2015年5月21日 星期四

2015-05-22 U.K. Science


The Independent
   
Alexei Leonov: First man to walk in space launches new Science Museum ...   
The Independent
The first man to walk in space has launched a landmark Science Museum exhibition devoted to Russia's pioneering space programme - by expressing surprise that his country had agreed to hand over the exhibits. The show, which took five years to put ...

Cosmonauts to land at Science Museum in record-breaking space exhibit   Express.co.uk
Historic Russian Spacecraft To Go On Display in London   Yahoo News UK
UK to host biggest ever Soviet space show outside Russia   Satellite PR News (press release)
eTurboNews   
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Daily Times
   
Killer ladybird that eats 7 native species is fastest ever alien invader   
Daily Times
A killer ladybird that has invaded Britain and eats our native varieties has reached every corner of the UK, Daily Mail reports. The harlequin ladybird has now been declared the UK's fastest invading species. It preys on seven native ladybirds, including the ...

Britain is stalked by cannibal invaders – can you help stop the harlequin ladybird?   The Guardian
Only Scotland has managed to stand firm against harlequin ladybird invasion   Techie News

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Mirror.co.uk
   
Fossil found in UK dating back more than 400 million years could be first ...   
Mirror.co.uk
A fossil more than 400-years-old has been unearthed in the UK – the first parasite of its kind to be found intact with its host. Scientists, whose research was published in the journal Current Biology, discovered the new fossil species in Herefordshire, identifying ...

Ancient Marine Parasites Make Their 21st Century Debut   Forbes
425-Million-Year-Old 'Tongue Worm' Fossilized Mid-Invasion   Yahoo News UK
Scientists find new fossilised English species of parasitic tongue worm   Culture24

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BBC News
   
Antarctic Peninsula in 'dramatic' ice loss   
BBC News
Satellites have seen a sudden dramatic change in the behaviour of glaciers on the Antarctica Peninsula, according to a Bristol University-led study. The ice streams were broadly stable up until 2009, since when they have been losing on the order of 56 billion ...

Antarctic glaciers thinning so fast, it's like a switch was flipped   Christian Science Monitor
Antarctic glaciers once thought stable now thawing fast - study   Reuters
Some Antarctic glaciers reached a tipping point in 2009   ABC Online
Smithsonian   
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Irish Examiner
   
World's largest particle collider busts record   
DAWN.com
GENEVA: The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late on Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced on Thursday. “Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking ...

Large Hadron Collider breaks atom smashing record   Daily Mail
Geneva particle smasher sets energy level record   The Local.ch
LHC smashes energy record with test collisions   BBC News

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Reuters
   
EU concerned about farming impact on its wildlife   
Reuters
BRUSSELS Around half of wild birds have a secure status as EU programs to protect endangered species have boosted numbers, but some of their habitats are cause for major concern largely because of intensive farming, an EU report found on Wednesday.
Threat to Nature Conservation   Birmingham Post

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USA TODAY
   
Secret space plane hitches ride into orbit   
USA TODAY
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – What will a military space plane do in low Earth orbit? How long will it stay there? Where will it land? Speculation about purpose and duration of the Air Force's fourth, mostly classified X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission began anew ...

US military space plane begins latest secret mission   The Guardian
The Air Force's Secretive Space Plane Just Launched Again   Gizmodo Australia

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Spaceflight Now
   
Citizen-funded CubeSat ready to go solar sailing   
Spaceflight Now
A shoebox-sized satellite conceived and funded by members of the Planetary Society, an advocacy organization co-founded by Carl Sagan, is fastened to an Atlas 5 rocket for launch Wednesday to test one of the late celebrity-astronomer's futuristic concepts ...

LightSail Update: All Systems Nominal   The Planetary Society (blog)
Bill Nye's Crowd-Funded Solar Sail Satellite Is Now in Orbit   Clapway
A Tiny Satellite With Enormous Solar Sails Is Orbiting Our Planet   io9
Tucson News Now   
Grist   
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The Straits Times
   
Media to share content on climate change   
The Straits Times
Twenty-five leading media companies sealed an agreement yesterday to form a global Climate Publishers Network to promote awareness of climate change. Members will work together to enhance coverage of global warming in the run-up to the Nov 30- ...

25 newspapers team up to bring attention to climate change   Mashable
Global news organisations agree to share climate change content   The Guardian
The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald join climate change media network   The Age
Grist   
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Daily Mail
   
Scientists want you to know plankton is not just whale food   
Daily Mail
Scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the world's ocean plankton, the tiny organisms that serve as food for marine creatures such as the blue whale - and provide half the oxygen we breathe. The researchers spent ...

Ocean's hidden world of plankton revealed in 'enormous database'   BBC News
Global ocean census uncovers trove of unknown life   CBS News
World of diversity discovered in tiny ocean creatures   Yahoo News
The Verge   
Science Magazine (subscription)   
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