2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 U.K. Science


The Guardian
   
Stinging indictment: poll reveals public ignorance about bees in the UK   
The Guardian
A sample of the Royal Mail's latest set of stamps celebrating the UK's bee population. Photograph: Royal Mail/Press Association. Press Association. Monday 17 August 2015 19.01 EDT Last modified on Monday 17 August 2015 19.50 EDT. Share on Facebook ...

​Half of people cannot name a single species of bee, Royal Mail poll suggests   Western Daily Press
Stamps celebrating British bees launched by Royal Mail   BT.com
Latest stamps are bee's knees   Express.co.uk

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Times LIVE
   
DNA set to replace the hard drive   
Times LIVE
The next challenge is to find a way of searching for information encoded in strands of DNA floating in a drop of liquid. File photo. Image by: Gallo Images/ Thinkstock. DNA could be used to store digital information and preserve essential knowledge for ...

Single DNA molecule could store information for a million years following ...   The Independent
Forget Hard Drives: DNA-Based Storage Solutions Can Last Thousands Of Years   Tech Times
DNA Data Storage Lasts Thousands of Years   Discovery News
Telegraph.co.uk   
Gizmodo   
Scientific Computing   
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BBC News
   
City grime 'breathes back out' polluting nitrogen gases   
BBC News
Scientists say the grime which clings to urban surfaces "breathes out" nitrogen gases when hit by sunlight. The dark muck was known to absorb such gases from the air, but it appears the nitrogen does not stay locked away. In rooftop experiments in ...
SUNLIGHT releases smog-forming particles trapped on grimy buildings and streets   Daily Mail
Why sunny days turn urban grime into dangerous pollution   Telegraph.co.uk
​Grime on city streets becomes pollution in the air   CBS News
RT   
U.S. News & World Report   
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NDTV
   
Page out of innovation: A book that filters water   
Times of India
LONDON: The next time you want to get clean water, all you need to do is tear a page from your very own "drinkable super book". Scientists have created pages which are impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles - a highly inexpensive, simple ...

'Drinkable Book' Promises to Filter Dirty Water   TIME
Take a leaf out of this book for clean drinking water   Times LIVE
'Drinkable book' could provide millions with purified water   RT
Telegraph.co.uk   
Christian Science Monitor   
Livemint   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Food crises to become more common as climate changes   
Christian Science Monitor
The kind of food crises that helped spark the Arab Spring will occur every 30 years instead of every century thanks to climate change and population increases, according to a new report. By Henry Gass, Staff writer August 17, 2015. Save for later Saved ...
Severe 'Food Shocks' More Likely Due to Extreme Weather, Experts Warn   NDTV
'Urgent' action needed to tackle extreme weather risks to global food supply   Supply Management
More secure food chains needed to cope with drought and floods   FoodManufacture.co.uk
PPP Focus.com   
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BBC News
   
Owls use 'stealth technology' to capture prey   
BBC News
Owls use what scientists and engineers are calling 'stealth technology' to help them capture prey, new research suggests. If owls can fly more quietly maybe aeroplanes can as well, said Dr Helen Czerski, a physicist at UCL. “Anything that's got wings ...
The lethal silent flier   Hindu Business Line
Owls Suppress Noise of Flapping of Wings to Swoop on Prey in Near Silence   BizTek Mojo
Owls use 'stealth technology' to help capture prey   The Guardian
E&T magazine   
Irish Examiner   
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BBC News
   
Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'   
BBC News
Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world's first known flowering plant. Researchers studied more than 1,000 fossils of the Montsechia Vidalii species as part of the study. The ...
'First flowers' may have 'bloomed' in water, not on land, fossils suggest   Los Angeles Times
Prehistoric Fossil Found in Spain May Be Mythical 'First Flower'   NBCNews.com
Plant from 130 million years ago is among 'first flowers'   The Sun Daily
Newsweek   
Futurity: Research News   
I4U News   
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National Geographic
   
How Did Sea Turtle Get a Straw Up Its Nose?   
National Geographic
Watch researchers pry a drinking straw from the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle. Warning: contains graphic content and strong language. By Jane J. Lee, National Geographic. PUBLISHED August 17, 2015. 0. In a cringe-inducing video that's gone ...
Sea turtle trauma: Video shows rescuers extracting plastic straw from deep in ...   Washington Post
The Final Straw…   OnEarth Magazine
Turtle Has Plastic Straw Removed From Nose By Marine Biologists In Costa Rica   Huffington Post UK
ABP Live   
PPP Focus.com   
The Independent   
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Nature.com
   
Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics   
Nature.com
Low temperature superconductivity can be used to levitate objects but researchers dream of room-temperature versions of today's devices. Hydrogen sulfide — the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs — conducts electricity with zero ...
New Temperature Record Is Huge Achievement for Superconducting   Live Science
This New Superconductivity Research Stinks   Wired
Warmest ever superconductor works at Antarctic temperatures   New Scientist
Popular Mechanics   
Science /AAAS   
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TV Newsroom
   
Scientists say mankind, not climate, killed off the woolly mammoth   
TV Newsroom
According to The Independent, scientists are now definitely sure that humans are responsible for the death of ancient megafauna. It discovered that there have been coincidences of species extinction and human unfold that exhibits that people have been ...
Humans responsible for extinction of ancient animals, study claims   Dispatch Times
Scientists Say Overkill Hypothesis Confirmed   Archaeology
We killed sabretooth tiger, the woolly mammoth, other ancient mammals   Junior College
Sentinel Republic   
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