en-sg-hotdailynews: 2014-12-05 Singapore Science

Australia won't give to UN Green Climate Fund
Daily Mail
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia 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 designed for the same purpose, the ...

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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New Bird Species Confirmed in Indonesia, 15 Years After First Sighting
National Geographic
The new species, the Sulawesi streaked flycatcher (upper left and center), is shown in comparison to related species in an illustration. Painting by Teo Nam Siang. Mary Bates. for National Geographic. Published December 4, 2014. An Indonesian bird first ...

Sulawesi streaked flycatcher named after 17 years   TODAYonline

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Scientists hammer out warning on climate change risks
eco-business.com
A group of international experts says time is rapidly running out to take serious steps to avert the impacts of global warming by prioritising a switch to clean energy systems. iceberg melting antarctic. In West Antarctica, a warming ocean has begun to advance, ...

How the world's climate has changed in the last two decades   Daily Mail
Heat leaves imprint on Earth   The Durango Herald
Hotter, Weirder: How Climate Has Changed Earth   Sci-Tech Today

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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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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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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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''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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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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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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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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