2014年8月8日 星期五

2014-08-09 U.K. Science

  Tech Times   
This origami robot folds itself to wow you  Tech Times
The future is now on foldable robotics technology, as a team of scientists and engineers made the very first one of its kind, as inspired by the Japanese ancient art of origami. (Photo : Harvard's Wyss Institute). Imagine a robot that constructs itself like origami ...

Harvard and MIT Build A Robot That Can Build Itself   Boston.com
Researchers design flat sheet that can fold itself into a robot, walk away   Ars Technica
Scientists create self-assembling, working robots   Computerworld
PC Magazine   
Christian Science Monitor   
Archinect   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Huge Iron Age fort bought by National Trust for £450000  Telegraph.co.uk
An Iron Age hill fort that stands at twice the height of the White Cliffs of Dover has been bought by the National Trust for the nation. Hambledon Hill, in Dorset, has a rich natural and archaeological story dating back to before the construction of Stonehenge, the ...


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  BBC News   
Antarctic Halley Station lost power and heat at -32C  BBC News
All power, including heating, to an Antarctic research station housing 13 people was lost for 19 hours, it has been revealed. With temperatures as low as -32C (-25F), members of the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at the Halley VI Station ...

Staff from Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey left in cold for 19 hours at ...   Cambridge News
Researchers in Antarctic Lose Power for 19 Hours   News Tonight Africa
Antarctic researchers lose heating at -55 degrees   Zee News
Sky News   
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  The Independent   
Diamond launched into space has landed in Lincolnshire in 'finders keepers ...  The Independent
People in Lincolnshire may want to read this en route to Lea, Gainsborough, where a diamond worth tens of thousands of pounds has fallen from the sky – and will belong to the first person who finds it. The £12,000 cushion cut diamond was mounted to a ...

Who will claim a £12000 diamond which has landed near Gainsborough after ...   Lincolnshire Echo
£12000 diamond launched into space lands in Gainsborough   ITV News

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  Gloucester Citizen   
Decaying carcass of bottlenose dolphin has been recovered from the River ...  Gloucester Citizen
THE decaying carcass of a bottlenose dolphin has been hauled from the River Severn in Gloucestershire by marine experts. Changing tides dictated the timing of the search and Sharpness Lifeboat Station officials located the mammal south of Weir Green, ...


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Swimming the Seven Seas to Save the World's Oceans  AllAfrica.com
Lewis Pugh, ocean advocate and endurance swimmer, set out on Thursday to become the first person to undertake a long-distance swim in each of the classical Seven Seas, in a bid to highlight the need for protected areas in oceans around the world.

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  The Argus   
Horses' ears are a valuable tool  First News
The study by the University of Sussex found that horses can work out what others are thinking by looking at the direction of their ears. Jennifer Wathan and colleague Professor Karen McComb used 72 horses in their study. The horses used cues from a ...

How Horses Communicate with Their Ears   HorseChannel.com

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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Family on holiday saves stranded dolphins with the help of luggage straps  Telegraph.co.uk
A family on holiday on a Hebridean island has been praised for saving 19 dolphins that became stranded on a beach in front of the house they were renting. Finley Meakin, 13, spotted the mammals unusually close to the shore at Lochbuie, on the Isle of Mull, ...

In pictures: Grandad saves pod of dolphins who got stranded on Scottish beach   Scotland Now
Holidaying family use their luggage straps to save 19 stranded dolphins that had ...   Daily Mail
Watch moment hero grandad saves pod of dolphins who got stranded on beach   Scottish Daily Record
Nottingham Post   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Tiny transforming bots: Meet these self-assembling 'thoughtful' droids  Register
Rise of the Machines Engineers have come up with self-folding robots that can put themselves together and crawl away on their own – although batteries must be included. Three stages of the origami robots assembling. (Credit: Seth Kroll). Foldable 'bots are ...

'Transformer' robots build themselves from paper   The Hindu
These amazing self-folding robots are the closest thing to Transformers we've ...   BGR
Proof that Transformers could become a reality?   Telegraph.co.uk

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  Sky News Australia   
'Sleep deprivation puts astronauts' lives in danger'  Irish Examiner
Sandra Bullock in 'Gravity'. The blockbuster failed to explore one of the many hazards of space travel — lack of sleep. By John von Radowitz. Lack of sleep was one of the many hazards of space travel not explored in the blockbuster movie Gravity. Yet a new ...

Astronauts rely on sleeping pills in space that are unsuited for 'hazardous ...   Sydney Morning Herald
Sleep, the final frontier: Astronauts suffer serious insomnia while in space - and it ...   Daily Mail
Regular sunrises mean astronauts struggle to sleep   ITV News
Tech Times   
Argyll Free Press   
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