2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 Ireland Science


BBC News
   
Study to help ash mapping for flights   
BBC News
New discoveries about ash clouds could help predict where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions, Edinburgh researchers have said. Experts have studied ash grains taken from Icelandic eruptions to compare satellite-based measurements of ash ...

Study of ash clouds aims to avoid future air disruption   Irish Examiner
Volcanic ash found in Yorkshire could help to improve flight safety forecasts   Phys.Org

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OCRegister
   
How does it look? Earth now has a flag designed to plant for when we reach Mars   
OCRegister
A design student from Sweden has come up with one idea - interlocking circles of white on a stately blue background. Oskar Pernefeldt of the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm designed the flag as part of his graduation project and illustrated its ...

Planet Earth now has a flag for interplanetary relations   Irish Examiner
This could be the flag Earthlings fly while colonizing space and battling alien races   GlobalPost
Personifying Emotions and Universalizing Flags: Links You Need to See   Flavorwire
The New Daily   
The Verge   
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Huffington Post Canada
   
The Canadian Women Who Rule The #GirlsWithToys World   
Huffington Post Canada
In the highly reactive world of the Internet, it's easy for outrage to overtake education. But every once in a while, something sparks a social movement that makes you feel like you're really learning something. And if you start looking through the hashtag ...

Astronomer's 'boys with toys' remark inspires #GirlsWithToys response   PBS NewsHour
Girls With Toys: A Powerful, Funny, Inspiring Response to Sexism in Science   Slate Magazine
Women scientists speak out against gender bias on Twitter with #Girlswithtoys   Hindustan Times
Huffington Post   
The Verge   
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Prince of Wales Visits the Marine Institute Galway   
Afloat
#RoyalVisitsMarine - Today the Prince of Wales visited the Marine Institute in Oranmore, Co. Galway where he met Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and Minister Simon Coveney, and talked to Marine Institute staff about their work in areas including analysing the ...

Trans-Atlantic mapping survey   Maritime Journal

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Huffington Post
   
What You Can Learn From Elon Musk Book: 6 Tips   
Huffington Post
Today, the Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance is finally available. It will "likely serve as the definitive account" of the most successful entrepreneur in the world, writes Jon Gertner in the New York Times. But it can also be read as a manual of how to ...

SpaceX Becomes NASA's Chosen One, Promotes Mars Tourism   NH Voice
Why Elon Musk Isn't Going to Mars Any Time Soon   The Epoch Times
SpaceX Mars Travel Destination Posters Make Us Want To Book A Trip To ...   International Business Times
CNET   
Business Insider   
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Times LIVE
   
Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

Why spooky spiders rained from the sky in Australia   Washington Post
Tiny Spiders 'Rain' Down: Baby Arachnids By The Millions Fall From Aussie ...   The Inquisitr

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New York Times
   
Data Suggests Legs and Toes in Ancestor of Living Snakes   
New York Times
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose sinuous body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, ...

Snake ancestor had tiny ankles and toes and hunted with dinosaurs   Herald Scotland
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water   NPR
What the First Snake Looked Like   Discovery News

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Fox News
   
How the honey bee population affects you   
Washington Post
May 19, 2015 3:58 PM EDT - The Obama administration announced the first national strategy to promote the health of bees and other pollinators, following the sharp decline in colony numbers in recent years. USDA bee scientist Jay Evans explains why ...

White House has a plan to save bees and other crop pollinators   Los Angeles Times
White House announces federal plan to feed the bees   Minneapolis Star Tribune
White House makes bid to save honeybees but ignores toxic pesticides   The Guardian
Christian Science Monitor   
Grist   
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New York Times
   
Secret Vessel to Test Durability of Materials in Space, NASA Says   
New York Times
A secretive United States Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit on Wednesday. As with the previous flights, the Air Force revealed few details about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of ...

Air force prepares mini space plane for launch cloaked in mystery   The Guardian
Air Force spaceplane set for (mostly) secret mission   CBS News
Top secret space plane X-37B to blast off but we don't know it it will come back   Daily Mail
Mashable   
Spaceflight Now   
Space.com   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Evolution abandoned giant pandas after they switched to a bamboo diet   
Los Angeles Times
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals' guts is optimized to digest meat.
Why Pandas Eat So Much Bamboo: They Can Bear-ly Digest It   Newsweek
Giant Pandas Have not Evolved to Eat Bamboo: Study   NDTV
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns
Nature.com   
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