2015年7月23日 星期四

2015-07-24 U.K. Science


Firstpost
   
Earth 2.0! NASA scientists discover our planet's closest twin   
Firstpost
Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as our home orbits the Sun, NASA said Thursday. Named Kepler 452b, the planet is about 60 percent larger than Earth.
Is Kepler-452b an Earth twin? More like a bigger, older cousin   Los Angeles Times
Kepler 452b: What to know about this newly-found, maybe Earth-like world   Mashable
Earth 2.0 discovered by NASA's powerful Kepler telescope   India Today
The Guardian   
Independent Online   
Discovery News   
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Techie News
   
Arctic sea ice regained a third of its volume in 2013, CryoSat measurements show   
Techie News
An unusually cold summer of 2013 has helped the Arctic sea ice to cover a lot of ground and according to measurements by ESA's CryoSat satellite the ice cover has increased by a third as compared to 2012 levels. The findings are a results of ...

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Christian Science Monitor
   
Global warming is messing with the accuracy of radiocarbon dating   
Christian Science Monitor
A new study suggests that climate change is having a profound effect on the way scientists calculate the date of old objects. By Beatrice Gitau, Staff July 23, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, and a modern ...
Study: May be less accurate, less reliable Carbon Dating Method   The Market Business
Fossil Fuel Emissions may prove problematic to radiocarbon dating   NYC Today
Radiocarbon Dating Could Face Serious Climate Change Implications   Pioneer News
Maine News Online   
Washington Post   
BBC News   
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The Register
   
AI finally understands primitive sketches – aka marketing presentations   
The Register
Artificial intelligence scientists have developed a neural-network that understands incomprehensible scrawled drawings of the sort created by children, marketing departments, architects, design creatives, and so on. The academic developers of the ...

Software beats humans at identifying subject of sketches   Techie News
This computer identifies dreadful drawings what you can't   The Market Business
New Computer Program Recognizes Sketches Better Than Humans   Science World Report
Empire State Tribune   
BBC News   
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Metro
   
Plans for world's largest swimming pool, with depths of 164ft, to open in Essex   
Metro
The University of Essex has begun discussions about opening the world's largest – and deepest – swimming pool – in Colchester. The pool, measuring 164ft (50 metres) long and 164ft deep, would simulate both outer space and deep sea environments, ...

University Of Essex plans to build swimming pool to recreate 'outer space ...   BT.com
World's deepest 'space' pool planned for Essex university   BBC News
World's largest swimming pool with 160ft depth to be built in Essex   Daily Mail
Irish Independent   
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BBC News
   
Four-legged snake ancestor 'dug burrows'   
BBC News
A 113-million-year-old fossil from Brazil is the first four-legged snake that scientists have ever seen. Several other fossil snakes have have been found with hind limbs, but the new find is estimated to be a direct ancestor of modern snakes. Its ...
Snake fossil with four legs just wants a hug   CNET
Fossil of a four-legged snake found in Brazil   The News International
Scientists Find 4-Legged Snake Fossil   Huffington Post

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CBS News
   
Did climate change kill the woolly mammoth?   
CBS News
It was long thought that hunting by humans was the driving force behind the demise of mammoths, giant sloths and other massive mammals that roamed the Earth tens of thousand of years ago. But a new study published Thursday in Science concludes that ...

Mighty Mammoths Fell Prey to Rapidly Warming Earth   Live Science
Abrupt climate change may have doomed mammoths and other megafauna, scientists ...   Washington Post
Mammoths were killed by global warming   Scotsman
Western Daily Press   
Tech Times   
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People Magazine
   
Believe It or Not: This Amazing Tree Grows 40 Different Kinds of Fruit   
People Magazine
In a video that profiling artist and Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken, viewers are introduced to his extremely interesting hobby. The four-minute National Geographic feature shows Aken using his “chip grafting” method, which involves slicing ...
The tree that can bear 40 different types of fruit is entering harvest season   Times of India
How this Tree Growing 40 Different Fruits at Once Was Made   io9
Tree of 40 fruit   PPP Focus.com
Syracuse.com   
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Phys.Org
   
Physicists find surprising 'liquid-like' particle interactions in Large Hadron ...   
Phys.Org
Three years ago, Rice physicists and their colleagues on the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment stumbled on an unexpected phenomenon. Physicists smashed protons into lead nuclei at nearly the speed of light, ...

Welcome back, LHC   The Daily Star
The Economist explains How atom-smashers make and discover new particles   The Economist (blog)
Large Hadron Collider Exhibition Coming To Edinburgh   EdinburghGuide.com

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R & D Magazine
   
Scalable Arrays of "Building Blocks" Create Ultrathin Electronics   
Controlled Environments Magazine
Complex, scalable arrays of semiconductor heterojunctions—promising building blocks for future electronics—were formed within a two-dimensional crystalline monolayer of molybdenum deselenide by converting lithographically exposed regions to ...

ORNL Researchers Make Scalable Arrays Of 'Building Blocks' For Ultrathin ...   Photonics Online
Researchers produce 'building blocks' for ultrathin electronics   New Electronics

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