2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 Singapore Science


The Independent
   
Video: 170 rare baby tortoises seized at Paris airport   
The Independent
French customs officials in Paris were left rather shell-shocked in December when they came across 170 endangered baby tortoises hidden in a crate at Charles de Gaulle airport. The "radiated tortoise" species is only found in Madagascar and their ...

French Customs seizes 170 rare baby tortoises at Paris airport   Customs Today Newspaper
French customs find 170 rare baby tortoises in crate at airport   9news.com.au
170 rare baby tortoises seized at Paris airport   DAWN.com

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News24
   
Tiny 'life detector' could sense alien movement PH   
News24
Miami - European researchers claim they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, scientists have tried to find signs of extraterrestrial life by listening for sounds that might be emitted from ...

Tiny life detector could sense alien movement   Pune Mirror
Could we find aliens by searching for VIBRATIONS? £6000 nanosensor may ...   Daily Mail
Alien Life Detector, a New Gadget to Find Life in Space   The Cubic Lane

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eco-business.com
   
Satellite provides sharper picture of shrinking ice sheet   
eco-business.com
The most detailed study yet of the Greenland ice sheet illustrates the complex process that is causing billions of tonnes to melt ever year. melting greenland. A new research in Greenland has used satellite and aerial data to reconstruct changes in the ice ...


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Capitalberg
   
Drunken birds slur just like humans: Study says   
Capitalberg
Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University have found that birds slur after getting drunk just like human do. Scientists selected Zebra finch, a song bird that learns to sing in the same manner as humans learn speech. In the study made, Researcher ...

​This is what it sounds like when drunk birds slur their songs   CBS News
When Songbirds Imbibe, Their Tunes Get Sloshed   Yahoo News
Birds Slur Their Songs When Drunk, Just Like Humans: Study   NBCNews.com
Hamilton Spectator   
Irish Independent   
Business Insider   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
UK scientists plan to grow lettuce on Mars   
Telegraph.co.uk
A team of scientists have created a plan to grow lettuce on Mars, and it has been short-listed to be included in a future space flight to the red planet. The project, being run at the University of Southampton, aims to put the first life on Mars by growing the salad ...

This Is the First Possible Plant Life in Mars   Youth Health Magzine
U.K. researchers plan to grow lettuce on Mars   UPI.com
Science experiment would grow lettuce on Mars   Mashable
Techie News   
NDTV   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
BC radiation risk from Fukushima disaster 'insignificant:' research   
The Globe and Mail
As radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power-plant disaster drifted across the Pacific, fears that salmon and other marine life could be contaminated spread along the British Columbia coast. But samples gathered by citizen scientists and a more ...

Tracking Fukushima's radioactivity   Stuff.co.nz
Fukushima Radiation Will Most Likely Peak In North American Waters At The ...   Headlines & Global News
Fukushima Radiation to Reach Highest Levels By End of 2015   Nature World News
Los Angeles Times   
Yahoo News Canada (blog)   
E Canada Now   
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Latin Post
   
Monarch Butterfly Population Dropped by 90% Last Two Decades Say Scientists ...   
Latin Post
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday it would conduct a one-year status review of the Monarch butterfly to determine if they are warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act. The agency is requesting scientific and commercial data ...

Monarch Butterfly Are Endangered Species, Almost   Northern Voices Online
The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species   VICE News
'King' of butterflies to be studied for threatened-species status   Charleston Post Courier
Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews   
KCET   
Naples Daily News   
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The Space Reporter
   
NASA Tries to Nurse More Life Out of Opportunity Rover   
PC Magazine
NASA mission controllers are scrambling to get some extra life out of the Mars exploration rover Opportunity with a workaround that cuts off access to a failed flash memory bank that's causing the probe to suffer "amnesia" when it reboots. Opportunity has been ...

Computer system 'loss of memory' affects decade old Mars rover Opportunity   Northern Voices Online
Computer system 'amnesia' plagues aging Mars rover   The Space Reporter
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover faces increasing memory loss   The Verge
Science Times   
The Register   
International Business Times AU   
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Mashable
   
The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015   
Mashable
Peru's President Ollanta Humala (right) stands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before the press after a private meeting at the government palace in Lima, Peru, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Image: Juan Karita/Associated Press ...

Gear the global financial system to improve climate safety   The Daily Star
India needs to take the lead   The Hindu
Column: Climate Trust marks progress with its second five-year report   Portland Business Journal (blog)
Independent Online   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Did drought doom the Mayan Empire? New evidence from Belize's 'Blue Hole'   
Christian Science Monitor
Minerals taken from lagoons reveal a century-long drought occurred between A.D. 800 and A.D. 900, right when the Mayan civilization disintegrated. By Tia Ghose, Livescience.com December 30, 2014. close. The Maya temple of Kukulkan, the feathered ...

Was the Mayan civilisation wiped out by an extreme drought? Study of Great ...   Daily Mail
More evidence Mayan civilization collapsed because of drought   Washington Post
Drought May Have Led to Decline of Ancient Mayan Civilization   U.S. News & World Report
NBCNews.com   
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