2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 Malaysia Science


The Star Online
   
Green turtle lays eggs at Batu Ferringhi   
The Star Online
GEORGE TOWN: The green turtle laboured out of the sea, made its way up the beach, made a dry nest and then followed up with its primary nest about 2m away. It was nature taking its course but it left many awestruck. The beach was in the thick of the ...

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NDTV
   
Mystery of Saturn's 'F Ring' Cracked, Says Study   
NDTV
Saturn and its main rings seen by Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's F wing is located just oustide the main rings. (AFP Photo / NASA/ JPL / Space Science Institute). Paris: An enigmatic ring of icy particles circling Saturn, herded into a narrow ribbon by ...
Saturn's F ring: Born of cosmic collision   Malay Mail Online
Icy collision created Saturn's mystery 'F ring' and moons   ABC Science Online

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Astro Awani
   
Seagulls have learned a new trick — eating the eyeballs of baby seals   
Washington Post
This is terrible. Don't read this blog post. Please stop! Go away. Save yourself. Okay, we tried. According to a recent study in the African Journal of Marine Science, seagulls in Namibia have developed a strange and gruesome new hunting strategy: They ...
Seagulls kill seals by eating their EYES   Daily Mail
Hardcore Seagulls Straight Eating Baby Seal Eyeballs   Inverse

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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 ...
Prehistoric Fossil Found in Spain May Be Mythical 'First Flower'   NBCNews.com
'First flowers' may have 'bloomed' in water, not on land, fossils suggest   Los Angeles Times
Plant from 130 million years ago is among 'first flowers'   The Sun Daily
Newsweek   
Futurity: Research News   
I4U News   
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9news.com.au
   
Spectacular collision of galaxies captured on camera   
9news.com.au
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Professor Quentin Parker at the University of Hong Kong and Professor Albert Zijlstra at the University of Manchester, using the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia, according to a paper published by ...

Astronomers capture a stunning galaxy collision, the closest ever of its kind   Sydney Morning Herald
HKU scientists find new galaxy closest ever to earth   ecns
Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy collision   The Times
Financial Express   
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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
Christian Science Monitor   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Livemint   
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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 ...

Forget Hard Drives: DNA-Based Storage Solutions Can Last Thousands Of Years   Tech Times
DNA Data Storage Lasts Thousands of Years   Discovery News
Single DNA molecule could store information for a million years following ...   The Independent
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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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Central Asian glaciers thaw fast with warming in threat to hydro power, farms   
Sydney Morning Herald
Mountain glaciers in Central Asia have shrunk four times faster than the world average, threatening river flows vital for agriculture and hydro power from Uzbekistan to western China, scientists said on Monday. Global warming is likely to quicken the ...
Asia's Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers Could Fuel Future Conflicts   NBCNews.com
How Asia's melting glaciers could fuel conflict   Christian Science Monitor
Central Asia Mountain Range Has Lost a Quarter of Ice Mass in 50 Years, Study Says   Wall Street Journal
Tech Times   
I4U News   
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The Guardian
   
Going up? Space elevator could zoom astronauts into Earth's stratosphere   
The Guardian
Canadian space company, Thoth Technology Inc, has been granted a United States patent for a space elevator. Photograph: PR. Mahita Gajanan in New York. @mahitagajanan · email. Monday 17 August 2015 13.22 EDT Last modified on Monday 17 August ...

Ontario company lands patent for 20-kilometre-high space elevator   CTV News
Space elevator patent granted to Canadian company   The Kingston Whig-Standard
Company Gets Patent For Space Elevator   Science Times
Macleans.ca   
Newstalk 1010   
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