2015年5月26日 星期二

2015-05-27 South Africa Science


The Nation
   
World's least-polluting nations aim to set Paris climate bar high   
The Nation
05 percent of the world's climate-changing emissions, you might not think it worth making a plan to curb that pollution - especially when you still need to get electricity to much of your population. But the Gambian government thinks otherwise. It is already ...

Investment fund CEOs call for long-term greenhouse gas cuts   eco-business.com
Rudd saysUS, China and India are central to global deal on climate change   French Tribune
Climate change is one of the biggest systemic risks we face: Investment fund CEOs   Times LIVE
Economic Times   
The Australian Financial Review   
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Otago Daily Times
   
UPDATE 2-California oil spill takes toll on marine mammals, birds   
Reuters
(Adds young sea lion population in Southern California already stressed by warming ocean temperatures). By Steve Gorman. LOS ANGELES May 26 (Reuters) - More than two dozen marine mammals and nearly 40 birds, most of them pelicans, have been ...

California oil spill takes toll on marine mammals, birds   Reuters Africa

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The Australian Financial Review
   
Why a real-life Terminator is far away   
The Australian Financial Review
A robotics contest aims to provide a reality check on the rise of machines like this one from "Terminator Genisys". by John Markoff. In glossy sci-fi movies like "Ex Machina" and "Chappie", robots move with impressive — and frequently malevolent — dexterity.
CLEARPATH ROBOTICS ANNOUNCES MOBILITY SOLUTION FOR RETHINK ...   Robotics Tomorrow (press release)
Baxter's got legs! Kind of   Upstart
Rethink's Baxter gets a new set of wheels from Clearpath Robotics   BetaBoston
The Week Magazine   
Forbes   
Rand Daily Mail   
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The Independent
   
'Humans could probably live forever as a machine, potentially' says vague ...   
The Independent
Dr Hannah Critchlow of Cambridge University has offered the most hesitant support yet for the possibility of humans becoming immortal through future technology, saying that she thinks it's a possibility we could make a motherboard advanced enough.
Someone just claimed that left-handed people really ARE more creative   Metro
You could live forever as a computer   Times LIVE
Humans could download brains on to a computer and live forever   Telegraph.co.uk

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TechRadar
   
This guy can play rock, paper, scissors with a thought-controlled robot arm   
TechRadar
After Erik Sorto was hit by a gunshot aged 21, he was paralysed from the neck down. But now he's become the first man in the world to be fitted with a neural prosthetic implant in the region of the brain were intentions are formed. The prosthetic allows him ...

Intent-Controlled Prosthetic Enables More Natural Movement   Med Device Online (press release)
Quadraplegic lifts first beer in 13 years   The Drinks Business
Patient's thoughts control robotic arm   Medical Physics Web (subscription)

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IT-Online
   
Tapping the 'deep Web'   
IT-Online
When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren't the whole story. The Internet contains a vast trove of information – sometimes called the “deep Web” – that isn't indexed by search engines: information that would be useful for ...

'Deep Web' Searching in the Name of Science   Scientific Computing
NASA, DARPA collaborating on Deep Web search to analyze spacecraft data   ExtremeTech
NASA looks to DARPA's deep web search technology for future spacecraft data ...   Gizmag

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National Geographic
   
Brightest Galaxy Yet Shines With Light of 300 Trillion Suns   
National Geographic
WISE J224607.57-052635.0, seen here in an artist's illustration, holds the record for brightest galaxy in the universe, shining with light equivalent to more than 300 trillion sun-like stars. Illustration by NASA. By Michael D. Lemonick, National Geographic.
NASA Satellite Finds Brightest Galaxy of the Universe   Prensa Latina
NASA finds WISE J224607.57-052635.0 galaxy with luminosity of 300 trillion suns   The Hoops News
WISE discovers brightest galaxy in the universe   Gizmag
Science News   
TweakTown   
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World has no choice but to decarbonise - UN climate chief   
Reuters
BARCELONA, May 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's "mega development project", given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United ...


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SlashGear
   
Largest photo ever is a 46TB image of the Alps   
SlashGear
The world's largest photo keeps getting bigger, and at this point it's far too big to store on your laptop's hard drive. The latest image to earn the title is a massive shot of the Alps that took more than two weeks to fully photograph and that takes up an astounding ...

The World's Largest Photograph Captures 365 Billion Pixels of the Alps   Gizmodo
The biggest photograph in the world: Interactive 365 gigapixel image lets you ...   Daily Mail
Huge panorama of Mont Blanc is world's biggest ever photograph   The Independent
Telegraph.co.uk   
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SILive.com
   
Can tent caterpillars kill a tree?   
SILive.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If any cherry trees or ornamental fruit trees in your neighborhood have suddenly lost the leaves that were just beginning to grow, the culprit is likely to be the eastern tent caterpillar, a common insect found in most corners of the island.
Number of tent caterpillars high this spring in Saskatoon   Globalnews.ca
Saskatoon invaded by Tent Caterpillars   Maine News
Tent caterpillars on rise in Saskatoon this year   CBC.ca
Saskatoon StarPhoenix   
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