2014年8月20日 星期三

2014-08-21 U.K. Science

  The Independent   
Antarctic microbes can survive for millennia  The Independent
An American research team has found the most definitive evidence yet that life is able to survive for millennia beneath polar ice sheets. The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (Wissard) project discovered living microbes in an Antarctic ...

Organisms Found Beneath Antarctica Ice Could Mean Life Exists in Solar System   Design & Trend
Microbes thrive below Antarctic ice. A hint of life elsewhere in solar system?   Christian Science Monitor
Life under Antarctic ice raises hope of life on icy planets   Tech Times
Irish Examiner   
ABC Science Online   
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  Daily Mail   
Can you spot YOUR city from space? Nasa asks for help to identify thousands of ...  Daily Mail
Over 1.8 million images of Earth have been taken from space - and Nasa hopes internet users can help it pinpoint exactly what they show. A new online sites hopes user's will be able to spot their city in the images. They will then form part of a huge online ...

Rats in Spaaace! NASA Wants to Put Rodents on Space Station   Yahoo News UK
Winfree Bryant students to talk with space station astronauts   Lebanon Democrat
NASA wants to crowd source identifying 1.8 million images   Chron.com
Time Out London   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Invasive terrapins to be removed from park  Telegraph.co.uk
Dozens of “voracious” terrapins which have invaded a London park are to be removed over fears they could pass salmonella on to humans. Officials from the Environment Agency are using floating traps to catch the creatures, which are multiplying in ponds in ...

'Voracious' Terrapins Removed From Park   Londonist
"Disease-carrying" terrapins removed from London park   AOL Travel UK
Hackney ponds infested with deadly disease-ridden predators   London24
Hackney Citizen   
Evening Standard   
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  University of Bristol   
Tiny Jurassic Mammals Were Picky Eaters  LiveScience.com
In the Jurassic Period, when dinosaurs ruled the land, tiny mammals probably had to keep a low profile and survive by gobbling any insects they could find, but new research suggests these early mammals may have been pickier eaters than scientists ...

Jurassic Welsh mammals were picky eaters, study finds   Phys.Org
Even early mammals were picky eaters: Fossilised teeth from the Jurassic era ...   Daily Mail

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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Ape Rescue Centre at Monkey World in Dorset homes Bengal slow loris ...  Western Daily Press
The Bengal slow loris, a species of monkey no larger than a bag of sugar, had been living in the capital Male after police officers confiscated it during a drugs raid. Officers housed the nocturnal creature in a birdcage on Dhoonidhoo, also known as “prison ...

Abused slow loris flown to safety in the UK   AOL Travel UK
British Airways Gave This Adorable Animal a Second Chance at Life   Yahoo Travel
Slow loris jets in to UK safety   Evening Telegraph

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  BBC News   
New dates rewrite Neanderthal story  BBC News
Modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe 10 times longer than previously thought, a study suggests. The most comprehensive dating of Neanderthal bones and tools ever carried out suggests that the two species lived side-by-side for up to ...

Neanderthals bred in Europe   Herald Scotland
Scientists find key to the 'last stand' of early man   Irish Independent
Neanderthals In Europe Became Extinct Thousands of Years Sooner Than ...   International Business Times
ANINEWS   
Deutsche Welle   
New York Times   
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  NBCNews.com   
Light Display: Astronaut Captures Stunning Images of Aurora from Space  NBCNews.com
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman has taken his share of remarkable photos from his special vantage point in space, and his latest images of an aurora as seen from the International Space Station are no exception. Wiseman on Tuesday snapped photos of the ...

How the Sun Caused an Aurora This Week   Space Fellowship
Beautiful aurora photos taken from space   CBC.ca
Stunning Astronaut Photos Capture Beauty of Earth from Space   Space.com
Huffington Post UK   
artnet News   
Daily Mail   
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  Fox News   
Iceland evacuates tourists over volcanic eruption fears  TVNZ
A popular tourist area close to a volcano in Iceland has been evacuated over fears of an eruption. Authorities decided to evacuate the lightly populated area within a national park because of its proximity to the country's Bardarbunga volcano, BBC News ...

Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano alert raised to orange   BBC News
Eruption risk rising for earthquake-racked volcano in Iceland   Los Angeles Times
Iceland volcano: Travel agency has 'Volcano hotline' for dare-devil tourists who ...   The Independent
USA TODAY   
Philly.com   
Irish Times   
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Clash of the titans: Lions take on crocodile in epic fight  ITV News
Rare footage has been captured of a battle between a crocodile and three lions in Kenya. The video shot by Kai Banks at the Samburu National Reserve shows how a trio of lionesses take on the enormous reptiles on the edge of a sandbank. Banks wrote on ...

Incredible video shows the brutal scene in which three lions take on a crocodile ...   Daily Mail

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  Channel News Asia   
Mysterious source of ozone-depleting chemical baffles NASA  Rappler
WASHINGTON DC, USA – A chemical used in dry cleaning and fire extinguishers may have been phased out in recent years but NASA said Wednesday, August 20, that carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) is still being spewed into the atmosphere from an unknown ...

Earth's atmosphere still contains large amounts of an ozone depleting chemical ...   Daily Mail
NASA reveals mystery of banned ozone-destroying compound in atmosphere   Click Green
Carbon Tetrachloride: Ozone-depleting Compound Persists Decades Later   Science 2.0

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