2015年6月25日 星期四

2015-06-26 Singapore Science


Yahoo News
   
EU ministers seek ambitious, binding deal at Paris climate talks: draft   
Yahoo News
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers are seeking an ambitious, durable and legally binding deal to curb global warming, enforced through five-yearly reviews, a draft of their position statement for U.N. climate talks shows. EU environment ...

The climate question in EU-China talks   eco-business.com

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The Indian Express
   
Mass extinction: This time, we are the volcanoes, asteroids   
The Indian Express
There's no doubt any longer. The Earth has entered the sixth great extinction in its 4.5-billion-year history. Species are disappearing 100 times faster than the background rate — normal rate between mass extinctions — a pace unparalleled since the ...

Dot Earth | Extinction Up Close: A Rare Turtle Under Assault from Poachers   New York Times (blog)
We're Entering A Sixth Mass Extinction, And It's Our Fault   Popular Science
Stanford scientists are very, very confident that we're about to enter a mass ...   Fusion
Gainesville Sun   
eco-business.com   
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Mashable
   
NASA and Microsoft plan to bring the HoloLens into space   
Mashable
NASA and Microsoft are again teaming up on the HoloLens. But this time, the goal is to bring the augmented reality headset into space. NASA and Microsoft announced Project Sidekick Thursday, a new experiment that aims to bring Microsoft's holographic ...

Microsoft HoloLens Bound for Space   Wall Street Journal (blog)
HoloLens is headed to the International Space Station (Tomorrow Daily 199)   CNET
Microsoft's HoloLens is headed out of this world, with help from NASA   PCWorld
BizTek Mojo   
PC Magazine   
Stuff.co.nz   
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PerfScience
   
Efforts to Develop Aphids Resilient Wheat Defeated in Field Trials   
PerfScience
In an era where genetically engineered products have swayed the markets by offering novel features, a genetically modified (GM) wheat has failed in the field-scale tests to live up to its promises. The controversial technology of genetic modification (GM), ...

GM wheat trial funded by taxpayers has failed, GM Freeze claims   Daily Mail
Genetically modified wheat flunks field test for repelling aphids   Science Recorder
Gene-modified wheat at centre of row fails to repel aphids   Reuters
Financial Times   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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RT
   
DARPA hopes to terraform Mars with human-engineered organisms   
RT
Mars may look like an inhospitable and barren landscape, but a new program underway at the Pentagon's advanced research division is looking to create engineered organisms that can eventually transform the Red Planet into something more Earth-like.
Red Planet Roadmap: NASA Asks Where on Mars Astronauts Should Land   NBCNews.com
NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots Pyramid-like Formation on the Red Planet   NYC Today
Where will humans first set foot on Mars? Nasa wants suggestions   Daily Mail
moviepilot.com   
KPRC Houston   
Christian Science Monitor   
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Yibada (English Edition)
   
Planet with Comet Tail? 'Behemoth' Exoplanet Discovered with Evaporating ...   
Yibada (English Edition)
This artist's concept shows the enormous comet-like cloud of hydrogen bleeding off of the warm, Neptune-sized planet Gliese 436b just 30 light-years from Earth. (Photo : NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon). Astronomers have detected an exoplanet in a nearby ...

Broiling Exoplanet Sports 'Behemoth' Comet Tail   Discovery News
Unusual Exoplanet Gives Glimpse of What Earth May Have Looked Like   ABC News
Weird Planet with a Comet-like Gas Trail Spotted by Hubble Telescope   Maine News Online
Mirror.co.uk   
Forbes   
Empire State Tribune   
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New York Times
   
Doing these things for your own health will also help save the planet   
Quartz
You've heard it before: Climate change is the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. A new comprehensive report by experts confirms that finding, but also suggests that strategies to address this threat could offer other benefits. Many of the things ...

Coal's health threat   The Times (subscription)
We've completely underestimated the catastrophic impacts of climate change   Businessinsider India
How climate change may offset 50 years of health progress   Times of India

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Newsweek
   
Scientists discover white, hairy Yeti crab in Antarctica   
National Monitor
A group of researchers published a paper Wednesday describing a new, hairy Yeti crab with the nickname “Hoff crab.” A group of researchers discovered the first species of hairy, white "Yeti crab" in hydro-thermal vents below the surface of East Scotia Ridge, ...

New Animal Species: Hairy-Chested 'Yeti Crab' In Antarctica Grows, Harvests ...   Yibada (English Edition)
Antarctic 'Yeti' Crab Uses Hairy Chest to Grow Food   NBCNews.com
Boffins discovers Yeti crab at hydrothermal vent of East Scotia Ridge, Antarctica   Inferse
Science Recorder   
Maine News Online   
Benchmark Reporter   
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BirdChannel.com
   
New Study Hints Why Parrots Are Such Good At Mimicking Sounds & Speech   
BirdChannel.com
An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds' unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech. The study was called, "Core and Shell ...

Indian scientist reveals why parrots are great human speech imitators   TeCake
Scientists solve mystery of Talking Parrots, it's the different Brain Structure   Pulse Headlines
Discovered: Here's why parrots can talk like humans   Firstpost
Financial Express   
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The Guardian
   
Dinosaur comes out of closet at South Africa university   
The Guardian
Palaeontologists in South Africa have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown dinosaur dating back 200m years. It was found not on a remote desert plain but in a university storeroom. The specimen had been collected in the late 1930s and for decades ...

Scientists discover dinosaur with cross-shaped ankle bone in South Africa   Livemint
Dinosaur With Cross-Shaped Foot Bones Identified in South Africa   Bloomberg
Dinosaur Discovered in Africa is a New Species of Sauropodomorph   Science World Report
Economic Times   
Headlines & Global News   
Clapway   
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