2015年1月23日 星期五

2015-01-24 U.S. Science


ABC News
   
Our 3-Million-Year-Old Ancestors Were a Lot More Handy Than We Thought   
ABC News
The evolutionary history of human-like hands that can grip and squeeze may go back as far as three million years, according to a new study by anthropologists that significantly pushes back the date when human ancestors acquired enough manual dexterity ...

Tool making arose earlier among human ancestors   Los Angeles Times
Thumb bones in pre-humans make them more like us, study says   Washington Post
Human Ancestors May Have Used Tools Half-Million Years Earlier Than Thought   National Geographic
Reuters   
Discovery News   
NBCNews.com   
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Pioneer News
   
Tagged Jellyfish Reveal Swimming Superpowers   
National Gazette
Jellyfish are able to detect water current and swim against it, according to a new study. What else can this investigation inform us about the animals?(Photo : Flickr / Sam DeLong) Jellyfish could lack brains, but these very simple animals are far stronger.
Revealing the Swimming Secrets of the Ageless, Brainless Jellyfish   Science Times
Jellyfish capable of sensing ocean currents, new research says   SMN Weekly
Jellyfish 'Sense' Currents And Fight Against Them: Finding Could Provide Insight ...   Headlines & Global News
Pioneer News   
BBC News   
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NDTV
   
Drone Invasion: A New Way to Explore Mars   
Discovery News
Drones are taking over Earth — will they soon invade Mars? If a new NASA project gains momentum, remote-controlled drone exploration of the red planet could soon become a thing. Currently, the robotic exploration of Mars is pretty much one-dimensional.
NASA is testing an autonomous Martian helicopter   The Verge
NASA to explore Mars with helicopter drones?   National Monitor
NASA working on new helicopter drone for Martian exploration   SMN Weekly
Gizmodo Australia   
Christian Science Monitor   
Grist   
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Detroit Free Press
   
Mystery Galactic Bubble Traveling at Breakneck Speed   
Discovery News
Giant bubbles of gas that erupted from the core of the Milky Way galaxy millions of years ago are expanding out into space at mind-blowing speeds, according to new observations that may help reveal how the strange balloon-like lobes formed. Play Video.
A Little Bot of Galactic Possibility   The Atlantic
A First: Hubble Captures High Definition image of Andromeda galaxy   West Texas News
Andromeda: Our Sister Galaxy   Huffington Post
Resource Magazine   
Quartz   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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TheBlaze.com
   
Team of Scientists Drill Through Antarctic Ice to Discover 'Lost World' Hidden ...   
TheBlaze.com
A team of scientists who used a specially designed hot-water drill to break through half-a-mile of Antarctic ice earlier this month discovered a “lost world” hidden beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. The WISSARD research team set up an ultraviolet light collar at the ...

Animals found 2500 Feet Below Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf Shock Scientists   News Every day
Scientists Discovered Fishes in the Antarctic Waters   Daily Science Journal
Glacial Geologists discover translucent tiny fish 2500 feet below the surface of ...   The Westside Story
The Epoch Times   
Catholic Online   
Christian Science Monitor   
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Astronomy Magazine
   
Black Hole on a 039Diet039 Shows Dimming Quasar   
National Gazette
A quasar has been noticed altering brightness significantly more than just a couple of years for the initial time ever. What can this inform us about these objects, as well as our own galaxy?(Photo : Yale University) A dimming quasar identified by astronomers.
Distant quasar baffles astrophysicists with strange dimming behavior   SMN Weekly
Dimming quasars could reveal secrets of black holes   RedOrbit
Black Hole Goes on Crash Diet and Dims its Quasar   Discovery News
Tech Times   
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The Register
   
Massive asteroid to PLAY CHICKEN with Earth on Monday   
The Register
NASA is warning skywatchers that a huge asteroid will pass over European and North American skies on Monday and that this will be the biggest space rock to do a fly-by of our planet until 2027. Most asteroids that pass us are smallish, between 50 and 100 ...

Huge asteroid to zoom past Earth Monday   Christian Science Monitor
Asteroid to appear in night sky Monday   Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Massive asteroid to buzz Earth in flyby on Monday January 26th   SMN Weekly
Nature World News   
The Inquisitr   
ABS CBN News   
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TIME
   
Doomsday Clock Moves Even Closer to Midnight   
Science Times
The world could be closer to coming to an end, if you believe the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who moved the clock two minutes closer to midnight. The clock now sits at three minutes to midnight making this the closest it has been to midnight since 1984 during ...

Nukes, warming pushing us closer to doomsday   Times of India
Scientists say Doomsday Clock has moved two minutes closer to midnight   FOX43.com
Doomsday Clock hand on 3 minutes to the end of humanity   World Tech Today
RYOT   
Dissident Voice   
Computerworld   
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USA TODAY
   
Woman injured while trying to pet black bear   
USA TODAY
DADE CITY, Fla. — A woman was injured when she tried to pet a 400-pound black bear in its enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary here Friday. Virginia Riggs was flown to Tampa General Hospital with a severe arm injury, authorities say. Mary Arche, a co-owner ...

Burgeoning Florida black bears could be in the crosshairs   SMN Weekly
Bear bites, severely injures woman in Florida   Reuters
Florida considers opening bear hunting as populations rebound   Naples Daily News
First Coast News   
Tampabay.com   
WKBN.com   
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CBS Local
   
A rare look at birth of a sea otter   
San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CRUZ -- For the first time, a sea otter impregnated in the wild has given birth in captivity, at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Laboratory, allowing researchers a rare look at a nursing mother. It happened in minutes, the day before Thanksgiving, when ...

For First Time, Sea Otter Pup Conceived In Wild Born In Captivity At UC Santa Cruz   CBS Local
In a first, sea otter pup conceived in wild born in California lab   Reuters UK
School: Sea Otter Conceived in Wild Is 1st Born in Captivity   ABC News
Contra Costa Times   
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