2014年10月18日 星期六

2014-10-19 U.K. Science

  The Independent   
International Space Station visible to the naked eye above UK this evening  The Independent
Stargazers who missed seeing the International Space Station last night as it orbited over the UK have a second chance to catch a glimpse of the spacecraft tonight. Visble to the naked eye, the station orbits the earth roughly two hundred miles above the ...

UK stargazers set for rare glimpse of the International Space Station tonight   Mirror.co.uk
Look up! International Space Station in view over Merseyside this weekend   Liverpool Echo
CASIS Awards New Grants for ISS Tech   PC Magazine
ChronicleLive   
ExtremeTech   
Automation World   
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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: fracking would be boon for poorest parts of the UK   The Guardian
Why climate 'uncertainty' is no excuse for doing nothing   The Conversation UK
Western Morning News   
Express.co.uk   
MSN UK   
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  Falmouth Packet   
Smoking ban on beaches among urgent measures needed to help tackle marine ...  Falmouth Packet
Surfers Against Sewage is calling for urgent and innovative new measures to rid the UK coastline of marine litter, including a ban on smoking on beaches and enforcing fines. The organisation's 'Marine Litter Report' sounds the alarm for the UK's trashed ...

Cornwall's Marine Litter Crackdown   Pirate FM
Surf band Sunset Sons to join the big Croyde Beach Clean   North Devon Gazette
Cornish charity calls for smoking ban on beaches   West Briton
AboutMyArea   
Shields Gazette   
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  RT   
Finally detected? Elusive dark matter may be streaming past glaring Sun  RT
A European space observatory picked up an unusual signal which British astronomers believe to be the first direct detection of dark matter's signature. The finding could be a historic breakthrough in our understanding of the universe. Invisible dark matter ...

Strange signal hints at presence of Dark Matter   Science Recorder
Not so dark after all! Dark matter particles may FINALLY have been found - and ...   Daily Mail
Dark matter may have been detected – streaming from the sun's core   The Guardian
BBC News   
Yahoo News UK   
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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 ...

Kwanda Industries Presents Nextage at Japan Robot Week   News Tonight Africa
A Japanese Coffee-Making Robot Is Coming To Steal Barista Jobs   Businessinsider India
Sick of hipster baristas? Try a robot   Telegraph.co.uk
Bustle   
ninemsn   
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  Beta Wired   
Welcome to the Anthropocene Epoch, scientists say  Beta Wired
While it may be hard to pinpoint exactly when it began, scientists agree that we have firmly arrived in what is being called the Anthropocene Epoch. Named for the impact humanity has had on the Earth – and how it will be preserved in the fossil record in the ...

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
Sydney Morning Herald   
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  Reuters   
Pakistan at war with climate change  The Nation
Having faced with problems of war on terror and chronic loadshedding, the incumbent government has to encounter the climate change question mark now. The policy framework, called the National Climate Change Policy, might be seen as reasonable but ...

Mismanaging climate change   The Express Tribune
REUTERS SUMMIT-Alcoholic drinks makers lead way on climate change ...   Daily Mail
Sunday Explainer: from plants to the Pentagon, a week in the life of climate change   Sydney Morning Herald
The Guardian   
Reuters   
Reuters UK   
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  BBC News   
Top secret space plane lands in California  BBC News
A unmanned 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.
Robot spacecraft ends mission   Herald Scotland
Mysterious US military plane back after 22 months in space   The Hindu
Secret space plane returns to Earth   Gulf Daily News
Chicago Tribune   
The Space Reporter   
UPI.com   
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  Hindustan Times   
Move over chocolate ladies! Men are more interested in sex than food  Hindustan Times
In a discovery that might be true even for some humans, researchers have shown that male brains- at least in nematodes - will suppress the ability to locate food in order to instead focus on finding a mate. (AFP Photo). The results may point to how subtle ...

Males wired to pick sex over food   Delhi Daily News
Male Nematodes Choose Sex Over Food   Design & Trend
Men may focus on Sex more than Food   News Tonight Africa
The Independent   
Daily Mail   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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  Exeter Express and Echo   
Engineering "Oscar" for rail repair team on Exeter line  Exeter Express and Echo
The team of engineers who worked 24/7 to reopen the Dawlish rail link following the severe weather at the start of 2014, have been awarded the Brunel Medal, regarded as the engineering Oscar. The medal, named after civil engineering great Isambard ...

'Orange army” of engineers that worked to reopen rail line at Dawlish win ...   This is The West Country
Dawlish line engineers honoured with Brunel gong after winter ravages   Western Daily Press

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