2014年11月7日 星期五

2014-11-08 U.K. Science

  IT PRO   
Light technology breakthrough to pave way for super-fast computers  IT PRO
University researchers have uncovered a way to manipulate glass that could help radically speed up computer data transfer and processing times by drawing on the power of light. The material could potentially allow computers to transfer information using ...

Discovery holds promise for optical computers   New Electronics
Surrey University leads the way to glass computers   ElectronicsWeekly.com
New research lights the way to super-fast computers   Phys.Org
R & D Magazine   
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  Sky News Australia   
Europe to make history with comet landing  Sky News Australia
One of the biggest gambles in space history comes to a climax this week when Europe attempts to make the first landing on a comet. Speeding towards the Sun at 65,000km/h, a lab called Philae will detach from its mother ship Rosetta and head for a ...

Europe set to make space history with comet landing of Philae lab   The Straits Times
Rosetta: scientists face seven hour wait to see if probe has reached comet   Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists gear up to land 1st spacecraft on comet   Businessweek

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  Mirror.co.uk   
Is this the Loch Ness Monster? New picture could be the clearest snap of ...  Mirror.co.uk
A photographer has revealed a snap he believes shows the "monstrous head" of the Loch Ness Monster. Jonathan Bright travelled from his home in Greece to speak at a Paranormal Festival in Scotland about his brush with the infamous creature of the deep.
'Monster's head' pictured on surface of choppy Loch Ness   Daily Mail
Loch Ness Monster: New photo 'shows Nessie diving through wave' in infamous ...   Express.co.uk
Could this be a picture of the Loch Ness Monster?   Aberdeen Press and Journal
The Inquisitr   
Daily Star   
Lightly Buzzed   
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  Metro   
Climate change 'making male bees more interested in sex than pollinating flowers'  Metro
Anyone with a basic knowledge of how ecosystems work knows how important the role of the humble bee is. But a study suggests that climate change may be making male bees too easily distracted by females to bother carrying out pollination. According to ...

Bees being distracted by climate changes   Herald Scotland
Is climate change confusing bees? Warmer springs are altering insect's life ...   Daily Mail
Climate change is disrupting flower pollination, research shows   The Guardian
Click Green   
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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 ...

Stunning starling murmuration display captured on camera in east Belfast   Belfast Telegraph
Starling murmurations in Britain   The Independent
Starlings Act Together as Single Living Creature at Dusk   Uncover California
Herald Scotland   
Express.co.uk   
Daily Mail   
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  BBC News   
Deep ocean sunfish washed up on beach in North Queensferry  BBC News
An oceanic fish which normally lives up to 600m (1,968ft) below the surface has been washed up on a beach near Deep Sea World in North Queensferry. The sunfish was discovered by a member of the public at East Bay beach who contacted the nearby ...

Rare ocean fish washed up on beach near North Queensferry minutes away ...   Dunfermline Press
Sunfish found on beach in North Queensferry near Deep Sea World   stv.tv
Rare fish washes up on Scottish beach   Deadline News
STV Edinburgh   
The Courier   
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  euronews   
EU Commission urges flexibility in air traffic reforms  Reuters
ROME Nov 7 (Reuters) - New European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc called on Friday for EU countries to show more flexibility in integrating air corridors as she pressed for completion of a long-delayed overhaul of air traffic control systems. Speaking ...

EU Commission Urges Flexibility In ATC Reforms   Airwise
EU nations must cede more control: Bulc   Air Traffic Management

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  KERO-TV 23   
Chicago's Shedd Aquarium cares for orphaned otter  SFGate
CHICAGO (AP) — The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has acquired a sea otter pup that was found alone on a California beach. The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.ly/1pkpYOX ) the aquarium said the weeks-old female otter arrived in Chicago last week ...

Raw: Baby Otter Takes Dip at Chicago Aquarium   WSB Radio
Baby sea otter Pup 681 goes for a sweet, squeaky swim   Today.com
Watch this adorable video of a baby otter learning how to swim at the Shedd ...   Tech Times
E! Online   
USA TODAY   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Photographer captures Northern Lights, Milky Way and erupting volcano...in ...  Metro
Few people can claim to have captured a photo of the Northern Lights on its own. But one photographer has, and he's gone gone not one, but two better – by capturing the Northern Lights, the Milky Way and an erupting volcano… in a single shot.
Photographer captures the Northern Lights, Milky Way and an erupting ...   Daily Mail
Pictures of the day: 7 November 2014   Telegraph.co.uk
Northern lights fanatic captured THREE natural wonders in one breathtaking ...   Express.co.uk
stv.tv   
Aberdeen Press and Journal   
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  National Geographic   
Acoustic warfare: bats jam each other's sonar while bug hunting  WHTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All's fair in love and war - and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you're a bat. Scientists studying a common species of these flying mammals found that the bats, while competing for the juicy insects they call dinner, make noises that ...

Mexican free-tailed bats utilize sonar jamming to pursue prey   The Hoops News

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