2015年7月1日 星期三

2015-07-02 Namibia Science


Los Angeles Times
   
Giant sinkholes spotted on Rosetta's comet   
Los Angeles Times
Giant pits nearly 600 feet deep on the surface of Rosetta's comet are likely caused by massive sinkholes, scientists say. In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers describe 18 mysterious depressions on the speeding comet that they say ...
Gigantic Sinkholes Dot Surface of Rosetta's Comet   Discovery News
Rosetta spacecraft finds massive sinkholes on comet's surface   Reuters
Rosetta finds giant sinkholes on comet 67P   The Space Reporter
BBC News   
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Irish Times
   
The strange dynamic of Pluto's chaotic family   
Irish Times
An astrodynamical miracle is happening in the sky above. Our ability to launch a space probe from the revolving Earth to reach a moving target billions of kilometres away 10 years later, with pinpoint accuracy, is astounding. The New Horizons mission ...

Pluto's Black Spots and Charon's Dark Pole Grow in New Horizons View   NBCNews.com
Nasa probe detects methane on Pluto surface   Times of India
New Horizons gets "all clear" for July 14 Pluto flyby   CBS News
Orlando Sentinel   
The Verge   
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NBCNews.com
   
A Drone Airplane for Mars? Way-Out Red Planet Ideas Are Taking Flight   
NBCNews.com
NASA has been talking about sending airplanes to Mars for more than a decade, but the revolution in small satellites and drone airplanes just might turn the concept into a reality at last. If the plan being hatched at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research ...
Revealed: NASA's first plane to Mars   India Today
NASA to Test a Prototype for Surveying Landing Sites on the Red Planet   NY City News
NASA readies test for first Mars airplane   Computerworld
Christian Science Monitor   
TechnoBuffalo   
Voice of America (blog)   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Great Barrier Reef UNESCO verdict confirmed but future status remains murky   
Sydney Morning Herald
The status of the Great Barrier Reef has avoided being downgraded by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee but the future of the ecological treasure remains subject to close scrutiny. As expected, the committee meeting in the German city of Bonn confirmed ...

Great Barrier Reef outlook poor but not in danger   Irish Examiner
World Heritage Committee decides against declaring reef as 'in danger'   ABC Online (blog)
Qld takes to social media to promote reef   9news.com.au
CTV News   
Mackay Daily Mercury   
The Guardian   
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Tampabay.com
   
Hundreds view Jupiter and Venus at St. Petersburg College's Gibbs campus   
Tampabay.com
Dining Planner: Where to eat on the Fourth of July, plus a showing from Dr. BBQ. Top News. Crayons abound as Crayola Experience opens in Orlando's Florida Mall · 'In Living Color' show featuring Warhol at Tampa Museum of Art a 'rare treat' · Stage ...

Venus and Jupiter planetary conjunction gives skywatchers a Canada Day treat   CBC.ca
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Visible on June 30, July 1   Patch.com
What's up in the sky   Southernminn.com
FOX 9 News   
wivb.com   
Dispatch Times   
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Daily Mail
   
Can YOU see the 'third property' of light? Scientists reveal human supersense ...   
Daily Mail
The ability lets us see a mystery third property of light known as 'polarisation', which tells us the orientation in which light waves are oscillating. Animals, like bees and ants, use the polarisation patterns in the sky as a navigation aid. And with ...
Did you know we share the same 'super-vision' found in bees and octopuses?   Irish Examiner
The Sixth Sense You Didn't Know You Had   Discover Magazine (blog)
Humans 'can see polarised light'   Herald Sun
Tech Times   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Scientists discover lizard that changes sex in the sun   
Telegraph.co.uk
A lizard that changes sex in the sun has been discovered by scientists. It is the first time the phenomenon has been seen in reptiles in the wild and could have implications for other animal species because of climate change. The cold-blooded ...
Climate change is threatening to turn the world's male reptiles into females   Sydney Morning Herald
Climate Change Can Cause Animals to Switch Sex   Discovery News
Meet the remarkable lizard who changes SEX in the sunshine   Mirror.co.uk
Washington Post   
ABC Online   
Tech Times   
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The Nation
   
Clocks pause for a second to allow Earth to catch up   
The Hindu
If Wednesday seemed longer than other days of the year, blame the Earth and not the clock. For, the clocks keeping India's time in the national capital paused for a second to allow the Earth to catch up, inserting a 'leap second' into the Indian ...
Leap Second Crashes Twitter, Android   Bitbag
Duration of Standard Day to Increase by One Second   Rapid News Network
Last Day of June Was One Second Longer   JP Updates
KING5.com   
ecns   
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The Globe and Mail
   
UBC study sheds light on bizarre plankton with 'eyes'   
The Globe and Mail
In biology there is nothing quite as elegant as the eye, an organ so impressive in its design that two centuries ago Christian philosopher William Payley held it up as evidence for a divine creator. God only knows what Rev. Payley would have made of ...
Single-celled plankton evolves tiny, human-like eye   Telegraph.co.uk
Plankton evolves human-like eye   Irish Independent
Scientists baffled by tiny sea creature which uses a human-like eye to hunt ...   Mirror.co.uk
UPI.com   
Sci-News.com   
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Daily Mail
   
Hermaphrodite worm shoots sperm into its own HEAD if it can't find a mate   
Daily Mail
From the shooting of sperm darts to post-coital cannibalism, there is not much that surprises researchers in the world of animal reproduction. However, a new study has raised the bar - a creature which procreates by jabbing a needle-like 'penis' into ...
Flatworms Self-Fertilize By Injecting Sperm Through Their Heads   Science World Report
When flatworms can't find a mate, they self-fertilize   UPI.com
No Mating Partner? No Problem: This Flatworm Injects Sperm Directly Into Own ...   Tech Times
Popular Science   
The Scientist   
BGR   
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