2015年5月24日 星期日

2015-05-25 South Africa Science


Independent Online
   
Genome editing: what the future holds   
Independent Online
Washington - Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20 000 genes that encode everything from eye colour to cancer risk. Imagine if those genetic instructions could be tweaked at will — with a snip here and a ...

Scientists question ethics of 'designer babies'   Health24
Why We Need To Talk Now About The Brave New World Of Editing Genes   WBUR

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insideHPC
   
Hunting Supernovas with Supercomputers   
insideHPC
Simulation of the expanding debris from a supernova explosion (shown in red) running over and shredding a nearby star (shown in blue). Caltech researchers are using NERSC supercomputers to search for newly born supernovas. The details of their ...

Researchers continue to study mystifying realms of Supernova   NYC Today
'Iron bullets' emitted by exploding stars may have been source of Earth's iron core   News Tonight Africa

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Nature World Report
   
Why President Obama wants to save bees in America   
Nature World Report
Bees are pollinating insects that are extremely significant for our ecosystems as a third of all our food depends on their pollination. A declining bee population around the world would simply be devastating for food production. There is a new federal plan in ...

Obama proposes more land to feed bees   Idaho Press-Tribune
Washington Post: Alarming loss of bee colonies is spurring federal action   The Southern
Obama's bee report is a bit of a buzzkill   Sacramento Bee
New York Times   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
It's finally 2015 - man breaks hoverboard record   
Stuff.co.nz
Catalin Alexandru Duru becomes the first person ever to break the Guinness World Records Title for the Farthest journey by hoverboard. It's finally 2015! This is the year that Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future II; this is, for real, the future. Hence ...

Canadian Catalin Duru breaks world record for furthest hoverboard flight   BBC News
Canadian sets record for farthest flight by hoverboard   Toronto Sun
Montreal man sets world record for furthest flight by hoverboard   CTV News
CBC.ca   
HardOCP (press release)   
Guinness World Records   
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Empire State Tribune
   
Rare “Naked” Star has Scientists Awed   
Empire State Tribune
Sometimes space may seem scary, even violent. This is what has driven scientists to call a new star discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope as “Nasty 1.” This is because the start is quite different from our own star, the Sun. Nasty 1, unlike most stars, has ...

This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen - The News ...   Gazette Herald
This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen   The News Ledge
Hubble discovers BL**DY NASTY cannibal star 3000 light-years away from Earth   Inferse
The Daily Galaxy (blog)   
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