2015年7月14日 星期二

2015-07-15 South Africa Science


CNET
   
UPDATE 3-Pluto probe survives encounter, phones home   
Reuters
(Adds quote from President Obama). By Irene Klotz. LAUREL, Md., July 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that ...
Pluto flyby confirmed by NASA   CBC.ca
NASA Breathes Sigh of Relief After New Horizons Passes Pluto   ABC News
The little girl who named Pluto   Sydney Morning Herald
Los Angeles Times   
Irish Independent   
New Zealand Herald   
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Geek
   
If the Moon were 1 pixel, it'd take 17 minutes to scroll through the solar system   
Geek
Get ready to scroll for a while if you visit the site that has been tagged as the most “tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.” The project asks visitors to look at the solar system in a new way, If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel. From there ...
Incredible map shows just how empty the Solar System actually is   htxt.africa
This 'tediously accurate' map of the Solar System puts the space into space   The Verge
Painstakingly Accurate Solar System Map Shows Just How Much Space There Is ...   Popular Mechanics
Gizmodo India   
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News24
   
Research reveals spread of stone tool making methods   
News24
Johannesburg - Long before social networking, some 65 000 years ago, homo sapiens living in South Africa began to share tool-making methods. This was a marked difference to 71 000 years ago when humans - spread across different parts of the country ...

South African Dig Sites Reveal Human Development Clues   New Historian

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The Indian Panorama
   
The future of travel? A tube called Hyperloop   
Vocal Republic
When requested to think the future of movement, most might create a vehicle of the future, perhaps solar and independently walked. For a limited number the manner in which we are going to progress ourselves internationally in the near future is ...
Elon Musk's Hyperloop Makes More Sense For Mars Than California   Gizmodo Australia
Musk's Hyperloop is a loopy idea … for Earth   TechCentral

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Forbes
   
Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse   
Forbes
As Earth warms and many regions become drier, the risk of wildfires is growing rapidly. Many regions already susceptible to wildfires are already seeing longer danger seasons, and regions that typically are not at risk could see more burning. Every ...
Wildfire season spreading   Phys.Org
Climate increasing global fire danger   ABC Science Online
Temperature rising means more wildfires   Malay Mail Online

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Digital Journal
   
Animal brains linked to create Star Trek-style 'superbrain'   
Financial Express
In ground-breaking Star Trek-style experiments, scientists have successfully linked the brains of multiple rats and monkeys, creating a 'brainet' that allowed them to co-operate and learn as a superbrain. By: PTI | July 14, 2015 11:07 am. In ground ...
Researchers use rat brains to predict the weather   Digital Trends
Scientists connect rat brains to create 'super brain'   Newsweek
Duke scientists create 'brain-to-brain' networks   Digital Journal
The Indian Express   
HEXUS   
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NEWS.com.au
   
British risk analysis warns climate change a serious risk to global peace and ...   
NEWS.com.au
FORGET mushroom clouds: It's the global fallout from what's happening to the ones that grow in the ground we should be worried about, a new report for Britain's Foreign Office asserts. Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass ...

India likely to submit climate action plan to UN by September   Daily News & Analysis
Climate change and health: unravelling the relationship   Sydney Morning Herald
'Put climate change threat on par with nuclear proliferation, terrorism'   The Australian
TIME   
Times of India   
CBS News   
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Discovery News
   
Scientists find pentaquarks after 50-year hunt   
Firstpost
Geneva: Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks, solving a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter, scientists said on Tuesday. Quarks are the tiny ...

Cern experts discover new particle pentaquark   Times of India
pentaquark, new 'particle' discovered   The Nation
Scientists discover particle first predicted in the 1960s   The Week Magazine
Stuff.co.nz   
The Daily Star   
Mirror.co.uk   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Are human hands more primitive than chimp hands?   
Christian Science Monitor
Human hands have changed very little over the past 6 million years, says a new study, while chimps and orangutan hand structures have evolved notably. By Joseph Dussault, Staff writer July 14, 2015. Save for later Saved · About video ads. close. An ...
Chimps Might Have More Evolved Hands Than Humans   NBCNews.com
Human hand more primitive than chimp's: Study   Financial Express
Human hands more primitive than chimp hands   ABC Science Online
Tech Times   
News24   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
No, Earth is not heading toward a 'mini ice age'   
Washington Post
This week, warnings of an impending “mini ice age,” set to hit in the 2030s, have been circulating in the media. It's a story that has caused shivers among the public, but there's one problem: Climate scientists aren't buying it. The ice age idea got ...
Mini Ice Age will take place in 2030, predict scientists   The Indian Express
Global Cooling? Cool it.   Slate Magazine (blog)
Mathematician: We'll have an UNSPOTTED Sun, possible mini ICE AGE from 2030   The Register

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