2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 U.K. Science

  Delhi Daily News   
Seabirds enjoy bumper breeding season  Delhi Daily News
An iconic Scottish seabird, which was driven to extinction on Hebridean Island by rats, has returned to nest in what is proving to be a bumper year for several internationally important species. The discovery that manx shearwater has returned to nest comes as ...

Seabirds enjoy best breeding season in years   Herald Scotland
Endangered seabirds making comeback in Scotland   Scotsman
Puffins, shags and razorbills doing well, says NTS   BBC News
Aberdeen Press and Journal   
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  Daily Mail   
Myth busted: Magpies don't steal shiny objects  gulfnews.com
London: The myth of the “thieving magpie”, which pervades European folklore, may not be true after all. A British study says magpies do not steal trinkets and are scared of shiny objects. It is widely believed that magpies have a compulsive urge to steal ...

Magpies don't steal shiny objects: study   Business Standard
Magpies may not like shiny things after all   Metro
Magpies won't steal your jewellery because they're actually scared of shiny objects   Mirror.co.uk
BBC News   
Exeter Express and Echo   
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  Gamepur   
It Will Take 5 Billion Years to Explore All the Planets in the Video Game, No ...  Chinatopix
Sean Murray, co-founder of No Man's Sky, a randomly generated universe exploration game from Hello Games, explained the vastness of the game during Gamescom 2014. Developers have given a rough estimate on how long it will take to visit each planet ...

You'd Most Probably, Definitely be Dead Before you Saw the Same Thing Twice ...   n3rdabl3
No Man's Sky Preview - First Impressions at GamesCom   TrustedReviews
Gamescom 2014: The Sun Will Burn Out Before You See All of No Man's Sky   IGN
Attack of the Fanboy   
PlayStation LifeStyle   
HITC   
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  Blue & Green Tomorrow   
Soloman Islands town to relocate 1000 people to escape climate change  Blue & Green Tomorrow
A town in the Soloman Islands is preparing to relocate its whole population to escape from rising sea levels caused by climate change. The authorities of Choiseul, home to around 1,000 people on Taro Island in Choiseul Bay, have elected to build a new town ...

Solomons town to relocate to escape climate change, tsunamis   Thomson Reuters Foundation
Solomons town first in Pacific to relocate due climate change   Reuters
Climate change forces Solomons town to relocate   Delhi Daily News
Scientific American   
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  Science Codex   
An ancient 'misfit' finally finds a family  Washington Post
What has 20 legs, 14 sharp spikes on its back and a head that's really hard to distinguish from its rear end? Scientists didn't know either -- until recently. It's called Hallucigenia because researchers have scratched their heads over where it fits among life forms ...

'Evolutionary misfit' finally finds a family   Guelph Mercury
Hallucigenia revealed: The most surreal creature from strangest period in history ...   The Independent
The worm that turned evolution upside down   The Times (subscription)
The Conversation UK   
Phys.Org   
Examiner.com   
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  CBBC Newsround   
A high-speed salmon cannon that can fire fish upstream has been revealed.  CBBC Newsround
It was designed by scientists in the United States to help fish get where they want to go. The fish swim to the sea as adults, but head back up rivers and streams to lay their eggs. Scientists say things like dams and water pipes mean many salmon lose their way ...

'Salmon Cannon' Fires Fish Over Dams At 22mph   Sky News
Giant fish cannon shoots 40 salmon per minute, is actually saving the environment   ExtremeTech
This 'Salmon Cannon' Could Save Fish Populations in Washington State   Yahoo Food
The Malay Mail Online   
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  Techsonia   
Tibet Glaciers Facing Warmest Temperature In 2000 Years  Techsonia
In the past fifty years, there has been a dramatic increase in the humidity and temperature of the earth that has influenced glaciers also. This temperature is the warmest that has been faced by the Tibet Glaciers for the first time in two thousand years. According ...

Tibetan glaciers are warmer than they've been for 2000 years   Tech Times
Tibet's Glaciers at their Warmest in 2000 Years   Nature World News
Tibet's glaciers are warmer than they've been in 2000 years   UPI.com
Design & Trend   
Auto World News   
Angle Chronicle   
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  From Quarks to Quasars   
See Jupiter and Venus 'kiss' early on Monday morning  iTWire
"Venus and Jupiter as captured on August 17, 2014 by Marco Mereu at "Venus and Jupiter as captured on August 17, 2014 by Marco Mereu at Villastellone (House of the Lucky Star) in Turin, Italy.
Catch closest view of Jupiter, Venus pairing this year   Baltimore Sun
After 14 years Venus and Jupiter to meet up closest approach   iStreet Research
Treat for stargazers as 'double star' due   Herald.ie
The New Indian Express   
The Guardian   
Herald Scotland   
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  Clarksville Online   
Rosetta Probe Snuggles Up To Comet for Amazing Photo  Design & Trend
(Photo : Courtesy ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM) The Rosetta probe will begin an analysis of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which it successfully rendezvoused earlier this month. It has already captured breathtaking images of the space traveler's surface.
Rosetta Probe Captures Up-Close-And-Personal Images of Comet   Latin Post
Rosetta Spaceship snapped 3D View of Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet   StereoscopyNews
Rosetta satellite begins to decipher composition of comet   Daily Digest
Tech Times   
Clarksville Online   
Dumb-Out   
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  Scientific American   
Perseid Meteor Shower Thrills Stargazers Despite Bright Moon  Scientific American
Astrophotographer Jodi Totten sent in a photo of a Perseid meteor taken in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, on Aug. 13, 2014. Credit: Jodi Totten. Intrepid photographers in dark parts of the world managed to capture some stunning photos of the Perseid meteor shower ...

Perseids delight photographers despite the supermoon (PHOTOS)   Washington Post (blog)
Perseid in Moonlight   Space Fellowship
Perseid Meteor Shower Lighted the Night Skies with Fireball Streaks; NASA ...   KDramaStars

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