2014年12月16日 星期二

2014-12-17 U.S. Science


Reuters
   
NASA rover finds organic molecules, methane gas on Mars   
Reuters
Reuters - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Earth's neighbor planet, scientists said on Tuesday. The rover also found spurts ...

'A Great Moment': Rover Finds Clue That Mars May Harbor Life   New York Times
Methane 'belches' detected on Mars   BBC News
Is there life on Mars? Mystery (and hope) deepen   Computerworld
Washington Post   
Daily Beast   
Christian Science Monitor   
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R & D Magazine
   
New 'sponges' that capture CO2 could help in climate change fight   
Science Recorder
Researchers led by Emmanuel Giannelis, a professor of engineering at Cornell University, have come up with a new way to capture carbon dioxide, which could have huge benefits in the fight against climate change. The researchers' method uses ...

'Sponges' Can Cut Greenhouse Gases with Silica-Based Carbon-trapping   Islamabad Globe
Sponges' can cut greenhouse gases with silica-based carbon trapping: study   Northern Voices Online
Silica-Based Carbon-trapping 'Sponges' Can Cut Greenhouse Gases   Science 2.0
R & D Magazine   
Phys.Org   
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NBCNews.com
   
Why Greenland could lose more of ice sheet than predicted (+video)   
Christian Science Monitor
Newly discovered 'winterproof' lakes within the upper layers of the ice sheet in Greenland, as well as year-round aquifers, could speed the loss in a warming climate. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer December 16, 2014. About video ads. Researchers say they have ...

Greenland Ice Loss May Be Worse Than Predicted   Discovery News
Greenland's Ice-Melt Models May Be Too Sunny   Live Science
Greenland ice loss more 'local' than thought, climate study says   Los Angeles Times
NBCNews.com   
UB News Center   
Daily Times   
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Islamabad Globe
   
NASA is asking you to give a name to craters   
Islamabad Globe
Nasa experts published an event which will have some fun for thew followers about space.Nasa wanted to get names to their craters that who can be a famous .Followers of NASA gave lots of interesting crater names.Nowadays after deadline, officials of ...

Craters on Mercury can be named by you, NASA`s MESSENGER EPO reveals   Morning Vertical
Fancy Naming A Crater On Mercury In Honour Of NASA's 10-year MESSENGER ...   Forbes
NASA asks world+dog to name Mercury's craters (back off, 4chan)   The Register
Christian Science Monitor   
Space.com   
Washington Post   
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Daily News & Analysis
   
Quantum Encryption Could Make Credit Cards Unhackable   
PC Magazine
Imagine credit cards and ID cards which could never be hacked. That's the promise of quantum cryptography, which harnesses peculiar properties of subatomic particles to thwart data thieves. Now a team of Dutch researchers says we're closer to making ...

Researchers propose unhackable quantum credit cards   Science Recorder
Quantum-secure authentication based unhackable credit cards proposed   Northern Voices Online
Quantum credit cards 'impossible to hack'   ABC Science Online
Discovery News   
Capital Wired   
Geek   
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Islamabad Globe
   
Ground-based telescope found planet double size of earth   
Islamabad Globe
A ground-based telescope spotted a new planet which is 2 size bigger than our world.Researchers are trying to find out what is it.Also they want to know that this planet has life in it.According to a new story this planet came of its parent star and also there can ...

Ground-based telescope spots alien 'Super-Earth'   Christian Science Monitor
Tidally Squished Exoplanets Could Soon be Detected   Discovery News
Exoplanets flattened by stars' gravity may soon be found   RedOrbit
Science News   
The Space Reporter   
PerfScience   
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Wired
   
Navy develops 'GhostSwimmer' drone that looks like a shark. Seriously. (+video)   
Christian Science Monitor
Navy engineers have developed an unmanned underwater vehicle that looks and moves like a fish. The GhostSwimmer is currently being used to gather ocean and weather data, but could one day be weaponized.
A new spy of US Navy called : Nemo   Islamabad Globe
US Navy Reveals GhostSwimmer   Pioneer News
The US Navy's New Aquatic Drone is a Cross Between a Tuna and a Shark   OutdoorHub
Blastr   
Uproxx   
Wired   
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National Post
   
After years, NASA opened its $349M rocket tower … then promptly shut it down ...   
National Post
GULFPORT, Miss. — In June, NASA finished work on a huge construction project here in Mississippi: a $349 million laboratory tower, designed to test a new rocket engine in a chamber that mimicked the vacuum of space. Then NASA did something odd.
A $349 million tower built by NASA who later shut it down before even using it   Bio & Tech Insights
Wicker defends move to fund mothballed NASA rocket project   Bellingham Herald

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Newsweek
   
Landing on Mars Will Need Foreign Partners   
Newsweek
At 7:05 a.m. on Friday, December 5, the United States took the first step on its long journey to Mars when the Orion spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on its inaugural test flight. Riding into space atop a Delta IV Heavy ...

A Trip To Mars On The Giant Screen On 'Journey To Space'   Bio & Tech Insights
NASA's $349 million monument to its drift   Washington Post
December 16, 2014 in News: Despite budget boost, Space Launch System will ...   Spaceflight Now
PopCrush   
USA TODAY   
SpaceFlight Insider   
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NME.com
   
'Punk rock' snail named for the Clash's Joe Strummer   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer, the late lead vocalist and guitarist from the famed British punk band the Clash. The researchers say the name highlights the "hardcore" nature of the snail, now known as Alviniconcha ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers name snail with a mohawk after The Clash ...   San Jose Mercury News
Deemed punk rock, Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers name snail after The ...   Inside Bay Area
New snail species is so punk, it's named after Joe Strummer   Cult of Mac
TIME   
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