2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 Namibia Science


Astro Awani
   
Seagulls have learned a new trick - eating the eyeballs of baby seals   
Astro Awani
The researchers believe that a boost in the population of Cape fur seals may be to blame. According to a recent study in the African Journal of Marine Science, seagulls in Namibia have developed a strange and gruesome new hunting strategy: They eat the ...

Seagulls kill seals by eating their EYES   Daily Mail
Hardcore Seagulls Straight Eating Baby Seal Eyeballs   Inverse
Kelp Gulls Tear Out Baby Seal Eyes So They Can Feast On Their Remains When ...   Discover Magazine (blog)

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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   
Washington Post   
I4U News   
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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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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 ...

'Drinkable Book' Promises to Filter Dirty Water   TIME
Take a leaf out of this book for clean drinking water   Times LIVE
'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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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
Watch astronauts' timelapse video of Aurora Borealis taken from space   Examiner.com

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IBNLive
   
Soon, an elevator to the space that is taller than Burj Khalifa   
IBNLive
Toronto: A Canadian firm has been granted a US patent to build the world's first-ever space elevator -- 20 times the height of the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa -- that will also have a tower assisting spacecrafts to land and take off. Ontario ...
Going up? Space elevator could zoom astronauts into Earth's stratosphere   The Guardian
Ontario company lands patent for 20-kilometre-high space elevator   CTV News
Canadian company gets patent for 20-km high space elevator   Macleans.ca
Science Times   
Newstalk 1010   
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Tech Times
   
NASA Developing Gecko-Inspired 'Gripper' System That Would Help Robots Climb ...   
Tech Times
Engineers turn to nature and the "sticky feet" of geckos as inspiration for robots that could climb around the International Space Station. Unlike adhesive tape or Velcro, the feet of such robots would never wear out or lose their "stickiness," the say ...
This gecko-inspired robot could some day crawl along the space station   Christian Science Monitor
NASA scientists develop gecko-inspired astronaut anchors   Gizmag
Nasa Testing Climbing Space Robot With Sticky Gecko Feet   NDTV
Science World Report   
I4U News   
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