2014年12月2日 星期二

2014-12-03 U.S. Science

  BBC News   
King Richard III's DNA opens a door to a new historical mystery  Los Angeles Times
It's a 500-year-old missing person's case and researchers say it has now been solved, definitively. The missing person was King Richard III, the controversial English monarch, described as having one shoulder higher than another. He ascended the throne in ...

DNA analysis of Richard III brings up questions about royal legitimacy   The Week Magazine
Richard III DNA shows British Royal family may not have royal bloodline   Telegraph.co.uk
DNA Confirms: Here Lieth Richard III, Under Yon Parking Lot   National Geographic
USA TODAY   
Irish Independent   
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  New York Times   
NASA set to launch Orion spacecraft, paving way for human Mars visit  Los Angeles Times
NASA is preparing for the maiden launch this week of its new Orion spacecraft, which could help jump-start America's return to human exploration of space, including a journey to Mars. This unmanned mission is relatively simple, less than five hours long and ...

NASA Sees Capsule Test as a Step Toward Mars   New York Times
Testing NASA: How Space Exploration Will Work in the Orion Era   NBCNews.com
Iron Man, Captain Kirk, and others will be launching with NASA's Orion ...   Science Recorder
Reuters   
CBS Local   
Charleston Daily Mail   
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  TIME   
Big Apple's Insects Eat Streets Clean  Scientific American
Researchers working in New York City found that hungry urban arthropods help dispose of tons of edible trash. Allie Wilkinson reports. December 2, 2014 |By Allie Wilkinson · Download MP3 · More 60-Second Science · Scientific American's 1930 Football ...

NYC's Garbage Disposal Services Helped by Insects   The Utah People's Post
Insects keep NYC streets clean by eating 60000 abandoned hot dogs yearly   Science Recorder
City insects, spiders are garbage eating machines and help keep cities clean   News Every day
UPI.com   
Blouin News Blogs   
Gizmodo   
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  Fox News   
Human ancestors had a taste for alcohol 10 million years ago  The Seattle Times
Roughly 10 million years ago — long before humans began to store food harvested by agriculture, and long, long before they intentionally fermented food — a new study finds that the guts of our primate ancestors evolved the ability to metabolize alcohol.
Human ancestors developed a taste for alcohol 10 million years ago   Los Angeles Times
Here's to alcohol and the human brain: a 10 million year relationship   Science Recorder
Study: Primates have been boozing for millions of years   myfoxny.com
The Utah People's Post   
Frontline Desk   
Scientific American   
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  The Denver Post   
US sees voluntary emissions cuts as key to a climate change accord  Los Angeles Times
The United States is championing a new international approach to cutting greenhouse gases that offers the best chance of prompting countries to take action to avert the worst effects of global warming, the nation's chief climate negotiator said Monday.
Developing nations urge deeper climate cuts to zero emissions   Reuters
Hotter, weirder: How climate has changed Earth   Chron.com
UN climate change talks heat up in Lima   USA TODAY

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  The Space Reporter   
Philae's historic 'landing' was more of a fall and collision with comet  The Space Reporter
ESA scientists investigating the progression of Philae's landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko now believe one of the lander's legs grazed the comet's surface in between its two known bounces. Both Rosetta and Philae produce small magnetic ...

Why Haven't We Seen Rosetta's Comet in Color Until Now?   The Atlantic
Philae May Have Grazed a Crater and Tumbled Over Comet   Discovery News
Philae may have scraped a crater during its landing   The Week Magazine
Tech Times   
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  The Guardian   
How a groundbreaking device is helping Stephen Hawking communicate  USA TODAY
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Eddie Redmayne is learning about much more than the beguiling life of Stephen Hawking, whom he plays in the recently released biopic Theory of Everything. At Intel Labs here, the Tony-winning actor is on hands and knees to get a ...

Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Be the End of Mankind   NBCNews.com
Stephen Hawking fancies himself as a Bond villain   Sydney Morning Herald
Robots could spell end of human race, Hawking claims   Irish Independent
The Nation   
NEWS.com.au   
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  Channel News Asia   
Funding pledge ensures Europe stays in the space race  Financial Times
Europe has declared its determination to stay in the space race with plans to fund the development of a new generation of rockets to carry satellites into orbit. After years of Franco-German wrangling, a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday ...

ESA to develop new launchers   Xinhua
European ministers approve new Ariane 6 rocket   Reuters
Ministers Approve New Generation of Lower-Cost Ariane Rockets   Wall Street Journal
MiamiHerald.com   
Morning Vertical   
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  Discovery News   
Warming Climate Can Be Slowed in a Decade  Discovery News
In a bit of good news on the climate, a new study finds that any reductions in carbon emissions today will help the planet's atmosphere only 10 years from now, rather than the 30- to 50-year scenario that's been understood by scientists and policymakers up ...

Earth's Warm Streak Could Peak in a Decade, If Policymakers Don't Change   Science Times
Carbon dioxide emissions brew for 10 years, new research says   Beta Wired
CO2 warming effects felt just a decade after being emitted   Phys.Org
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Huffington Post   
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  CBC.ca   
Rate of Antarctic ice melt triples, according to new scientific research  Beta Wired
Over the past decade the rate of Antarctic ice melt has tripled, with polar glaciers losing the equivalent of Mt. Everest in water weight, scientists say. Advertisement. The latest analysis conducted by the University of California at Irvine and the National ...

Fastest-Melting Region of Antarctica Triples Rate in a Decade   TIME
Antarctica Losing Mt. Everest's Worth of Ice as Melt Triples   Businessweek
Glaciers in Antarctica are melting three times faster than previously thought   CBS News
Slate Magazine (blog)   
NBCNews.com   
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