2015年6月3日 星期三

2015-06-04 South Africa Science


Mail & Guardian Online
   
Large emitters ask for carbon trading scheme   
Mail & Guardian Online
Six large energy companies have asked the United Nations for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme that would include their operations. Companies urge the UN to help set up a scheme that would put a price on carbon. (Reuters). Six of the world's ...

Energy companies aim for carbon pricing plan   Out-Law.com
Global CO² pricing seen unlikely to be big part of Paris climate deal   DAWN.com
Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks   The Guardian

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Forbes
   
PlanetiQ Announces Successful Test Of Its GPS Weather Forecasting   
Forbes
Satellite data company PlanetiQ announced today that it's successfully conducted the first test of its Pyxis weather sensor. The Pyxis sensor is planned to be installed on PlaentiQ's constellation of 12 satellites, which are aimed to be launched in 2016 & 2017.
New Satellite&Based Sensors Could Deliver The Most Accurate Weather ...   Fast Company
PlanetiQ tests sensor for commercial weather satellites   Reuters UK
PlanetiQ's New Pyxis GPS Sensor Tested for Weather Forecasts   GPS World magazine

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News24
   
Small bird fills big fossil gap   
News24
This photo shows that a new species of tyrannosaur, Y huali, it had feathers on its tail. (Zang Hailong, Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, AP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your ...

Prehistoric Bird Sported Feather 'Arrows' On Its Butt (VIDEO, PHOTOS)   Headlines & Global News
Ancient Bird Fossil Discovered In Brazil Sheds Light On Feather Evolution   Immortal News
Dinosaur era bird with arrow tail feathers discovered in Brazil   National Monitor
RedOrbit   
CBS News   
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DailyTech
   
MIT's Robotic Cheetah Can Run Faster Than You and Jump Over Your Hurdles   
DailyTech
Meanwhile Google's Boston Dynamics test its new "Spot" quadruped -- should we pray for humanity... or welcome our new robotic overlords? When Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Sangbae Kim claims in journal papers to utilize ...

If Artificial Intelligence Scares You, This Robot Cheetah Will Give You Nightmares   BoldRide.com
MIT's Cheetah Robot Can See and Jump Over Hurdles   Wall Street Journal
MIT reveals how its military-funded Cheetah robot can now jump over obstacles ...   Business Insider Australia
Gizmodo India   
Yahoo Sports   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Large Hadron Collider is cranking up again: prepare to have your mind blown   
Sydney Morning Herald
Strap yourselves in. The last time boffins smashed particles together at the Large Hadron Collider, they discovered evidence for the long-theorised but never-before-seen Higgs boson. Now, scientists are nearly doubling the amount of energy that will smash ...

Large Hadron Collider all fired up again   Irish Examiner
World's biggest particle smasher cranks up   The Nation
Large Hadron Collider restarts experiments after two-year upgrade   Telegraph.co.uk
The Space Reporter   
PerfScience   
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El Nino to disrupt rains, cut Africa, E Asia harvests, scientists say   
Reuters
ROME, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers in Africa and East Asia are expected to suffer crop losses as extreme weather linked to the El Nino phenomenon alters rainfall patterns, scientists told a conference on climate change in Bonn on ...


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Times of India
   
Chimps are capable of cooking: Research   
Times of India
WASHINGTON: Chimpanzees have the cognitive abilities required for cooking, which were believed to be limited to humans, and the primates even choose to hoard raw vegetables if they know they will have the chance to 'cook' them later on, according to a ...

'Top Chef Ape Edition'? Chimps may have mental capacity to cook   CNET
Chimps have mental skills to cook, says study   The Hindu
Chimps are smart enough to cook — if they overcome the urge just to wolf ...   Montreal Gazette
Sydney Morning Herald   
The Nation   
CBS Local   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Weird wobbling moons observed in the Pluto system   
Los Angeles Times
Astronmer say the Pluto system is more bizarre and complicated than anyone expected. Observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the dwarf planet's four smallest moons -- Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx -- wobble in their orbits and tumble ...

Astronomers Describe the Chaotic Dance and Planetlike System of Pluto's Moons   NDTV
Astronomers Describe the Chaotic Dance of Pluto's Moons   New York Times
Watch the drunken wobble of Pluto's smaller moons   CNET
The Register   
Firstpost   
NEWS.com.au   
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ABC Online
   
Seals use 'Twitter-like' technology to help researchers gather data on Southern ...   
ABC Online
Hundreds of seals have helped researchers gather valuable ocean data while diving into the deep seas and navigating the Southern Ocean. The data has been gathered over the past decade through sophisticated sensors fitted to the animals which transmits ...

This Seal Has A Sensor On Its Head For Gathering Data About Antarctica   Gizmodo Australia
Scientists are outsourcing data collection to seals   State Column
Seals 'tweeting' data uncovered from the deep ocean   ABC Science Online
The Standard Daily   
rabble.ca (blog)   
Wired.co.uk   
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ABC Online
   
Ancient pearl dated as 2000 years old in WA's Kimberley region   
ABC Online
A pearl excavated from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia is believed to be 2,000 years old. The pearl was found in 2011, at a rock shelter in the Admiralty Gulf, 80 kilometres east of Kalumburu, by researchers from the University of Wollongong ...

Australia: Carbon dating reveals 2000-year-old pearl   BBC News
2000-Year-Old Natural Pearl Found at Remote Australian Site   NDTV
'Irreplaceable' 2000-year-old pearl found in WA   Herald Sun

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