2015年4月1日 星期三

2015-04-02 Ireland Science


Irish Independent
   
Snakes and ladders: the career slope of a builder turned zoo owner   
Irish Independent
Dad-of-three James Hennessy (39) is founder and director of the National Reptile Zoo in Gowran, Co Kilkenny. The private zoo hosts 30,000 visitors a year and generates turnover of €250,000. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To.
Wild Americas show swooping into Kapuskasing   Kapuskasing Northern Times (subscription)

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Irish Times
   
Botanists brave bears and snakes for flood risk research   
Irish Times
A bunch of intrepid University College Dublin botanists and undergrads have braved snakes, tarantulas, bears and desert heat to collect leaves from forests and deserts. Their goal is to discover if plants are responding to rising carbon-dioxide levels in a way ...


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Discovery News
   
We're Planning to Shoot an Asteroid to See What Happens   
Discovery News
What better way to understand how to deflect an incoming asteroid than to smash into one to see what happens? This may sound like the storyline to a certain science fiction movie involving a team of oil drillers, but this is science fact, and Europe has started ...

ESA plans to test planetary asteroid defence system in 2020   Siliconrepublic.com
In 2022, Humans Plan to Crash Into an Asteroid to Shift its Orbit   Motherboard
ESA starts organizing flight as part of asteroid deflection project to protect Earth   Russia Beyond the Headlines
Phys.Org   
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Metro
   
Does this weekend's 'Blood Moon' herald the end of the world this September ...   
Metro
Hope you've built your bunker and stocked up on canned goods – because the third of four 'Blood Moons' is on its way this weekend. According to one American pastor, four blood moons is a biblical sign that an imminent world-changing event is on the way.
'Blood Moons' discoverer: 'More judgment coming'   WND.com
Another 'blood moon' to be visible this weekend   NBC26.tv
Is This The End? The Moon Turns Blood On Saturday   Pulse.com.gh
mirror.co.uk   
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CNN
   
Shortest total lunar eclipse of the century coming Saturday   
CNN
(CNN) Sky watchers in Western North America are in for a treat: a nearly five-minute total lunar eclipse just before sunrise on Saturday. Here's how it will unfold: Starting at 3:16 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the moon will begin moving into Earth's shadow.
Shortest lunar eclipse of the century: How to see it this weekend   Los Angeles Times
Total lunar eclipse April 4, 2015: Where and when to see blood moon   ABC15 Arizona
How to see Saturday's shortest total lunar eclipse of the century   AL.com
Latinos Health   
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CBC.ca
   
Jon Butterworth on the search for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider   
CBC.ca
Get an insider's look at what it's like to be one of the particle physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva and what it felt like to discover the Higgs boson in this livestreamed public lecture. Physicist Jon Butterworth, of University College ...

What's Next for the World's Largest Atom Smasher? How to Watch Live   Live Science
CERN confirms existence of the Force for April 1   CNET
Large Hadron Collider short fixed   News24

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Tiny songbird flies over the Atlantic in autumn migration   
Sydney Morning Herald
A songbird weighing the equivalent of three teaspoons of sugar can fly over the north Atlantic, scientists say. The tiny superbird is the blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata). Tipping the scale at 12 grams, the white-throated, black-capped bird migrates from ...

Not a man, not a plane. Supersongbird!   Times LIVE
Scientists Say Tiny Blackpoll Warbler Travels Thousands Miles on End   American Register
Tiny songbird can fly the Atlantic, scientists confirm   Telegraph.co.uk

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NBCNews.com
   
NASA Takes Its Flying Saucer for a Pre-Flight Spin   
NBCNews.com
NASA put a new technology for landing on Mars through its paces Tuesday to help prep for a flight test from Hawaii this June. Engineers subjected the saucer-shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle, which is part of a project designed to help ...

JPL scientists working on getting 'flying saucer' to Mars   KABC-TV
NASA's Flying Saucer, And Everything Else You Missed Yesterday   Gizmodo Australia
NASA tests 'flying saucer,' could lead to safe landings on Mars   abc7news.com
Geek Infinite   
RT   
Tech Times   
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MiamiHerald.com
   
Scientists say polar bears won't thrive on land food   
Washington Post
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of researchers say polar bears forced off melting sea ice will not find enough food to replace their current diet of fat-laden marine mammals such as seals, a conclusion that contradicts studies indicating that bears may be ...

Polar bears face starvation as unlikely to adapt to a land-based diet, says report   The Guardian

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TIME
   
NY ants eat human-like junk food diet: study   
Daily Times
Urban ants in New York have apparently developed some of the same eating habits of their human counterparts: their diet is rich in junk food. Tests on insects collected from pavements and traffic islands in Manhattan show that their bodies contain the ...

Even ants love junk food: Study   Jagran Post
Urban Ants are also Junk food addicts like many of us according to in depth ...   Empire State Tribune
Only Some Urban Ants Like Human Food   Laboratory Equipment

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