2014年8月29日 星期五

2014-08-30 U.K. Science

  Yorkshire Post   
Yellow peril as wagtail population in serious decline  Yorkshire Post
THEY may be sprightly and skittish, but one of the UK's best-loved birds could soon become a seldom sight. Three species of wagtail are suffering from long-term declines, according to the annual Breeding Bird Survey's latest report. Yellow wagtails have ...

Why are all our wagtails vanishing? Scientists baffled by long-term decline of ...   Daily Mail
UK Wagtail numbers almost halved, report warns   Telegraph.co.uk
Wagtails on the wane, study of UK breeding birds shows   The Guardian
Wildlife Extra   
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  Daily Mail   
Whisky blasted into space three years ago is set to make its return to Earth  Daily Mail
The Ardbeg Distillery on the Scottish island of Islay, sent compounds of unmatured malt to the International Space Station (ISS) in an unmanned cargo spacecraft in October 2011, along with particles of charred oak. The Ardbeg Distillery on the Scottish island ...

We'll Soon Know What Space Whisky Tastes Like   Gizmodo Australia
Ardbeg 'space whisky' set for return to Earth   BBC News
Want to Taste Whisky Aged in Space?   Chinatopix
Scotland Now   
4ni.co.uk   
The Drinks Report   
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  New York Daily News   
Footptint that gave legs to story of yeti  The Times (subscription)
Photographs taken by a Himalayan explorer of a footprint supposedly left by a yeti are expected to fetch up to £5,000 when they are sold by Christie's next month. The four pictures were taken by the British climber Eric Earle Shipton in 1951 and purport to ...

Iconic 'Yeti' footprint pictures form part of new Christie's auction   Spear's WMS
Yeti footprint photos up for auction   Tech Times
First-ever Yeti footprint photos could fetch almost $5000 at London auction   New York Daily News
Daily Mail   
Yahoo News UK   
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  BBC News   
Iceland's volcano ash alert lifted  BBC News
An eruption near Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano that briefly threatened flights has ended, local officials say. The fissure eruption at the Holuhraun lava field north of the Vatnajokull glacier stopped at 04:00 GMT on Friday. Before lifting air travel curbs, the ...

All Clear: Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Eruption Over, Air Travel OK'd   NBCNews.com
Iceland reduced its aviation warning level to orange yesterday after concluding ...   Irish Independent
The eruption occurred at the Bardarbunga volcano after weeks of earthquakes ...   Metro
The Times (subscription)   
Businessweek   
Washington Post   
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  Daily Mail   
World's largest set to go up for auction  Daily Mail
The world's oldest egg - belonging to an extinct ostrich-like bird - is expected to raise a staggering £50,000 at auction. The rare item is over 500 years old and is just one of a handful of undamaged eggs left by the extinct elephant bird, once native to the island ...

Collectors scramble for world's oldest egg   The Argus
World's largest egg for sale in Billingshurst   West Sussex Gazette

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  Daily Mail   
Rise in pests over next 30 years 'could cause vast potato and bread shortages'  Daily Mail
A predicted rise in pests could cause vast bread and potato shortages and force the nation to change its diet, scientists claim. According to a study, Britain's farms could be 'overwhelmed' by pests within the next 30 years and the risk to crops has been ...

Scientists warning of crop crisis   New Zealand Herald
Crop pests: 'Overwhelmed' by 2050?   NFU Online
The end of the potato? Deadly crop pests threaten our dinner staple new The UK ...   Belfast Telegraph

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  The Independent   
We must protect our oceans, says seven seas swimmer Lewis Pugh  The Independent
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has called on David Cameron and other political leaders to act to protect the oceans as he completed his challenge to swim the Seven Seas. Over the past month, Mr Pugh has completed long-distance swims in seven seas ...

Pugh completes seven seas swim   Independent Online
Lewis Pugh becomes the first person to swim the Seven Seas   ITV News
Lewis Pugh becomes first person to swim the Seven Seas   Citizen
Western Morning News   
Times of Oman   
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  International Business Times UK   
Transformers Watch Out: Japan Aims to Bring a $1bn Gundam Robot to Life  International Business Times UK
A team of engineers and animators in Japan have started the Gundam Global Challenge (GGC), an ambitious project to bring a huge 18m-tall (60ft) Gundam robot statue to life and walking by 2019. Gundam is a hugely popular Japanese anime franchise that ...

New project aims to deliver a working Gundam to the world   SlashGear
Can 'Gundam' fans build a six-story walking robot?   Computerworld Australia

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  IcelandReview   
Volcanic activity worldwide 29 Aug 2014: Bardarbunga volcano, Poas, Rabaul ...  VolcanoDiscovery
Bardarbunga (Iceland): Two aerial pictures released by the Icelandic Civil Protection showing the eruptive fissure, the spatter ramparts that formed there as well as the new lava flows. The eruption which lasted only a few hours probably set a record in the ...

Birth of a Volcano: The World Watches Iceland   Huffington Post UK
Icelandic volcanic ash alert status raised   Flightglobal
Eruption on the Brain (ESA)   IcelandReview
Washington Post   
GlacierHub   
Forbes   
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  Daily Mail   
Mind over matter: Scientists find way to email brainwave  Pune Mirror
Scientist in Thiruvananthapuram transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000 miles away in France's Strasbourg using brainwaves. Brain-wave sensing machines have been used to 'telepathically' control everything from real-life helicopters to ...

Scientist transmits message into mind of colleague 5000 miles away using brain ...   Daily Mail
Brain-Computer Interface Sends Thoughts Across Internet via EEG Scanners   Gizmodo UK

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