2014年11月6日 星期四

2014-11-07 U.K. Science

  Express.co.uk   
Bees being distracted by climate changes  Herald Scotland
Climate change could be throwing bees out of sync with plants - with males too distracted by females to carry out pollination. Climate change could be throwing bees out of sync with plants - with males too distracted by females to carry out pollination.
Is climate change confusing bees? Warmer springs are altering insect's life ...   Daily Mail
Climate change 'making male bees more interested in sex than pollinating flowers'   Western Morning News
Climate change is disrupting flower pollination, research shows   The Guardian
Carbon Brief (blog)   
Click Green   
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  The Malay Mail Online   
DNA shows early Europeans survived the Ice Age  The Australian
DNA recovered from the fossilised remains of a man who lived 36,000 years ago suggests early Europeans survived the Ice Age. An international team of scientists also says the DNA from one of the oldest known modern humans shows that interbreeding ...

DNA from 36000-year-old skeleton sheds light on interbreeding between ...   Sydney Morning Herald
DNA Pinpoints When Humans and Neanderthals Interbred   NBCNews.com
Ancient Russian's DNA sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding   Reuters UK

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  BBC News   
Gretna starlings put on spectacular murmuration display  BBC News
Starlings have once again been putting on a spectacular display as they gather in huge murmurations at Gretna in the south of Scotland. Tens of thousands of the birds are regularly seen around this time of year near the Dumfries and Galloway town. It is one ...

In pictures: Starlings put on stunning murmurations display in Gretna   Scotland Now
WATCH: Pitch-black blanket of starlings fill sky in stunning – but unexplained ...   Express.co.uk
Stunning starling display captured   Daily Mail
AOL Travel UK   
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  Express.co.uk   
Weather's turned a little chilly, deer  Express.co.uk
Much of the country was covered in a veil of icy white as temperatures plummeted overnight on Wednesday to as low as -3.8C (25.2F). Autumn temperatures so far have been unseasonably warm but yesterday the cold snap had drivers scraping ice off their ...

Better late than never! Swans arrive at Slimbridge   ITV News
Nurton and Nusa lead the first family of Bewick's swans to arrive at WWT ...   Gloucester Citizen
Bewick swans: Latest arrival date of Bewick swans to WWT Slimbridge since 1969!   Western Daily Press
Fenland Citizen   
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  Daily Mail   
Alma snaps stunning 'baby picture' of disc 450 light-years away  Daily Mail
You'd be forgiven for thinking this incredible picture is an artist's impression of a planet forming around a star. But it is in fact the most detailed real image of a planet's birth ever taken, revealing a phenomenon astronomers could only theorise about a few ...

Planet formation captured in photo   BBC News
Revolutionary image shows planets forming around a star   CNET
ALMA telescope spies a solar system in process of being born   Los Angeles Times
The Independent   
Reuters   
Newsweek   
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  Western Morning News   
Humanoids from Plymouth going for gold at robot world cup  Western Morning News
They may not be going the full 26.2 miles, but a team of cute miniature robots from Plymouth are hoping to be crowned masters of the marathon at a global competition in China. The Plymouth Humanoids, based at Plymouth University, are pitting their wits ...

World Cup success for Plymouth's star robot athletes?   ITV News
Plymouth robots gunning for marathon glory in China   Plymouth Herald

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  BBC News   
Bats can jam sonar of rivals  Herald Scotland
A SPECIES of bat actively jams the sonar of its rivals when foraging for food, scientists have discovered. A SPECIES of bat actively jams the sonar of its rivals when foraging for food, scientists have discovered. The Mexican free-tailed bat emits a specific ...

Bats sabotage rivals' senses with sound in food race   BBC News
Hungry bats in a jam   The Times (subscription)
Bats come with built-in sonar jammers, scientists say   Beta Wired
Nature World News   
Mirror.co.uk   
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  KRWG   
How Sex Organs Got Started: It Was an Evolutionary Quickie  NBCNews.com
If you turn over a mouse and a snake to look for their sex organs, you'd probably gain an appreciation for the diversity of genitalia in the animal world. Down near their tails, male mice have penises studded with tiny spines, and female mice have vaginas.
How Boy Bits First Came To Be   WGBH NEWS
Origin of man's penis revealed   Daily Mail

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  Daily Mail   
Pterodactyls struggled to get airborne  Daily Mail
Think of a pterodactyl and you may imagine a fierce flying predator soaring over volcanoes and prehistoric palms. But the reality for some larger creatures may have been less successful. Engineers have revealed that the size of pterosaurs was limited by their ...

Size mattered for pterosaurs   SBS
Tricky take-offs may have limited pterodactyl size   Washington Post
Size mattered for 'flying dragons'   Yahoo News UK
Science Codex   
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  Daily Mail   
Esa spacecraft could discover 70000 planets outside the solar system  Daily Mail
A spacecraft called Gaia launched by Esa to map the stars in the Milky Way could be repurposed to find planets in the galaxy, say scientists. They say it could be used to find 70,000 worlds outside the solar system, including many that have previously been ...

We May Find 'Tens Of Thousands' Of Nearby Planets By 2018   Forbes
Gaia Satellite 'to Detect 70000 Alien Planets in Milky Way over Next 10 Years'   International Business Times UK
Gaia could reveal Tens of Thousands of New Planets   Maine News Online
Phys.Org   
Times of India   
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