2015年5月21日 星期四

2015-05-22 Ireland Science


Digital Journal
   
Will this be the flag we plant on an alien planet?   
Digital Journal
It started out as a student's project undertaken as part of a Bachelor's Degree in fine arts. The exploration of Mars and other distant planets will take international cooperation, and a flag that imparts a sense of unity was designed.
Will the first astronauts on Mars raise a flag of Earth over the Red Planet?   Examiner.com
This is what the international flag of Earth looks like   Geek Snack
Student creates International Flag of Earth! What are your thoughts?   Techie News
Washington Post (blog)   
Metro   
Yahoo News   
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The Straits Times
   
Media to share content on climate change   
The Straits Times
Twenty-five leading media companies sealed an agreement yesterday to form a global Climate Publishers Network to promote awareness of climate change. Members will work together to enhance coverage of global warming in the run-up to the Nov 30- ...

25 newspapers team up to bring attention to climate change   Mashable
Global news organisations agree to share climate change content   The Guardian
The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald join climate change media network   The Age
Businessandleadership.com   
Grist   
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Spaceflight Now
   
Citizen-funded CubeSat ready to go solar sailing   
Spaceflight Now
A shoebox-sized satellite conceived and funded by members of the Planetary Society, an advocacy organization co-founded by Carl Sagan, is fastened to an Atlas 5 rocket for launch Wednesday to test one of the late celebrity-astronomer's futuristic concepts ...

LightSail Update: All Systems Nominal   The Planetary Society (blog)
Bill Nye's Crowd-Funded Solar Sail Satellite Is Now in Orbit   Clapway
A Tiny Satellite With Enormous Solar Sails Is Orbiting Our Planet   io9
Tucson News Now   
Grist   
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Maine News
   
Novel System that brings Changes to Bacterial Genome could be Hit among ...   
Maine News
A paper published in Nature Communications unveiled that an environmentally dependent method to delete specific genes and remove genetically modified organisms (GMO) puts into use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing system to excise important pieces of ...

CRISPR “Kill Switches” for GMOs   The Scientist
GMO Scientists Could Save the World From Hunger, If We Let Them   Newsweek
CRISPR 'kill switch' developed to stop GMOs running amok   Siliconrepublic.com

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Siliconrepublic.com
   
NASA launch US$2.25m challenge to 3D print space homes   
Siliconrepublic.com
Once again, NASA is calling on the public to help them develop future space tech and is offering US$2.25m to entrants to build 3D printed designs for future space habitats. Having just recently launched a competition asking for the public to come up with ...

Here's Your Chance to Work with NASA   Architectural Digest (blog)
NASA challenges designers to construct 3D-printed habitat   Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
NASA Announces 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge   I-Connect007

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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Rosetta finds boulder formation on surface of Comet 67P   
Siliconrepublic.com
The 3 boulders are found in the Aker region of Comet 67P, on the comet's large lobe (boxed). Image via ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA. Share on Facebook · Tweet about this on Twitter · Share on LinkedIn ...

Another Stunning Photo of the Comet From Rosetta   Slate Magazine (blog)
A rock is teetering on a comet's surface, but how it got there is a mystery   Eyes On News
Alien 'ballerina boulders' spotted performing mysterious balancing act on the ...   Mirror.co.uk
The Inquisitr   
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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Irish young scientists win big at Intel Science Fair   
Siliconrepublic.com
Irish students competing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last week picked up a total of five awards — two special awards and three category awards. More than 7m students across the world participated in feeder fairs for Intel ISEF over ...

Intel-Israel Young Scientist Competition winners return with international awards   Jerusalem Post Israel News
Hempfield senior wins second place award at Intel International Science and ...   LancasterOnline
Young Gadget Masters scoop prizes at Intel ISEF 2015   ElectronicsWeekly.com
VietNamNet Bridge   
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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Amazing pic of Connemara's coastline on Jupiter's Europa   
Siliconrepublic.com
Jupiter's Europa moon is chockful of water and Galileo has just captured a stunning image of one of its icy regions, named after Ireland's Connemara countryside due to its rugged landscape. Actually called Conamara Chaos – we're not sure where the ...

NASA TV to Air Announcement of Instruments for Europa Mission   Space Ref (press release)

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Irish Examiner
   
World's largest particle collider busts record   
DAWN.com
GENEVA: The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late on Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced on Thursday. “Last night, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking ...

Large Hadron Collider breaks atom smashing record   Daily Mail
Geneva particle smasher sets energy level record   The Local.ch
LHC smashes energy record with test collisions   BBC News

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NBCNews.com
   
Antarctic Peninsula in 'dramatic' ice loss   
BBC News
Satellites have seen a sudden dramatic change in the behaviour of glaciers on the Antarctica Peninsula, according to a Bristol University-led study. The ice streams were broadly stable up until 2009, since when they have been losing on the order of 56 billion ...

Antarctic glaciers thinning so fast, it's like a switch was flipped   Christian Science Monitor
Antarctic glaciers once thought stable now thawing fast - study   Reuters
Some Antarctic glaciers reached a tipping point in 2009   ABC Online
Smithsonian   
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