2015年1月17日 星期六

2015-01-18 U.K. Spotlight


BBC News
   
Rosetta will prompt science images rethink   
BBC News
The European Space Agency needs to find a new way for images and other data acquired by its science missions to come out into the public domain. That is the view of the organisation's director general, Jean-Jacques Dordain. He was expressing his ...


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Financial Times
   
Ridicule what is sacred and you will learn   
Financial Times
A caliphate is not an ideal place to grow up if you want a career as a stand-up comic. I was brought up in Birmingham, which a Fox News pundit last week described as a “totally Muslim city . . . where non-Muslims just simply don't go”. It is a modern form of ...


   


New Scientist
   
Super-zoom for microscope samples made from nappies   
New Scientist
Straining to see the details? Scientists struggling to make out tiny features of samples under the microscope could opt for expensive, higher-resolution equipment – or they could just inflate the sample itself to more than four times its original size. While optical ...


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BBC News
   
Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars   
BBC News
The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact. High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece. The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown ...


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Financial Times
   
A debt to history?   
Financial Times
As the crucial election looms in Greece later this month, newspapers have been full of pictures of demonstrations (or riots) in Athens. But there is another image hovering in my mind: an elegant dining hall on the shores of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

   


Geese use the Himalayas like a massive rollercoaster   
New Scientist
Now it turns out that bar-headed geese are a bit more level-headed about how they make their gruelling trip each year from Mongolia to spend winters in warmer India. Instead of climbing to dizzying altitudes and flying in a straight line over the mountain tops, ...


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BBC News
   
Google Glass sales halted but firm says kit is not dead   
BBC News
The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass in its present form. Instead it will focus on "future versions of Glass" with work carried out by a different division to before. The Explorer ...


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Financial Times
   
The economy is worse than you hoped but better than you think   
Financial Times
The oil price has fallen by more than half in a little over six months, and you might expect investors to be cheering. Perhaps they would have been — had the result not been a precipitous drop in inflation. A flight to the safety of government bonds has caused ...


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Zoologger: Spider has sex, then chews off own genitals   
New Scientist
First it must mate successfully with a female four times its size that would prefer to eat it than have its babies. Then, the male must do everything possible to keep eager rivals away from the impregnated female. In the macabre world of spider sex, this means ...


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Radio Times
   
Broadchurch: where we left the characters at the end of series one   
Radio Times
Alec Hardy, Ellie Miller, the Latimers and Reverend Paul Coates are all back for a second outing – here's their story so far... Like this? Share it. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Tumblr · Pinterest · Blogger · Reddit · VKontakt; Print; Email. Broadchurch: where we ...


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