2015年9月17日 星期四

2015-09-18 Singapore Science


The Straits Times
   
Collecting fossils as a hobby   
The Straits Times
(From far left) Ms Ho Li Yah, Soh Zhi Bing and Mr Soh Avid collector Calvin Chu (above) keeps his collection of more than 1,000 fossils in a secret study behind three heavy bookcases in his home. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE. (From far left) Ms Ho Li Yah, ...


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ZME Science
   
Wolves are better than dogs at solving problems, study finds   
ZME Science
An experiment has found that domestic dogs have lost some of their problem solving abilities, and wolves currently do a much better job than them. In her paper published in the journal Biology Letters, they describe this result, and also offer a ...
Study: Humans making Dogs Stupid   MINA
Why is that dog looking at me?   The Straits Times
Why dogs are smarter than wolves   ohmidog!
Yahoo News UK   
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Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
   
Antarctic Waters Soaking Up More CO2   
Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
The turbulent waters of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica are an important carbon sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Like a huge lung at the bottom of the world, the Southern Ocean soaked up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the past ...

Science Briefs: Antarctic seas clearing huge amounts of CO2   The Straits Times

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RT
   
'Scientific bonanza': New NASA images reveal Pluto's giant ice mountains, hazy ...   
RT
The latest images from Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show amazing new details about the dwarf planet's atmosphere, weather patterns and streams of frozen nitrogen. NASA is calling it “a scientific bonanza.” A stunning panoramic image of ...

NASA releases eerie new photos of Pluto at sunset   Sydney Morning Herald
Beautiful new photos of Pluto show terrain, atmosphere   CNET
Pluto at Dusk: Spectacular, and Spookily Earthlike   National Geographic
Pierce Pioneer   
Orlando Sentinel   
The Market Business   
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Pulse Headlines
   
Burn All the Coal, Oil – May Cause 200 Feet Rise In The Sea Level   
The Market Business
Keep it in the ground. That's the rallying cry of environmentalists who warn that burning the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash catastrophic climate change. That's good advice, according to scientists who in a new study found that ...
Burning Of Fossil Fuels Reserve Could Melt Antarctica   MyTechBits
Burning All Of Earth's Fossil Fuel Reserves At Once Would Melt Antarctica And ...   Headlines & Global News
Study Reveals Antarctic Ice Would Completely Melt if All Global Fossil-Fuel   Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News (blog)
Radio New Zealand   
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AsiaOne
   
S Africa's new human ancestor sparks racial row   
AsiaOne
Professor Lee Berger kisses the skull of a Homo Naledi , a newly discovered human ancestor during the unveiling of the discovery on September 10, 2015 in Maropeng. A new species of human ancestor, Homo naledi, estimated at about 2.5 to 2.8 million ...

What Can We Learn From Homo naledi's Skull?   National Geographic
Don't auto play   New Zealand Herald

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Yahoo News
   
Studies on kissing, the word 'huh?' among Ig Nobel award winners   
Yahoo News
BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers who studied the consequences of intense kissing, the global use of the word "huh?" and how badly bee stings hurt on different parts of the body were among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes for comical scientific ...


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Channel News Asia
   
Now you see it, now you don't: invisibility cloak nears reality   
Channel News Asia
A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world. New research suggests such a device may be moving closer to reality. POSTED: 18 Sep 2015 09:10. PHOTOS. Light reflects off the cloak as if it were ...
Ultrathin 'Invisibility Cloak' Can Match Any Background   Yahoo News UK
The Real-Life Invisibility Cloak is Finally Here!   Latinos Post
Researchers Create New Ultra-thin Invisibility Cloak   TV Newsroom

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Newsweek
   
GMO Butterflies, Made Naturally by Parasitic Wasps   
Newsweek
There are tens of thousands of wasp species that make their living by parasitizing other insects, like butterflies and moths. In a typical scenario, a parasitoid wasp stings a caterpillar, injecting eggs or larvae (depending on the species) into the ...
Scientists Learn How Genes Can Jump Between Species   Wall Street Journal
How Wasps Use Viruses to Genetically Engineer Caterpillars   The Atlantic
Butterflies steal DNA of zombie wasps in natural genetic modification   Telegraph.co.uk
Science /AAAS   
Phys.Org   
The Scientist   
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The Independent
   
Russia's first lady of space launches London exhibition   
Channel News Asia
LONDON: Posing by the craft that carried her into orbit as the first woman in space, Russia's Valentina Tereshkova opened a London exhibition on Thursday dedicated to Soviet exploration of the cosmos. On June 16, 1963, Tereshkova blasted off aboard the ...

First woman in space reveals what crucial piece of kit was missing on her 1963 ...   The Independent
First woman in space recalls mission's teething troubles   The Guardian
The Crown Jewels of the Soviet Space Age   Motherboard
Telegraph.co.uk   
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