2015年3月6日 星期五

2015-03-07 Ireland Science


Comic Book Resources
   
The robot apocalypse will be televised, and free of traffic jams   
Comic Book Resources
We all expected the giant-robot uprising to begin in Japan, but we were wrong. According to Agence France-Presse, five towering robots now stand watch across Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, directing traffic in the crowded city of ...

Kinshasa adds three giant robots to its police force   Examiner.com
Robocops being used as traffic police in Democratic Republic of Congo   The Guardian
Robocops being used as traffic police in Congo   Telegraph.co.uk
BBC News   
Irish Examiner   
Pocket-lint.com   
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6 women who made history in space (part 1)   
Siliconrepublic.com
While names like Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are household names, not many of space's pioneering women get mentioned in the same way. We're doing just that with six women, over two parts. As of the latest mission to the International ...


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BBC News
   
Nasa's Dawn probe achieves orbit around Ceres   
BBC News
The US space agency's Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the Solar System between Mars and Jupiter. A signal from the satellite confirming its status was received by ground stations at 13:36 GMT. Ceres is the first of the dwarf ...

Spacecraft Dawn has arrived at Ceres, one of solar system's last unexplored ...   Washington Post
9 Amazing Shots From NASA's Dawn Spacecraft   PC Magazine
NASA 'exhilarated' as Dawn orbits mini-planet Ceres   USA TODAY
Los Angeles Times   
Wall Street Journal   
NBCNews.com   
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The Independent
   
Hubble Telescope confirms Einstein's theory of relativity   
The Independent
Stunning visual confirmation of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has been provided by the Hubble Space Telescope, after astronomers captured the first images of light from an exploding star being distorted by a cluster of galaxies. The world's most ...

Astronomers see reruns of a 9 billion-year-old star explosion   OCRegister
Astronomers Watch a Supernova and See Reruns   New York Times
Einstein's Cross: Distant supernova split into four by gravitational lensing   CNET
Los Angeles Times   
Reuters   
Washington Post   
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New York Times
   
China Blocks Web Access to 'Under the Dome' Documentary on Pollution   
New York Times
BEIJING — “Under the Dome,” a searing documentary about China's catastrophic air pollution, had hundreds of millions of views on Chinese websites within days of its release one week ago. The country's new environment minister compared it to “Silent ...

China Blocks Web Access to Documentary on Nation's Air Pollution   NDTV
Film highlighting pollution woes vanishes from China's Internet   MiamiHerald.com
Pollution Documentary Pulled From Chinese Websites   Wall Street Journal
Financial Times   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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The Nation
   
Mars ocean was bigger than Arctic   
The Nation
Mars once had a body of water bigger than Earth's Arctic Ocean and vast enough to cover the entire surface of the planet, Nasa scientists said in a study released. The new research, providing estimates on the quantity of water on the Red Planet, is based ...

10 Questions: Candidate in Mars One Mission   NBC 10 Philadelphia
New research indicates Mars may have had an ocean   Tucson News Now
Mars had oceans once, NASA says   SMN Weekly
Science Times   
Clapway   
New York Times   
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CBS News
   
170-Year-Old Shipwreck Beer Tastes Gross, Less Thrilling   
NBCNews.com
When you're picking out a beer, what flavors do you look for? If hints of soured milk and burnt rubber sound delightful to you, then brews that were aged for 170 years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea just might be your thing. Scientists recently opened two bottles ...

Scientists Sample 170-Year Old Beer Found in Shipwreck   Empire State Tribune
170 year old beer recovered from shipwreck tastes awful, scientists say   SMN Weekly
Beer from 170 year old ship wreck has hints of burnt rubber and goat, say chemists   National Monitor
Telegraph.co.uk   
Discovery News   
NEWS.com.au   
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alloveralbany
   
Important predictions about the zombie apocalypse   
alloveralbany
So, there's that: When the zombie apocalypse arrives New York City will probably fall in about a day, while upstate New York will have weeks to prepare for the undead assault. So conclude a group of Cornell researchers who have done statistical modeling of ...

Alberta Is A Great Place To Escape The Zombie Apocalypse   Huffington Post Canada
Scientists determine the nation's safest places to ride out a zombie apocalypse   Washington Post
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (Hint: Not in the City)   PC Magazine
CBC.ca   
NBCNews.com   
Huffington Post   
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Channel News Asia
   
EU pledges to cut its emission by 40% by 2030; submits its climate action plan   
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: A week after Switzerland took lead by becoming the first country to submit its post-2020 climate action plan, the European Union on Friday submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) pledging that this group of 28 countries ...

EU eyes joint efforts over global warming   ecns
EU adopts climate change targets for Paris conference   Rappler
European Union embraces climate change objectives for Paris seminar   Picayune Leader
GlobalPost   
The Cubic Lane   
Reuters   
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The Columbian
   
China's panda population is growing, and that's a problem   
The Columbian
BEIJING — It is a rare success story for environmental protection and wildlife conservation in China: the nation's once-a-decade survey ... Opinion. Opinion Home · Editorials · Letters to the Editor · Columns · Greg Jayne · Endorsements · Editorial Cartoons ...

CCTV unexpectedly catches rare wild giant panda on midnight stroll   The Independent
China's growing panda population is fragmenting, and that's a problem   Washington Post (blog)
Caught-on-camera: Wandering panda visits Sichuan township   AsiaOne
Caixin Media   
mirror.co.uk   
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