2014年9月24日 星期三

2014-09-25 U.K. Science

  Firstpost   
Mangalyaan success: Why Western criticism of India's Mars mission is blatant ...  Firstpost
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in November 2013, when the Mangalyaan was launched from Earth. It has been republished in light of the success of the India Mars mission. Balaji Viswanathan. India has now successfully launched its ...

Why Mars? To find the elusive methane and secrets of life   Times of India
India wins Asia's race to Mars on just a $93.7m budget   AsiaOne
India reaches the Red Planet! So why is Britain giving £1BILLION in aid to a ...   Daily Mail
Times of Oman   
Zee News   
NDTV   
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  The Guardian   
Nelson Mandela's widow calls for urgent climate action at UN  The Guardian
Graça Machel, the widow of Nelson Mandela, speaks at the UN climate summit in New York. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters. The widow of Nelson Mandela punctured the self-congratulatory mood of the UN summit on Tuesday, saying world leaders had ...

IPE Views: UN Climate Summit – Political rhetoric versus investor action   IPE.com
Climate summit ends with rebuke to leaders   Financial Times
UN climate summit: Mandela's widow says leaders lack courage   Responding to Climate Change

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  The Hornet   
For sale: One woolly mammoth: Skeleton of Ice Age beast goes up for auction ...  The Hornet
The specimen, which is 18ft (5.5 metres) long, is expected to attract both museums and private collectors. It will be sold at Summer Place Auctions on 26 November in West Sussex. For sale: One woolly mammoth: Skeleton of Ice Age beast goes up for auction.
Mammoth goes under the hammer in Billingshurst   West Sussex County Times
Rare Skeleton of Wooly Mammoth Set to be sold at UK Auction in November   News Tonight Africa
Woolly mammoth could be yours   Yahoo News UK
The Argus   
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  New Electronics   
UK scientists grow large sheets of MoS2  Compound Semiconductor
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) in the UK has developed a way to make large areas of ultra thin sheets of molybdenum di-sulphide (MoS2), a potential challenger to graphene. This new ...

UK researchers claim to develop “super” graphene   ElectronicsWeekly.com
Nanometal a 'challenger' to graphene   Laboratory Talk
New wonder material set to rival graphene?   New Electronics
E&T magazine   
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  National Geographic   
Scientists hit new milestone in search for water on planets outside our solar system  Washington Post
Seven hundred and twenty-nine trillion miles away, a planet four times bigger than our own has water in its atmosphere. Of course, the planet is a super hot bundle of gas surrounding a tiny rocky core, so it's not as if that water would support life as we know it.
Water discovered on smaller-than-ever distant exoplanet   RT
Water vapor detected in clear skies on Neptune-sized exoplanet   Los Angeles Times
Water has been discovered on the smallest exoplanet yet   ScienceAlert
The Hornet   
DAWN.com   
CNET   
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  iStreet Research   
No to deforestation in Brazil  iStreet Research
1 After other countries agreed to save planet Earth and save the forests, Brazil continues to decline signing the agreement. 30 countries including US, Canada and European Union had already signed in. Brazil where one of the biggest rainforest in the world ...

Businesses are taking action to protect the world's forests   Business Green
Can we take deforestation off the grocery store shelves?   Treehugger
UN Climate Change Summit Yields Major Announcements on Deforestation   VICE News
IISD Reporting Services   
The Ecologist   
Daily Digest   
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  Daily Star   
Hundreds of tube-web spiders invade family's garden and house  Daily Echo
A small army of tube-web spiders have invaded a Hampshire home – with some as big as a tablespoon, leaving Dan Jackson and his family nervous to go outside. Almost 100 spiders have set up home in his garden in Bursledon, filling every hole and crack ...

Family terrorised by dozens of green-fanged spiders   Parentdish
Spider invasion: How do I know if a spider in my garden is dangerous?   Mirror.co.uk

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  Energy Live News - Energy Made Easy   
France stumps up $1bn but world Climate Fund still short  Energy Live News - Energy Made Easy
A fund to help developing countries curb their emissions is well short of cash, despite a new pledge of $1 billion (£610m) from France. The Green Climate Fund was dreamed up in 2010 at the UN's climate change meet in Cancun, Mexico. The UN's senior ...

Green Climate Fund receives $1.3 billion in new pledges   Responding to Climate Change
UN climate fund still far short of $10bn goal   Al-Arabiya
UN climate summit pledges $2.3 billion for at-risk nations   FRANCE 24
Reuters   
The Japan Times   
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  ABC Science Online   
Enigmatic fossils could be oldest known animals  ABC Science Online
This unusual, multicellular fossil looks very different from anything alive today.(Source: Lei Chen/Shuhai Xiao). Related Stories. Fossils push animal-made reefs back in time, Science Online, 27 Jun 2014; Ediacaran study shakes the tree of life, Science Online ...

Bizarre Sphere Fossils Could Be Among World's Earliest Animals   Yahoo News UK
This strange fossil may show an early stage of animal life   Washington Post

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  IBNLive   
India, China serious about climate change, says UN official  IBNLive
Washington: A top UN official has played down the absence of the heads of state of India and China from the Climate Summit in New York this week, saying the two countries are very serious about an agreement on global warming. UN Secretary-General ...

Five ways Ban Ki-moon's summit has changed international climate politics forever   The Guardian
UN: All hands needed on deck to tackle climate change   The Star Online
'Bigger threat than terrorism': Barack Obama signals Australia, India and China ...   Sydney Morning Herald
The Daily Star   
Reuters   
Forbes   
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