2015年1月20日 星期二

2015-01-21 U.K. Science


New York Times
   
Unlocking Scrolls Preserved in Eruption of Vesuvius, Using X-Ray Beams   
New York Times
Researchers have found a key that may unlock the only library of classical antiquity to survive along with its documents, raising at least a possibility of recovering vanished works of ancient Greek and Roman authors such as the lost books of Livy's history of ...

Scientists use X-rays to decipher charred Vesuvius scrolls   Telegraph.co.uk
Ancient scrolls charred in Vesuvius eruption come to life   Reuters
Using X-rays, scientists read ancient, volcano-charred scrolls   Los Angeles Times
National Geographic   
American Live Wire   
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The Nation
   
Soprano Sarah Brightman Starts Training for Space Song   
CNBC
After a delay due to family illness, British singer Sarah Brightman began months of preparation on Monday at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center for a 10-day, $52 million trip to the International Space Station. The 54-year-old soprano, best known for ...

Opera singer Sarah Brightman to spend ten days on the ISS   SlashGear
Why is an opera singer going to the ISS?   Engadget
Sarah Brightman Arrives in Russia, Preparing for Space Journey   Latin American Herald Tribune
Music News   
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South West Business
   
The Beagle 2 space probe HAS landed - it just hasn't been able to talk to us   
South West Business
It is news which would have both warmed the heart of late Kingswood scientist Colin Pillinger but deeply frustrated him in equal measure. His labour of love, the Beagle 2 space probe, has finally been located on Mars some 11 years after it vanished and the ...

Missing Mars space probe finally located on red planet - (full-timew)   Full-Time Whistle
Beagle 2 space probe found on Mars 12 years after it landed   Tiverton Mid Devon Gazette
Beagle 2: ExoMars 2018 Rover mission to carry on probe's legacy   Techie News
89.3 KPCC   
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Market Business News
   
UFO allegedly seen on live footage, then NASA cuts the feed   
Market Business News
UFO enthusiasts were up in arms when an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) appeared in space on a live video feed, but was then cut by NASA. According to the space agency, this was due to some technical difficulties. Something above the horizon was ...

UFO Spotted During Apollo 7, Astronauts Redact Truth With Duct Tape / up to date   Full-Time Whistle
UFO spotted by ISS; NASA cuts live feed   Techie News
Startling UFO In NASA 1968 Apollo 7 Photo Found — But Was Close-Up ...   The Inquisitr
Huffington Post UK   
News24   
Digital Journal   
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Science AAAS
   
Have astronomers captured their first 'blitzar'?   
Science AAAS
For the first time, astronomers have captured an intense flash of radio waves known as a fast radio burst in real time, EarthSky reports. The event lasted only a few milliseconds, but some scientists argue that the blast may have originated up to 5.5 billion ...

Hearing cosmic radiowaves live for first time, scientists could solve years-long ...   Full-Time Whistle
MYSTERY "blitzar" space signal baffles scientists   Mirror.co.uk

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Solarenergy.net
   
UN head Ban Ki Moon opens International Year of Light   
Optics.org
More than a thousand delegates this week converged on Paris, France, for the two-day launch ceremony of the International Year of Light (IYL), among them international diplomats Nobel laureates, and photonics industry decision-makers. The role ...

Global campaign celebrates achievements of 11th century scientist Ibn al-Haytham   Middle East Online
LEDs and the International Year of Light   Royal Society of Chemistry (blog)
2015 is UN's 'Year of Light' — What Role Will Solar Play?   Solarenergy.net
Onislam.net   
Mehr News   
Canada.com   
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Discovery of larval Missouri River pallid sturgeon heralded   
U.S. News & World Report
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The discovery of two lab-confirmed tiny pallid sturgeons in the Missouri River near St. Louis offers fresh proof the endangered species descending from the dinosaur era is reproducing, the Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday. The two ...


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Daily Mail
   
Fossils suggest dinosaurs lived in families and cared for their young   
Daily Mail
Researchers studied fossilised remains of a group of Philydrosauras (artist's impression). The semi-aquatic dinosaurs lived 160 million years ago. Many reptiles, such as lizards and turtles abandon their eggs after laying. In fact, only five per cent of mammals ...

Prehistoric Fossil Sheds Light on Parenting in Reptiles / up to date   Full-Time Whistle
Jurassic Reptiles Were Good Parents   Sci-News.com
Prehistoric Fossil Sheds Light on Parenting in Reptiles   Nature World News
International Business Times UK   
West Texas News   
Phys.Org   
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KJZZ
   
UA-Run Camera On Mars Orbiter Spots Lander Lost For A Decade   
KJZZ
A camera operated by the University of Arizona spotted a Mars lander lost over a decade ago on the red planet. Now that landing has been confirmed, can anything be salvaged of the failed mission? In 2003, the UK-led Beagle 2 Lander landed on Mars, but ...

Strange circular landform on Mars stumps scientists   Nature World News
Mystery Solved: Missing Beagle-2 Finally Located on Mars, Deployment Failed ...   Scientific Computing
Beagle 2 found on Mars after mysteriously being lost for 12 years   ChristianToday

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Newsweek
   
Glacier melts to affect marine food web   
Business Spectator
Melting ice from the world's glaciers attributable to climate change is expected to release an extra 15 million tonnes of 'organic carbon' into the world's rivers and oceans over the next 35 years, researchers says, with unknown impacts on marine life, Carbon ...

Climate: Melting glaciers adding dissolved carbon to world's oceans   Summit County Citizens Voice
How Much Carbon Will Melting Glaciers Release? / up to date   Full-Time Whistle
Melting glaciers release massive amounts of carbon, affecting marine ecosystems   Market Business News
International Business Times UK   
Click Green   
Newsweek   
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