2015年4月29日 星期三

2015-04-30 Singapore Science


The Nation
   
Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth   
The Nation
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said on Wednesday. 'It has started descending. It has nowhere else to go,' an official familiar with the ...

Out-of-control Russian cargo ship plunging to Earth, official says   Sydney Morning Herald
Russian space cargo ship to crash to Earth   Irish Examiner
Impact of out-of-control Russian spacecraft impossible to predict, could rain ...   ABC Online
Inquirer.net   
The Moscow Times   
The Independent   
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Toronto Sun
   
NASA spacecraft spots possible ice cap on Pluto   
Toronto Sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted surface features on the icy world, including a possible polar cap, images released on Wednesday show. With (97 million km left to go before its July 14, 2015, encounter, ...

New images show Pluto may have a polar ice cap   USA TODAY
Pluto may have ice cap at pole   BBC News
NASA probe detects possible polar cap on Pluto   CBS News
NBCNews.com   
Universe Today   
Popular Science   
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ABC Online
   
Climate change: Diseases, heatwaves, lost jobs to impact human health, experts ...   
ABC Online
Australia's top doctors and scientists are urging the Government to show leadership on climate change after a new report warned human health would feel the most immediate impacts of global warming. The report from the Australian Academy of Science was ...

Climate change a risk to health: report   The Australian
AMA backs climate health report   Business Spectator
Science measures humanity's mark on extreme weather   New Vision

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Los Angeles Times
   
A dinosaur with bat-like wings? Strange fossil baffles scientists   
Los Angeles Times
A new dinosaur fossil from China has thrown paleontologists for a loop. The strange dinosaur has bony wing-like features that are wildly different from those of its close flying relatives and instead look more like those of a flying squirrel or a bat. Many dinosaur ...

A bizarre new flying dinosaur, with bat-like wings and feathers   New Zealand Herald
New bat-like dinosaur had wings. Scientists don't know why.   Christian Science Monitor
Small Jurassic Dinosaur May Have Flown Without Feathers   New York Times

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BBC News
   
Messenger closes in on Mercury crash-landing   
BBC News
After more than a decade in space and four years orbiting Mercury, Nasa's Messenger mission is set to finally come to an explosive end. The spacecraft is expected to crash into the planet's surface at 20:46 BST on Thursday; its last fuel was burnt in a final ...

NASA's Messenger mission set to end, will crash into Mercury's surface   The Globe and Mail
Glorious finale: MESSENGER'S suicide dive into Mercury marks end of ...   Science Recorder
NASA Spacecraft to Impact Planet Mercury on Thursday   KATC Lafayette News
Ars Technica   
CNET   
gulflive.com   
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SFGate
   
Robot telescope at Lick Observatory finds distant planets   
SFGate
Astronomers at Lick Observatory, using a robot telescope that automatically hunts for planets far beyond the solar system, have discovered three unusual new “exoplanets” orbiting a distant star. “The three planets are unlike anything in our own solar system,” ...

Welcome to the neighborhood: 2 super-Earths discovered   Minnesota Public Radio News
ROBOT telescope discovers ENORMOUS planetary neighbours   The Register
Robotic astronomer spots three 'supersized Earths' in orbit around distant alien sun   mirror.co.uk
UC Berkeley   
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Herald Sun
   
IBM pushes quantum computing a step closer   
Herald Sun
IBM scientist Jerry Chow conducting a quantum computing experiment.: Source: IBM. Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence. The circuit, an assemblage of four ...

IBM inches closer to unprecedent technological breakthrough: quantum computers   National Monitor
IBM brings us even closer to a working quantum computer   Techradar India
IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip   MIT Technology Review
Phys.Org   
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Voice of America
   
Fossils Found in Chile Depict Dinosaur With Weird Mix of Traits   
Voice of America
WASHINGTON—. Scientists have unearthed fossils of a strange dinosaur in southern Chile with such an unusual combination of traits that they are comparing it to a platypus, that oddball egg-laying, duck-billed mammal from Australia. Named Chilesaurus ...

T Rex's vegetarian cousin baffles scientists   Irish Independent
New Jurassic-era dinosaur discovered in Chile   WTVD-TV
7-year-old discovers new dinosaur in Chile   WYFF Greenville
Daily Mail   
Smithsonian   
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Yahoo News
   
Zombie stars might be sending out high-energy X-rays from the center of our ...   
The Pasadena Star-News
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured a new high-energy X-ray view (magenta) of the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy. The smaller circle shows the center of our galaxy where the NuSTAR image was taken. Credit: ...

Zombie stellar bodies are leaving a celestial mass grave in the Milky Way   Daily Mail
Graveyard of Stars May Surround Milky Way's Monster Black Hole   Yahoo News UK
Mysterious X-rays could mark stellar graveyard   ABC Science Online
Popular Science   
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The Hoops News
   
Water Water Everywhere! Space was filled with H20 in the first billion years   
The Hoops News
A study of ancient molecular clouds in our home galaxy Milky Way has made astronomers conclude that the reservoir of water in our universe existed much before than originally thought. To be more precise, the universe used to be filled with water just a ...

The Time When the Universe was Awash with Water   Empire State Tribune
Water Formation In Universe Began 1 Billion Years After Big Bang   Design & Trend
Plenty of water may have existed in space in first billion years after Big Bang   Zee News
Phys.Org   
EurekAlert (press release)   
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