2014年10月24日 星期五

2014-10-25 Namibia Science

  CTV News   
Google exec breaks sound barrier in supersonic freefall from near-space  CTV News
ROSWELL, N.M. -- Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking a big leap from the edge of space. Eustace's supersonic jump was part of a project by ...

Google's Alan Eustace makes record skydive from edge of space   Financial Express
Google high flyer Alan Eustace makes record leap from edge of space   Deutsche Welle
Google executive sets skydiving record   Aljazeera.com
Belfast Telegraph   
NDTV   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
Scientists discover highest Ice Age settlements yet  Christian Science Monitor
Some 12,000 years ago, humans were living high up in the Peruvian Andes, say scientists, suggesting that ancient South Americans adapted very quickly to high-altitude living. By Tia Ghose, LiveScience October 24, 2014. close. Archaeologists excavate a ...

Shelter and tools from Ice Age discovered in Peru   Peru this Week
Highest Ice Age human settlements found in the Peruvian Andes   Los Angeles Times
Oldest high-altitude human settlement discovered in Andes   Fox News
Fox News Latino   
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
Times of India   
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  Chinatopix   
Massive Sunspots Shooting X-Class Solar Flares Toward Earth Could Disrupt ...  Chinatopix
A huge sunspot launching solar flares is currently directed and heading to Earth, with the potential to disrupt technology at any moment. The sunspot is the largest that has been shot toward the Earth in the last 24 years. Judging by its size, it has the potential ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots Largest Sunspot in a Decade   Cleveland Leader
Massive sunspot spewing destructive flares aligning with Earth   WND.com
Biggest sunspot in years blasts off another X-class solar flare   Examiner.com
CBS Local   
Forbes   
Design & Trend   
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  Discovery News   
Scientists say Rosetta's comet stinks -- literally  Los Angeles Times
It turns out that the comet the Rosetta mission has been chasing for the last decade is a stinker. Literally. Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland say that if you could take a whiff of the cloud of gas surrounding the icy nucleus of comet ...

Sorry Rosetta, Your Comet Stinks   Discovery News
This is what a comet smells like (and it's not good)   CBS News
Comets Smell Like Rotten Eggs   Daily Beast
Deutsche Welle   
NPR (blog)   
Business Standard   
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  CBC.ca   
Astronaut Chris Hadfield launches space photo book  CBC.ca
Canada's most famous astronaut invites readers to take a 92-minute journey with him through space, looking down at planet earth, in his new photo book You are Here: Around the World in 92 minutes. Chris Hadfield's new book is full of almost 200 ...

Astronaut's photographs from space station help put things in perspective   Houston Chronicle
Two UFOs Captured on Video near ISS   E Canada Now
10 Weird Space Experiments—You Won't Believe What NASA's Tried Out There   The Epoch Times
The Australian (blog)   
Tech Times   
Examiner.com   
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  Examiner.com   
Easter Islanders Native Americans: Genetic study shows new history contact lines  Examiner.com
Dr. Mara Mulrooney wants to debunk Jared Diamond's famous assertion that the people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, committed “environmental suicide.” on.aol.com. Easter Islanders and Native Americans may have had more social interaction than ...

Did Ancient Easter Islanders Have Friends From Afar? Yes, Researchers ...   Capitalberg
Easter Islanders also made voyages to the New World   DigitalJournal.com
Ancient Easter Islanders sailed thousands of miles to America, says study   National Monitor
Independent Online   
Sci-News.com   
Christian Science Monitor   
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  Green Chip Stocks   
Japan's Next Nuclear Meltdown  Green Chip Stocks
volcano So I'm pretty sure the Three Stooges planned most of Japan's nuclear power plants. Check out this recent piece from Reuters: Japan warned on Friday that a volcano in southern Japan located roughly 64 km (40 miles) from a nuclear plant was ...

Japan warns of increased volcano activity   News24
Japan Could Be Wiped Out by Massive Volcano in the Next 100 Years, Says Study   Cubasi.cu
Volcano near Sendai nuclear plant is shaking and may erupt: Japan weather ...   The Japan Times
InSerbia News   
RT   
RIA Novosti   
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  Wired   
Science Graphic of the Week: Spectacular, Twisted Solar Eruption  Wired
Computer simulation of a 2006 solar eruption as a magnetic rope squeezed out of equilibrium and ballooned upward, converting stored energy into kinetic energy that blasted particles from the sun's surface. Tahar Amari /Centre de physique théorique.
Understanding and predicting solar flares   Nanowerk
'Twisted rope' clue to dangerous solar storms   Phys.Org

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  Chinatopix   
Chimps Turn into Night Raiders in Search of Food  Chinatopix
Chimps, which normally forage for food in the day time, were caught on camera raiding farmers' fields inside Kibale National Park in Uganda. Like Us on Facebook. The footage captured by researchers from the Museum of Natural History in Paris and the ...

Chimp Bandits Caught on Camera Stealing Corn   TakePart
Chimpanzees Caught Raiding for Food on Tape; What It Says About Their ...   University Herald
Chimpanzees Adapt to Human Encroachment by Raiding Crops at Night   Design & Trend
UPI.com   
Science Recorder   
The Westside Story   
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  Channel News Asia   
Kate Greene: Why the first Mars mission should be manned by women  Dallas Morning News
In February of 1960, Look magazine ran a cover story that asked, “Should a Girl Be First in Space?” It was a sensational headline representing an audacious idea at the time. And as we all know, the proposal fell short. In 1961, NASA sent Alan Shepard above ...

NASA Seeks Ultra-lightweight Materials to Help Enable Journey to Mars   Yumanewsnow
BREAKING: Mars colony discovered on Hawaiian volcano   Washington Post
Mars simulation underway in Hawaii   iAfrica.com

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