2014年8月14日 星期四

2014-08-15 Namibia Science


Research commission signs agreement with NSA  Namibian
THE National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) and the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday, detailing mutual areas of cooperation. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed ...


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Scientists think they have dust specks from outside our solar system  Los Angeles Times
Call them the seven wonders of interstellar space: Tiny specks of dust captured by a NASA spacecraft may be the first material from outside the solar system ever caught and brought to Earth. Researchers studying the contents of a capsule returned to Earth in ...

Scientists Find Dust Particles Likely From Outside Solar System   Newsmax.com
Star dust taken from comet tail excites scientists   Contra Costa Times
Specks returned from space may be alien visitors   WXIA-TV
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  Angle Chronicle   
Tiny robots in motion, minimal humans required  Angle Chronicle
NA-CC344_SWARM2_G_20140814180236 Scientists from Harvard University have created a new technology that imitates the biological property of swarm insects like bees and ants. Advertisements. Researchers from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

Researchers create self-organizing robot swarm   Science Recorder
Swarm of 1000 Kilobots cooperates like an ant colony   CNET
Harvard “kilobot” robots assemble into shape   The Hoops News
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  Science Recorder   
Glacial melting is mainly due to human activity, new study shows  Science Recorder
Human activities are the primary cause of glacial melting around the world, according to a groundbreaking study. Science Recorder Pro. Free trial. No ads. Exclusive interviews. Access to all articles. Just $4.99/year. Subscribe. Human activity is unequivocally ...

Letter: Climate change seen at Glacier National Park   Statesman Journal
10 Things to Know for Friday   Monterey County Herald
Glaciers are melting because of humans, study finds   CBS News
Discovery News   
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  CNN   
Iranian becomes first woman to win top maths prize  The Star Online
Maryam Mirzakhani wins the Fields Medal, becoming the first woman to be awarded the highest honour in mathematics. The professor at Stanford University in California was among four recipients honoured with the Fields Medal – mathematics' equivalent to ...

Iranian president tweets uncovered head of first woman to win Fields medal   The Guardian
Princeton professor is first Canadian to win math's highest honour   The Globe and Mail
Bet you're biased against girls doing maths   The Times (subscription)
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  CBS News   
Oldest evidence for Egyptian mummy-making found  CBS News
Three thousand years before King Tut's body was brushed with embalming oils and wrapped in linen to rest in a gold-filled tomb, prehistoric Egyptians seeking immortality may have experimented with their own recipes to preserve the dead for the afterlife.
Mummy mystery unwrapped: Egyptian burial custom began 6000 years ago   South China Morning Post (subscription)
Egyptian Mummy-Making May Have Started Way Earlier Than Scientists Thought   Huffington Post
New evidence suggests mummification in Egypt started 1.5K years earlier than ...   Business Standard
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  Oman Daily Observer   
Dolphins squeal with delight: Study  Peninsula On-line
WASHINGTON: Dolphins often squeal when they get a fish treat, sounding much like happy children. US researchers said on Wednesday they believed these calls are not just ways of signalling to others in the group that there is food around, but expressions ...

Wheee! Treats Make Dolphins & Whales Squeal Like Happy Kids   Huffington Post
Whee! Whales and dolphins squeal with delight   Mother Nature Network (blog)
Dolphins and whales can squeal for pleasure   Panorama.am
Delhi Daily News   
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  Austrian Tribune   
Warmer Climate Increases Risk of Landslides and Floods on Tibetan Plateau  Austrian Tribune
The Tibetan plateau has become warmer during the last 50 years and had shrunk to 15% around 8,000 square kilometers (3,100 square miles), say researchers. According to a fresh report by Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Tibetan Plateau ...

Tibetan Plateau Warmer, More Humid   CRIENGLISH.com
Tibet's glaciers at their warmest in 2 000 years   News24
Tibet's glaciers at their warmest in 2000 years - report   Thomson Reuters Foundation

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  Daily Mail   
Found: An ancient flying lizard with a massive, sail-shaped crest  Los Angeles Times
Meet the Caiuajara dobruskii: one of the craziest extinct flying lizards you'll ever see. The newly discovered animal is a member of the order Pterosauria, a clade of flying lizards that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists are still not entirely sure what ...

Newly Discovered Pterosaur Is Unlike Any We've Ever Seen   The Escapist
Pterosaur Flying Species with Butterfly-like head found in Brazil   WallStreet OTC
New Pterosaur Species Found In Brazil   Techsonia
Catholic Online   
Delhi Daily News   
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  eco-business.com   
Antarctica may lift sea level faster in threat to megacities  eco-business.com
The melting of ice in Antarctica may cause the sea levels to rise as much as 37 centimetres (14.6 inches) this century, if GHG emissions continue unabated, scientists warned. Image: Shutterstock. Antarctica glaciers melting because of global warming may ...

Antarctica's Melting and its Impact on Coastlines   HealthNewsDigest.com
Antarctica's Ice Discharge will be Major Contributor to Sea Level Rise   Nature World News
German scientists sound warning on Antarctica ice melt   THE BUSINESS TIMES (subscription)
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