2015年1月21日 星期三

2015-01-22 Singapore Science


AsiaOne
   
Foraging orangutans destroy village farms   
AsiaOne
An orang utan named Sandra from a Buenos Aires zoo was given the right to leave the zoo and live in more desirable conditions. Print. Scores of orangutans have reportedly invaded human settlements and destroyed crops around the Mount Leuser National ...


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Times of Malta
   
Mexico testing drones to save endangered porpoise   
Times of Malta
A female vaquita marina porpoise lies dead after getting entangled in a gill net on El Golfo de Santa Clara beach in the upper Gulf of California. Photo: Omar Vidal, Proyecto Vaquita/AP. Mexico has begun testing unmanned drones that could help save the ...

Mexico to deploy drones to save sea cows and crack down on China's illegal ...   Fusion
Robot drones set out to save porpoises off Mexico   Scotsman
Mexico nabs 3 shrimp boats in refuge of endangered porpoise   Albany Times Union

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The Guardian
   
Harvard, Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOs safer   
Boston Globe
Two teams of scientists from Harvard and Yale have reached a crucial milestone in the effort to build synthetic life forms by developing a powerful way to prevent genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from escaping into the wild. The new technique ...

Scientists engineered GM organisms that rely on Lab food to survive   Frontline Desk
Creating a 'genetic firewall' for GMOs   NewsOK.com
Researchers develop techniques to stop genetically engineered bugs in their ...   SMN Weekly
Science Recorder   
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MiamiHerald.com
   
X-rays may help us read scrolls preserved in Vesuvius' eruption   
The Verge
Researchers may soon be able to read papyrus scrolls from a villa destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, The New York Times reports. And they won't have to unroll the fragile antiquities to do it, either. X-rays allowed researchers ...

Burned Vesuvius Scrolls Read for First Time   Discovery News
Ancient scrolls charred in Vesuvius eruption come to life   Al-Arabiya
Ancient Scrolls, Burned in Vesuvius Volcano Eruption, Deciphered by Advanced ...   Scientific American
ABC News   
CBC.ca   
CNN International   
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New York Daily News
   
Milky Way wormhole could be real-life 'Interstellar': study   
New York Daily News
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi flick “Interstellar” might get some free promotion from a new scientific study suggesting that wormholes — space portals into other dimensions — could actually be a part of our galaxy. A paper published in the journal Annals of ...

Interstellar Reality Check: Could Our Galaxy Host a Wormhole?   NBCNews.com
Milky Way galaxy wormhole exists? Shortcut to places light-years away tackled   PopHerald Technology News
Milky Way wormhole could allow WARP SPEED travel to strange new universes   Mirror.co.uk
Irish Examiner   
Yahoo News Canada (blog)   
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BioScholar News
   
Microsoft springs hologram surprise, but long way to reality   
Reuters Canada
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp surprised the tech world on Wednesday with a prototype hologram visor that can bring the Minecraft video game, Skype calls and even the landscape of Mars to three-dimensional life. The aging tech pioneer, which long ...

Up close with the HoloLens, Microsoft's most intriguing product in years   The Verge
NASA And Microsoft Using HoloLens To Make It Possible To Work Remotely ...   TechCrunch
Microsoft HoloLens Hands-On: Incredible, Amazing, Prototype-y as Hell   Gizmodo
Business Insider Australia   
The Geopolitical and Conflict Report (blog)   
BioScholar News   
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The Nation
   
Laser-etched metal repels water   
The Nation
Physicists in the US have created metal surfaces that repel water to the extent that droplets bounce away. They sculpted the surface of small pieces of platinum, titanium and brass using a very high-powered laser. The materials 'self-clean' because water ...

Researchers Make New Hydrophobic Metal That Bounce Off Water   Geek Infinite
Laser-etched metal so water-repellent, liquid bounces off   Full-Time Whistle
University of Rochester scientists create extremely hydrophobic metal that water ...   Syracuse.com
Nature World News   
National Monitor   
13WHAM-TV   
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Fox News
   
Crew of Fishermen Haul in Rare Frilled Shark Off Coast of Australia   
Bleacher Report
Fishermen never know what they might catch when they hit the waters. They may go looking for one thing—or nothing at all—and come back with something totally unexpected. That's what recently happened to a group of fishermen in Victoria, Australia.
Imagine catching this DINO-SHARK with 300 teeth in your fishing net   Mirror.co.uk
'Living Fossil' Frilled Shark Caught Off Australia   Discovery News
'It has 300 teeth over 25 rows': Terrifying 'living fossil' frilled shark found off ...   New Zealand Herald
Detroit Free Press   
Fox News   
CBC.ca   
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Daily Mail
   
Hidden messages in meteorites could reveal how the Earth will END: Ancient ...   
Daily Mail
Asteroids contain hidden messages in their magnetic fields that could provide clues about the death of our planet. This is according to British scientists who have, for the first time, captured the dying moments a meteorite's magnetic field - a fate that could be ...

Hidden Magnetic Messages in Meteorites from Early Solar System Uncovered   The Daily Galaxy (blog)
Meteorites act like a hard drive for asteroids   Science Recorder
Ancient meteorite messages DECODED to reveal clues about the future of our ...   Full-Time Whistle
Tech Times   
SMN Weekly   
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Live Science
   
New Lakes Discovered Under Greenland's Ice Hint at Warming   
Live Science
The discovery of two large lakes hidden beneath Greenland's ice suggests that climate change now cuts all the way to the bottom of the ice sheet, according to two new studies. The lakes, on opposite coasts, were only spotted because meltwater from ...

Meteorite Reveals Early Solar System Information, Greenland's Ice Sheet is ...   Voice of America (blog)
Rising Temps Causing Greenland's Meltwater Lakes to Drain at Dramatic Rate   Nature World News
Greenland's lakes are vanishing, worried scientists say   Science Recorder
Tech Times   
SMN Weekly   
Examiner.com   
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