2015年4月27日 星期一

2015-04-28 U.K. Science


New York Times
   
New Study Links Weather Extremes to Global Warming   
New York Times
The moderate global warming that has already occurred as a result of human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes since the Industrial Revolution, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that a failure to bring greenhouse ...

Study: Global warming has dramatically upped the odds of extreme heat events   Washington Post
Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot days   San Jose Mercury News
Extreme Weather And Heat Caused By Climate Change, Study Reveals   Tech Times
The Space Reporter   
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ChronicleLive
   
Return of lynx to Kielder Forest backed by more than 90 percent of survey ...   
ChronicleLive
Plans to reintroduce lynx to the North East and the rest of the UK have received overwhelming public backing. As previously reported, the Lynx UK Trust is seeking to reintroduce the cat last seen on British shores more than a thousand years ago, with Kielder ...

push to bring lynx back to UK   Financial Times
Reintroduction of lynx into Thetford Forest gets overwhelming positive response   Bury Free Press
91% back return of lynx in Scotland   Deadline News
Northumberland Gazette   
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mirror.co.uk
   
Britain's oldest tree the Ashbrittle yew feared to be dying after 4000 years   
mirror.co.uk
A tree dating from the Bronze Age and thought to be the country's oldest living thing may now be dying. The 4,000-year-old yew pre-dates Stonehenge and is twice as old as Christianity – but is now showing signs of sickness. The tree, which measures 38ft ...

4000 year-old Ashbrittle Yew, UK's oldest tree, may be dying, says churchwarden   Market Business News
Britain's oldest living thing is dying   The Independent
The Ashbrittle Yew, Britain's 'oldest tree' is feared to be dying   Daily Mail
Metro   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Gloucestershire Echo   
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New York Times
   
Five Cool Discoveries About a Hot Planet Named Mercury   
New York Times
Once thought to be a dull round rock with craters, Mercury turned out to be much more interesting. Here is some of what NASA's Messenger spacecraft, doomed to crash this week, has revealed about the closest planet to the sun. APRIL 27, 2015 Related ...

Mercury mission set to end with dramatic crash   Nature.com
Goodbye Messenger! Five things we discovered about Mercury   ABC Science Online
Messenger spacecraft counting last days before crash on 30 April   International Business Times UK
The Conversation UK   
SpaceCoastDaily.com   
Sen (subscription)   
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Worksop Today
   
Mystery fireball seen over Nottinghamshire skies   
Worksop Today
The sighting was one of many of a mystery object in the skies above the UK last night. Eyewitness Allison Darling said: “It was a bright light, white coloured, quite low in the sky. Dynamic Dart Advertisement. “We were north on the M1, the light was ahead and ...

UFO? Mystery 'fireball' seen in night sky over UK   Derbyshire Times

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Burnley Express
   
Meteor shower lights up North West   
Burnley Express
Social media was alight last night with reports of a “great ball of fire” appearing in the sky over Burnley and the Fylde Coast on Sunday night. It appears the heavenly glow was most likely a meteor shower, with Susan Dean suggesting it may have been part of ...


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NDTV
   
T Rex's 'Bizarre' Vegetarian Cousin Puzzles Scientists   
NDTV
This handout image released by the journal Nature on April 27, shows a dinosaur, the Chilesaurus diegosuarez. (AFP PHOTO/NATURE/GABRIEL LIO). Paris: Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of history's most dreaded carnivores, had an odd-looking vegetarian ...

New 'Chilesaurus' therapod was an adorable vegetarian   SlashGear
A weird 'platypus' dinosaur made of mismatched parts   Los Angeles Times
'Bizarre' new vegetarian dinosaur the cousin of T-Rex   TVNZ
Daily Times   
Huffington Post   
Science Recorder   
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SFGate
   
Astronaut tweets pristine photo of San Francisco from space   
SFGate
Scott Kelly, an astronaut who recently embarked on an unusally lengthy mission in space, tweeted a perfectly clear shot of San Francisco on Monday. "#SanFrancisco. I almost felt like I was with you as we flew overhead a few minutes ago," he wrote around ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly Tweets Picture Of The San Francisco Bay Area From Space   CBS Local
So some astronauts watched 'Gravity' on the International Space Station   HitFix
This is astronaut Scott Kelly's bedroom in space   CNET
Yahoo News UK   
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Compound Semiconductor
   
Researchers shed more light on 2D MoS2   
Compound Semiconductor
Researchers at Columbia Engineering, Harvard, Cornell, University of Minnesota, Yonsei University in Korea, Danish Technical University, and the Japanese National Institute of Materials Science have shown that the performance of 2D material MoS2 can be ...

Two-dimensional semiconductor comes clean   R & D Magazine
2-D semiconductor comes clean: Performance dramatically improved   Science Daily
Boron nitride increases performance of MoS2   New Electronics

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International Business Times UK
   
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces state's involvement in Lights Out ...   
International Business Times UK
New York state's capitol is about to get a bit dimmer, but for a good reason. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on 27 April that state building will participate in the New York State Lights Out Initiative to reduce light pollution that may disorient night-time ...

New York state to dim lights to save migrating birds   BBC News
Lights can be fatal attraction   wivb.com
New York state to turn lights out for migrating birds   Reuters

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