2015年9月4日 星期五

2015-09-05 South Africa Science


ITWeb
   
Universities unite to boost SKA   
ITWeb
Three South African universities have teamed up to address the shortage of data scientists, who are required for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. Demand for these skills in SA is set to increase when the SKA radio telescope goes live. Data ...
Three SA universities team up to address the SKA's big data challenges   htxt.africa
Star gazing: World's largest radio telescope establishes R50m University ...   BizNews

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The Nation
   
South African team uncovers answers to the origin of turtles   
South Africa.info
Professor Gaberial Bever and the research team at Wits University's internationally respected Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI), believe their detailed analysis of the skulls of Eunotosaurus africanus confirms a definite link between pre-dinosaur ...
Wits Study: Early turtles had a 'quicker bite'   Eyewitness News
South African fossil unlocks secrets of the turtle's skull   Times LIVE
Odd ancient lizard-like reptile called earliest-known turtle   The Nation
Digital Journal   
Space Daily   
Rand Daily Mail   
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Independent Online
   
Monkey tibia found in underwater cave   
Independent Online
Cape Town - A team of cave divers exploring an underwater cave in the Dominican Republic has discovered a fossilised tibia of a monkey that scientists said is about a million years old, embedded in the limestone rock of the cave. Cave divers Cristian ...
1m-yr-old monkey fossil discovered in underwater cave   Business Standard
Million-Year-Old Monkey from the Caribbean Sheds Light on Human Evolution   Science World Report
The million year old monkey: New evidence confirms the antiquity of fossil primate   Phys.Org
Laboratory Equipment   
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Bulletin Leader
   
NZ's climate target 'inadequate'   
Bulletin Leader
So far, 56 governments have submitted pledges, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs, to a United Nations roster that will form the backbone of a universal climate-rescue pact to be inked in Paris in December. Progress has also ...

Facing the Future - The Significance of Intended Nationally Determined ...   AllAfrica.com

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TIME
   
At UN climate talks, growing frustration at "snail's pace"   
Reuters Africa
BONN, Germany, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The "snail's pace" of progress on an agreement to combat climate change caused widening unease at U.N. negotiations on Friday, with time fast running out before a Paris summit at which a global accord is due to be ...

Crunch UN climate talks enter fraught final day   News24
Climate Change Negotiators Are Undeterred by Slow Progress   TIME
Frustration, and maybe progress, as Paris climate talks near   Christian Science Monitor
Xinhua   
Calgary Herald   
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The Register
   
BEELION-dollar lasso snaps, NASA mapper blind in one eye   
The Register
The active radar portion of the “spinning lasso” antenna attached to NASA's SMAP satellite, launched in January, has stopped functioning and can't be recovered. Luckily for the space agency, it doesn't put an end to the entire near-billion-dollar ...
Key radar fails on $1 billion NASA satellite monitoring climate change   Raw Story
NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science Continues   The FINANCIAL
September 3, 2015 in News: Radar on NASA's SMAP Earth observing satellite ...   Spaceflight Now

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Christian Science Monitor
   
Scientists hunt for clues in mysterious deaths of 60000 antelopes in four days   
Christian Science Monitor
Researchers have clues that might explain why thousands of saiga, an endangered antelope, died suddenly. By Tia Ghose, Livescience.com September 4, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. In May, nearly half of all the saigas, a critically endangered ...
Scientists baffled as 60000 antelopes die off in 4 days   AmeriPublications
Endangered Antelopes Dropped Dead In Four Days   KRWG News22
Signs of the Times? 60000 Antelopes Mysteriously Die in Four Days   Charisma News
TV Newsroom   
The Weather Space   
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Nature World Report
   
This is why there are no more lions   
Nature World Report
t's a surprising finding that suggests a level of organizational structure and function in ecosystems that had not previously been recognized. A new study has found that the number of predators such as lions declines relative to their prey when there ...
Study reveals Why There aren't more Lions   Rapid News Network
Why Lions are Less than Expected? New Study Reveals a Surprising Law of Nature   I4U News
Study explains lack of lions with predator to prey ratio   AmeriPublications
CBC.ca   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Nation
   
3-men crew reaches ISS   
The Nation
A Russian Soyuz spaceship safely delivered a three-man international crew, including Denmark's first astronaut, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a day after having had to manoeuvre to avoid colliding with space debris. The Soyuz TMA ...
Soyuz docks with station, boosting crew to nine   CBS News
Spacecraft carrying three crew docks at International Space Station   Irish Independent
Project Thor: Denmark's first astronaut arrives at International Space Station ...   Telegraph.co.uk
Financial Express   
ABC Online   
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The Nation
   
Intel putting $50m into quantum research   
The Nation
US chip colossus Intel on Thursday said that it will put $50 million and engineering resources into an alliance on quantum computing that could radically advance complex problem-solving. Intel Corporation plans a 10-year collaboration with Delft ...
Intel invests $50 mn in quantum computing research   Firstpost
Quantum Computing: From Theory To Reality   Forbes
Goodbye Moore's Law! Intel invests $50 million into quantum computing partnership   Fortune

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