2015年8月13日 星期四

2015-08-14 Ireland Science


JOE
   
Ireland is joining the space race with our first ever spacecraft   
JOE
The spacecraft is to be built in Ireland under the supervision of the Maynooth-based company, which has already manufactured parts for other space missions, including for the Rosetta mission, which landed a probe on a comet last year. space animated GIF.
Ireland is about to build its first ever multi-million euro spacecraft   Entertainment.ie
Ireland's first ever spacecraft announced   Laois Nationalist
Prof Susan McKenna-Lawlor to name the Irish space project announced at ...   Siliconrepublic.com
Sunday World   
Newstalk 106-108 fm   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Shazam for birds: new app Warblr can identify songs of 220 British birds   
Telegraph.co.uk
A new app that can identify the songs of 220 British birds is launched today. Warblr, has been developed by two scientists, Florence Wilkinson and Dan Stowell, using a grant from Queen Mary University of London's Innovation Fund. The app which costs ...

Warblr "Shazam for Birds" App Turns Anyone into a Chris Packham   Gizmodo UK

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Irish Examiner
   
VIDEO: Will Humanity Be Extinct In 100 Years?   
Irish Examiner
We are currently living in an era called the Anthropocene, a period that begins when human activities start to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems. Scientist, Frank Fenner, believes that this era has had a greater impact on the world ...

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CNET
   
Dazzling shots of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower (pictures)   
CNET
Often regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Perseids have been especially spectacular thanks to a mostly absent moon. Read Less. Perseids show off in 2015. A Perseid meteor sneaks past illuminated windmills near Gemuend, Germany.
Photos: Perseid meteor shower blazes across sky in brilliant cosmic show   The San Diego Union-Tribune
17 Spectacular Photos Of This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower   Gizmodo Australia
Shooting stars show lights up Northants skies   Northampton Herald and Post

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Phys.Org
   
Trade fair in India to showcase latest laser technologies   
Industrial Laser Solutions Magazine
Delhi, India - LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA, to be held September 9-11, 2015, in Delhi, is an important gateway for the growth and use of lasers and photonics in the different application industries in India. The use of lasers in automotive ...
New powerful diamond laser that can easily cut through steel   Siliconrepublic.com
New diamond laser 20 times more powerful   Phys.Org
New 20 Times More Powerful Diamond Laser   Tech Fragments

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'Flying Spaghetti Monster' recorded swimming in Angola   
Big News Network.com
LUANDA, Angola -- A BP Global team captured footage of an underwater "Flying Spaghetti Monster" swimming off the coast of Angola. The video, which the BP Global team recorded near an oil well off the coast of Angola, was shown to experts with Britain's ...


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NBCNews.com
   
Astronomers photograph a baby Jupiter in another solar system   
Financial Express
Astronomers have taken a photograph of a baby planet beyond the solar system that may reveal clues as to how planets such as Jupiter are formed and influence their planetary siblings, a study released on Thursday shows. By: Reuters | August 14, 2015 ...

Newly discovered, Jupiter-like planet may sit in a solar system much like our own   Washington Post
Jupiter assembling: planet 96 light years away hints at how gas giants form   The Guardian
'Young Jupiter' discovered by astronomers: Planet 96 light years from Earth ...   Daily Mail
Herald Scotland   
Los Angeles Times   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Rosetta films first images of comet as it passes close to sun   
Telegraph.co.uk
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko passed 115 million miles from the sun on Thursday morning - the closest it gets during its orbit. The heat caused the comet's surface to spew jets of gas and dust, the matter which form its distinctive tail. Images taken ...

Rosetta hits `milestone` in comet`s run past Sun   Zee News
Rosetta comet makes its closest approach to the sun   CBS News
Is Rosetta's Philae lander in danger as its comet approaches the Sun?   Irish Examiner
The Guardian   
Reuters   
Christian Science Monitor   
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Computerworld
   
Are we safe from self-aware robots?   
Computerworld
End-of-mankind predictions about artificial intelligence, which have issued from some of today's most impressive human intellects, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and other notables, have generally sounded overly ...
Robot Successfully Evolves By Building Its Own “Children”   Junior College
Mother Robot Creates Baby Bots   Science Times
Robots have learned how to mimic natural selection   Fortune
Christian Science Monitor   
Science Recorder   
Tech Times   
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Mail & Guardian Online
   
Earth overshoots its mark   
Mail & Guardian Online
We've used up a year's supply of natural resources in under eight months, going into ecological debt. The impact of this 'ecological deficit' can be witnessed through deforestation, soil erosion, depletion of water resources and the accumulation of ...
Earth Overshoot Day: We Just Entered the Red   Newsweek
Earth's 2015 quota of renewable resources used up   The Nation
We've Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year   National Geographic
Science Recorder   
Gizmodo   
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