2014年12月4日 星期四

2014-12-05 Namibia Science


Sky News Australia
   
Taser, electric eel use same mechanism   
Sky News Australia
The electric eel, the scaleless Amazonian fish capable of producing 600 volts of electricity, uses a electroshock mechanism similar to a Taser, scientists say. The eel's electrical impulses briefly paralyse prey by causing muscle contractions, not unlike the ...

The Electric Eel is More Than A Mysterious Fish; It is Also a Marvelous Hunter   Dumb-Out
Electric Eel: Fish with a unique hunting ability   Frontline Desk
Shocking News: Electric Eels Exert Remote Control Over Prey   Voice of America
USA TODAY   
Newsweek   
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The Guardian
   
Australia won't give to UN Green Climate Fund   
Washington Post
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's foreign minister says her government will continue to directly pay for climate change mitigation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a United Nations' Green Climate Fund ...

Climate change summit: Countries demand focus on adaptation and finance   The Hindu
TOI at Lima - India sticks to its guns in Peru climate talks   Times of India
China fingers Australia as climate bludger   Herald Sun
Brisbane Times   
AsiaOne   
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brandchannel.com
   
Intel Upgrades—and Gives Away—Stephen Hawking's Speech Processor   
brandchannel.com
"Intel has been supporting me for... years, allowing me to do what I love every day." As announced this week and detailed in Wired's January issue, the tech leader has upgraded Stephen Hawking's speech system to double the speed of the predictive typing ...

Eddie Redmayne: The High Stakes Of Playing Stephen Hawking   Deadline.com
Does AI really threaten the future of the human race?   BBC News
Irony Alert: Stephen Hawking Once Again Predicts AI Could Spell Doom for ...   Discovery Institute
Warwick Beacon   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Earliest known engravings found on a clam shell   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were carved at least 430,000 years ago by a Homo erectus, ...

540000-year-old shell carvings may be human ancestor's oldest art   Fox News
Homo erectus engraving could re-write human history, and might show art ...   The Independent
First artwork by early humans discovered?   Business Standard
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
BBC News   
Zee News   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
West Antarctic ice sheet melt accelerating   
Stuff.co.nz
SEA LEVELS RISING: The Thwaites Glacier is one of six glaciers in West Antarctica locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming as it is eaten away from below by warming of sea waters. For two decades, scientists have kept a close watch on a vast, ...

Why Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Doesn't Mean Climate Change Isn't Happening   seattlepi.com
Why is Antarctica melting? Scientists reveal clues.   Christian Science Monitor
Boffins revealed clues about melting of Antarctica   Frontline Desk
Alaska Dispatch   
Yahoo News   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
''We're not prepared for deadly asteroid strike'' Brian Cox and top scientists give ...   
Mirror.co.uk
Leading astronomers and scientists including physicist Brian Cox have called for more to be done to prevent a deadly asteroid strike. One hundred well-known names, including astronauts, the Astronomer Royal and rock guitarist Brian May, have called for a ...

Asteroid Day aims to create awareness about Asteroids and Comets   Voice Chronicle
Asteroids threaten the planet   Times LIVE
Experts Warn About Asteroids Threat   Prensa Latina
Irish Examiner   
Sky News   
RT   
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Nature World News
   
World's fastest camera is here   
Khaleej Times
The team used a technique called compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) to make movies of the images they took with single laser shots. Washington -A team of biomedical engineers has developed the world's fastest camera, a device that can capture ...

Unbelievable new 100-billion-frame-per-second camera can literally record light   Science Recorder
World's Fastest 2D Camera Records a Hundred Billion Frames a Second   Tech Times
Researchers Develop 2D Camera Capable of Shooting 100 Billion Frames Per ...   PetaPixel
Capitalberg   
Business Standard   
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Maine News Online
   
Researchers show existence of 3D compass in bats   
Maine News Online
As per a recent study conducted by researchers from Weizmann Institute, 3D compass is present in the brains of bats. It has been shown by researchers that there are neurons in the brains of bats that sense which way head of the bat is pointed and it could ...

Bat's Brain Cells Navigate in 3D   Voice Chronicle
Bats' 3D Brain Compass Reveals Secrets Of Spatial Orientation   Headlines & Global News
Fruit bats help prove existence of 3D compass in mammalian brains   Science Recorder
Frontline Desk   
Science Times   
cbsport   
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CNET
   
Tool-wielding crows are left- or right-beaked: Here's why   
CNET
The super-smart New Caledonian crow tends to tip its head to one particular side when it is wielding tools. Researchers have figured out why. by Michelle Starr · @riding_red; December 4, 2014 9:00 AM PST. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin.
Crows can be right or left handed - despite not having hands   Irish Examiner
Crows are 'left-beaked' or 'right-beaked': Birds have a preference when it comes ...   Daily Mail
Scientists figure out why crows are left- or right-beaked when they use tools   Washington Post
(e) Science News   
Yahoo News UK   
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Fox News
   
Dead pregnant shark sliced open to save babies   
9news.com.au
A family of beachgoers in Georgia got a remarkable life lesson when they discovered a dead beached shark was pregnant with young that were still alive inside it. In the remarkable footage, which was filmed in May but has just gone viral, a woman who says ...

Watch man rescue three live shark pups from inside dead mother   Digital Journal
A Man Delivers Shark Pups In South African Beach [+VIDEO] 'I Think That Is The ...   Food World News
Baby sharks cut from dead mother in beach rescue   The West Australian
The Denver Channel   
International Business Times AU   
The Epoch Times   
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