2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 Ireland Science

  Toronto Star   
Iceland Eruption Would Disrupt Less This Time: Chart of the Day  Businessweek
Airlines forced to tear up timetables after ash spewed from an Icelandic volcano in 2010 face less disruption from a repeat because they've adopted a more scientific process to identify the most dangerous skies. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the ...

Rumblings of Volcanic Activity in Iceland   New York Times (blog)
Volcanic ash a dangerous enemy to jet engine airplanes   Washington Post (blog)
Iceland evacuates area near volcano amid eruption fears   RT
Telegraph.co.uk   
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  Irish Examiner   
Spend six seconds watching six months of very fast weather  Irish Examiner
This timelapse video shows the swirling nature of the Earth's weather systems moving over the eastern hemisphere. It was created by Nasa using data and imagery from January 18 to July 25. It is unbelievably fast – it only last six seconds – but once you've ...

Earth's Eastern Hemisphere Stuns in Photo from Space   LiveScience.com

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  Irish Examiner   
What a pain in the mass! Euro craft Rosetta to poke its probe in 10-BILLION ...  Register
Vid The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has made the first measurement of the mass of the comet it's chasing – and has come up with a mass of 10 billion tonnes, plus or minus 10 per cent. comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Does my mass look ...

How do you measure a comet's weight?   Irish Examiner
Rosetta's 10-billion-tonne comet   BBC News
Compared To Downtown LA, Celebrated Comet 67P Is Absolutely Enormous ...   Huffington Post
Nature World News   
Science Recorder   
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  DigitalJournal.com   
Robots cook, serve food at restaurant in China  DigitalJournal.com
No, it's not in a science fiction movie or an old Jetsons cartoon. If you go to one restaurant in China your food will be prepared and served by robots. Wonder how much of a tip they want? According to the Mirror, the cafe is owned by Song Jugang, in Kunshan, ...

Robot restaurant where machines cook and serve food to customers   Irish Mirror

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  BBC News   
Global warming slowdown 'could last another decade'  BBC News
The hiatus in the rise in global temperatures could last for another 10 years, according to new research. Scientists have struggled to explain the so-called pause that began in 1999, despite ever increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. The latest theory ...

Atlantic Ocean current could be responsible for slowing global temperature ...   Science Recorder
Atlantic Ocean has temporarily slowed global warming - study   Irish Times
Global warming 'hiatus': Scientists duel over which ocean steals some heat   Christian Science Monitor
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  NBCNews.com   
The next space race is for a rental car into orbit  Washington Post
Ever since the retirement of the space shuttle three years ago, American astronauts have had to hitchhike their way to the International Space Station aboard Russian spaceships. It is an increasingly costly arrangement, which the head of NASA has called ...

Sea plankton 'found living outside International Space Station'   Telegraph.co.uk
NASA wants to put rodents on space station   Fox News
Sea plankton have been found on the International Space Station – but how did ...   The Guardian
Forbes   
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  New York Daily News   
Spiders get bigger, multiply faster in cities: Australian study  New York Daily News
The City That Never Sleeps may be up for a whole new reason. A new study out of Australia has found that spiders get bigger and multiply faster when living in urbanized areas, like New York City. In the report published Wednesday, researchers at the ...

city spiders getting bigger   New Zealand Herald
City living makes spiders big, fat and fertile, researchers say   Los Angeles Times
Bright lights, big spiders: Researchers say city life is breeding giant arachnids   Daily Mail
The Independent   
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  National Geographic   
Western drought causes Earth's surface to rise as groundwater drops  Los Angeles Times
A year and a half of drought has depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across the Western United States, according to a new study that documents how the parched conditions are altering the landscape. The loss of groundwater, as well as surface water such as ...

GPS devices find huge water loss in western US   San Jose Mercury News
Study Finds Huge Amount Of Water Loss Across Western United States   CBS Local

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  National Geographic   
Thriving ecosystem of microbes found under Antarctic ice  SFGate
An international team of scientists has discovered a living ecosystem of microbes thriving and reproducing in the frigid darkness of a shallow lake beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica - the first implication that life forms might exist on ice-covered ...

World's Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded   Huffington Post
Scientists find life half a mile below Antarctic ice   USA TODAY
Antarctic hides extreme ecosystem   BBC News
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TIME   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
Paleo-escargot? Humans living 30000 years ago dined on snails, say ...  Christian Science Monitor
Burnt snail shells at an archeological site in Spain suggests that paleolithic people on the Iberian Peninsula harvested and ate the mollusks, say scientists. By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer August 21, 2014. close. Archaeologists recently uncovered ...

Researchers Unearth Earliest Evidence of Snail-Eating   Capital OTC
Stone age people had gourmet diets: Escargot on the menu 30000 years ago   Tech Times
Ancient Humans In Spain Ate Snails 10000 Years Earlier Than The French   Design & Trend
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Delhi Daily News   
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