2014年10月12日 星期日

2014-10-13 U.S. Science

  RT   
Robot snake mimics sidewinder motion, conquers sandy slopes (VIDEO)  RT
​A robot snake, built for a project to uncover the secret of sidewinder rattlesnake locomotion, has learnt a few tricks from nature and can now climb up slippery sand dunes. Such robots, researchers say, can be useful in search and rescue missions. In a study ...

Robot Snakes Teach Scientists How Sidewinders Move   TIME
Could this sidewinder snake robot help search and rescue missions?   Los Angeles Times
Robot snake learns secrets of sidewinders   BBC News
Fox News   
Christian Science Monitor   
Times of India   
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  SavingAdvice.com   
Fish Disappearing from Tropics Due to Rising Sea Temperatures  SavingAdvice.com
Researchers Miranda Jones and William Cheung, both from the University of Columbia, recently Marine Science, and the study that predicts changes that could have profound effects on humankind and the environment, if left unchecked. The researchers ...

Tropics may lose their most important fish species to climate change   Daily Digest
Temperature increase will drive fish away from tropics   Delhi Daily News
Marine fish, invertebrates to disappear from tropics due to Rising Temperature   WallStreet OTC
Capitalberg   
Science 2.0   
Irish Examiner   
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  Capital Wired   
Return Of The Military Space Drone  Capital Wired
With the Space Shuttle program now closed, NASA's new X-37B, an unmanned space drone is making headlines of a sort as it has now returned after almost 2 years in outer space. The mission was military and lasted about 22 months. The third of space ...

Secretive US robotic mini-shuttle to end 22-month mission on Tuesday   Reuters
Secret space plane X-37B to land on Tuesday   Maine News
Super secret US space plane to return to Earth after nearly two-year mission   Beta Wired
T4   
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  Power Boat - World   
Stunning finds from ancient Greek Shipwreck  Power Boat - World
New Antikythera discoveries prove luxury cargo survives - A Greek and international team of divers and archaeologists has retrieved stunning new finds from an ancient Greek ship that sank more than 2,000 years ago off the remote island of Antikythera.
Scientists uncover more secrets from Antikythera's 'Titanic of the ancient world'   Washington Post
Ancient Greek shipwreck could be largest of its kind (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Buried treasures pulled from 'Titanic of ancient world'   Fox News
The Japan Times   
Huffington Post   
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  Fox News   
Holy Hermes! Mosaic Revealed in Greece's Amphipolis Tomb  NBCNews.com
Archaeologists digging through an ancient tomb in Amphipolis in northern Greece have uncovered a floor mosaic that covers the whole area of a room seen as the antechamber to the main burial site. The mosaic, 3 meters (10 feet) long and 4.5 meters (15 ...

Bones of Alexander the Great's dad found   NEWS.com.au
Mosaic uncovered in northern Greece could mark royal Macedonian tomb   The Guardian
Large mosaic in ancient tomb uncovered in Greece   The Seattle Times
Haaretz   
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  Dumb-Out   
Santa Cruz throws welcome back party for monarch butterflies  Santa Cruz Sentinel
Sadie Witchel, 4, closes her eyes and skips across the field at Natural Bridges State Park on Sunday afternoon as she participates in the Dance of the Butterflies during Welcome Back Monarchs Day. (Kevin Johnson -- Santa Cruz Sentinel). « 1; 2; 3; 4; ».
Save the Monarch Butterflies   Dumb-Out
As Dwindling Monarch Butterflies Make Their Migration, Feds Try to Save Them   National Geographic
Plant a flower, save the world, or at least a butterfly   Cincinnati.com
Park Rapids Enterprise   
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  Capitalberg   
Leaky Galaxy Explains A Lot - A New Way to Study Evolution Of World  Capitalberg
Ken Croswell of Science magazine paints a vivid picture of what the cosmos was like and is like today. He points out that the universe was born in a hot state of affairs starting off as a conglomeration of electrons and positively charged protons and helium ...

A distant compact galaxy producing stars at quick rate: researchers   Maine News
Indian astronomer finds galaxy that pumps out radiation from stars   Hindustan Times
Where did the first light in the universe come from? Hubble discovery reveals ...   Christian Science Monitor
WallStreet OTC   
Tech Times   
Science Recorder   
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  WKRC TV Cincinnati   
NASA creates "pumpkin sun"  WKRC TV Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- NASA has released a photo of the sun from October 8, one that makes the sun appear to look like a jack-o'-lantern. The active regions appear brighter in the picture since those areas are emitting more light and energy.
NASA releases image of sun's active areas that looks like jack-o-lantern   Maine News Online
While Moon Turns Red, Sun Gets Halloween Ready in Jack-O-Lantern Style   Latinos Health
NASA Releases Spooky Photo of Pumpkin Sun Just in Time for Halloween   SavingAdvice.com
TIME   
Mashable   
Huffington Post   
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  MSNBC   
The Week in Geek: Hot Jupiter edition  MSNBC
There are a lot of things we still don't know about the planets around other stars that astronomers have now found by the thousands. We can learn a lot about their host stars because they give off a ton of light thanks to the fusion going on in their cores.
Exoplanet WASP shows signs of water vapor   Beta Wired
Exoplanet WASP-43b atmosphere has water vapor but hellish weather makes it ...   Tech Times
Water mapped on distant exoplanet   Delhi Daily News
Christian Science Monitor   
Astronomy Magazine   
Space Daily   
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  Capital Wired   
Oxytocin controls sexual behavior in humans, study says  Inferse
Sexual behavior was traced back to a small group of neurons in the brain which respond to increased levels of Oxytocin. Oxytocin controls sexual behavior in humans, study says. By Alexander on October 12, 2014. Sexual behavior was traced back to the ...

Mouse Study Reveals Part Of The Brain That Reacts To The 'Love Hormone'   RedOrbit
'Love hormone' controls sexual behaviour in mice   BBC News
'Love' hormone oxytocin regulates female sexual behavior, study suggests   Fox News
Capitalberg   
WallStreet OTC   
Science Codex   
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