2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 South Africa Science


Independent Online
   
Time is marching to the east?   
Independent Online
London - Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world descend on the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to pose for a photograph astride the Prime Meridian, the famous line which divides the eastern and western hemispheres of the ...

The Dustbin of Geography   Big Think (blog)
The Prime Meridian is in the wrong place   Business Insider
It turns out the Greenwich Meridian Line is in the wrong place   Newstalk 106-108 fm

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Techie News
   
Experts call on world leaders to act now to prevent climate change impacts   
Techie News
Experts have called upon world leaders to act immediately to prevent impacts of climate change including those on human health. The call was made during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) event in the Rwandan ...

Experts call for action to prevent climate change impacts   Xinhua
Rwanda Hosts Continental Workshop On Climate Change   AllAfrica.com
African climate experts to discuss mitigation actions in Rwanda   Gbooza

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WAMC
   
Albany Faces New Foe: Emerald Ash Borer   
WAMC
The battle against the emerald ash borer, an invasive pest that has decimated thousands of tree across America, has moved to the city of Albany, where officials are scrambling to mount a counteroffensive.
What can homeowners with ash trees do as emerald ash borer hits CNY?   Syracuse.com
Emerald ash borer: The new invader   News & Observer
Louisiana University Gears Up to Protect Ash Trees from Beetles   Bayoubuzz
Maine News Online   
AmeriPublications   
KTBS   
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BBC News
   
Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'   
BBC News
Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world's first known flowering plant. Researchers studied more than 1,000 fossils of the Montsechia Vidalii species as part of the study. The ...
'First flowers' may have 'bloomed' in water, not on land, fossils suggest   Los Angeles Times
Prehistoric Fossil Found in Spain May Be Mythical 'First Flower'   NBCNews.com
Plant from 130 million years ago is among 'first flowers'   The Sun Daily
Newsweek   
I4U News   
Washington Post   
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NDTV
   
Page out of innovation: A book that filters water   
Times of India
LONDON: The next time you want to get clean water, all you need to do is tear a page from your very own "drinkable super book". Scientists have created pages which are impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles - a highly inexpensive, simple ...

Take a leaf out of this book for clean drinking water   Times LIVE
'Drinkable Book' Promises to Filter Dirty Water   TIME
'Drinkable book' could provide millions with purified water   RT
Christian Science Monitor   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Livemint   
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Times LIVE
   
DNA set to replace the hard drive   
Times LIVE
The next challenge is to find a way of searching for information encoded in strands of DNA floating in a drop of liquid. File photo. Image by: Gallo Images/ Thinkstock. DNA could be used to store digital information and preserve essential knowledge for ...

Forget Hard Drives: DNA-Based Storage Solutions Can Last Thousands Of Years   Tech Times
Single DNA molecule could store information for a million years following ...   The Independent
DNA Data Storage Lasts Thousands of Years   Discovery News
Telegraph.co.uk   
Gizmodo   
Scientific Computing   
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9news.com.au
   
Spectacular collision of galaxies captured on camera   
9news.com.au
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Professor Quentin Parker at the University of Hong Kong and Professor Albert Zijlstra at the University of Manchester, using the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia, according to a paper published by ...

Astronomers capture a stunning galaxy collision, the closest ever of its kind   Sydney Morning Herald
HKU scientists find new galaxy closest ever to earth   ecns
Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy collision   The Times
Financial Express   
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BBC News
   
City grime 'breathes back out' polluting nitrogen gases   
BBC News
Scientists say the grime which clings to urban surfaces "breathes out" nitrogen gases when hit by sunlight. The dark muck was known to absorb such gases from the air, but it appears the nitrogen does not stay locked away. In rooftop experiments in ...
Why sunny days turn urban grime into dangerous pollution   Telegraph.co.uk
SUNLIGHT releases smog-forming particles trapped on grimy buildings and streets   Daily Mail
​Grime on city streets becomes pollution in the air   CBS News
RT   
U.S. News & World Report   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Central Asian glaciers thaw fast with warming in threat to hydro power, farms   
Sydney Morning Herald
Mountain glaciers in Central Asia have shrunk four times faster than the world average, threatening river flows vital for agriculture and hydro power from Uzbekistan to western China, scientists said on Monday. Global warming is likely to quicken the ...
Asia's Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers Could Fuel Future Conflicts   NBCNews.com
How Asia's melting glaciers could fuel conflict   Christian Science Monitor
Central Asia Mountain Range Has Lost a Quarter of Ice Mass in 50 Years, Study Says   Wall Street Journal
Tech Times   
I4U News   
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Ledger Gazette
   
ISS Astronaut Shares Another Dazzling Northern Lights Video   
Huffington Post
If you think the Northern Lights look beautiful from Earth, take a look at this dazzling new video (above) from Scott Kelly. The NASA astronaut shot the video of a shimmering aurora borealis from his perch aboard the International Space Station -- and ...
ISS Astronaut Captures Spectacular Aurora Footage During a Sunrise (VIDEO)   Science World Report
Astronaut Scott Kelly captures northern lights in time-lapse video   TV Newsroom

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