2015年8月13日 星期四

2015-08-14 U.K. Science


CNET
   
Dazzling shots of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower (pictures)   
CNET
Often regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Perseids have been especially spectacular thanks to a mostly absent moon. Read Less. Perseids show off in 2015. A Perseid meteor sneaks past illuminated windmills near Gemuend, Germany.
17 Spectacular Photos Of This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower   Gizmodo Australia
Photos: Perseid meteor shower blazes across sky in brilliant cosmic show   The San Diego Union-Tribune
Shooting stars show lights up Northants skies   Northampton Herald and Post

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NBCNews.com
   
Astronomers photograph a baby Jupiter in another solar system   
Financial Express
Astronomers have taken a photograph of a baby planet beyond the solar system that may reveal clues as to how planets such as Jupiter are formed and influence their planetary siblings, a study released on Thursday shows. By: Reuters | August 14, 2015 ...

'Young Jupiter' discovered by astronomers: Planet 96 light years from Earth ...   Daily Mail
Jupiter assembling: planet 96 light years away hints at how gas giants form   The Guardian
Jupiter's methane-shrouded cousin spotted around distant star   Los Angeles Times
ABC Online   
Toronto Star   
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The Guardian
   
Air pollution in China is killing 4000 people every day, a new study finds   
The Guardian
Smoke rising from a chimney of a steel plant in Fengnan, Hebei province. Air pollution is reportedly killing about 4,000 people a day in China. Photograph: Petar Kujundzic/REUTERS. Associated Press in Washington. Thursday 13 August 2015 21.24 EDT.
Polluted air in China tied to 1.6m deaths a year   TODAYonline
Study Finds Pollution in China Causes 1.6 Million Deaths a Year   TIME
Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year   New York Times
Economic Times   
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The Guardian
   
Severe “food shocks” more likely due to extreme weather, experts warn   
Financial Express
Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and American experts warned on Friday. By: Harish Dugh | August 14, 2015 ...

Severe 'food shocks' more likely due to extreme weather, experts warn   STLtoday.com
US; UK vulnerable to 'food shocks' brought on by climate change   Nature World Report
Climate change leading to more food production 'shocks', report warns   BT.com
New Scientist   
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NBCNews.com
   
Deadliest Predator: Humans Wiped Out Ancient Mammals, Study Finds   
NBCNews.com
A decades-old scholarly dispute over what killed off huge ancient animals like mammoths and giant armadillos may have finally been settled, and the answer isn't surprising. Some scientists argued that climate change caused these "megafauna" to die out, ...

Humans wiped out the mammoth and other prehistoric giants say researchers   Mirror.co.uk
It WAS humans who killed off mammoths: Spread of mankind coincides with ...   Daily Mail
Demise of ancient giant beasts mainly caused by humans: UK scientists   Xinhua
Western Daily Press   
Biology News Net (press release) (registration)   
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Metro
   
Carol Vorderman is heading to space after landing job with NASA   
Metro
Carol Vorderman is taking on space, the final frontier. And we don't mean she's joining the USS Enterprise. Instead, she's got a swanky new job on the Challenger Center for Space Science Education's board of directors. The maths whizz and former ...

Carol Vorderman excited to join NASA   Maine News Online
Carol Vorderman joins NASA   PerfScience
Carol Vorderman is set for an educational space adventure   Herald
Daily Mail   
ITV News   
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The National
   
New planet could be named after famous Scottish Munro   
The National
A FAMOUS Scottish Munro could soon be represented among the stars after being shortlisted in an international astronomical competition to find a name for a distant planet. The Schiehallion peak in Perthshire has been suggested as the new name for the ...

Here Are All the Planets You Can Now Vote to Name Online   Gizmodo
Here's Your First Opportunity to Officially Name an Alien Planet - IGN News   Press Release Rocket
Public asked to name planets for first time in history   Telegraph.co.uk
The Next Digit   
The News Hub   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Rosetta films first images of comet as it passes close to sun   
Telegraph.co.uk
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko passed 115 million miles from the sun on Thursday morning - the closest it gets during its orbit. The heat caused the comet's surface to spew jets of gas and dust, the matter which form its distinctive tail. Images taken ...

Rosetta hits `milestone` in comet`s run past Sun   Zee News
Rosetta captures images of jet-blasting comet   The Guardian
Rosetta comet makes its closest approach to the sun   CBS News
Reuters   
Irish Examiner   
Christian Science Monitor   
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Computerworld
   
Are we safe from self-aware robots?   
Computerworld
End-of-mankind predictions about artificial intelligence, which have issued from some of today's most impressive human intellects, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and other notables, have generally sounded overly ...
Robot Successfully Evolves By Building Its Own “Children”   Junior College
Mother Robot Creates Baby Bots   Science Times
Robots have learned how to mimic natural selection   Fortune
Christian Science Monitor   
Science Recorder   
Tech Times   
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BBC News
   
Media caption Meridian line 'inaccuracy' explained   
BBC News
Researchers have revealed how the Prime Meridian line came to be placed about 100 metres away from the true divide between east and west. It was worked out in the 1980s using GPS technology that the famous landmark at Greenwich was in the wrong ...

After 131 years it turns out the Greenwich Meridian Line is in the WRONG place   Mirror.co.uk
Prime Meridian of the World's exact location of 0 degrees longitude is out by 100m   Daily Mail
Greenwich Meridian line is actually 334 ft east...near a rubbish bin   Telegraph.co.uk
Huffington Post UK   
Astronomy Now Online   
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