2015年5月18日 星期一

2015-05-19 U.K. Science


Yahoo News UK
   
'Advanced' ancient civilisation fell victim to comet 13000 years ago   
Daily Times
New evidence suggests that an advanced ancient race on Earth fell victim to a comet 13,000 years ago. Graham Hancock, the author of a controversial 1995 book titled 'Fingerprints of the Gods,' has found proof to support his claim, the Mirror reported.
Was An Ancient Civilisation In Antarctica Wiped Out By A Comet 13000 Years ...   Yahoo News UK
Comet which hit Antarctica 13000 years ago 'wiped out civilisation'   Metro
Did an 'advanced' ancient civilization fall victim to a comet 13000 years ago?   Daily News & Analysis
mirror.co.uk   
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CNET
   
How space tourism would have been sold 60 years ago   
CNET
For some reason, this year it has become a thing to imagine the distant future of space tourism as it might have been sold via vintage posters. by Eric Mack · @ericcmack; 19 May 2015, 4:30 am AEST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. email. comments.
SpaceX teases Mars-bound future with retro travel posters   SlashGear
SpaceX's Retro Posters Will Make You Want To Die On Mars   Co.Design
Elon Musk's SpaceX designs travel adverts for Mars that are out of this world   Digital Spy UK
Gizmodo Australia   
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Techie News
   
Predatory grey seals pegged as a hurdle in Scottish cod stock recovery   
Techie News
Though loss of cod owing to fishing and natural causes isn't a new thing for the Scottish coasts, one of the major reasons behind constrained recovery of cod stocks in Scottish West coast waters in recent years is presence of predatory seals, a research led by ...

Fish stocks   Scotsman
Cod and chip revival hopes battered by seals   Telegraph.co.uk
Grey seals are compromising cod stock recovery plans   BBC News
The Times (subscription)   
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Independent Online
   
2 pints and a shot of science, please!   
Independent Online
London - If everything goes to plan, it will be the perfect opportunity to present the not necessarily sober voice of science. Starting today, the three-day Pint of Science festival, “for lovers of science and beer”, will allow scientists to take over about 70 UK pubs to ...

Pubs across Bristol to quench a thirst for knowledge   Guide2Bristol.com
Scientists set to hit over 70 UK pubs in the Pint of Science festival   The Independent
Pint of Science   Daily Echo

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Express.co.uk
   
Sarah Brightman: Why has the singer's dream to blast off into space been ...   
Express.co.uk
That was the date an eight-year-old Sarah sat down with her father at their home in Hertfordshire and watched on the family's black and white television the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take man's first steps on the Moon. The memory of the thrill ...

Singer And Aspiring Space Tourist Sarah Brightman Postpones Her Launch   io9
Sarah Brightman postpones space mission   Hamilton Spectator
Russian Space Cargo Ship Crash Blamed on Soyuz Rocket   Space.com

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Channel News Asia
   
Scientists are growing anxious about genome-editing tools   
Washington Post
Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20,000 genes that encode everything from eye color to cancer risk. Imagine if those genetic instructions could be tweaked at will — with a snip here and a cut there, a gene ...

US science academies take on human-genome editing   Nature.com
US science leaders to tackle ethics of gene-editing technology   Yahoo News

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The Guardian
   
Indian Ocean storing up heat from global warming, says study   
The Guardian
An illustration showing movement of water from the Pacific to the Indian ocean. Photograph: Lee et al, 2015. Brian Kahn for Climate Central, part of the Guardian Environment Network. Monday 18 May 2015 13.29 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter ...

Ocean science: Hiatus heat in the Indian Ocean   Nature.com
The Indian Ocean heats up as the Pacific cools   Science Codex
Heat is Piling Up in the Depths of the Indian Ocean   Climate Central

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Zee News
   
Earth's capacity to absorb CO2 has gone up: Study   
Zee News
Washington: There are some good and bad news for climate change enthusiasts. Researchers have found that along with the rise in carbon emissions, the Earth's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere has also gone up. But there is no ...

Spy satellite to spy on countries' CO2 emissions   The Sunday Times
Earth Wins Time as Land and Seas Absorb More Carbon   Truthdig
BEPPLE: Cleaning up the climate change mess in Kamloops   InfoTel News Ltd

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Steamboat Pilot & Today
   
Watch Saturn from May 23   
The Hindu
A special sky watch programme will be organised at the B.M. Birla Planetarium, Periyar Science and Technology Centre, Gandhi Mandapam Road to observe the planet Saturn through a telescope from 7 p.m. from May 23 to 27. A press release here said that ...

See ringed planet Saturn at its best   Astronomy Now Online
Jimmy Westlake: Here comes Saturn   Steamboat Pilot & Today
Starry, starry nights – with Steve Pond   East Grinstead Online

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Infection Control Today
   
Forecasting Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks   
Infection Control Today
A majority of new reservoir and hyper-reservoir rodent species are predicted to occur in the upper latitudes. Image courtesy of Han et al. Machine learning can pinpoint rodent species that harbor diseases and geographic hotspots vulnerable to new parasites ...

Of mice and mouse clicks   The Economist
Could a computer predict the next pandemic?   Science Now
UGA study pinpoints the likeliest rodent sources of future human infectious ...   HealthCanal.com
Nature.com   
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