2015年9月3日 星期四

2015-09-04 Ireland Science


Belfast Telegraph
   
Lampreys returning to English rivers after conservation work   
Belfast Telegraph
A prehistoric fish has been seen in some English rivers for the first time since the 1800s in the wake of conservation work, the Environment Agency said. Ads by Google. Lamprey, snake-like creatures that were around 200 million years before the ...

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Daily Mail
   
Ants Suddenly March In A Circle When An iPhone Rings   
Huffington Post
Bizarre video of bustling ants suddenly marching in a circle around an iPhone when it rings has the Internet wondering what the heck is going on. Here are some theories: "The electromagnetic wave of an incoming call" keeps them in a circle, according ...
Watch an iPhone Control Ants   Daily Beast
VIDEO Ants swirl around a ringing iPhone   Irish Examiner
WATCH: Ringing iPhone Causes Ants to Enter Crazy Death Spiral   Heavy.com
BGR   
UPROXX   
Engadget   
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Daily Mail
   
Leopard leaps into waterhole to catch a fish for dinner in Botswana   
Daily Mail
Dinnertime can be a dirty business in the wilds of Africa when you're a famished leopard. In this incredible set of images, one of the majestic predators is more than happy to end up caked in mud for the sake of a meal... which in this case takes the ...
Hungry leopard leaps into waterhole to catch a fish and emerges both spotless ...   Mirror.co.uk

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NYC Today
   
Hitchhiking Comet concept might become reality soon   
NYC Today
A recent report is of the view that the Comet Hitchhiker concept is being researched upon and being developed recently by Masahiro Ono, from the NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory. Until now there has been only one such spacecraft that has orbited our ...
Inspired by “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” NASA plans to hitch rides on ...   Quartz
NASA Plans to Hitch Rides on Comets – Using Harpoons and Tethers   GovExec.com
Comet Hitchhiker: New Concept for Orbiting, Landing on Comets and Asteroids   Sci-News.com
ZME Science   
Ubergizmo   
CNET   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
Watch amazing moment two men set fire to methane bubbles trapped under a ...   
Mirror.co.uk
This incredible video shows how two daredevils braved fire and ice to capture an amazing natural phenomenon. Taken on a small video camera, it shows the moment methane bubbles were freed from an icy lake and set alight as they rise in the air.

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Times of India
   
Earth now home to 3 trillion trees   
Times of India
WASHINGTON: More than 3 trillion trees exist on Earth - roughly 422 per person - but the total number of trees has plummeted by 46 per cent since the start of human civilisation, according to a new Yale-led study. The new estimate of more than 3 ...
The earth as three trillion trees!   NY City News
We finally know how many trees there are in the world   Los Angeles Times
How Many Trees Does Earth Have? New Study Yields Big Surprise   Huffington Post
The Straits Times   
Irish Examiner   
TODAYonline   
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Mashable
   
Robots will be fighting against pesty starfish on the Great Barrier Reef   
Mashable
Crown-of-thorns starfish are one of the greatest threats to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and a team of researchers have a robot that's going to fight back. The starfish species, which is native to the Indo-Pacific region, feeds on coral and a ...
Robot to destroy starfish on Great Barrier Reef   Brisbane Times
COTSbot Is The Terminator Of Starfish   Ubergizmo
Australia Deploys Killer Robots to Terminate Reef-Eating Starfish   NBCNews.com
Maine News Online   
Pioneer News   
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Bangkok Post
   
Intel putting $50 mn into quantum computing research   
Bangkok Post
SAN FRANCISCO - US chip colossus Intel on Thursday said that it will put $50 million and engineering resources into an alliance on quantum computing that could radically advance complex problem-solving. Intel Corporation plans a 10-year collaboration ...

Intel to Invest $50 Million in Quantum Computers   Wall Street Journal
Intel ponies up $50 million for quantum computing research   PCWorld
Goodbye Moore's Law! Intel invests $50 million into quantum computing partnership   Fortune
ZDNet   
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NBCNews.com
   
Key radar fails on $1 billion NASA environmental satellite   
Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 3 A key instrument on a $1 billion NASA satellite has failed, reducing scientists' ability to capture data to measure the moisture in Earth's soil in order to improve flood forecasting and monitor climate change, officials ...
September 3, 2015 in News: Radar on NASA's SMAP Earth observing satellite ...   Spaceflight Now
Attempts to Power Radar Instrument aboard Soil Moisture Satellite Failed: NASA   NY City News
Key radar fails on US$1 billion NASA environmental satellite   Channel News Asia

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Livemint
   
Waste coffee grounds can store methane   
Livemint
Seoul: Scientists have developed a simple 'soak and heating' process which treats waste coffee grounds to enable them to store the harmful greenhouse gas methane. Methane capture and storage provides a double environmental return—it removes a ...

Higher Education reporter   The Australian (blog)
Scientists are using coffee to tackle climate change -- seriously   Business Insider Australia
The Latest in Coffee Grounds Energy Technology   Pacific Standard
uSwitch.com (Tech)   
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