2015年8月13日 星期四

2015-08-14 Namibia Science


CNET
   
Dazzling shots of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower (pictures)   
CNET
Often regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Perseids have been especially spectacular thanks to a mostly absent moon. Read Less. Perseids show off in 2015. A Perseid meteor sneaks past illuminated windmills near Gemuend, Germany.
17 Spectacular Photos Of This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower   Gizmodo Australia
Photos: Perseid meteor shower blazes across sky in brilliant cosmic show   The San Diego Union-Tribune
Shooting stars show lights up Northants skies   Northampton Herald and Post

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NBCNews.com
   
Newly discovered, Jupiter-like planet may sit in a solar system much like our own   
Washington Post
Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet just 100 light years away that seems much like a young Jupiter. And its entire solar system may be similar enough to our own to give us a glimpse into the distant past. The planet 51 Eri b, which is reported ...
Astronomers photograph a baby Jupiter in another solar system   Financial Express
Jupiter assembling: planet 96 light years away hints at how gas giants form   The Guardian
'Young Jupiter' discovered by astronomers: Planet 96 light years from Earth ...   Daily Mail
Herald Scotland   
Los Angeles Times   
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Mail & Guardian Online
   
Earth overshoots its mark   
Mail & Guardian Online
We've used up a year's supply of natural resources in under eight months, going into ecological debt. The impact of this 'ecological deficit' can be witnessed through deforestation, soil erosion, depletion of water resources and the accumulation of ...
Earth Overshoot Day: We Just Entered the Red   Newsweek
Earth's 2015 quota of renewable resources used up   The Nation
We've Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year   National Geographic
Science Recorder   
Gizmodo   
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Computerworld
   
Are we safe from self-aware robots?   
Computerworld
End-of-mankind predictions about artificial intelligence, which have issued from some of today's most impressive human intellects, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and other notables, have generally sounded overly ...
Robot Successfully Evolves By Building Its Own “Children”   Junior College
Can this new robot really bear offspring?   Christian Science Monitor
Mother Robot Creates Baby Bots   Science Times
Fortune   
Science Recorder   
Tech Times   
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USA TODAY
   
NASA test-fires shuttle engine for SLS rocket   
USA TODAY
A former space shuttle engine roared to life Thursday in Mississippi, billowing steam from a Mississippi stand during a nearly nine-minute test firing. The test shown live on NASA TV was the third of four preparing upgraded shuttle engines to lift NASA ...
NASA fires up engine that will take the SLS to Mars   Engadget
NASA tests RS-25 engine designed for Mars trip   Orlando Sentinel
Engine test rocks Stennis with sound of progress   WLOX
WXXV News 25   
Wired   
MarketWatch   
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Popular Mechanics
   
Apps in space: Design a smartwatch app for NASA and maybe win money   
Mashable
The NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) is asking members of the public with programing skills to help design a smartwatch app that will assist astronauts living and working in space. See also: Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch Arrives, Bringing a Friend. "The challenge ...

NASA wants you to design the UI of its upcoming smartwatch app for ISS astronauts   Phone Arena
NASA Wants You to Design a Smartwatch App for Astronauts   Bloomberg
NASA Invites You to Build a Smartwatch App For Astronauts   NBCNews.com
The Verge   
SlashGear   
Livemint   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Rosetta films first images of comet as it passes close to sun   
Telegraph.co.uk
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko passed 115 million miles from the sun on Thursday morning - the closest it gets during its orbit. The heat caused the comet's surface to spew jets of gas and dust, the matter which form its distinctive tail. Images taken ...

Rosetta hits `milestone` in comet`s run past Sun   Zee News
Rosetta comet makes its closest approach to the sun   CBS News
Interactive, 3D model of Rosetta's comet: A perihelion present?   Christian Science Monitor
The Guardian   
Reuters   
Irish Examiner   
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The Guardian
   
Scientists get tool to mark online climate science media coverage and it's not ...   
The Guardian
What kind of impulses might rush through climate scientists' minds as they scroll through some of the gumph that gets written on climate change? Perhaps partaking of a violent act at the expense of a computer monitor after reading how they're only ...
'India could lead on Climate Change...'   The Hindu
Move over MoMA, New York's new climate change museum is about to be the ...   Grist
Folks in these US states don't believe in global warming   MarketWatch
National Observer   
The Canberra Times   
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The Independent
   
Cats vs dogs: Scientists confirm that felines are better... from an ...   
The Independent
It's the debate that has long divided animal lovers. Now scientists have confirmed that cats really are better than dogs – at least from an evolutionary perspective. A groundbreaking study of 2,000 ancient fossils reveals that felids – the cat family ...
Cat competition drove ancient dog species to extinction: scientists   Livemint
Competition From The Ancestors Of Cats Drove The Extinction Of Many Species Of ...   FailedMessiah.com
Cats Brought Extinction to Dog Species in North America   New Historian
Nature World News   
Financial Express   
Daily Mail   
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Hindustan Times
   
China: Supercomputer shutdown after Tianjin twin blasts   
Hindustan Times
Smoke billows out from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. (AP/PTI). Share. China on Thursday shut down one of the world's fastest ...

China's supercomputer shutdown after twin blasts in Tianjin   Economic Times
Tianhe-1A Shuts Down After Deadly Double Blast   HPCwire
Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Shuts Down After Catastrophic Blast in China   insideHPC
The Statesman   
Maine News Online   
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
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