2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 U.S. Science


ABC News
   
Birds Slur Their Songs When Drunk, Too   
ABC News
It seems birds, like humans, also have a penchant for drunk singing. A group of scientists gave some zebra finches spiked drinks and found that while the buzzed birds didn't fly around willy-nilly while drunk, they certainly sounded sloshed when they sang.
​This is what it sounds like when drunk birds slur their songs   CBS News
Drunken birds slur just like humans: Study says   Capitalberg
When Songbirds Imbibe, Their Tunes Get Sloshed   Yahoo News
NBCNews.com   
Washington Post   
Los Angeles Times   
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TIME
   
Groups plan to sue to protect rare desert flowers   
San Francisco Chronicle
DENVER (AP) — Seven conservation groups are planning to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for keeping two rare species of desert flowers off the federal list of endangered species. The Center for Biological Diversity says the groups filed a formal notice ...

Monarch Butterflies Might be an Endangered Species   Christianity Daily
The Monarch Butterfly Might Soon Be Listed As An Endangered Species   VICE News
Monarch Butterfly Population Dropped by 90% Last Two Decades Say Scientists ...   Latin Post
Charleston Post Courier   
Naples Daily News   
Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews   
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The Space Reporter
   
NASA Tries to Nurse More Life Out of Opportunity Rover   
PC Magazine
NASA mission controllers are scrambling to get some extra life out of the Mars exploration rover Opportunity with a workaround that cuts off access to a failed flash memory bank that's causing the probe to suffer "amnesia" when it reboots. Opportunity has been ...

NASA preps lobotomy for Opportunity rover to cure computer amnesia   The Register
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover faces increasing memory loss   The Verge
Computer system 'amnesia' plagues aging Mars rover   The Space Reporter
Science Times   
Tom's Hardware   
Geek Infinite   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Get ready! NASA spacecraft soon to rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres   
Los Angeles Times
After voyaging 2.4 billion miles through space, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is finally in the home stretch of its journey to Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt and one of five dwarf planets in the solar system. lRelated A hunt for dark matter in a former ...

NASA Readies Dawn Probe for Ceres Approach   PC Magazine
NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches dwarf planet Ceres   National Monitor
Nasa spacecraft to rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres   Stuff.co.nz
KpopStarz   
NBCNews.com   
Blastr   
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Mashable
   
The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015   
Mashable
Peru's President Ollanta Humala (right) stands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before the press after a private meeting at the government palace in Lima, Peru, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Image: Juan Karita/Associated Press ...

Climate Change This Week: No Forests -- No Farming, Divine Divestment, and ...   Huffington Post
How to pay for climate safety   Sydney Morning Herald
Inside the Lima Climate Change Summit: 5 Reasons to Be Hopeful   RollingStone.com
The Guardian   
GlobalPost   
National Monitor   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Did drought doom the Mayan Empire? New evidence from Belize's 'Blue Hole'   
Christian Science Monitor
Minerals taken from lagoons reveal a century-long drought occurred between A.D. 800 and A.D. 900, right when the Mayan civilization disintegrated. By Tia Ghose, Livescience.com December 30, 2014. close. The Maya temple of Kukulkan, the feathered ...

More evidence Mayan civilization collapsed because of drought   Washington Post
Belize's 'Blue Hole' Reveals Clues to Maya's Climate Doom   NBCNews.com
Was the Mayan civilisation wiped out by an extreme drought? Study of Great ...   Daily Mail

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Headlines & Global News
   
NASA's Hubble Telescope Captures Breathtaking Image Of Newly-Discovered ...   
Headlines & Global News
A stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an eerie white galaxy that stands against a backdrop of other distant galaxies. Share This Story. The images displays the galaxy IC 335, which is a member of a galaxy group that contains ...

Hubble captures image of galaxy 60 million light-years away   USA TODAY
Hubble Telescope Takes Picture Of Aging Galaxy IC 335 From 60 Million Miles ...   KpopStarz
New Galaxy: NASA's Hubble discovers new galaxy 60 million light years away   Full-Time Whistle
Bustle   
Boxing Dispatch   
Huffington Post   
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io9
   
Was Venus Once Bathed in Oceans of Liquid Carbon Dioxide?   
io9
Though there is no liquid that flows across the surface of hot, muggy Venus, its landscape is covered in what look like riverbeds and flood plains. Now scientists believe that these features could have been created by an incredible ocean of carbon dioxide that ...

Venus once featured oceans of carbon dioxide   UPI.com
Study Examines the Supercritical Carbon Dioxide of Venus   Pioneer News
Venus may have once had oceans of carbon dioxide   The Week Magazine
Capitalberg   
Geek Infinite   
Science Times   
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University Herald
   
Video Puts Viewers in Cockpit of Spacecraft Burning Through Earth's Atmosphere   
The Ocean Signal
New video recorded during the return of NASA's Orion through Earth's atmosphere this month provides a taste of the intense conditions the spacecraft and the astronauts it carries will endure when they return from deep space destinations on the journey to ...

Boeing passes second key test for NASA space taxi flights in 2017   Fox News
December 30, 2014 in News: 2014's top stories in spaceflight   Spaceflight Now
Mars advocate Robert Zubrin takes a dim view of Venus cloud city scheme   Examiner.com
National Post   
Clarksville Online   
ABC2 News   
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NBC Bay Area
   
Angry celebrities call out Twitter over 'Sponsored Follows'   
FanIQ
I've always thought of actor William Shatner as more of a "low-cost commercial spokesman" rather than a "principled consumer advocate." But in a dust-up with microblogging service Twitter this week, Shatner showed he's not always a shill. The one-time Star ...

Twitter comes under fire for new ad campaign   SlashGear
Twitter Ads Make You a Follower   NBC Bay Area (blog)
Twitter Goes Over to Dark Side, Decides Who You'll Follow   The Mac Observer
Mashable   
Mediaite   
Android Headlines - Android News   
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