2015年2月18日 星期三

2015-02-19 Ireland Science


CNN
   
Meet candidates for one-way trip to Mars   
CNN
The Mars One organizers narrowed the field of people going on a one-way mission to Mars to 100, including 39 Americans. CNN's Jason Carroll reports. Stories worth watching (12). dnt send flowers on valentines day after dying_00000212.jpg. <img alt="dnt ...

Sorry, but those Mars volunteers are never getting off the ground   Quartz
Mission reveals 100 finalists for one-way manned journey to Mars in 2025 ...   Nigerian Tribune
Mars One selects 1 'alien' and 99 human finalists to die on Mars   CNET
PC Magazine   
Telegraph.co.uk   
USA TODAY   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Relevant To You And Your Child: Contamination of Young Scientists With ...   
Full-Time Whistle
World's most dangerous toy, the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab, measured how much it contaminated children. It was most elaborate atomic energy educational set ever produced and allowed children to play with radioactive materials at home. You can watch the ...

World's most dangerous toy measured how much it contaminated children   thejournal.ie
'Most dangerous' toy goes on show   Irish Independent
World's Most Dangerous Toy 'Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab' Allowed Children To ...   The Inquisitr
Belfast Telegraph   
Maine News   
Market Business News   
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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Solar flare blasted Earth with 'killer electrons' in 2013   
Siliconrepublic.com
You might not have noticed, but on 8 October 2013 two satellites orbiting Earth captured for the first time a massive solar shockwave that blasted the planet with 'ultrarelativistic, killer electrons'. The explosion from the sun's surface sent an enormous ...

For the first time, spacecraft catch a solar shockwave in the act   Phys.Org

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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Take a seat and watch a chair assemble itself in a matter of minutes (hours)   
Siliconrepublic.com
MIT's self-assembly lab has a new trick, a chair that creates itself, under water, over the course of several hours. Using clever connections for each part, and jets of propulsion in the tank of water, the lab essentially, through trial and error, circulate the pieces ...

MIT's self-assembling chair is cool, but you can't sit on it yet   Engadget
Watch: The Furniture That Builds Itself   Sky News
MIT creates self-assembling underwater chair   UPI.com
Smithsonian   
SlashGear   
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Uncover Michigan
   
Penguins can't taste fish, study reveals   
3News NZ
A new study has found that penguins can't detect the savoury taste of fish. There are five tastes mammals like humans can detect – sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami, the latter of which gives meat its flavour. But researchers have revealed that the flightless ...

Penguins can taste only salty and sour foods, finds recent study   World Tech Today
Penguins unable to taste fish, research shows   Newstalk 106-108 fm
Penguins Can't Taste Fish, Says New Study   Huffington Post
University of Michigan News   
Full-Time Whistle   
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CNET
   
Transient star grazing our solar system 'just left,' cosmically speaking   
CNET
The nearest star beyond our own sun is 4 light-years away, but not long ago (in terms of cosmic time) a small binary star system buzzed the edge of our solar system, coming five times closer to Earth. by Eric Mack · @ericcmack; 18 February 2015 10:41 pm ...

Close brush between our solar system and a star reported   Los Angeles Times
Alien Star Buzzed Our Solar System 70000 Years Ago, New Research Shows   Huffington Post
Alien star system buzzed the Sun   BBC News
Irish Independent   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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BBC News
   
Limpet teeth 'beat spider silk' in strength test   
BBC News
Engineers in the UK have found that limpets' teeth consist of the strongest biological material ever tested. Limpets use a tongue bristling with tiny teeth to scrape food off rocks and into their mouths, often swallowing particles of rock in the process. The teeth ...

Strongest material known to man? A limpet's tooth   Times LIVE
Step aside, Spider-Man! World's Strongest Material is Not Your Silk   Full-Time Whistle
Move over, spiders: Limpets' teeth are the strongest biological material around   Mashable
RTE.ie   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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ABC Online
   
Fireball meteor brighter than the full moon spotted over US: NASA   
ABC Online
A bright meteor lit up skies over the American states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania this week, burning up in the atmosphere in a flare brighter than the full moon. A space rock about 60cm in diameter and weighing over 200kg entered Earth's ...

Great Ball of Fire! Meteor Streaks Across Western Pennsylvania   NBCNews.com
The 500-Pound Fireball Over Pittsburgh   The Atlantic
​500 lbs meteor spotted over Pennsylvania (VIDEO)   RT
Space.com   
Daily Mail   
Science Recorder   
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Techie News
   
Ceres' images getting sharper, thanks to Dawn   
Techie News
NASA's Dawn is on its way towards Ceres and every time it sends back images of the dwarf planet, they keep getting better and better. The latest set of images reveal a lot of craters and mysterious bright spots. “As we slowly approach the stage, our eyes ...

New, Better Images Of Dwarf Planet Ceres Taken By Dawn   Tech Times
Sharper images of dwarf-planet Ceres show strange bright spots   CNET
Ceres: Dwarf planet is pocked with craters, NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows   Los Angeles Times
Washington Post   
National Geographic   
USA TODAY   
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SpaceFlight Insider
   
On 85th anniversary of Pluto's discovery, New Horizons images two tiny moons   
SpaceFlight Insider
Pluto was first discovered 85 years ago by Clyde Tombaugh. Artist impression of what the dwarf planet would look like. Image Credit: NASA. Laurel Kornfeld. February 18th, 2015. On Feb. 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer at the Lowell ...

New Horizons gets first look at Pluto's smaller moons   National Monitor
Flagstaff Celebrates 85th Anniversary of Pluto's Discovery   Northern Arizona Today
What's Up In Space? Martian mystery plumes, a stellar close-call and 85 years ...   The Weather Network
Washington Post   
TIME   
Space Fellowship   
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