2015年6月15日 星期一

2015-06-16 South Africa Science


NEWS.com.au
   
Is this why we love drinking booze?   
NEWS.com.au
SCIENTISTS have discovered a group of booze-loving apes who they think may hold the key to why humans enjoy drinking alcohol. Wild chimpanzees enjoying opportunistic booze-ups on palm wine have helped shed light on a theory about evolution.
Why We Love To Booze, Chimps Have The Answer   Focus News
Paper Clip: Even closer to humans- Chimps love a drink   The Indian Express
These apes innocently get drunk on fruit   Channel 24

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BizTek Mojo
   
1 Billion Trillion Supercomputers Needed to Store All DNA Data on Earth   
BizTek Mojo
Researchers found out that there aren't enough supercomputers in the world to hold all of the DNA data available on Earth. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have quantified just how much DNA is actually on Earth. They used large-scale surveys of ...

How much DNA is there on Earth?   CBS News
Life on Earth is as powerful as a billion trillion supercomputers and the genetic ...   Daily Mail
Life Quantified   The Scientist

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Toronto Star
   
SpaceX seeks FCC consent for satellite broadband network   
Lexology (registration)
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the launch services and aerospace venture established by Elon Musk, confirmed plans in a recent FCC filing to deploy a constellation of 4,000 low-earth orbit satellites that would expand broadband ...

Finally, Space is Becoming a Business Instead of a Federal Handout   Wall Street Pit
Tesla Leasing Former Solyndra Facility   CleanTechnica
Elon Musk's Space Internet Plan Is Moving Forward   Gizmodo

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CNN
   
Einstein letters fetch more than $420000 at auction   
CNN
(CNN) What did Albert Einstein think about adultery, the atomic bomb and God? At an auction last week, bidders shelled out just over $420,000 to own a piece of the Nobel prize winner's letters tackling these topics and other questions he faced during his ...

Albert Einstein's letters fetch more than $420000   News Tonight Africa
Letters about regular stuff from Albert Einstein could be yours   Palm Beach Post (blog)
Einstein's relativity letter nets $62500   Butler Eagle (subscription)
Maine News Online   
News Every day   
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The Australian Financial Review
   
Abbott blind to coal's decline   
The Australian Financial Review
Green energy While conservative leaders around the world are working to position themselves on the right side of the climate debate, our Prime Minister is proving blind to the realities of the coal market and has been describing wind farms as ugly. of.
Climate Change: China to the rescue?   News24

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Immortal News
   
NASA's Hubble Telescope Reveals Planet With 'Sunscreen' Layer   
Immortal News
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected a planet possessing a similar atmosphere to Earth. The distant planet, WASP-33b, has a stratosphere – one of the primary layers of our planet's atmosphere – which could indicate it is similar to Earth in more ways ...

Hubble Telescope discovers deep-space "Smiley Face"   Straight.com (blog)
Hubble Space Telescope identifies an exoplanet's stratosphere   News Tonight Africa

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The Register
   
Stratosphere protects WASP's hot body, say boffins   
The Register
The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has helped identify an exoplanet's stratosphere for the first time. WASP-33b isn't a place any of us want to visit – it's a gas giant four times the size of Jupiter, and so close to its star that its atmospheric temperature is ...

Blazing Hot Exoplanet is Smothered in Sunscreen   Gizmodo
This Exoplanet Is the First One We've Seen With a Stratosphere   Popular Mechanics
Sunscreen layer on distant exoplanet discovered   The Hans India

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The Interpreter
   
Nunca Externalitë A Philippine perspective: The urgency of a Paris consensus   
The Manila Times
AFTER 23 years of negotiations and debates on climate change, the world finally stands at a hopeful crossroad. The world is on the brink of creating a new international order – one that will reduce carbon poison in the environment and guarantee a better ...

Robert Redford to Address High-Level Event at the United Nations in Advance of ...   eNews Park Forest
WATCH: UK Govt Climate Change Policy Ignores Facts That Even the Fanatics ...   Breitbart News
G7 leaders agree to new climate change agenda   ecomento.com
AllAfrica.com   
Jamaica Gleaner (subscription)   
eco-business.com   
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CBS News
   
Polar bears now eat dolphins, thanks to global warming   
CBS News
Faced with a rapidly changing habitat, polar bears are adapting with a new entrée: For the first time, a polar bear was seen preying on a white-beaked dolphin carcass that had been trapped in the ice in Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic ...

Researchers Find Polar Bears Now Eating Dolphins In Arctic   CBS Local
Starving Polar Bears Feast on Dolphins, Due to Changing Climate   Laboratory Equipment
Polar bears eating trapped dolphins   iAfrica.com
Sputnik International   
Indileak   
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Free press journal
   
Why we can't recall the exact colour we saw   
Economic Times
NEW YORK: Do you know that although we can see millions of colours, but we can remember only the few basic ones? When we see a colour, our brain stores it as a basic, general hue. So when we try to remember a precise colour, we err on the side of the ...

Why it's so difficult to remember exact colours   Health24

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