2015年8月10日 星期一

2015-08-11 Ireland Science


BreakingNews.ie
   
7 officially brilliant places to see the night sky at its best   
BreakingNews.ie
On a dark night you look up and what do you see, some stars twinkling in their loveliness. Let your eyes get used to the dark while standing away from an irksome streetlamp and you'll see up to 100 stars. But for the really great sights you want to ...

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Irish Examiner
   
Action needed on climate change before point of no return   
Irish Examiner
IN 2009, global leaders agreed to try not to let the world warm more than 2C above pre-industrial times. This is sometimes seen as a rule of thumb for keeping on the right side of climate change, within 'safe' territory. But that's not at all how ...
EPA De-Develops the US Through Nebulous Consensus Climate Change   Canada Free Press
OPINION | The reality of global warming: We're all frogs in a pot of slowly ...   InterAksyon

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Voice of America
   
New Tadpole Disease Affecting Frogs Across Globe   
Voice of America
LONDON—. Tadpoles are contracting a new, highly infectious disease that may be threatening frog populations worldwide, British scientists have found. A parasitic disease caused by single-celled microbes known as "protists" was found in the livers of ...

The world's frog population could be under threat from a new infectious disease   Irish Examiner
New tadpole disease could be responsible for worldwide frog   Channel 4 News
Newly identified tadpole disease found across the globe   (e) Science News (press release) (registration)

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Siliconrepublic.com
   
Two whale-eating shrimp species discovered off Irish coast   
Siliconrepublic.com
Two new species of shrimp that strip the carcasses of whales, fish and seabirds have been discovered off the south-west coast of Ireland, deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The two new species of shrimp fall under the amphipods variety of ...

Two new species of 'submarine shrimp-like creatures' found   Science Times
National Oceanography Center discovers shrimp species that strip carcasses to ...   International Business Times AU
Researchers Discover Two New Species of Shrimp   West Texas News
IrishCentral   
Odisha Samaya   
KRWG News22   
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Irish Independent
   
Bees 'prefer gardens with native flowers'   
Irish Independent
Bees and other pollinating insects prefer gardens planted with flowers that are native to the UK and the northern hemisphere, a study has found. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. But exotic plants provide ...

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Boston Globe
   
Watch the Arctic get smaller via National Geographic maps   
Boston Globe
In a recent speech on a new initiative to decrease carbon emissions, President Obama drew attention to recent changes in the National Geographic Atlas of the World, which shows the Arctic ice cap as the smallest it has ever been. “Shrinking ice caps ...
Watch How Much National Geographic Has Redrawn Its Atlas Because of the ...   Newsweek
Arctic Ice Loss Is So Bad National Geographic Has To Keep Redrawing Its Atlas   Huffington Post Canada
5 maps that make complicated topics easy to understand   Siliconrepublic.com
International Business Times   
Boing Boing   
Alaska Dispatch News   
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Siliconrepublic.com
   
NASA's earthquake prediction coding 'match' almost complete   
Siliconrepublic.com
A NASA crowdsourcing exercise to seek a way to predict earthquakes using software algorithms is set to conclude, with US$25,000 up for grabs for the best performers in the contest. The project is all based on a theory that electromagnetic pulses (EMPs ...
NASA Contest Presents $25000 for Earthquake Detection Concepts   Observer News
NASA Contest Offers $25000 for Earthquake Detection Ideas   Space.com

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Mirror.co.uk
   
Glowworms having sex force council to turn off street lights   
Mirror.co.uk
Street lights were switched off at a popular beauty spot amid fears they were interfering with glowworms sex lives. Council bosses turned off the street lights due to concerns about how they were affecting the insects' mating habits. It's claimed that ...
Glow worm mating habits lead to light switch off at Welsh beauty spot   WalesOnline
Council switches off street lights that were 'interfering with glow worm sex'   Daily Post North Wales

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Tech Insider
   
Video: A robot is bullied by children, so scientists teach it how to react   
Quartz
What drives someone to attack a robot? Is it a fear of the potential robot uprising? Is it sport? Perhaps it's a general lack of brotherly love? Whatever the reason, scientists in Japan are teaching robots how to avoid human bullying.
Scientists are teaching robots to avoid children -- because some kids are ...   Business Insider Australia
Friendly robot has to be reprogrammed to escape from human bullies   9news.com.au
Robot Learns To Escape The Most Brutal Human Bullies — Children   malaysiandigest.com

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Engadget
   
MIT's robot borrows quick reflexes from a human pilot   
Engadget
Based on what we've seen at DARPA's Robotics challenge finals, most humanoid machines are still stiff and hilariously clumsy. MIT's new robot named "Hermes," however, moves a bit more gracefully and has human-like reflexes -- because it's hooked up to ...

HERMES robot and operator can share life-saving moments (w/ video)   Phys.Org
MIT's Hermes remote-controlled robot has human-like reflexes   Gizmag
MIT researchers create robot controlled by exoskeleton wearing human   SlashGear
ITProPortal   
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