinces in central and western ...

Drop in air pollution levels, says group   The Star Online
Most Chinese cities have low air quality   Biotech Wired
Hundreds of Chinese cities not meeting air quality standards   SFGate
Times of India   
Bloomberg   
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The Register
   
VAMPIRE SQUID romps stun scientists: Unique sex lifes revealed   
The Register
Pic Scientists studying vampire squid have discovered the weird creatures of the vasty deep are unique among their class in the way they reproduces. Cephalopods, which include squid and octopuses, breed at the very end of their life cycles, funneling all ...

New Study Reveals The Reproductive Secrets Of Vampire Squids   Geek Infinite
Vampire squid reproductive strategy is reason of their long life, says study   Inferse
Vampire Squids Have Unique Sex Lives   Biotech Wired
Capital OTC   
SlashGear   
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NEWS.com.au
   
What 170-year-old champagne taste like   
NEWS.com.au
REMEMBER the scientists who sampled who sampled 170-year-old beer recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland? Well, everyone's favourite booze guzzling researchers are back and this time they are testing champagne found on the same wreck.
Researchers drink 170-year-old champagne found in ancient shipwreck   National Monitor
The centuries old champers: 170-year-old bubbly found on shipwreck still tastes ...   Express.co.uk
Shipwrecked champagne tastes like SMOKY STARS with 14% sugar, says ...   Inferse
Uncover California   
Times Gazette   
The Hoops News   
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Maine News
   
Flashes of light detected from quasar in deep space   
Maine News
A team of astronomers at the University of Maryland has detected flashes of light from a quasar in deep space. Researchers took help of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey telescope in Hawaii. It has been believed that flashes of light from the depth of ...

Black Hole: Pulsing light from two merging galaxies indicate Birth of Binaries   The Hoops News
Pulsing light signal yields clues about elusive black hole merger   Business Standard
Researchers Reveal, Black Hole Binaries Aren't Just Sci-fi   Geek Infinite
Morning Ledger   
Phys.Org   
Tech Times   
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