2014年10月23日 星期四

2014-10-24 U.K. Science

  Business Insider   
Easter Island's ancient people mixed with South Americans  The Globe and Mail
They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 3,700 kilometres west of South America and 1,770 km from the closest island, erecting huge stone figures that still stare enigmatically from the hillsides. But the ancient Polynesian people who ...

Easter Islanders not as lonely as thought   Stuff.co.nz
Surprising connection between Easter Islanders and Native Americans revealed ...   Tech Times
Surprising new details surface on ancient inhabitants of Easter Island   Daily Digest
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  Scientific Computing   
20 October 2014 in News: Mars spacecraft safe after fortuitous comet encounter  Astronomy Now Online
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took these images of comet Siding Spring, the first resolved images of a long-period comet's nucleus. HiRISE took the pictures nine minutes apart at a range of 138,000 km (86,000 miles) from the ...

PICTURE: Hubble captures comet pass of Mars   WAAY
Comet Siding Spring hurtles past Mars in rare close fly-by   Telegraph.co.uk
Hubble captures stunning image of a comet's brush past Mars   Los Angeles Times
Sky & Telescope   
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  The Guardian   
EU leaders agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030  The Guardian
Smoke billows from the chimneys of a coal-fired Polish power plant. Poland gained concessions to modernise its power plants. Photograph: KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS. Arthur Neslen in Brussels. Thursday 23 October 2014 21.29 EDT. Share via Email ...

EU leaders agree CO2 emissions cut   BBC News
UPDATE 2-EU strikes compromise to set new climate target   Reuters
EU Leaders Agree to Long-Term Energy, Climate Change Targets   Wall Street Journal
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Researchers look back 385-million-years, find first instance of penetrative sex  Hamilton Spectator
New research suggests that a type of armoured fish called placoderms may have been the first animal to develop penetrative sex. According to a paper published in Nature this week, the predecessor of sex as it occurs in mammals today first appeared in ...


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Heat networks must be national priority, WWF says  H&V News
A new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called for heat networks to become a national infrastructure priority. Its latest energy report Warm homes, not warm words highlights that the opportunity to create warm, affordable low-carbon homes and ...


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  The Independent   
Fossils reveal very awkward dinosaur once roamed the Earth  The Independent
Palaeontologists in the Mongolia's Gobi Desert have discovered new fossils that allow them to create a picture of what one of the most unusually-shaped dinosaurs looked like. Deinocheirus mirificus, which means "unusual horrible hand" in Latin, was a ...

Duckbilled Dinosaur Looked Like Jar Jar Binks   Sky News
Deinocheirus dinosaur that roamed Earth 70m years ago recreated in 3D   Daily Mail
Fossils reveal 'beer-bellied' dinosaur   Nature.com
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  JBG News   
NASA launches Soundcloud account: Listen to the sounds of space  Digital Spy UK
NASA has opened its very own Soundcloud account - allowing us to listen to around 60 samples of missions over the years. Whilst space is noiseless because sound can't travel through a vacuum, the tracks on offer are more interesting anyway, with whizzes ...

Nasa posts free space sounds library   Stuff.co.nz
Sample Alert! NASA Done Gone Started A SoundCloud   Stoney Roads
Nasa releases audio clips on SoundCloud so 'one small step' can be your ringtone   Daily Mail
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  The Guardian   
Rosetta mission: Philae comet probe could unlock secrets of the universe  The Guardian
Next month, if all goes to plan, a 10-year journey through space will culminate in a landing craft called Philae touching down on a comet as part of the Rosetta mission and, possibly, unlocking secrets of the universe. Space agency scientists rubbed shoulders ...

Philae's Mission To Unravel The Mystery Of life   Clapway
Egyptian obelisk revealed anew   BBC News
VIDEO: The groundbreaking scientific missions linked by the name of Dorset's ...   Bournemouth Echo
Blackmore Vale Magazine   
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  Daily Mail   
The megalodon IS extinct: New study rubbishes claim that giant shark still roams ...  Daily Mail
It is the largest shark ever to have lived, weighing 50 tonnes and measuring 18 feet long. However, swimmers can breathe a sigh of relief - the megalodon really did become extinct 2.6 millions years ago. Recently it was claimed the shark could still exist ...

Extinction Of 'Monster Shark' Megalodon May Have Allowed Whales To Grow ...   Design & Trend
When Did Megalodon Sharks Go Extinct? Study Reveals New Data   The Inquisitr
Monster shark 'kept whales in check'   CBBC Newsround
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  Science News   
24 October 2014 in News: Latest images show spectacular streams of dust from ...  Astronomy Now Online
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/ INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA. Rosetta's comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is beginning to show a clearly visible increase in activity. While in the past months most of the dust emitted from the ...

Spacewatch: Countdown to Philae's comet landing   The Guardian
This Comet Stinks   Business Insider Australia
Space Stink: Comet's Unique Smell Revealed   Sky News
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Irish Times   
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