2014年12月18日 星期四

2014-12-19 Singapore Science


Malay Mail Online
   
Smart window opens new vistas for saving energy   
Malay Mail Online
NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering research staff Zheng Ke (Left) ,Liu He (right) and Professor Sun Xiaowei pose with the self-tinting window on Dec 16, 2014. — Today picSINGAPORE, Dec 19 — Scientists from the Nanyang Technological ...

NTU scientists invent energy-saving 'smart window'   The Star Online
Researchers invent smart window that tints and powers itself   Phys.Org
A window that could power LEDs at night   Mumbai Mirror

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The Japan News
   
Obokata, RIKEN team fail to create STAP cells   
The Japan News
The Yomiuri Shimbun So-called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells have not been created in verification experiments by RIKEN researcher Haruko Obokata to determine whether STAP cells exist, according to the research institute's ...

Japan's Riken Institute to announce that Stap cells cannot be reproduced   South China Morning Post (subscription)
Still no stem cells via easy 'STAP' path   Nature.com
Obokata fails to create STAP cells; Riken ends all verification tests   Asahi Shimbun
AsiaOne   
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NDTV
   
Rosetta Comet-Landing is Science's 2014 Breakthrough   
NDTV
Miami, Florida: The top scientific breakthrough of 2014 was the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft's rendez-vous with a comet, the US journal Science said Thursday. After leaving Earth in 2004, the Rosetta spacecraft caught up with the comet ...

Comet discovery put a question mark on the old theory about origin of Earth's ...   Frontline Desk
Top Science Breakthroughs of 2014: Rosetta Tops Science Magazine's List   Newsweek
Comet discovery closes door to theory of origin of Earth's oceans   Newsworks.org
New Zealand Herald   
Fox News   
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BBC News
   
Birds 'heard tornadoes coming' and fled the day before   
BBC News
US scientists say tracking data showing five golden-winged warblers left their nesting site a day a tornado outbreak suggests the birds "heard it coming". Geolocators showed the birds, which had just finished a 5,000km migration, left the Appalachians and ...

Golden-winged warblers can feel storms before they happen   Islamabad Globe
Study finds birds have built-in storm detectors   Malay Mail Online
Birds sensed severe storms and fled before tornado outbreak   (e) Science News
Yahoo News   
Science Recorder   
Click Green   
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Bangkok Post
   
Politics no problem, say US and Russian spacefarers   
Bangkok Post
US-Russian ties may have returned to Cold War levels, but an astronaut and a cosmonaut gearing up for the longest flight on the International Space Station said Thursday politics would not disrupt their work of helping a future trip to Mars. NASA astronaut ...

Space station team is getting ready to record 1 year on Mars   Islamabad Globe
2 astronauts will expand envelope with 1-year spaceflight   hays Post
Astronauts Prepare For Year-Long Space Trip   KL.FM 96.7

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Christian Science Monitor
   
NASA's Kepler space telescope finds 'Super-Earth' after 19-month hiatus   
Christian Science Monitor
Kepler space telescope, closed for business since a May 2013 malfunction, identified a planet about 2.5 times the size of ours in the constellation Pisces. By Mike Wall, Space.com December 18, 2014. close. An artist illustrates NASA's planet-hunting Kepler ...

NASA's Kepler finds massive alien planet 180 light years away   The Week Magazine
Once Written Off, Kepler Telescope Finds New Planet   NPR (blog)
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft finds new planet on new mission   abc7news.com
Discovery News   
National Post   
New York Times   
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The Hoops News
   
Carnivorous population booming in Europe due to human efforts   
The Hoops News
Scientists have determined that large carnivorous creatures – like wolves, bears, and lynx are doing very well in Europe. Previously, some of those species were driven to near-extinction. However, over the course of the last several years – work has been ...

Big Carnivores Making Comeback in Europe   Tech Times
Wolves And Bears In Europe? Oh My?   ValueWalk
The Carnivores Next Door   The New Yorker
The Verge   
Live Science   
National Geographic   
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CBS News
   
Archeologists uncover 1 million mummies   
WYFF Greenville
Archeologists said they've found a cemetery that contains more than 1 million mummies, dating back some 1,500 years or more. One mummy, believed to be an 18-month-old, was found in a burial ground in middle Egypt, according to head excavator, ...

Million-mummy cemetery unearthed in Egypt   WTSP 10 News
Egyptian cemetery could hold over one million mummies   Haaretz
Archaeologists uncover a million mummies   wwlp.com
WDAM-TV   
Raw Story   
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Toronto Star
   
Peru's climate talks conclude without a big accord in reach   
Washington Post
EVER SINCE negotiators failed to agree on a climate accord in Copenhagen five years ago, diplomats have been trying for a big, international do-over. Talks in Lima, Peru, this month put this effort on track to conclude an agreement in Paris next year.
Lima's Magic Climate Beanstalk   Wall Street Journal
Time to take the power away from the polluters   Bangkok Post
'Change the System, Not the Climate!'   Huffington Post
National Geographic   
CNN   
NJ.com   
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Frontline Desk
   
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's Findings will be chronicled on Discovery Channel ...   
Frontline Desk
NASA's rover Curiosity has discovered traces of life on Mars. It has found the organic molecules that are the building blocks of life and tonight Discovery channel will show cast all the interesting findings in a special documentary “Red Planet Rover”.
Discovery Sparks Interest—NASA's Mission to Mars Gets Its Own New Show   Science Times
Evidence of ancient water on surface of Mars confirmed by Curiosity   Bio & Tech Insights
NASA Curiosity Rover Discovers Methane, Organic Compounds on Mars   U.S. News & World Report
CNN   
Quartz   
Pocono Record   
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