2015年10月7日 星期三

2015-10-08 Malaysia Science


National Geographic
   
How Giraffes Became Winners by a Neck   
National Geographic
Giraffes have taught generations of students how evolution works. Not directly, of course. Communicating through nocturnal humming is a barrier to classroom instruction. But the modern giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis – is often used as the textbook ...
Mystery of giraffe's long neck solved, says study   Malay Mail Online
Mystery of giraffe's long neck solved   The Rakyat Post
Why Giraffes Have Long Necks: Researchers Find Clues   Science World Report
Times of Oman   
Gracious Column   
Pulse Headlines   
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Charlotte Observer
   
Duke, UNC scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on DNA repair   
Charlotte Observer
This photo released by the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine shows Turkish-American scientist Aziz Sancar, co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on how cells repair damaged DNA, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz ...   New York Times
Is Your Refrigerator Running? No, Really, You Won a Nobel Prize   Wall Street Journal
Nobel discoveries on DNA repair now fuelling cancer drug research   Reuters India
The Nation   
Christian Science Monitor   
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NDTV
   
Guatemala volcano roars back to life   
The Sun Daily
GUATEMALA CITY: A volcano near the Guatemalan capital roared back to life yesterday, spewing ash high into the air, disaster safety officials said. The Fuego volcano, which is just 50 km from Guatemala City and its population of one million people, ...

Guatemala: Volcano Enters in Eruption   Prensa Latina

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The Sun Daily
   
Indonesia seizes shark fins destined for Hong Kong   
The Sun Daily
Indonesian customs and quarantine officers inspecting some 3,000 pieces of sharks fin seized at the Soekarno-Hatta airport in the Tangerang district suburb of Jakarta, intended for shipment to Hong Kong. AFP. JAKARTA:Indonesian authorities have seized ...

Shark fins headed for Hong Kong seized in Indonesia   Malay Mail Online

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The Scrappy Female Paleontologist Whose Life Inspired A Tongue Twister   
malaysiandigest.com
Now, try the more historically accurate version: Mary Anning peddles dinosaur parts on the Jurassic Coast as one of the world's first, unheralded fossil hunters. Born in 1799, Anning ran a fossil stand on England's Dorset Beach, also known as Jurassic ...

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NDTV
   
Oldest-known fetal horse fossil is 48 million years old   
New Straits Times Online
WASHINGTON: A 48-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant horse and fetus is the oldest of its kind known to science and contains unusually well-preserved evidence of tissue from the womb, researchers said Wednesday. The fossil was discovered in Germany ...

Foetus found in 48-million-year-old horse fossil   ABC Online
Paleontologists find oldest placenta ever known   The Budapest Report
Foetus found inside 48-million-year-old fossil of ancient horse   9news.com.au
Daily Mail   
Los Angeles Times   
EurekAlert (press release)   
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NBCNews.com
   
Animals abound at Chernobyl 30 years after nuclear disaster   
Sin Chew Jit Poh
Washington (AFP) -- Nearly 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, elk, deer, boar and wolves abound in the exclusion zone deserted by humans, researchers say in an international study. The study, published Monday in the Current ...
Chernobyl today: Wildlife unexpectedly making a comeback   Examiner.com
In the eerie emptiness of Chernobyl's abandoned towns, wildlife is flourishing   Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Humans Harder on Animals Than Radiation, Chernobyl Study Suggests   NBCNews.com
Care2.com   
NewsWest9.com   
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Bangkok Post
   
Jellyfish sting kills German woman on Samui   
Bangkok Post
Marks are seen on the leg of a German tourist who was killed by a box jellyfish sting on Koh Samui in Surat Thani on Tuesday night. SUPAPONG CHAOLAN. - +. A 20-year-old German woman died and her friend was injured after they were stung by box ...

German tourist killed by box jellyfish in Thailand   The Sun Daily
German tourist in Koh Samui dies of jellyfish sting   AsiaOne
German woman dies from box jellyfish sting   Gulf Today

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Blue-Tinted Seas Draw Huge Crowds In Miri   
malaysiandigest.com
MIRI: After the first sighting of the 'Blue Tears' phenomenon captured by local photography enthusiast Albert Song at Trusan beach in Bekenu last month, members of the public can now expect to see a similar sight along the city's coastline. Photography ...


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NBCNews.com
   
Israeli Team Eyes 2017 Blast-Off for First Private Mission to Moon   
NBCNews.com
The private race to the moon is really starting to heat up. A team from Israel called SpaceIL has signed a contract to launch its robotic lunar lander toward the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the second half of 2017. SpaceIL is therefore a ...
Israelis sign contract to launch spacecraft to the moon   The Times of Israel
Israel might be heading for the moon   Jerusalem Post Israel News
First Private, Israeli Moon Mission Has Secured a Launch Contract for 2017   Newsweek
The Register   
CBC.ca   
New York Daily News   
Google Lunar XPRIZE   
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