2014年10月15日 星期三

2014-10-16 Ireland Science

  Irish Times   
Even in space, bins still have to be put out  Irish Times
solve an everyday situation that becomes slightly more tricky when you're in outer space: putting the bins out. Novel software developed by two researchers in the Trinity School of Computer Science and Statistics will help the European Space Station predict ...


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  Times of India   
Collapsible wings help eagle fight air turbulence: study  DAWN.com
PARIS: Soaring eagles tuck in their wings when encountering turbulence to avoid damaging their muscles, scientists suggested on Wednesday. Zoologists at Britain's Oxford University attached a tiny 'black box' flight recorder to a captive steppe eagle (Aquila ...

Scientists added a black box recorder to an eagle...   Irish Examiner
Birds' Wings Collapse to Counter Turbulence   Laboratory Equipment
Soaring birds tuck in wings to cope with turbulence   Business Standard

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  Herald Scotland   
Gibraltar primates have landed for a new life in Scotland  Herald Scotland
A TROOP of 30 primates from Gibraltar have completed their 1,000-mile journey to set up home in Scotland. A TROOP of 30 primates from Gibraltar have completed their 1,000-mile journey to set up home in Scotland. GOING APE: The macaques from ...

Gibraltar's cheeky monkeys relocated to Scotland   Scotsman
See the monkeys making a new home in Scotland   Irish Examiner
Gibraltar monkeys enter safari park   Evening Telegraph
ITV News   
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  Siliconrepublic.com   
Hubble telescope captures most detailed exoplanet weather map ever  Siliconrepublic.com
An image taken from the Space Shuttle Atlantis just after the Hubble Space Telescope was intercepted by the shuttle's robotic arm during Servicing Mission 4. Image via NASA. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed weather map to date ...

Astronomers create most detailed weather map yet of an exoplanet   Examiner.com

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  NEWS.com.au   
Furious sea lion gets his revenge on fisherman after being caught in net  NEWS.com.au
THIS is the terrifying moment an angry sea lion took its revenge on a fisherman. The furious creature clamps its jaws around the man's shoulder and launches him across the boat deck. It had just been cut free after being accidentally caught in a net.
Sea lion throws fisherman like a rag-doll   9news.com.au
Watch incredible moment HUGE sea lion tosses fisherman like a rag doll after he ...   Irish Mirror
Panicked sea lion flings fisherman across deck   BreakingNews.ie
Metro   
Opposing Views   
Marine Trader Online   
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  Siliconrepublic.com   
Use your smart phone to help track cosmic rays  Science AAAS
The origin of the high-energy cosmic rays that crash into Earth is a long-standing mystery. Part of the problem is that the showers of protons and electrons that the rays produce when they strike the atmosphere last only for a millisecond or two, making the rays ...

Scientists harness smartphones as cosmic ray detectors   PCWorld
Cosmic ray particle shower? There's an app for that.   Ars Technica
New app launched to let users phone home cosmic ray data   Siliconrepublic.com
Phys.Org   
Geek   
iAfrica.com   
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  CBS News   
Rare comet fly-by of Mars on Sunday  Bangkok Post
WASHINGTON - A fast-moving comet is about to fly by Mars for a one-in-a-million-year encounter with the Red Planet, photographed and documented by a flurry of spacecraft, NASA said. An artist's impression of Comet Siding Spring and Mars, which will ...

ISRO re-positions its Mars Orbiter due to Comet Siding Spring   Firstpost
India repositions its Mars Orbiter to avoid Comet Siding Spring   Khaleej Times
Comet Siding Spring: India repositions its Mars spacecraft 'Mangalyaan'   Zee News
UANews   
Business Standard   
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  Mirror.co.uk   
Kangaroo relative may have walked around ancient Australia on two feet  Los Angeles Times
A giant kangaroo relative that lived 100,000 years ago may have used its hind two legs for walking, not hopping, according to a new study. And by "walking," the authors of the paper mean real bipedal walking -- upright, on two feet. Kind of like you and me, ...

Kanga-saurus Rex: Extinct kangaroos weighed 250kg and were too heavy to ...   Daily Mail
Ancient kangaroos walked instead of hopped   Stuff.co.nz
Ancient kangaroos walked not hopped   9news.com.au
Maine News Online   
Dumb-Out   
Inferse   
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  Slate Magazine   
Rosetta team gets green light for landing on rubber-duck comet  Los Angeles Times
It's official! After hovering around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two months, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has gotten the go-ahead to deliver a special lander to a specific spot on the comet on Nov. 12. The decision, made ...

Probe sends back 'space selfie' as landing craft prepares for historic comet ...   Telegraph.co.uk
This isn't a sci-fi movie: It's a human-made probe snapping a comet selfie   Register
Rosetta mission: Comet landing gets green light   BBC News
Washington Post   
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  The Hindu   
Spacewalking astronauts begin preparing station for new space taxis  The Hindu
A pair of spacewalking NASA astronauts hustled through an electrical repair job outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, then began work to prepare the outpost for new commercial space taxis. Station flight engineers Reid Wiseman and Barry ...

Astronauts Begin Prepping ISS for New Space Taxis   Voice of America
Space Station Has Second Spacewalk In Two Weeks   Dumb-Out
Mission Accomplished: Astronauts Complete 6 Hour Job on ISS   ABC News
WAAY   
KMBZ   
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