2015年3月2日 星期一

2015-03-03 U.S. Science


USA TODAY
   
Study: Human-caused global warming behind Calif. drought   
USA TODAY
Human-caused climate change helped fuel the current California drought, says a Stanford University study released Monday. Climate change has increased the chance that the two main weather conditions that led to the drought — higher than average ...

Record winter warmth not helping with drought   SFGate
How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War   Wired
Studies: Climate Change a Factor in Disasters in Syria and California   Voice of America
New York Times   
VICE News   
Live Science   
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BBC News
   
Bright spotlight on Dawn mission to Ceres   
BBC News
Scientists say they are hugely excited to learn the origin of two bright spots on the surface of Ceres. The US space agency's Dawn probe is bearing down on the dwarf planet and on Friday will be captured by its gravity. That will allow the satellite to spiral down ...

NASA spacecraft nearing its second stop -- dwarf planet Ceres   The Seattle Times
What are those bright spots? As Dawn nears Ceres, mystery remains   Los Angeles Times
NASA probe closes in for mystery tour of dwarf planet Ceres   MSNBC
CNN   
Santa Fe New Mexican.com   
CBS Local   
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Discovery News
   
In a Physics First, Light is Captured as Both Particle and Wave   
NBCNews.com
Physicists have theorized for over a century that light acts as both a particle and a wave, depending on the conditions, but they've never been able to capture it being both at once — until a team in Switzerland did just that in a recent experiment. Scientists at ...

Filming a paradox: Study captures visual proof that light can act as both a wave ...   Science Recorder
Let There Be Light! Photo Shows Light As Wave And Particle For First Time   The Escapist
Here's The First-Ever Photo of Light Behaving as Both a Wave and a Particle   Newsweek
Pioneer News   
Science Times   
Nature World News   
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NEWS.com.au
   
Emperor penguins are now living a life of luxury   
NEWS.com.au
TEMPERATURES regularly drop below -30C, it is dark, and they only have ice to stand on while they raise their families. But for Antarctica's emperor penguins that's luxury, according to Jane Younger, a University of Tasmania PhD student who is a lead ...

Only three lucky groups of emperor penguins survived the last ice age   Washington Post
Antarctic Sea Ice Did The Exact Opposite Of What Models Predicted   Daily Caller
Emperor Penguins May Have Suffered in Ice Age Cold   Discovery News
ABC Online   
gulfnews.com   
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Discovery News
   
Will the newly discovered “sparklemuffin” spider cure arachnophobia?   
National Monitor
Two new species of Australian peacock spiders have been described this week by a Berkeley grad student. Is it possible to be afraid of something called a Sparklemuffin spider? It, along with the slightly more ominous sounding “Skeletons” are the two new ...

'Skeletorus' and 'Sparklemuffin' Species Discovered—Seriously Colorful Spiders   Science Times
Yes, This Dancing Spider Really is Called a 'Sparklemuffin'   Nature World News
Two new spiders discovered in Australia   Science Recorder
Wall Street Hedge   
Sci-News.com   
Toowoomba Chronicle   
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Discovery News
   
Satellite Captures Amazing 3-D Videos of Rain, Snow   
Discovery News
Mesmerizing and swirling animations of rain and snow dance across a map of the Earth, shown in a video released by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The NASA video captures worldwide precipitation from April to September 2014, ...

Crazy NASA animation of all the rain and snow we got over a full year   Business Insider
NASA invites citizens to be part of the GPM mission   SMN Weekly
NASA Earth science missions provide new insights into planet Earth   Clarksville Online
STGIST   
WMDT   
Uncover Michigan   
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The Space Reporter
   
SpaceX impresses observers by launching two satellites with just one rocket   
The Space Reporter
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the third time this year on Sunday, March 1, carrying two communication satellites that will enter geosynchronous orbits. The occasion was the 16th launch of the Falcon 9 but the first ever carrying two objects, an Asia ...

SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9   Clapway
SpaceX launches two satellites   The Nation
This satellite deployment feels like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey   Gizmodo
Maritime Professional (blog)   
The Register   
Space.com   
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Clapway
   
Can you spot the space walker in this picture? Stunning photo shows size of ISS   
New Zealand Herald
Spacewalking astronauts ventured out on Sunday, for the third time in just over a week, to complete a tricky cable job at the International Space Station. In one stunning shot, Terry Virts revealed the enormity of the station against the darkness of space as his ...

Spacewalk Trilogy Competed   Clapway
ISS astronauts to visit with DISD students Thursday … from space, and we're all ...   Dallas Morning News (blog)
U.S. Spacewalkers Complete Space Station Docking Port Antenna Installations ...   Aviation Week (blog)
Daily Mail   
Talk Radio News Service   
Butler Eagle (subscription)   
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Tech Times
   
Surprisingly Old And Dusty Galaxy Discovered   
Tech Times
An ancient galaxy has been imaged, and astronomers found vast amounts of dust in the ancient body. Why is this finding so unusual? (Photo : European Space Agency). Galaxy A1689-zD1 is an ancient galaxy and is so far from Earth that astronomers see the ...

How did this baby galaxy develop so much powerful interstellar dust?   The Space Reporter
Ancient galaxy sheds light on dust as starmaker   The Straits Times
ALMA and VLT probe surprisingly dusty and evolved galaxy   Astronomy Magazine
R & D Magazine   
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New York Times
   
Climate Change Researcher Offers a Defense of His Practices   
New York Times
The scientist at the center of a controversy over fossil-fuel funding for climate research denounced his critics on Monday and said that he would be “happy to comply” with possible additional disclosure requirements from scientific journals publishing his ...

Dr. Wei-Hock Soon Challenges Climate Change Critics to Public Debate   Breitbart News
Democrats call for information from seven climate testifiers' universities   Physics Today
Climate skeptic blasts 'shameless attempt to silence' research   The Hill

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