2014年12月16日 星期二

2014-12-17 U.K. Science


Reuters
   
NASA rover finds organic molecules, methane gas on Mars   
Reuters
Reuters - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Earth's neighbor planet, scientists said on Tuesday. The rover also found spurts ...

Methane 'belches' detected on Mars   BBC News
'A Great Moment': Rover Finds Clue That Mars May Harbor Life   New York Times
Is there life on Mars? Mystery (and hope) deepen   Computerworld
Telegraph.co.uk   
The Independent   
Washington Post   
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Irish Independent
   
Why there is no such thing as a silly moo for cattle   
Irish Independent
Scientists have discovered that, like human voices, individual cows made their own unique sounds. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. Researchers have deciphered the moos of cows and found that there are three distinctly different call sounds, after ...

Breaking moos: Researchers have deciphered the noises that cows make   The Independent
Scientists eavesdrop on cattle to translate meaning of their moos   Daily Mail
Cow researchers find meanings behind moos   BBC News
NEWS.com.au   
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The Guardian
   
barbaric capture of baby elephants for zoos in China shocks the world   
The Guardian
Are there no limits to the cruelty that humans are prepared to inflict on their fellow creatures in the natural world? When there is money to be made, apparently not. Baby elephant with adults in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Photograph: Paula ...

Pierce Brosnan wades into Zimbabwe elephant row   Telegraph.co.uk
Elephant family to arrive in the UAE   The National

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NME.com
   
'Punk rock' snail named for the Clash's Joe Strummer   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer, the late lead vocalist and guitarist from the famed British punk band the Clash. The researchers say the name highlights the "hardcore" nature of the snail, now known as Alviniconcha ...

When creatures are named after unlikely rock stars   Telegraph.co.uk
Joe Strummer has deep sea snail named after him   The Guardian
Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers name snail with a mohawk after The Clash ...   San Jose Mercury News
Contra Costa Times   
NME.com   
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The Guardian
   
Archaeologists discover 'incredible' details of 4000-year-old man   
Fox News
He lay on his side, clutching a bronze dagger, undiscovered in a shallow field in the UK for four millennia til a metal detector hit upon his dagger. Then it took another quarter-century for tests to be funded and performed, but they're now telling the story of ...

Chichester skeleton: Racton Man 'was warrior chief killed in battle'   BBC News
Racton Man skeleton buried was a 'warrior chief'   Daily Mail
Chichester skeleton Racton Man 'warlord was killed in action'   Full-Time Whistle
The Guardian   
The Independent   
Culture24   
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Popular Science
   
Lunar Mission Kickstarter Campaign Meets Its Funding Target   
Popular Science
Lunar Mission One, the team of U.K.-based scientists and engineers hoping to send a robotic probe to drill into the moon, just reached a major milestone in funding. Today, the project's Kickstarter campaign reached its target goal of £600,000 (close to $1 ...

HUMAN HAIR will soon be FOUND on MOON: Brit 'nauts aim for SPAAAACE   Full-Time Whistle
Lunar Mission One project to build a human base on the moon reaches funding ...   Daily Mail
UK successfully crowdfunds lunar mission   Wired.co.uk
NBCNews.com   
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser   
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VICE News
   
Humans May Be Causing the Sixth Great Extinction in Half a Billion Years   
VICE News
In the past half billion years, five great extinctions have transformed life on Earth, whether brought about by a catastrophic meteor impact that killed off the dinosaurs or prolonged periods of intense volcanic activity, which wiped out as much as 97 percent of all ...

Animal Planet species are disappearing at an alarming rate, according to a study   Full-Time Whistle
Five ways to stop mass extinction   The Guardian
Human activity to be the cause of sixth 'great extinction'?   CT Australia
The Independent   
Metro   
NBCNews.com   
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Uncover Michigan
   
Branson sinks sub dream: Plan to explore Earth's bottom scrapped   
The Register
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has halted plans to build submarines for deep-sea tourism. The Telegraph confirmed what Branson himself hinted at months ago: that the beardy Brit billionaire will has put on hold the Virgin Oceanic project. Branson had ...

Under the Branson sinks dream intend to explore the depths of the earth scraped   Full-Time Whistle
Virgin's Richard Branson shelves idea to take tourists to Pacific Ocean's Mariana ...   Daily Mail
Richard Branson shelves submarine plan to take tourists to bottom of oceans   The Independent
Uncover Michigan   
Montreal Gazette   
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Red Cross Blogs
   
Twitter sensation, astronaut Chris Hadfield, tells Fred and Sangeeta about his ...   
ITV News
He became a global star - sharing stunning images of earth - from space. And, today, Chris Hadfield was in the region, launching his new book. The astronaut took photos from the International Space Station - and put them on Twitter last year. We caught up ...

Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to his Scots roots with Edinburgh and Glasgow ...   Herald Scotland
Scotland provides its own space oddities   The Times (subscription)
Former astronaut to share space pictures   The Oxford Times
Edinburgh Evening News   
Irish Times   
STV Glasgow   
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E&T magazine
   
Cheapest way to bleach clouds to fight climate change   
E&T magazine
British researchers have identified the cheapest geoengineering method to increase brightness of clouds to make them reflect more sunlight thus reducing warming of the Earth. Comparing various previously developed marine cloud brightening methods, the ...

Cost of cloud brightening for cooler planet revealed   Phys.Org
Research Reveals Costs Of Cloud Brightening   reportingclimatescience.com
Tackle global warming by 'firing salt into atmosphere from boat to brighten ...   Mancunian Matters
International Business Times UK   
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