2014年12月4日 星期四

2014-12-05 Ireland Science


Irish Times
   
George Boole's anniversary is celebrated by UCC   
Irish Times
UCC is organising a major programme celebrating the life and legacy of George Boole, the man acknowledged as the “father of pure mathematics”. Mary Mulvihill. Topics: News · Science · George Boole · great mathematician · digital computing · pure ...


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CNET
   
Tool-wielding crows are left- or right-beaked: Here's why   
CNET
The super-smart New Caledonian crow tends to tip its head to one particular side when it is wielding tools. Researchers have figured out why. by Michelle Starr · @riding_red; 4 December 2014 5:00 pm GMT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin.
Scientists figure out why crows are left- or right-beaked when they use tools   Washington Post
Crows can be right or left handed - despite not having hands   Irish Examiner
Crows are 'left-beaked' or 'right-beaked': Birds have a preference when it comes ...   Daily Mail
(e) Science News   
Yahoo News UK   
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Sky & Telescope
   
Warm Up with December's Geminid Meteors   
Sky & Telescope
The annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the best shooting-star displays each year, returns to our skies late this week. Despite interference from moonlight, plenty of bright meteors should still shine through. Bright Geminid meteor. During the 2004 Geminid ...

Geminids: Spectacular meteor shower lets you see 100 shooting stars per hour ...   Irish Mirror
Look to the skies over the North East from this Sunday for a chance to glimpse a ...   ChronicleLive
Geminid Meteor Shower and ISS passes: When to see nighttime displays from ...   Grimsby Telegraph
West Texas News   
Exeter Express and Echo   
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The Guardian
   
Australia won't give to UN Green Climate Fund   
Washington Post
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's foreign minister says her government will continue to directly pay for climate change mitigation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a United Nations' Green Climate Fund ...

2014 set to be hottest year on record, UN climate agency reports   Los Angeles Times
Climate change summit: Countries demand focus on adaptation and finance   The Hindu
TOI at Lima - India sticks to its guns in Peru climate talks   Times of India
Brisbane Times   
CBC.ca   
Daily Times   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
West Antarctic ice sheet melt accelerating   
Stuff.co.nz
SEA LEVELS RISING: The Thwaites Glacier is one of six glaciers in West Antarctica locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming as it is eaten away from below by warming of sea waters. For two decades, scientists have kept a close watch on a vast, ...

Why Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Doesn't Mean Climate Change Isn't Happening   seattlepi.com
Why is Antarctica melting? Scientists reveal clues.   Christian Science Monitor
Rapid Warming Hits Antarctica's Shallow Seas   Live Science
Frontline Desk   
Washington Post   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
''We're not prepared for deadly asteroid strike'' Brian Cox and top scientists give ...   
Mirror.co.uk
Leading astronomers and scientists including physicist Brian Cox have called for more to be done to prevent a deadly asteroid strike. One hundred well-known names, including astronauts, the Astronomer Royal and rock guitarist Brian May, have called for a ...

Asteroid Day aims to create awareness about Asteroids and Comets   Voice Chronicle
Asteroids threaten the planet   Times LIVE
Experts Warn About Asteroids Threat   Prensa Latina
SFGate   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Financial Times   
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BBC News
   
Electric eels 'remotely control their prey'   
BBC News
A study, reported in the journal Science, has now shown that eels can use their electric organs to remotely control the fish they hunt. A researcher from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Texas, found that the electric discharges from eels made the muscles of ...

The Surprising Power of an Electric Eel's Shock   New York Times
How an eel locates and attacks its prey: Remote control   USA TODAY
Taser, electric eel use same mechanism   Sky News Australia
Newsweek   
Reuters India   
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BBC News
   
Does AI really threaten the future of the human race?   
BBC News
The end of the human race - that is what is in sight if we develop full artificial intelligence, according to Stephen Hawking in an interview with the BBC. But how imminent is the danger and if it is remote, do we still need to worry about the implications of ever ...

Stephen Hawking's warning on artificial intelligence long way off   CBC.ca
Eddie Redmayne digs deep to play Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything'   Newsday
Hawking's speech software goes open source   The Daily Star
St. George Daily Spectrum   
Johns Hopkins News-Letter   
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Digital Journal
   
Watch man rescue three live shark pups from inside dead mother   
Digital Journal
Cape Town - A video has emerged online showing an American family rescuing three shark pups from inside a dead pregnant mother shark washed up on a Cape Town beach in South Africa. The family came across the dead shark while walking along the ...

Dead pregnant shark sliced open to save babies   9news.com.au
Baby sharks cut from dead mother in beach rescue   The West Australian
Amazing but kind of gross video: Beach goers save unborn shark pups by cutting ...   The Denver Channel
NEWS.com.au   
The Independent   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Earliest known engravings found on a clam shell   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. The zigzag lines visible in the photo above probably were carved at least 430,000 years ago by a Homo erectus, ...

540000-year-old shell carvings may be human ancestor's oldest art   Fox News
Homo erectus engraving could re-write human history, and might show art ...   The Independent
Indonesian shell has 'earliest human engraving'   BBC News
NPR   
Reuters   
Washington Post   
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