2015年8月3日 星期一

2015-08-04 Singapore Science


Exciting times at the six varsities   
AsiaOne
NTU's new learning hub has 56 "smart" classrooms with flexible clustered seating, electronic whiteboards and LCD screens. Photo: Hufton and Crow. Exciting times at the six varsities. The Straits Times | Calvin Yang | Monday, Aug 3, 2015. Home Shares. 20.

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AsiaOne
   
China claims supremacy in dinosaur discoveries   
AsiaOne
China, which has become a treasure trove of dinosaur fossil findings, can claim global supremacy in the area of dinosaur discoveries. This is thanks to the widespread construction work that has exposed rocks, and also greater government resources to ...
Age of the Chinasaurs   The Straits Times
Largest Feathered Dinosaur Found in China   New Historian

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Environment still in jeopardy as Asean works toward change   
eco-business.com
Despite more than 40 years of environmental management in the Asean region, degradation of the environment continues, affecting the most vulnerable populations, a senior policy advisor for the Institute for Global Environment Strategies said yesterday ...

   


Climate change set to undermine 50 years of gains in global health   
European Public Health Alliance
"The implications of climate change for a global population of 9 billion people threaten to undermine the last half century of gains in development and global health." This alarming finding by The Lancet illustrates how profoundly climate change ...

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NBCNews.com
   
Rangeomorphs Could Be Earliest Example of Reproduction in Complex Organism   
NBCNews.com
A soft-bodied, fernlike creature reproduced in Earth's ancient oceans about 565 million years ago, making it the earliest known example of procreation in a complex organism, a new study finds. Many scientists consider the creatures, called rangeomorphs ...
Newfoundland fossils may show earliest reproduction in complex organism   CBC.ca
Scientists discover how some of the world's first animals reproduced   Washington Post
Sex life of ancient Fractofusus organism revealed   BBC News
ABC Science Online   
Christian Science Monitor   
Nature World News   
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State Column
   
Joan Archer Aldrin, wife of Buzz Aldrin, dies at age 84   
State Column
It was not an easy life for the wife of the second man to walk on the moon, and she will be remembered fondly by the many lives she touched. Joan Archer Aldrin, famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin's wife, has died at the age of 84. According to a report from ...
Buzz Aldrin's $33.31 in expenses for 'business trip' to Moon published   Telegraph.co.uk
How much does a trip to the moon cost?   NEWS.com.au
#sarkaribusiness: Astronaut files travel reimbursements to the moon!   Junior College
The Guardian   
Naples Daily News   
OregonLive.com   
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Discovery News
   
Climate change: No 'Plan B' for oceans, says study   
Economic Times
PARIS: Technology to drain heat-trapping CO2 from the atmosphere may slow global warming, but will not reverse climate damage to the ocean on any meaningful timescale, according to research published Monday. At the same time, a second study ...

Window closing fast on climate change options   Stuff.co.nz
Hopes Dim for Reversing Ocean Warming: Study   Discovery News
New Study: We Cannot Reverse Climate Change   I4U News
The Guardian   
King County (press release)   
eNews Park Forest   
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The Nation
   
The big melt: we won't recognise our glaciers   
New Zealand Herald
By 2100, New Zealand's postcard glaciers will bear little resemblance to how we know them today, a scientist says. The warning comes as a new global study, published overnight, shows the world's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, losing on ...

Glaciers 'have shrunk to lowest levels in 120 years'   The Straits Times
Glaciers melt to lowest level on record   The Nation
Glaciers Melting At Fastest Rate Since Record-Keeping Began   Huffington Post UK
Stuff.co.nz   
Huffington Post   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
How to tackle flying ants: Watch pest control expert reveal his secrets   
Mirror.co.uk
Even celebs like Eamonn Holmes and McBusted singer Danny Jones have been grumbling about the airborne bugs. But a video by ABC pest control gives a revealing insight into the colony structure behind the gliding menaces - and how to get shot of them ...

Flying Ant Day: the science behind the summer swarms   The Guardian
SIX ways to get rid of flying ants   Folkestone Herald
Hot weather causes invasion of flying ants   Grimsby Telegraph
Dispatch Times   
BT.com   
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National Post
   
Canadian researcher witnesses polar bear holding its breath for record three ...   
National Post
A Canadian researcher has logged a scientific first of witnessing a polar bear holding his breath for a record-breaking three minutes. During an expedition off Norway's Svalbard Islands, biologist Ian Stirling saw an emaciated bear staying underwater ...
Speak Up to Save Polar Bears   TakePart
Slaughter in the snow: Sick trophy hunters killing endangered POLAR BEARS and ...   Express.co.uk
Polar bears may be superb divers: study   Business Standard
Deccan Herald   
Xinhua   
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