2014年10月17日 星期五

2014-10-18 U.K. Science

  The Independent   
Male brains 'wired to ignore food in favour of sex'  The Independent
Male brains are wired to choose sex over food, new scientific research suggests. Researchers observing a species of microscopic roundworms called C.elegans found that male worms given the choice between looking for food and finding a mate tended to ...

Males may be Wired to choose Sex over Food   ZME Science
Are men wired to shun food for sex?   Firstpost
Men Might Be Programmed To Choose Sex Over Food   Island Crisis News
Daily Mail   
Telegraph.co.uk   
TV3.ie   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Are we there yet? Scientists prepare for historic change of epoch  Sydney Morning Herald
Scientists from around the world met this week to decide whether to call time on the Holocene epoch after 11,700 years and begin a new geological age called the Anthropocene - to reflect humankind's deep impact on the planet. For decades, researchers ...

The Anthropocene age: what world will humans leave behind?   Telegraph.co.uk
Anthropocene: We might be about to move from the Holocene to a new epoch   The Independent
Anthropocene: is this the new epoch of humans?   The Guardian
Huffington Post   
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  The Times (subscription)   
Lonely old age? Not with a caring robot  The Times (subscription)
The British think they will “turn evil” and steal everybody's jobs. The Japanese and Americans cannot wait to be pampered by them. Robots could be caring for the country's elderly within 20 years, but only if the British shake off their mistrust of intelligent ...

A Japanese Coffee-Making Robot Is Coming To Steal Barista Jobs   Businessinsider India
Sick of hipster baristas? Try a robot   Telegraph.co.uk
Japan's "Nextage" Robot Barista Won't Take Your Job... Yet   Bustle
ninemsn   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Britain needs political climate change to cut soaring energy bills  Telegraph.co.uk
It is surprisingly common for our main political parties and policy-makers to agree about something. When they do, they are usually wrong; the longer they agree, the wronger they get. Few important people dare challenge them. Forty years ago, all three ...

Did Owen Paterson say anything truly startling?   BBC News
Owen Paterson accuses ministers of raising energy prices for the poor   Daily Mail
Owen Paterson: fracking would be boon for poorest parts of the UK   The Guardian
Financial Times   
Western Morning News   
Building.co.uk   
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  Shiny Shiny   
Fruit flies can sniff out drugs and bombs, scientists say  Shiny Shiny
A new study has shown that fruit flies can sniff out drugs and bombs almost as well as they home in on their favourite smell, fermenting fruit. It was led by Professor Nowotny from the University of Sussex, helped by researchers from Monash University and ...

How the Fruit Fly Could Help Us Sniff out Drugs and Bombs   Lab Manager Magazine
Flies Can Help Sniff Out Drugs, Bombs   Laboratory Equipment
Study Shows Fruit Flies Can Detect Bombs and Hazardous Drugs   Design & Trend
DigitalJournal.com   
Chinatopix   
Times of Malta   
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  BBC News   
Mysterious US spaceplane returns to Earth  BBC News
A US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet. It touched down ...

American X-37B space plane lands after secret mission lasting almost two years   The Independent
America's super-secret X-37B plane returns to Earth after nearly TWO YEARS aloft   Register
Mystery Shuttle Lands After Two-Year Flight   Sky News
Deutsche Welle   
Los Angeles Times   
Jalopnik   
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  MarketWatch   
REUTERS SUMMIT-Can an oil and gas superpower lead on climate change?  Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A day before President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations to declare the nation is "stepping up to the plate" to tackle climate change, nearly 400,000 protesters jammed New York City streets in a climate change ...

The Week Ahead: International Energy and Climate Developments Take Center ...   Bloomberg BNA
REUTERS SUMMIT-G20 host Australia stumbling block to global climate change ...   Daily Mail
Why the U.S. Military is Preparing for Climate Change   Care2.com
The Guardian   
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  CBC.ca   
Fusion reactors still 10 years out as Lockheed Martin announces breakthrough  CBC.ca
Lockheed Martin Corp. said earlier this week it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, but a reactor based on the technology is still years in the future. Lockheed, a big U.S. defence contractor, predicted ...

Kickstarting the New Atomic Age?   EV World
Clean energy dream a step closer for world   9news.com.au
Lockheed Martin reveals compact fusion plan   tce today
Forbes   
EagleFordTexas.com   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
Australians divided over coal policy  Financial Times
Until recently they were thriving coastal communities. But rising sea levels and erosion, which authorities blame on climate change, this year forced the relocation of the villages of Vunidogoloa and Narikoso in Fiji, creating almost 300 climate refugees.
Why Abbott's faith in coal could be wrong - very wrong   Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's Energy Policy Is Simple. Listen To The UN And Do The Opposite   OilPrice.com
Julia Gillard: Tony Abbott's climate policies are a “con”   RTCC
Delhi Daily News   
Newcastle Herald   
World Coal (press release)   
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  BBC News   
Science shines light on dark matter  BBC News
Scientists from the University of Leicester say they may have solved one of the most enduring mysteries in modern physics - the nature of dark matter. This is something that accounts for the difference between the observable mass of material in space, and the ...

Signal from space may be elusive dark matter   The Hindu
Astronomers may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter   ScienceAlert
Not so dark after all! Dark matter particles may FINALLY have been found - and ...   Daily Mail
The Guardian   
Yahoo News UK   
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