2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 Ireland Science


Irish Examiner
   
13 of the biggest dinosaur discoveries in 2014   
Irish Examiner
It's been a big year for dinosaurs – quite literally when the new “biggest dinosaur ever” Dreadnoughtus was uncovered in South America. We run through some of the top dino discoveries that have been challenging what we know about the scaly (and ...


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BreakingNews.ie
   
15 facts you should know about Nasa's New Horizons mission for 2015   
BreakingNews.ie
2. The mission objective is to study Pluto and its many moons, including Charon. On its way, it did a flyby of Jupiter. 3. In the last nine years it's travelled almost three billion miles – the furthest any space mission has ever travelled to reach its primary ...


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Telegraph.co.uk
   
UK scientists plan to grow lettuce on Mars   
Telegraph.co.uk
A team of scientists have created a plan to grow lettuce on Mars, and it has been short-listed to be included in a future space flight to the red planet. The project, being run at the University of Southampton, aims to put the first life on Mars by growing the salad ...

UK students aim to grow lettuce on Mars by 2018   Times of India
This Is the First Possible Plant Life in Mars   Youth Health Magzine
U.K. researchers plan to grow lettuce on Mars   UPI.com
Mashable   
The Independent   
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thejournal.ie
   
Teens to contemplate life's big questions in Junior Cert philosophy class   
thejournal.ie
WHAT'S THE MEANING of life? Is our universe real? Do we have free will? These are just some of the questions that Irish teenagers could be contemplating in 2017, when a philosophy course is set to be introduced into the school curriculum at Junior Cert ...

O'Sullivan signals philosophy to be taught in schools   Irish Times

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The Times (subscription)
   
Deep-sea sponge reef discovered at volcano site   
The Times (subscription)
The largest reef of deep-sea sponges in UK waters has been discovered off the coast of Scotland. Scientists at Marine Scotland made the discovery while carrying out surveys at Rosemary Bank seamount, an extinct volcano about 100 miles off the northwest ...

Largest UK sponge reef found off Scottish coast   Scotsman
Scientists discover Deep-sea sponge reef at Volcano Site   Uncover Michigan
Deep-sea sponge reef found at site of extinct volcano   BBC News
Irish Examiner   
Herald Scotland   
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Pioneer News
   
​This is what it sounds like when drunk birds slur their songs   
CBS News
When researchers at Oregon Health & Science University wanted to study one of the ways that alcohol affects the brain, they turned to zebra finches -- and got them drunk. "Speech impairment is one of the most intriguing and least understood effects of ...

Drunken birds slur just like humans: Study says   Capitalberg
Scientists show that drunk birds 'slur' their songs   Washington Post
Drunken birdsong gives an insight into the effects of alcohol on the human brain   Irish Independent
The Register   
NPR   
Los Angeles Times   
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The Independent
   
Stephen Hawking's wife on their marriage breakdown: 'The family were left behind'   
The Independent
The former wife of Stephen Hawking has described how she and their three children were “left behind” after the cosmologist was surrounded by “sycophantic” admirers following publication of his landmark work A Brief History of Time. In an interview to ...

Stephen Hawking's first wife: 'I would not worship ground under his wheels'   Telegraph.co.uk
The Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking biopic is immensely moving   The Register
Stephen Hawking's 10-year-old son 'was carer for a work-obsessed dad'   The Australian (blog)
TV3.ie   
TIME   
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VICE News
   
The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species   
VICE News
For many Americans, the monarch butterfly is an iconic part of childhood — a real world insect from which to learn about caterpillars, cocoons, metamorphosis, and migrations. But monarch butterfly populations have declined precipitously in recent years, ...

Monarch Butterfly Population Dropped by 90% Last Two Decades Say Scientists ...   Latin Post
'King' of butterflies to be studied for threatened-species status   Charleston Post Courier
Monarch butterflies may get a 'protected' spot to land   Naples Daily News
Northern Voices Online   
Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews   
KCET   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
BC radiation risk from Fukushima disaster 'insignificant:' research   
The Globe and Mail
As radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power-plant disaster drifted across the Pacific, fears that salmon and other marine life could be contaminated spread along the British Columbia coast. But samples gathered by citizen scientists and a more ...

Tracking Fukushima's radioactivity   Stuff.co.nz
Fukushima Radiation to Reach Highest Levels By End of 2015   Nature World News
Fukushima Radiation Will Most Likely Peak In North American Waters At The ...   Headlines & Global News
Los Angeles Times   
CBS News   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Space Reporter
   
NASA Tries to Nurse More Life Out of Opportunity Rover   
PC Magazine
NASA mission controllers are scrambling to get some extra life out of the Mars exploration rover Opportunity with a workaround that cuts off access to a failed flash memory bank that's causing the probe to suffer "amnesia" when it reboots. Opportunity has been ...

NASA preps lobotomy for Opportunity rover to cure computer amnesia   The Register
Computer system 'amnesia' plagues aging Mars rover   The Space Reporter
Computer system 'loss of memory' affects decade old Mars rover Opportunity   Northern Voices Online
The Verge   
Science Times   
Tom's Hardware   
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