2014年12月11日 星期四

2014-12-12 U.S. Science


New York Times
   
Strange Climate Event: Warmth Toward US for Its More Assertive Role   
New York Times
LIMA, Peru — When it comes to global warming, the United States has long been viewed as one of the world's worst actors. American officials have been booed and hissed during international climate talks, bestowed with mock “Fossil of the Day” awards for ...

Kerry tells rich and poor to make climate deal to avoid 'tragedy'   Reuters
Australia's Emissions Forecast to Surge Under Abbott's Policies   Businessweek
Don't Wreck Deal, US Warns Developing Countries, As Climate Talks Jam   NDTV
Mashable   
Zee News   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Frontline Desk
   
Scientists believe that they may have found first signs of Dark Matter   
Frontline Desk
Dark Matter is a type of matter that accounts for gravitational effects on visible matter while having an invisible mass for itself. Its effects are noticed on visible mass. It is also hypothesized as matter that is not reactant to light. It neither emits nor absorbs light or ...

Scientists pick up strange signals that may point to dark matter's existence   Beta Wired
Researchers detect potential Dark Matter signal, Greatest universe mystery ...   The Hoops News
Tangible Evidence of Dark Matter? Scientists May Have Found Some in X-Ray ...   Tech Times
The Inquisitr   
Market Business News   
Next Big Future   
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NEWS.com.au
   
The greatest mystery on Earth?   
NEWS.com.au
WE CALL Earth a water world, and that's pretty fair: Our planet's surface is 70 per cent covered in it, it makes up a percentage of our air, and there's even a substantial amount of it mixed in to the planet's mantle, deep underground. But where the heck did it ...

Rosetta Spacecraft Suggests Asteroids, Not Comets, Birthed Earth's Oceans   National Geographic
Most of Earth's water came from asteroids, not comets   Fox News
You Can Quit Thanking Comets for Your Water   TIME
NBCNews.com   
Engadget   
Businessweek   
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Dumb-Out
   
Mars Curiosity Snaps Pictures of What May Have Been Once A Lake   
Dumb-Out
Recent developments from the Mars Curiosity rover show that there may have been life on the Red Planet at some point in history. Managing editor of Space.com, Tariq Malik, explains “What they've found is a hint that Mars was habitable at one point in time.
NASA Rover Sees How Water Shaped Martian Landscape   Controlled Environments Magazine
The Times on Mars   New York Times
Water alone couldn't have made Mars hospitable to life   The Verge
Space.com   
Discovery News   
Vox   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Newly discovered dinosaur had an eagle face, was the size of a crow   
Los Angeles Times
More than 100 million years ago, when the grasslands of Montana were dotted with redwoods and ferns, there lived a diminutive dinosaur the size of a crow with a face that resembles an eagle. lRelated When Dreadnoughtus roamed Earth, other dinosaurs ...

The Oldest Horned Dinosaur Ever Discovered In North America Is Tiny   io9
'Eagle-face' was the oldest horned dino in U.S., study shows   The Japan Times
Scientists identify oldest horned dinosaur in North America. It's tiny.   Washington Post
Billings Gazette   
History   
Live Science   
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Newsweek
   
A flock of genomes tells the tale of bird evolution   
Los Angeles Times
A new genetic map of nearly all living birds has shaken the avian evolutionary tree, scattering some species to new perches and adding odd flourishes to their tales. Parrots roost closer to songbirds, a tiny wren shares a murderous lineage with the eagle, and ...

With massive data increase, scientists complete the bird family tree   Washington Post
Birds Are Dinosaurs, But How Did They Get Here?   Newsweek
Bird Evolution Decoded: Scientists Map Genomes of 48 Species   Tech Times
WGBH NEWS   
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National Geographic
   
Gem of a Meteor Shower on Tap This Weekend   
National Geographic
A shooting star streaks across the sky during the summer Perseid meteor shower. The Geminid meteor shower this weekend may best it. Photograph by Dennis Di Cicco, Sky and Telescope. Andrew Fazekas. for National Geographic. Published December 11 ...

Meteor shower walk Saturday night   Spencer Daily Reporter
Nature center to host meteor shower viewing   Kenosha News
9 photography tips to capture the Geminids   9NEWS.com
CU Boulder News & Events   
Beta Wired   
Yahoo News UK   
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Chicago Tribune
   
Greenpeace apologizes for protest at Peru's ancient Nazca Lines   
Chicago Tribune
Twenty Greenpeace activists from seven different countries unfurled the gigantic letters that formed the message: "Time for Change: The Future is Renewable," in light of the UN Climate Change summit currently underway in Lima. Twenty Greenpeace activists ...

Greenpeace stunt backfires as activists trample on ancient site   The Times (subscription)
Peru Strikes Back After Greenpeace's Nazca Lines Stunt   NBCNews.com
Greenpeace activists damage Peruvian heritage site to send environmental ...   The Verge
Viral Global News   
North Country Public Radio   
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MiamiHerald.com
   
'One if by land'? Try 'in the land' -- Paul Revere's 1795 time capsule unearthed   
CNN
(CNN) -- A time capsule buried by patriots Samuel Adams and Paul Revere more than two centuries ago was unearthed Thursday in Boston. The box-shaped capsule was placed by the Revolutionary-era duo in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State ...

Time Capsule Removed From Massachusetts Statehouse   ABC News
Time capsule from 1795 found in Boston statehouse   Los Angeles Times
Time capsule found at Massachusetts Statehouse   Fox News
USA TODAY   
NBCNews.com   
Boston Globe   
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NBCNews.com
   
MoonMail Promises to Launch Your Stuff to the Lunar Frontier   
NBCNews.com
What would you send to the moon? A precious family heirloom? A lock of hair? For a price, you could send a small object of your choosing on a one-way trip to the lunar surface. The private spaceflight company Astrobotic is offering people around the world ...

Local Company To Take Mementos To Moon   CBS Local
Pittsburgh firm offering 'moon mail' delivery   SFGate
Pittsburgh firm offering 'moon mail' for keepsakes   Observer-Reporter

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