2014年12月1日 星期一

2014-12-02 Singapore Science


eco-business.com
   
Hi-tech mirror is cool new answer to air con problem   
eco-business.com
As extremes of heat increasingly threaten to become the norm, scientists have invented a new way to reflect sunlight and beam heat away from buildings straight back into space. air con bldgs hk. Scientists at Standford University has discovered a new ...

High-tech mirrors could slash cooling needs   The Fifth Estate
Stanford engineers invent ultrathin reflective coating to help passively cool ...   Architecture and Design
High-Tech Mirror Beams Heat Into Space   Discovery News
Big News Network.com   
ExtremeTech   
MIT Technology Review (blog)   
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Daily Mail
   
Venus of Renancourt pieced together from broken limestone fragments in ...   
Daily Mail
A 23,000-year-old limestone statue of a woman with large breasts and buttocks has been discovered hidden in a small pile of rocks by archaeologists in northern France. The Ice Age figure was unearthed during the second day of an archaeological dig at a ...

23000-Year-Old Small Limestone Statue Discovered in France   New Hampshire Voice
Voluptuous 23000 Year-old Statuette Unearthed   artnet News
23000 Year Old Ice Age 'Venus' Sculpture Discovered In France   Island Crisis News
From Quarks to Quasars   
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Fox News
   
Climate talks to seek way to historic Paris pact   
The Nation
LIMA - The world's nations gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima on Monday in a renewed push for a deal to roll back carbon emissions threatening future generations. The 12-day talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ...

Terence Corcoran: Why the call for bigger and better carbon taxes is about to ...   Financial Post
Obama Puts Climate on the 2016 Ballot   Wall Street Journal
US sees voluntary emissions cuts as key to a climate change accord   Los Angeles Times
Reuters   
TODAYonline   
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Channel News Asia
   
Mastodons disappeared long before humans reached Alaska   
Channel News Asia
Mastodons were once believed to have roamed the snowy Arctic region alongside the first human colonists some 13,000 to 14,000 years ago, but new evidence suggests they disappeared tens of thousands of years earlier and were not hunted to extinction.
Mastodons disappeared from Yukon before humans arrived: study   CBC.ca
Mastodons were likely killed off by 'global cooling,' expert says   CTV News
Mastodons were long gone from North when humans arrived   The Globe and Mail

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CBS News
   
The father of DNA is selling his Nobel prize because everyone thinks he's racist   
The Age
James Watson, known to many as one of the "fathers of DNA" for his scientific discoveries, is putting his Nobel prize on the auction block this Thursday with a reserve price of $2.5 million. Why part with the prestigious award now, more than 50 years after ...

What's a Nobel Prize worth?   Al Jazeera America
Elementary, Watson, you're wrong on race. Go ahead, sell your Nobel medal.   Chicago Tribune
A great scientist's fall into crankdom: The case of DNA pioneer Jim Watson   Los Angeles Times
The Atlantic   
Examiner.com   
The Week Magazine   
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Channel News Asia
   
NASA's Orion capsule poised for first test launch   
Channel News Asia
NASA's Orion capsule is ready for a test launch on Thursday aimed at lifting it higher than any spacecraft meant to carry humans in 40 years. PHOTOS. A rendering provided by NASA and the European Space Agency shows the Orion capsule and the service ...

Watch the Buildup to NASA's Orion Test Launch Online   NBCNews.com
NASA to test Orion deep-space capsule this week (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Countdown to Orion starts Wednesday, rocketmakers are already counting   The Denver Post
SpaceFlight Insider   
San Francisco Chronicle   
U-T San Diego   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
A Large Shark Photobombed A Mother's Surf Comp, Jumping Out Of The Water ...   
Business Insider Australia
A group of mothers surfing at Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales north coast, had the shock of their lives on the weekend when a large shark leapt from the water about 30m from shore, right next to where they were competing. The moment was captured ...

Shark reportedly leaps out of water near surfers during competition at Coffs ...   Rippa.com
Shark leaps from the sea in Australia, terrifies beach-goers   The Weather Network
Photographer captures moment a shark jumps out of the water at NSW beach ...   ABC Online
Telegraph.co.uk   
Sky News   
9news.com.au   
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The Space Reporter
   
Made in space: 3D printer on ISS prints a component for itself   
The Space Reporter
A 3D printer installed onboard the ISS has printed its first object, a side casing part for itself. The November 25 printout marks an important transition to making tools in space as opposed to relying on them being sent from Earth, noted ISS 3D project manager ...

Astronauts Have to Vacuum and 4 Other Things About Life in Space   KABC-TV
3D Printer prints first Object on ISS   West Texas News
3D printers on the ISS produced the first 3D object in space   cbsport
ValueWalk   
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Tech Times
   
Will NASA's Airborne Campaign to Clear Climate Confusion Help Clear Air ...   
Tech Times
Climate change around the world is being studied by NASA, utilizing five studies conducted around the globe. (Photo : NASA). An airborne climate campaign launched by NASA is aimed at answering questions about changing global conditions, by studying a ...

NASA to study climate change from the sky   BioScholar News
Reagan statesman's sunshine power brings hint of thaw in climate debate   Chicago Tribune
UN Scientists Warn It May Be Impossible To Prevent Rising Global Temperature   CBS Local
The Desert Sun   
Waterbury Republican American (blog)   
reportingclimatescience.com   
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Courier Mail
   
Breathtaking vision of life in outer space   
Courier Mail
SCIENCE fiction doesn't do space justice. A new short film combines what we actually know with Carl Sagan's vision of reaching for the stars — with awe-inspiring results. “Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds ...

All The Wonder Of Space And Human Exploration, Packed Into A Gorgeous ...   Co.Create
This short film makes a convincing, beautiful case for moving to Mars   Vox
Wanderers is an incredible vision of future space travel   Irish Examiner
GeekDad (blog)   
The Planetary Society (blog)   
Boing Boing   
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