2014年10月17日 星期五

2014-10-18 Ireland Science

  Irish Examiner   
Tied up in Knotweed  Irish Examiner
Peter Dowdall amongst the Japanese Knotweed. This scourge of a plant is on the Global Invasive Species Programme's list of 100 worst invasive species. It has vigorously invaded natural habitats, hedgerows and waterways all over Ireland. By Peter Dowdall.

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  UPI.com   
Milky Way strips nearby galaxies of star-forming hydrogen  EarthSky
Astronomers have discovered that our nearest galactic neighbors are devoid of star-forming gas, and that our Milky Way is to blame. Known Milky Way satellite galaxies. Click here for more about this diagram. New observations by large radio telescopes ...

Milky Way Robs Neighboring Galaxies of Star-Forming Hydrogen   Capital OTC
Milky Way Strips Away Star-Forming Gas from Nearby Dwarf Galaxies   Science World Report
Our galaxy ransacks its closest dwarf neighbours of star-forming gas   Irish Examiner
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
How the Fruit Fly Could Help Us Sniff out Drugs and Bombs  Lab Manager Magazine
A fly's sense of smell could be used in new technology to detect drugs and bombs, new University of Sussex research has found. By University of Sussex | October 16, 2014. Comment Print Email. Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.Courtesy of ...

Flies Can Help Sniff Out Drugs, Bombs   Laboratory Equipment
Study Shows Fruit Flies Can Detect Bombs and Hazardous Drugs   Design & Trend
Fruit flies can sniff out drugs and explosives   DigitalJournal.com
Shiny Shiny   
Chinatopix   
Times of Malta   
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  New York Daily News   
VIDEO: Meteor lights up night sky above the Brazilian city of Recife  New York Daily News
This is the spectacular moment a gigantic fireball lit up the Brazilian night sky. Buildings across Recife were bathed in light as the meteor crossed over the city at 10 p.m. Wednesday. Flashes of red and yellow caused panic among some locals who thought a ...

Watch the incredible footage of a meteor lighting up the sky in Brazil   Metro
Watch the moment UFO turns day to night in an instant   Mirror.co.uk

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  BBC News   
Mysterious US spaceplane returns to Earth  BBC News
A US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet. It touched down ...

Space plane returns from secret mission, lands at Vandenberg   Los Angeles Times
America's super-secret X-37B plane returns to Earth after nearly TWO YEARS aloft   Register
American X-37B space plane lands after secret mission lasting almost two years   The Independent
Deutsche Welle   
Jalopnik   
Christian Science Monitor   
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  The Independent   
Male brains 'wired to ignore food in favour of sex'  The Independent
Male brains are wired to choose sex over food, new scientific research suggests. Researchers observing a species of microscopic roundworms called C.elegans found that male worms given the choice between looking for food and finding a mate tended to ...

Males may be Wired to choose Sex over Food   ZME Science
Men choose sex over food   TV3.ie
Men Might Be Programmed To Choose Sex Over Food   Island Crisis News
Telegraph.co.uk   
Economic Times   
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  Fox News   
Mimas, Saturn's 'Death Star' moon, could harbor a secret ocean  Los Angeles Times
When it comes to Saturn's moons, water-squirting Enceladus and the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan typically steal the spotlight. But now, scientists think that lesser-known Mimas may be harboring a strange secret of its own. Scientists who studied the 'Death Star' ...

Saturn moon may have underground ocean   The Nation
Saturn's moon Mimas could reveal some interesting information   Uncover Michigan
Mimas - Is There Water Under Those Craters?   Dumb-Out
Tech Times   
Tribune-Review   
Daily Digest   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
A comet is about to fly past Mars. Is that a big deal?  Christian Science Monitor
Comet Siding Spring is set to whiz past Mars on Sunday, an event that scientists say happens once in a million years. By Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer October 17, 2014. close. Comet Siding Spring's flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014 could shed light on ...

Super-Sized Comet To Pass Mars Sunday   WFMY News 2
Mars to be Buzzed by Siding Spring Comet   Dumb-Out
Skywatchers prepare for comet near miss with Mars   Scotsman
Daily Mail   
ScienceAlert   
WAAY   
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  BBC News   
Science shines light on dark matter  BBC News
Scientists from the University of Leicester say they may have solved one of the most enduring mysteries in modern physics - the nature of dark matter. This is something that accounts for the difference between the observable mass of material in space, and the ...

Signal from space may be elusive dark matter   The Hindu
Astronomers may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter   ScienceAlert
Dark matter may have been detected – streaming from the sun's core   The Guardian
Daily Mail   
io9   
Scientific Computing   
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  National Post   
Hubble found one of the oldest galaxies we've ever seen, and it just may change ...  National Post
The Hubble Space Telescope might be 24 years old, but it's still making discoveries that are changing the way we see and understand our universe. Hubble's latest feat was to image one of the faintest, smallest, and oldest galaxies astronomers have ever ...

NASA's Hubble spots distant galaxy 13bn light-years away   Zee News
NASA's Hubble Finds A 'Cosmic Magnifying' Galaxy Far Away   Neon Nettle
Hubble spots distant galaxy   Bangladesh News 24 hours
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Business Standard   
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