2015年3月25日 星期三

2015-03-26 U.S. Science


Discovery News
   
NASA Aims to Pluck a Boulder Off an Asteroid   
Discovery News
NASA plans to launch a robotic spacecraft to pick up a boulder roughly 10 feet in diameter from the surface of an asteroid and nudge it into an orbit around the moon, officials said Wednesday. NEWS: Asteroid Encounters Next on NASA's Itinerary. The mission ...

NASA details plans to pluck rock off asteroid, explore it   Sacramento Bee
NASA's asteroid capture mission is a testbed for trips to Mars   Engadget
Asteroid rock might be turned into landing site   Columbus Dispatch
Mirror Daily   
Wired   
Yibada (English Edition)   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Mars Opportunity Rover completes first extraterrestrial marathon   
Telegraph.co.uk
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet - a feat accomplished in a record time of no less than 11 years. Opportunity passed the 26-mile (42-kilometer) mark Tuesday after ...

Curiosity Finds Live-Supporting Nitrogen on Mars   Science Times
Mars Opportunity rover has 'mind wipe' to restore faulty memory   NEWS.com.au
NASA Rover Completes 11-Year Mars Marathon   NDTV
ABC Science Online   
Malay Mail Online   
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Immortal News
   
Mutating Rain Frog Found In Ecuador's Andean Cloud Forest   
Immortal News
Researchers have discovered a shape-shifting rain frog in Ecuador's western Andean cloud forest which changes its skin texture in mere minutes, adjusting its appearance to match the texture it's sitting on. The mutable rain frog, known formerly as Pristimantis ...

Newly Discovered Frog Can Morph Its Skin Texture   Rapid News Network
Shape-Shifting 'Punk' Frog Knows How To Change Its Skin Texture   Frontline Desk
Unique shape-shifting frog discovered in Ecuador   Treehugger
National Geographic   
NBCNews.com   
SlashGear   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Saturn's day is shorter than once thought, scientists say   
Los Angeles Times
How long is a day on Saturn? This apparently simple question has dogged scientists for years, but a new study has revealed that the days on this ringed gas giant are shorter than we thought. The findings, published in the journal Nature, help settle a ...

A new approach to calculating the length of a day on Saturn   National Monitor
Study Of Saturn Gets Astronomers' Heads Spinning   Tech Times
It's a short day on Saturn   IBNLive
Jerusalem Post Israel News   
Discovery News   
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Discovery News
   
Atlantic Circulation Weaker Than in Last 1000 Years   
Discovery News
A sweeping ocean conveyor system that ushers warm tropical waters into the North Atlantic appears to have partly recovered from a near-collapse around the time that the Beatles were breaking up, but the system remains weaker than it had been since ...

Global Warming Causing Slowdown Of Overturning Circulation: Study   The Inquisitr
New Climate Study Has The Media Talking About 'The Day After Tomorrow'   Daily Caller
Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans — with ...   Washington Post
Bloomberg   
Scientific American   
The Independent   
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UPI.com
   
Wooly mammoth DNA successfully spliced into elephant genome   
UPI.com
Now, scientists must coax the hybrid cells into various types of tissues to see if the new genes are properly expressed. By Brooks Hays | March 25, 2015 at 11:37 PM. Comments 0 Comments. share with facebook. share with twitter · share with google.
Scientists Take Key Step to Resurrecting Extinct Woolly Mammoth; First ...   Yibada (English Edition)
Resurrecting the Giants: Wooly Mammoth DNA Successfully Inserted into ...   Apex Tribune
Scientists May Be Able to Bring Back Extinct Woolly Mammoth   Nature World News
Examiner.com   
The Inquisitr   
The Escapist   
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Discovery News
   
Bee Backpacks Track Foraging   
Discovery News
When it comes to humans, it's all about the wearable computer these days, so why not bees? For thousands of years, humans have taken for granted bees and their ability to pollinate our food. Not until they began to die off in record numbers — from Varroa ...

Bumblebees Fitted with Backpacks to Track Decline   Nature World News
Bees outfitted with tiny metal backpack trackers to study population decline   Washington Times
Why Some Bees Are Now Carrying Backpack Trackers   KMBZ

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MiamiHerald.com
   
UPDATE 1-Termite species mix in Florida, reproducing at breakneck rate   
Reuters
(Adds termites could spread beyond Florida, paragraph 7). By Barbara Liston. ORLANDO, Fla., March 25 (Reuters) - Two of the most destructive termites species in the world are mating in South Florida, producing hybrid colonies that are growing at twice the ...

Hybrid Super-Termites Could Emerge From Interspecies Swarms   NBCNews.com
Asian and Formosan subterranean termites: 2 exotic termites find love in Florida ...   WPTV.com
'Super Termite' Could Be Even More Destructive Than Parent Species   KSMU Radio
Daily Mail   
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Frontline Desk
   
A Short Circuit Delays The Large Hadron Collider Restart   
Frontline Desk
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has not seen the “on” switched turned in about two years. And, it's going to have to hold up a bit longer. Seven of the LHC's eight sectors have effectively been charged to run at the updated operating energy of 6.5 TeV (trillion ...

Electric fault delays relaunch of CERN collider after two-year refit   Reuters
Large Hadron Collider's particle quest delayed by a short circuit -- science   OregonLive.com
Large Hadron Collider restart Delayed   Maine News Online

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Mother Nature Network
   
World's cutest endangered animal photographed for first time in over 2 decades   
Mother Nature Network
The Ili pika, an animal sometimes referred to as the "magic rabbit," is more endangered than the Panda. By: Bryan Nelson. Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:06 PM. 0Facebook 0Twitter 0Pinterest 0Google+. The teddy bear-faced ili pika, as seen for the first time in ...

Ili Pika Seen for 1st Time in 2 Decades, Shows 'Teddy Bear Face' in China   ABC News
Rare 'Teddy Bear Face' creature photographed for first time in 20 years   WABC-TV

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