2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 Singapore Science


AsiaOne
   
Scientists set sail to study tsunami risk   
AsiaOne
The expedition includes Dr Haryadi Permana, Indonesian Institute of Sciences; Mr Bernd Buchner, captain of the research vessel Falkor; Professor Paul Tapponnier, Earth Observatory of Singapore; Professor Satish Singh, Institut de Physique du Globe de ...

Singapore: ​NTU leads international sea expedition to assess tsunami risks and ...   PreventionWeb (press release)

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BBC News
   
Pi and a pint of science experiments in pub project   
BBC News
Scientists in the UK are "taking science to the pub", in a series of lectures and experiments in bars across the country. More than 500 scientists are swapping the lecture hall for the local, sharing research with the public over a drink. Topics include the study of ...

Welcome to the world of TED Talks - with beer   Business Insider

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Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge Releases Competition ...   
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
The organizers of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) have released details about the competition, in addition call for "Intention to Participate and Request for Information (ITP-RFI)". MBZIRC was launched in February 2015 as ...


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Los Angeles Times
   
White House has a plan to save bees and other crop pollinators   
Los Angeles Times
The federal government will boost research and preserve 7 million acres of habitat for bees, monarch butterflies and other insects as part of a wide-ranging strategy to bolster the population of pollinators that are vital to the nation's food crops. Bee colony ...

How the honey bee population affects you   Washington Post
What's in Obama's plan to reverse honey bee and butterfly decline (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
White House announces federal plan to feed the bees   Minneapolis Star Tribune
Grist   
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Times LIVE
   
Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

Baby Spiders Reportedly Rain Down on Australian Town   ABC News
Tiny Spiders 'Rain' Down: Baby Arachnids By The Millions Fall From Aussie ...   The Inquisitr

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Los Angeles Times
   
Evolution abandoned giant pandas after they switched to a bamboo diet   
Los Angeles Times
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals' guts is optimized to digest meat.
Why Pandas Eat So Much Bamboo: They Can Bear-ly Digest It   Newsweek
Giant Pandas Have not Evolved to Eat Bamboo: Study   NDTV
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns
Nature.com   
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New York Times
   
Secret Vessel to Test Durability of Materials in Space, NASA Says   
New York Times
A secretive United States Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit on Wednesday. As with the previous flights, the Air Force revealed few details about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of ...

Air Force spaceplane set for (mostly) secret mission   CBS News
Top secret space plane X-37B to blast off but we don't know it it will come back   Daily Mail
May 19, 2015 in News: Live coverage: Atlas 5 rolls out for Wednesday's X-37B ...   Spaceflight Now
Space.com   
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New York Times
   
Data Suggests Legs and Toes in Ancestor of Living Snakes   
New York Times
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose sinuous body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, ...

Snake ancestor had tiny ankles and toes and hunted with dinosaurs   Herald Scotland
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water   NPR
What the First Snake Looked Like   Discovery News

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Huffington Post
   
What Is Equitable for Planet Earth? India and Climate Change: Our Record, Role ...   
Huffington Post
Climate change does not respect national borders. No country, whether rich or poor, developed or developing, can escape the impact of climate change on its land and its people. Nations, like people, are bound to each other on this Earth, and the actions of ...

Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Subnational Global Climate ...   EIN News (press release)
From Paris to Edinburgh, via Brussels, Cameron faces green foreign policy ...   Business Green
India asks developed nations at climate talks to finalise pre-2020 action plan   RenewablesBiz
Firstpost   
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OCRegister
   
How does it look? Earth now has a flag designed to plant for when we reach Mars   
OCRegister
A design student from Sweden has come up with one idea - interlocking circles of white on a stately blue background. Oskar Pernefeldt of the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm designed the flag as part of his graduation project and illustrated its ...

Planet Earth now has a flag for interplanetary relations   Irish Examiner
This could be the flag Earthlings fly while colonizing space and battling alien races   GlobalPost
Personifying Emotions and Universalizing Flags: Links You Need to See   Flavorwire
The New Daily   
The Verge   
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