2015年5月6日 星期三

2015-05-07 U.K. Science


Los Angeles Times
   
Meet Loki, your closest-known prokaryote relative   
Los Angeles Times
Deep in hydrothermal vents beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have discovered an organism that sheds fresh light on the evolutionary link between simple and complex cellular life. The microbe and its relatives known as Lokiarchaeota, described in the ...

Newly found microbe is close relative of complex life   BBC News
Mankind's missing microbe-link found in deep sea – study   RT
Missing link to complex life forms found near hydrothermal vent   Science Recorder
Business Insider   
New York Times   
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The Hoops News
   
40 light years away located Super-Hot Earth has temp between 1800 - 4900° F   
The Hoops News
Scientists have spotted a super earth where atmospheric temperature wildly fluctuated between 1,800 and 4,900° F during a period of two years. The researchers have still not succeeded in finding the exact reason behind such drastic temperature shifts in the ...

Extremely Hot Diamond Planet Found 40 Light Years Away From Earth   Mid-Day Daily
Extremely Hot Super-Earth Planet forty light years away oscilates between 1800 ...   Empire State Tribune
Hell on (super) Earth: Massive volcanoes spotted causing weird weather on a ...   Daily Mail
Los Angeles Times   
RT   
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RT
   
Watch out Peter Parker! Spiders spin graphene 'super silk' in Italian lab   
RT
It's no secret that spider's silk is incredibly strong, despite its delicate appearance. But the material becomes even tougher when infused with graphene or carbon nanotubes, creating silk which could have superior characteristics. Despite the ease of ...

Graphene-Infused Spider Silk Could Be Strong Enough to Catch a Plane   Popular Mechanics
Graphene spray makes spiders spin stronger silk … or die   Science /AAAS
Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon   MIT Technology Review
Daily Mail   
New Scientist   
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CBS News
   
Toothy "penis worm" from Cambrian period discovered   
CBS News
Fossilized teeth of Ottoia prolifica under a microscope. Tom Harvey. You might have heard of vagina dentata -- the mythical "toothed vagina" born of male paranoia. But have you heard of the carnivorous penis-shaped worm known as Ottoia prolifica?
Penis Worms Once Prowled The Earth – And They Had Teeth!   Tech Times
Cambrian penis worm had throat full of teeth   UPI.com
Shape of Penis Worms' Teeth Discovered   Counsel & Heal
Headlines & Global News   
Live Science   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Exploding satellite debris poses 'Gravity' style space threat   
Telegraph.co.uk
Spacecraft are at risk from dangerous debris which is currently hurtling around Earth at enormous speed following the explosion of a US satellite, scientists have warned. The crisis echoes the plot of Hollywood science fiction blockbuster Gravity, in which ...

Exploding satellite debris poses 'Gravity' style threat to spacecraft   NEWS.com.au
Exploded satellite could pose 'deadly threat' to spacecraft - city scientists warn   Daily Echo

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Russian spacecraft expected to fall back to Earth on Friday   
Sydney Morning Herald
The out-of-control Russian spacecraft that is falling to earth after a failed cargo delivery to the International Space Station will burn up in the atmosphere on Friday afternoon, tracking data predicts. Satellite- and space-junk-tracking website SatFlare's latest ...

ISS Cargo Spacecraft To Burn Up In Atmosphere   Sky News
Manned mission to international space station to be delayed: Roscosmos   Business Standard
Progress cargo spacecraft to deorbit on May 8   Russia Beyond the Headlines

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Express.co.uk
   
Entering DOOR TO HELL: Man is first to go on fiery journey into Turkmenistan's ...   
Express.co.uk
A MAN who became the first person to descend into HELL has released these spectacular images of his fiery journey. PUBLISHED: 11:10, Wed, May 6, 2015 | UPDATED: 17:36, Wed, May 6, 2015. George Kourounis stands next to the largest flame at the ...

Descending into 'Door to Hell'   The Daily Star
Hell on earth: Man uses rope to lower himself into terrifying flaming gas crater   Scottish Daily Record

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Business Recorder
   
NASA student balloon captures mysterious sounds 23 miles above the Earth   
Chron.com
For the first time in 50 years, microphones attached to a NASA-launched student balloon have captured strange hisses, crackling sounds and faint whistling. Researchers aren't sure what the sounds are but have some guesses: Signals from a wind farm under ...

NASA student project picks up alien sounds from outer space   Pc-Tablet Media
NASA records 'alien sounds' above Earth   Economic Times
Listen: 'Alien sounds' recorded 22 miles above the earth   Telegraph.co.uk
Live Science   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
So this is what thunder looks like: the first images of a thunderclap   
Sydney Morning Herald
The Earth cops 4 million lightning strikes a day but understanding their energy and the impact of the accompanying thunder has challenged scientists and meteorologists for centuries. In an experiment mimicking elements of Benjamin Franklin's famous kite ...

Scientists "See” Thunder for the First Time. Here's What It Looks Like.   Slate Magazine (blog)
First 'Images' Of Thunder Revealed   Eurasia Review
This is what thunder looks like (kind of)   ZME Science
Gizmodo   
Nature.com   
Science News   
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Phys.Org
   
Plant gives fresh insight into evolution   
Herald Scotland
Custom byline text: Jody Harrison. A SCIENTIST at a Scottish university has discovered a flower which sheds new light on our understanding of evolution. Dr Mario Vallejo-Marin, a Plant Evolutionary Biologist at Stirling University, unearthed a new species of ...

Biologist hails 'big bang' Scots flower discovery   Scotsman
Flower find provides real-time insight into evolution   Military Technologies

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