2015年2月16日 星期一

2015-02-17 U.S. Science


BBC News
   
Penguins lost ability to taste fish   
BBC News
A genetic study suggests the flightless birds lost three of the five basic tastes long ago in evolution. Taste is critical for survival in most animals, but may not matter in the penguin, which swallows fish whole, say researchers in China and the US. Many other ...

Penguins can't taste the sweeter side of life   ModVive
Penguins Probably Can't Taste!   Nature World News
Why penguins can't taste ice-cream: new study finds penguins' taste palate may ...   News Every day
NewsOK.com   
Tech Times   
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ScienceBlog.com
   
Climate change will bring infectious diseases to new regions says study   
National Monitor
Invasive species have gotten a great deal of attention in recent years, but the true dark side of the problem is only beginning to emerge. By now most people are aware that climate change means an increase in the number of invasive species. As land and ...

Climate Change Could Spread Infectious Diseases To New Regions And Hosts   Headlines & Global News
Climate Change Moves Parasites and Infectious Diseases Around   Youth Health Magzine
How global warming is making us ILL: Infectious diseases will spread faster ...   Daily Mail
RedOrbit   
Infection Control Today   
Science World Report   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Mysterious Martian haze baffles planetary scientists   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists are wrestling with the identity of strange, giant plumes that mysteriously appeared and later vanished high above the surface of Mars. Such plumes, described in the journal Nature, defy scientists' expectations of how the Red Planet's atmosphere ...

Mars One mission: 5 Britons shortlisted for one-way trip to Red Planet   Telegraph.co.uk
Mystery Mars haze baffles scientists   BBC News
A Mysterious Plume Over Mars Confounds Scientists   Forbes
Sydney Morning Herald   
New Zealand Herald   
CTV News   
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Tech Times
   
What Puts The 'Burst' In Starburst Galaxies?   
Tech Times
Starburst galaxies give birth to a vast number of stars. Now astronomers have a better idea how they do it. (Photo : Alma Observatory / B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), et. al. ) The Sculptor Galaxy could show astronomers the process that adds the burst to starburst ...

ALMA sees super stellar nurseries at heart of Sculptor Galaxy   Astronomy Magazine
Why are starburst galaxies so efficient at making stars?   National Monitor
Astronomers Use ALMA Telescope to Dissect Bursting 'Starburst' Sculptor Galaxy   University Herald
Science World Report   
World Report Now   
Consolidate Times   
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Maine News Online
   
Large Hadron Collider to restart this spring   
Maine News Online
After hiatus of two years, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator will restart this spring. CERN scientists are quite excited that soon the LHC will again start and they are expecting better results from a more powerful particle accelerator.
LHC to kick off hunt for supersymmetry particle   Times of India
Souped-up collider to reveal new universe   Times LIVE
Pictures reveal bigger and better Large Hadron Collider   Telegraph.co.uk
The Monitor Daily   
Forbes   
NBCNews.com   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Interstellar technology throws light on spinning black holes   
Astronomy Magazine
The computed code used to generate the movie's iconic images revealed that when a camera is close up to a rapidly spinning black hole, peculiar surfaces in space create more than a dozen images of individual stars and of the thin, bright plane of the galaxy ...

Interstellar's fake black holes are helping actual scientific research   The Verge
Demystifying spinning black holes   The Hindu
Interstellar sci-fi WORMS its way into spinning black hole science FACT   The Register
SMN Weekly   
The Utah People's Post   
University Herald   
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Forbes
   
Happy Darwin Day. Will We Heed His Time-Tested Wisdom?   
Forbes
One area of science I know a wee bit about is evolution. This is because I focused on Darwin during my graduate studies at St. John's College Santa Fe, where one rigorously reads, discusses and writes about the primary texts of the world's greatest authors.
Darwin's books topic of guest speaker on Feb. 24   Indiana State University
Chip Walter discusses evolution at Darwin Day celebration   CMU The Tartan Online
Texas A&M research team retraces, proves Darwin's theory of natural selection ...   The Eagle
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
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EcoWatch
   
Bill Nye to MSNBC: Please Just Say the Words 'Climate Change' Now and Then   
Mediaite
In a promo this past week, Fox News mockingly promised to explain “Why global warming isn't stopping the snow falling.” But Bill Nye “the Science Guy” thinks all TV news — not just Fox — could do more to bring the issue of climate change into its everyday ...

Can science solve climate change?   Washington Post
World's Ability To Feed Itself Said Under Increasing Threat From Climate Change   Tech Times
Geoengineering won't solve climate change   The Daily Advertiser
Raw Story   
Daily Caller   
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Bustle
   
"Pale Blue Dot" Photograph Just Turned 25 & Voyager 1 Has Come A Long ...   
Bustle
On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA scientists decided to turn the cameras of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, whose mission it was to study the outer planets, directly back on our home before it left the solar system for the last time. It wasn't on the schedule that day, but ...

Iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' image celebrates 25th anniversary: Voyager 1 still on the ...   The Space Reporter
25 Years have Passed Since Solar System's Images were Taken By Voyager ...   PerfScience
Iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' Photo of Earth and 5 Planets is 25 Years Old   Chinatopix
MicroCap Observer   
WTNH   
Science World Report   
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RTCC
   
Study sees even bigger longer droughts for much of U.S. West   
San Antonio Express-News
SAN JOSE, California — As bad as recent droughts in California, the Southwest and the Midwest have been, scientists say far worse “megadroughts” are coming — and they're bound to last for decades. “Unprecedented drought conditions” — the worst in ...

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Megadrought Predictions   AllGov
Megadroughts That Can Last for Decades Threaten the US in the Next Years   America Herald
Bigger, Longer Droughts for US West   Sci-Tech Today
Web India   
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