2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 Namibia Science


Fox News
   
How the honey bee population affects you   
Washington Post
May 19, 2015 3:58 PM EDT - The Obama administration announced the first national strategy to promote the health of bees and other pollinators, following the sharp decline in colony numbers in recent years. USDA bee scientist Jay Evans explains why ...

White House has a plan to save bees and other crop pollinators   Los Angeles Times
What's in Obama's plan to reverse honey bee and butterfly decline (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
White House announces federal plan to feed the bees   Minneapolis Star Tribune
Grist   
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Times LIVE
   
Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

Baby Spiders Reportedly Rain Down on Australian Town   ABC News
Tiny Spiders 'Rain' Down: Baby Arachnids By The Millions Fall From Aussie ...   The Inquisitr

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New York Times
   
Secret Vessel to Test Durability of Materials in Space, NASA Says   
New York Times
A secretive United States Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit on Wednesday. As with the previous flights, the Air Force revealed few details about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of ...

Atlas V rocket set to launch 'mini space shuttle'   Bay News 9
Air force prepares mini space plane for launch cloaked in mystery   The Guardian
Top secret space plane X-37B to blast off but we don't know it it will come back   Daily Mail
Spaceflight Now   
Space.com   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Evolution abandoned giant pandas after they switched to a bamboo diet   
Los Angeles Times
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals' guts is optimized to digest meat.
Why Pandas Eat So Much Bamboo: They Can Bear-ly Digest It   Newsweek
Giant Pandas Have not Evolved to Eat Bamboo: Study   NDTV
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns
Nature.com   
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New York Times
   
Data Suggests Legs and Toes in Ancestor of Living Snakes   
New York Times
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose sinuous body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, ...

Snake ancestor had tiny ankles and toes and hunted with dinosaurs   Herald Scotland
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water   NPR
What the First Snake Looked Like   Discovery News

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Huffington Post
   
What Is Equitable for Planet Earth? India and Climate Change: Our Record, Role ...   
Huffington Post
Climate change does not respect national borders. No country, whether rich or poor, developed or developing, can escape the impact of climate change on its land and its people. Nations, like people, are bound to each other on this Earth, and the actions of ...

Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Subnational Global Climate ...   EIN News (press release)
From Paris to Edinburgh, via Brussels, Cameron faces green foreign policy ...   Business Green
India asks developed nations at climate talks to finalise pre-2020 action plan   RenewablesBiz
Firstpost   
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OCRegister
   
How does it look? Earth now has a flag designed to plant for when we reach Mars   
OCRegister
A design student from Sweden has come up with one idea - interlocking circles of white on a stately blue background. Oskar Pernefeldt of the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm designed the flag as part of his graduation project and illustrated its ...

Planet Earth now has a flag for interplanetary relations   Irish Examiner
This could be the flag Earthlings fly while colonizing space and battling alien races   GlobalPost
Personifying Emotions and Universalizing Flags: Links You Need to See   Flavorwire
The New Daily   
The Verge   
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WXYZ
   
NASA, America Makes hosting 3D Printed Habitat Challenge   
WXYZ
NASA and America Makes are holding a $2.25 million competition for the best design and build of a 3D printed habitat that could be used for deep space exploration, according to the space agency's website. The space agency says they need shelters that ...

NASA Offers $2.25 Million For Martian Habitat Design - How Could This Contest ...   Tech Times
NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration   ENGINEERING.com
Build the best 3D printed habitat in CAD for Mars mission and NASA will award ...   Mobiletor.com
Financial Express   
Gizmodo Australia   
International Business Times   
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BBC News
   
Study to help ash mapping for flights   
BBC News
New discoveries about ash clouds could help predict where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions, Edinburgh researchers have said. Experts have studied ash grains taken from Icelandic eruptions to compare satellite-based measurements of ash ...

Study of ash clouds aims to avoid future air disruption   Irish Examiner
Volcanic ash found in Yorkshire could help to improve flight safety forecasts   Phys.Org

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Fox News
   
Scientists study the evolution of human bone structure   
Fox News
When humans invented the wheel and domesticated horses thousands of years ago, enabling a transition from hunting and gathering to farming, they also started developing weaker bones that make modern people more susceptible to fractures and ...

Farming To Blame For Our Weakened Bones   New Historian
Agriculture, Fall in Mobility Made Humans More 'Domestic,' Finds News Study   Sci-News.com
Agriculture to Blame for Humans' Lighter Bones   Nature World News

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