2015年1月22日 星期四

2015-01-23 Ireland Science


BBC News
   
Scientists slow the speed of light   
BBC News
A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light. They sent photons - individual particles of light - through a special mask. It changed the photons' shape - and slowed them to less than light speed. The photons remained ...

In a first, scientists slow down speed of light   Times of India
Structured photons slow down in a vacuum   physicsworld.com
Shapely photons break rules to fly slower than light   New Scientist
Deadline News   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
'Three suns' over Mongolia in unusual celestial event   
San Jose Mercury News
Images Sunday from Mongolia show the celestial phenomenon known as parhelion, or "sundogs," in which ice crystals refracting light create bright spots flanking the sun. In the more common type of ice halo, the random arrangement of the crystals presents a ...

Video appears to show three suns in the skies above Mongolia   Irish Independent
Watch: Rare optical phenomenon creates three suns in the sky   Telegraph.co.uk
My three suns: Triple sun illusion recorded in Mongolia   UPI.com
Daily Mail   
The Weather Channel   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Sperm whale blasts tons of shit all over the place   
Full-Time Whistle
The bumper bowel movement – caught on camera by Canadian photographer Keri Wilk – is believed to be a rarely-seen defence mechanism. These pictures show the disgusting moment a group of divers found themselves swimming in a sperm whale's POO ...

Giant whale 'poonado' engulfs divers   Telegraph.co.uk
You don't want to scare a Sperm whale - moment it POOS on divers in self-defence   Irish Mirror
These unlucky divers were engulfed in a 100ft wide whale 'poo-narmi'   Metro

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New York Times
   
Rosetta Finds Out Much About a Comet, Even With a Wayward Lander   
New York Times
Photographs and data from the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have provided an unprecedented close-up examination of a comet, but there is one thing that has not shown up yet: the small lander that bounded to the surface in November.
Rosetta satellite data gives most detailed view of comets yet   Irish Times
Rosetta mission findings show a comet with cliffs, basins, 'goose bumps'   Los Angeles Times
Rosetta: 'Goosebumps' on 'space duck' hint at comet formation   BBC News
Christian Science Monitor   
NDTV   
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Zee News
   
Interstellar-style wormhole exists in Milky Way?   
Times of India
WASHINGTON: An Interstellar-style space-time tunnel may exist in the Milky Way and we could even travel through it, according to a new theory proposed by an international team of scientists, including those from India. Based on the latest evidence and ...

Wormhole to another galaxy may exist in Milky Way   Telegraph.co.uk
Could a huge wormhole to another galaxy exist in the Milky Way?   Irish Examiner
Our galaxy's space shortcut   New Zealand Herald
Financial Express   
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USA TODAY
   
The Short List: Doomsday clock ticks again; Brady on Deflategate; today in Davos   
USA TODAY
Tick, tick, tick: When the clock strikes 12, we're toast. Maybe those people on Doomsday Preppersaren't that off base. We are dangerously close to the end of the world, scientists said today as they moved the hand of the symbolic Doomsday Clock two minutes ...

Countdown to catastrophe: Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight   Reuters
Doomsday Clock pushed ahead by climate change, nuclear threat   Toronto Star
Three minutes to midnight: Climate and nuclear threats see Doomsday Clock ...   South China Morning Post (subscription)
SFGate   
The Atlantic   
SMN Weekly   
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CNN
   
Laser treated metal can bounce-off water   
Geek Infinite
Researchers from University Rochester have made metal water resistant to an extent where the water droplets just bounce off like tiny basketballs. The newly designed metal will have multiple applications like storing water in countries facing water scarcity, ...

Rare waterproof metal where water droplets simply bounce off [VIDEO]   America Herald
Laser-etched metal 'bounces' water   BBC News
UR scientists make metal surfaces water repellent   Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The Independent   
Irish Examiner   
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Voice Chronicle
   
Astronomers Catch Alien Radio Signals In Real Time   
Voice Chronicle
Astronomers have picked up a mysterious radio signal which may have come from a black hole, a neutron star or even an alien civilization. Astronomers have observed a fast radio burst tearing through space. Fast radio bursts are short and sharp flashes of ...

Astronomers capture 'alien' radio signals   Sunday World

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International Business Times UK
   
Tool making arose earlier among human ancestors   
Los Angeles Times
Our ape-like ancestors may have stopped dragging their knuckles and started making tools a half million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors. Thomas H. Maugh ...

The upper hand: study points to early tool use by human ancestors   Reuters
Humans have been handy for longer than previously thought, says study   Sydney Morning Herald
Pre-Humans Used Tools with Human-Like Hands: How the Bones Show the ...   Tech Times
SMN Weekly   
NBCNews.com   
ABC Science Online   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Rare, crazy-looking shark caught by Australian fisherman   
Christian Science Monitor
Of course, from the shark's perspective, it's probably we humans who are the crazy-looking ones. By Tanya Lewis, LiveScience January 22, 2015. close. The bizarre creature was pulled up from a depth of nearly a mile, off the southeastern coast of Australia.
'Like a Horror Movie': Rare frilled shark caught off Australia   Fox News
Rare and terrifying frilled shark catch in Victorian waters the first for fishermen in ...   ABC Online
'Horrific' frilled shark pulled from the depths of the ocean   Sydney Morning Herald
Washington Post   
CNN International   
USA TODAY   
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