2014年12月22日 星期一

2014-12-23 U.K. Science


Slate Magazine
   
NASA mulls plan to explore Venus with 'Cloud City'   
Christian Science Monitor
At 800 degrees Fahrenheit, Venus isn't a hospitable place to land, but some NASA scientists are proposing to study the atmosphere from habitable dirigibles. By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer December 22, 2014. close. The northern hemisphere of Venus is ...

NASA Wants To Build Bespin Style Cloud City On Venus   American Live Wire
NASA HAVOC mission aims Could City above Venus   Inferse
Nasa planning to build cloud cities in airships above Venus   The Independent
CNET   
Daily Mail   
Uproxx   
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The Independent
   
Over 10% of 6590 UK Local Wildlife Sites Lost, Damaged in Last 5 Years   
Sputnik International
Wildlife Trust reports that with the predicted growth in housing construction, new roads and other infrastructure the Wildlife Sites are bound to remain vulnerable to further loss and damage. MOSCOW, December 22 (Sputnik) — Some 717 out of 6,590 Local ...

Support for Wildlife Trust call to protect disappearing Local Wildlife Sites from ...   Horticulture Week
More than one in 10 of England's wildlife sites 'lost since 2009'   The Guardian
One in 10 local wildlife havens lost or damaged   Telegraph.co.uk
Gizmodo UK   
Bird Watch   
Gloucestershire Echo   
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The Independent
   
Stonehenge road tunnel to go ahead despite archaeologists' warnings it could ...   
The Independent
The Government says it will go ahead with plans to build a road tunnel past Stonehenge despite warnings from archaeologists that it could destroy new evidence of the monument's mysterious origins. Historical experts said the evidence hidden at a newly ...

6000-year-old encampment at Blick Mead 'could rewrite British history'   Daily Mail
Stonehenge discovery puts tunnel project at risk   NEWS.com.au
Stonehenge tunnel 'will destroy links to Ice Age Britons'   The Times (subscription)
Swindon Advertiser   
New Historian   
Gloucester Citizen   
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Nature World News
   
Tropical Deforestation Triggers Changes Just as Costly as Carbon Pollution   
Nature World News
In the face of climate change, scientists often focus on the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions, but new research shows that tropical deforestation triggers global changes that are just as costly as carbon pollution. (Photo : CIAT/Neil Palmer/Flickr).
Tropical rainforest clearance threatens global crops   Geographical
Tropical Deforestation Could Have Devastating Effects On Global Rainfall Patterns   Christianity Daily
Loss of rainforests is double whammy threat to climate   eco-business.com
Full-Time Whistle   
Market Business News   
Voice Chronicle   
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STV Edinburgh
   
Don't miss Santas practice flights before Christmas   
STV Edinburgh
Keep this quiet, but the International Space Station could provide kids with a real excitement boost in the run up to Christmas. Just remember... that bright light in the sky is Rudolph's nose! Santa will be flying over Edinburgh every evening until 26th December ...

Get the kids to look for Santa's sleigh this Christmas Eve   Grimsby Telegraph
International Space Station: Why ISS could be mistaken for Santa's sleigh over ...   Derby Telegraph
60 degrees likely on Christmas Eve   The Ocean Signal
Bexhill Observer   
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Edinburgh Evening News
   
Broadcaster new science director at Dynamic Earth   
Edinburgh Evening News
A SCIENCE broadcaster has returned to work at the Capital tourist attraction that launched her career 15 years ago. Dr Hermione Cockburn – who helped to bring science to the screen with the BBC's Tomorrow's World, Rough Science and Coast – has been ...

Our Dynamic Earth appoint old employee as new scientific director   STV Edinburgh

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Full-Time Whistle
   
Nukes could be used to destroy asteroids   
Full-Time Whistle
For years campaigners have been attempting to encourage world leaders to decommission all of their nuclear warheads, a move that would presumably help to establish peace, yet there is one threat to our civilization that might warrant keeping some of them ...

Nuclear weapons to be used to blast asteroids in bid to protect Earth, US ...   Express.co.uk
Plan to protect Earth from rogue asteroids with nuclear weapons   Business Standard

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Daily Mail
   
Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures berst ever picture of x-rays ...   
Daily Mail
One of Nasa's most powerful space telescopes has turned its gaze on the Sun for the first time to capture this stunning image. Nasa's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has produced the most sensitive solar portrait ever taken in high-energy ...

NASA's 'crazy' plan yields dramatic pictures of our X-ray Sun   The Register
NASA's Black Hole X-Ray Hunter Could Solve Solar Mystery   Full-Time Whistle
NuSTAR Probe Captures a Sizzling X-Ray View of the Sun   NBCNews.com
Huffington Post   
Science Times   
Space.com   
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The Independent
   
New bug named after Sir David Attenborough   
New Zealand Herald
A newly discovered species of beetle has been named in honour of the television naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Alexander Riedel, the researcher who discovered the 2.14mm-long Trigonopterus attenboroughi, along with 97 other new beetle species, ...

An Indonesian beetle just joined the list of animals named after David ...   The Verge
98 new species of beetles discovered in Indonesia   Washington Post
'David Attenborough' one of 98 new beetle species discovered in Indonesia   International Business Times UK

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Daily Mail
   
Is the key to spotting killer meteorites blowing in the solar wind? Researchers ...   
Daily Mail
Solar wind and other particles from the sun could give us an early warning of space rocks heading for Earth, researchers have found. They say changes in the solar wind, plasma and other types of particle could give away the location of rocks currently missed ...

Meteor radar? Solar wind could help predict impacts   Fox News
Astronaut: The Age of Asteroids? Boooooring…   TIME
First Asteroid Impact Drills Organized by European Space Agency   Chinatopix
Economic Times   
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