2015年5月28日 星期四

2015-05-29 Singapore Science


Slate Magazine
   
The moment an erupting Japanese volcano blew its top (+video)   
TVNZ
A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on today, and authorities ordered residents to evacuate the island. Mount Shindake erupted in spectacular fashion, spewing towering black-grey clouds into the sky. The Japan Meteorological Agency ...

Small Japanese Island Evacuated as Volcano Violently Erupts   NBCNews.com
Japan raises alert to top level for southern island after volcano eruption: Report   The Straits Times
Volcano erupts on small island in southern Japan   Los Angeles Times
Reuters   
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AsiaOne
   
New fugu species makes 'mystery circles' underwater   
AsiaOne
During the summer three years ago, Keiichi Matsuura dived into the seas off Amami-Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture. On the seabed about 25 meters under water, he saw a round-shaped geometric pattern about two meters in diameter on the pure ...

In the News / Keiichi Matsuura / Ichthyologist names new species that makes ...   The Japan News

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TODAYonline
   
Temperature's rising: Expert says dinosaurs were warm-blooded   
TODAYonline
Vertebrate paleontologist Michael D'Emic is shown in this undated handout photo provided by Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, May 28, 2015, with a fossil of the meat-eating dinosaur Majungasaurus, dug up by Stony Brook University field ...

Dinosaurs May Not Have Been The Cold-Blooded Creatures We've Always ...   Tech Times
Dinosaurs Could Be Warm-Blooded Animals: Study   Yibada (English Edition)
Study Suggests That Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded   SYS-CON Media (press release)
Big News Network.com   
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TODAYonline
   
A small molecule improves Cas9 specificity   
Nature.com
Making Cas9 nuclease activity dependent on the self-cleavage of a ligand-responsive intein decreases Cas9's off-target activity. Specificity is a recurring theme in genome editing—the question is how to ensure high activity at the target site while not ...

Devangshu Datta: For a 'brave new world'   Business Standard
Breakthrough in gene-editing lauded, feared   Boston Herald
BioInformatics LLC projects market for CRISPR/Cas9 products to grow by 37% in ...   Digital Journal

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The Australian Financial Review
   
Japan's Shinzo Abe hopes 'robot revolution' can replace ageing workforce   
The Australian Financial Review
A new greeter at the entrance of the Mitsukoshi department store in central Tokyo has caused a stir. The worker, dressed in a kimono and cheerfully welcoming shoppers in honorific Japanese, is a robot made by Toshiba and shows how lifelike these ...

Robot With a Human Grasp Is Amazon's Challenge to Students   Bloomberg
Help Wanted: Robot to Fulfill Amazon Orders   MIT Technology Review
Japan's presence grows at contest for nuclear disaster robots   Asahi Shimbun

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ThaiVisa News
   
Driving from Thailand to France on first eco-friendly tuk-tuk   
ThaiVisa News
BANGKOK: — TWO MAHIDOL University (MU) students will drive the world's first electricity- and solar-powered tuk-tuk to France under an initiative to promote green energy. They are scheduled to leave Bangkok for their four-month long trip on June 10.

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Irish Examiner
   
New species of human ancestor found   
Irish Examiner
A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-known “Lucy” species had company in what is now Ethiopia. A lower jaw, plus jaw fragments and teeth, dated at 3.3m to 3.5m years old, were found in the Afar ...

Anthropologists Have Discovered a Totally New Human Ancestor   Gizmodo
New species of human means more ancestors   The Hoops News
New Species of Ancient Human Found in Africa   TIME
TODAYonline   
Livemint   
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CBS News
   
Meet the soul-sucking "dementor" wasp   
CBS News
In 2014, scientists discovered 139 new species in the Greater Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. One of them is a vicious wasp that kills its victims by turning them into zombies and eating them alive.
Dementor Wasp, Toothy Bat Among New Species Found in Asia   Newsweek
'Dementor' wasp turns cockroaches into zombies   Fox News
Scientists discovered 139 new species in the Greater Mekong in 2014: WWF report   Sydney Morning Herald
ABC Online   
Live Science   
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BBC News
   
Unesco reconsidering Great Barrier Reef heritage status   
BBC News
Australia faces a dent to its reputation and a potentially devastating blow to its tourism industry should one of the country's most iconic natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, be listed as "in danger" by the United Nations. Tony Fontes loves diving the waters ...

Reef should avoid UNESCO listing: Hunt   The Australian (blog)
Great Barrier Reef ruling   ABC Online (blog)
Great Barrier Reef: Unesco to release draft ruling on 'in danger' listing   The Guardian
Herald   
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Immortal News
   
Self-Healing Robots Can Now Quickly Adapt To Injury   
Immortal News
In a robotics breakthrough reminiscent of a science fiction movie, computer scientists have developed a couple of robots capable of rapidly compensating for injuries, according to a recently published study. The experiments, which were published in the ...

Japan brings a revolution in creation of robots   NH Voice
Self-healing rescue robots will soon be a reality according to scientists   Empire State Tribune
Self-Healing Robots Can Now Quickly Adapt To Injury - Immortal News   Gazette Herald
TweakTown   
Hindustan Times   
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