2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 Singapore Science

  Saudi Gazette   
Disquieting times for Malaysia's 'fish listener'  Saudi Gazette
One hand clinging to his boat's gunwale, Harun Muhammad submerges himself, eyes and ears wide open underwater as he "listens" for fish sounds emanating from the blue depths. — AFP. Shannon Teoh. ONE hand clinging to his boat's gunwale, Harun ...

He listens to fishes   AsiaOne

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  Asian Scientist Magazine   
Improving AFMs with Lasers  Overclockers Club
Lasers are a cool technology, but as science fiction and some science fact tells us, the beams themselves are not cool and can be used to heat and melt objects. As some other science facts also tell us though, lasers can be used to cool objects by exploiting ...

New Techniques To Allow Twenty Times More Microscope Sensitivity   Angle Chronicle
Laser Makes Microscopes Way Cooler   Asian Scientist Magazine

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Missing flight MH370: director James Cameron says plane will never be found  Yahoo!7 News
Deep-sea explorer and filmmaker James Cameron believes the missing MH370 plane will never be located, due to a lack of ocean vehicle funding. The plane, carrying 239 people including six Australians, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ...


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  AsiaOne   
Italian hilltop homes - on sale for just 80p  Yahoo Finance UK
A second home in the sun is a dream held by many, so the opportunity to snap up a charming Italian abode - for just one euro - will no doubt prick up ears. And in the pretty village of Gangi, Sicily, this is exactly what's on offer. However, the homes have been ...

Sicilian hilltop houses with a great view going for €1   The Malay Mail Online
Sicilian hilltop houses on sale for $1.30, great view included   CANOE
Sicilian hilltop houses on sale for €1, great view included   GMA News
Tengrinews   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
Global warming 'hiatus': Scientists duel over which ocean steals some heat  Christian Science Monitor
Many scientists say natural climate variability is behind a slowdown in the pace of global warming over the past 15 years. And the key to the variability is the way oceans can act as heat sinks. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer August 21, 2014. close. Illustration ...

Global Warming Slowdown Trapped in Ocean   Voice of America
Atlantic slows global warming with temperature rises seen resuming from 2030   Sydney Morning Herald
Global warming 'hiatus' means heat is hiding in ocean   Yahoo News UK
Xinhua   
The Guardian   
Irish Times   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
The next space race is for a rental car into orbit  Washington Post
Ever since the retirement of the space shuttle three years ago, American astronauts have had to hitchhike their way to the International Space Station aboard Russian spaceships. It is an increasingly costly arrangement, which the head of NASA has called ...

Sea plankton 'found living outside International Space Station'   Telegraph.co.uk
NASA, Russia Squabble Over International Space Station Sea Plankton Claim   Forbes
Sea plankton have been found on the International Space Station – but how did ...   The Guardian
Toronto Sun   
Fox News   
The Independent   
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  New York Daily News   
Spiders get bigger, multiply faster in cities: Australian study  New York Daily News
The City That Never Sleeps may be up for a whole new reason. A new study out of Australia has found that spiders get bigger and multiply faster when living in urbanized areas, like New York City. In the report published Wednesday, researchers at the ...

city spiders getting bigger   New Zealand Herald
Bright lights, big spiders: Researchers say city life is breeding giant arachnids   Daily Mail
Terrifying city-dwelling spiders are bigger and more fertile   Atlanta Journal Constitution
Sky News   
Business Standard   
Sky News Australia   
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  National Geographic   
Western drought causes Earth's surface to rise as groundwater drops  Los Angeles Times
A year and a half of drought has depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across the Western United States, according to a new study that documents how the parched conditions are altering the landscape. The loss of groundwater, as well as surface water such as ...

Study Finds Huge Amount Of Water Loss Across Western United States   CBS Local
GPS devices find huge water loss in western US   WEAR

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  Toronto Star   
Iceland Eruption Would Disrupt Less This Time: Chart of the Day  Businessweek
Airlines forced to tear up timetables after ash spewed from an Icelandic volcano in 2010 face less disruption from a repeat because they've adopted a more scientific process to identify the most dangerous skies. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the ...

Rumblings of Volcanic Activity in Iceland   New York Times (blog)
Iceland evacuates area near volcano amid eruption fears   RT
Volcanic ash a dangerous enemy to jet engine airplanes   Washington Post (blog)
Deutsche Welle   
News of Iceland   
Huffington Post   
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  National Geographic   
Thriving ecosystem of microbes found under Antarctic ice  SFGate
An international team of scientists has discovered a living ecosystem of microbes thriving and reproducing in the frigid darkness of a shallow lake beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica - the first implication that life forms might exist on ice-covered ...

World's Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded   Huffington Post
Check Out the Freezing Cold Place Where Scientists Found Life   TIME
Greenland ice melting at record speed   Deutsche Welle
USA TODAY   
Daily Mail   
Business Standard   
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