2015年4月29日 星期三

2015-04-30 South Africa Science


IT News Africa
   
Minister Susan Shabangu - Gender Summit Africa Gala Dinner   
AllAfrica.com
A great morning to you all, it is indeed a pleasure to be with you today. 2015 marks the fifth installment of the global Gender Summit which I am informed has been growing stronger over the years and has seen the scope of this important platform developing ...

Call For Gender Transformation In Science, Technology In South Africa   Bernama
Govt launches 'We Are Africa' mobile app   Bizcommunity.com
South Africa: Govt. unveils app to counter xenophobic violence   IT News Africa

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Washington state tribe's whale hunting request triggers new backlash   
WTAQ
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Native American tribe's request to resume its sacred canoe and harpoon hunts of federally protected gray whales off the Washington state coast has drawn fresh opposition while the treaty-enshrined proposal is weighed by U.S. ...


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Norway's finance minister doubts global warming is man-made   
Washington Post
STOCKHOLM — Norway's finance minister says she has doubts that global warming is man-made. Siv Jensen's comments in an interview with newspaper Aftenposten seems at odds with Norway's official position in U.N. climate talks where the country backs ...


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Irish Examiner
   
Russian space cargo ship to crash to Earth   
Irish Examiner
Russia's Mission Control has failed to stabilise a cargo ship spinning out of control in orbit and it is plunging back to Earth. However, Mission Control says it has not yet given up on saving the unmanned spacecraft. The Progress M-27M was launched on ...

Russia loses control of unmanned spacecraft   Inquirer.net
Russian spacecraft spiralling 'towards London'   The Sun (subscription)
Russian spacecraft Progress M-27M 'hurtling towards Earth'   Telegraph.co.uk
Washington Post   
Mashable   
BBC News   
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BBC News
   
Pluto may have ice cap at pole   
BBC News
Pluto may have a polar ice cap. This is the tantalising prospect revealed in the latest images to come down from the New Horizons spacecraft. The US space agency probe is en route to the dwarf planet and is set to make a close flyby on 14 July. Pictures ...

New photos of Pluto give a glimpse of its surface, even from millions of miles away   Mashable
NASA probe detects possible polar cap on Pluto   CBS News
NASA's New Horizons takes first close up image of Pluto and it may have ice cap   Daily Mail
NBCNews.com   
Northern News   
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mirror.co.uk
   
A bizarre new flying dinosaur, with bat-like wings and feathers   
New Zealand Herald
When it comes to big fossil finds, China is full of surprises. The latest dinosaur discovery, announced today in Nature, is a bizarre chicken-sized animal with a delightfully short scientific name, Yi qi, Mandarin for "strange wing" (pronounced "yee chee").
A dinosaur with bat-like wings? Strange fossil baffles scientists   Los Angeles Times
Bat-like dinosaur with membrane wings discovered in China   Stuff.co.nz
Tiny bat wing dinosaur the size of a squirrel discovered   Telegraph.co.uk
New York Times   
Washington Post   
CBS News   
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BBC News
   
Messenger closes in on Mercury crash-landing   
BBC News
After more than a decade in space and four years orbiting Mercury, Nasa's Messenger mission is set to finally come to an explosive end. The spacecraft is expected to crash into the planet's surface at 20:46 BST on Thursday; its last fuel was burnt in a final ...

NASA's Messenger mission set to end, will crash into Mercury's surface   The Globe and Mail
Glorious finale: MESSENGER'S suicide dive into Mercury marks end of ...   Science Recorder
Mercury mission, and CU-Boulder instrument, going out with bang   Boulder Daily Camera
Ars Technica   
Uncover California   
Brevard Times   
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The Australian
   
AMA backs climate health report   
The Australian
AMA president Brian Owler today said that the Australian Academy of Science's latest comprehensive scientific evidence on the serious risks that climate change poses to human health should be a catalyst for the Federal Government to show leadership in ...

Australia's top science and medical bodies call for climate-resilient energy ...   The Fifth Estate
Climate change: Diseases, heatwaves, lost jobs to impact human health, experts ...   Radio Australia
Climate change will significantly affect Australians' health, report finds   The Guardian
Sydney Morning Herald   
Independent Online   
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SFGate
   
Robot telescope at Lick Observatory finds distant planets   
SFGate
Astronomers at Lick Observatory, using a robot telescope that automatically hunts for planets far beyond the solar system, have discovered three unusual new “exoplanets” orbiting a distant star. “The three planets are unlike anything in our own solar system,” ...

ROBOT telescope discovers ENORMOUS planetary neighbours   The Register
Robotic astronomer spots three 'supersized Earths' in orbit around distant alien sun   National Monitor
Astronomers discover three super-Earths orbiting nearby star   Astronomy Magazine
KCUR   
Washington Post   
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Gizmag
   
Quantum leap: IBM scientists lay the foundations for a practical, scalable ...   
Gizmag
IBM scientists have unveiled two crucial advances toward the creation of a practical quantum computer: an effective way to detect and correct quantum errors, and the design of a silicon chip that can scale up to house a large number of entangled quantum bits ...

IBM inches closer to unprecedent technological breakthrough: quantum computers   National Monitor
IBM pushes quantum computing a step closer   Business Spectator
IBM Sets Quantum Computing Milestone   InformationWeek
Computerworld   
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