2015年4月16日 星期四

2015-04-17 U.S. Science


NBCNews.com
   
Why Does an Octopus Walk Funny? Scientists Are Amazed   
NBCNews.com
Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, according to new research. Each of an octopus's eight arms is soft, flexible and muscular, and acts as if it has an infinite number of joints, said the study's lead author, Guy Levy, a postdoctoral ...

How octopuses co-ordinate their arms   BBC News
Octopuses Have Moves, But No Rhythm   Live Science
Video: Octopuses have unique way to control their 'odd' forms   Phys.Org
Science Now   
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American Live Wire
   
Successor To Hubble Space Telescope Aims To Find Alien Life   
American Live Wire
With the venerable and venerated Hubble Space Telescope reaching the 25th anniversary of its launch into orbit this year,it's successor is being prepped for action by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Hubble Space ...

Hubble's $8.8 billion replacement brings unprecedented potential for space ...   National Monitor
Hubble Space Telescope Successor: Will Glitter Find Alien Life?   Tech Times
Mystic Mountain: Is this the Hubble Space Telescope's greatest image?   Washington Post (blog)
Overmental   
USA TODAY   
eTurboNews   
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NBCNews.com
   
Putin Says Russia Will Build Its Own Space Station by 2023   
NBCNews.com
Four years after its history-making entry into orbit around Mercury, NASA's Messenger spacecraft is being readied for a history-making crash on April 30. The car-sized probe will become the first human-made object to fall to the planet's surface, after sending ...

Messenger Spacecraft To Collide With Mercury On April 30   Tech Times
Crash Landing on Mercury Expected for Spacecraft   Voice of America
NASA Spacecraft Set for Death Plunge Into Mercury   NDTV
WOODTV.com   
Columbus Dispatch   
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Wake, Wind and Surf
   
Mexico's President Rolls Out Plan to Save Endangered Porpoise   
New York Times
MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto and his top military commanders flew to a modest fishing village in Mexico's far northwest on Thursday and made a promise to protect a small porpoise called the vaquita that is on the edge of extinction.
Mexico implements plan to save endangered vaquita porpoise   Watertown Public Opinion

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Tech Times
   
Artificial Photosynthesis Holds Promise Of Cleaner, Greener Environment   
Tech Times
A hybrid system mimics the natural photosynthesis of plants to create a 'green' chemical factory that could produce beneficial products, researchers say. The system could help the environment by using CO2 that would otherwise add to atmospheric warming, ...

Artificial Photosynthesis could be the key to cleaner environment   Uncover Michigan
Major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment   Phys.Org
Major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment ...   Nanotechnology News (press release)
Science 2.0   
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Chicago Tribune
   
Raw: SpaceX Landing Fails   
Chicago Tribune
A SpaceX rocket failed to land on an ocean platform, after delivering groceries to the International Space Station. The booster rocket apparently landed too hard and tipped over in the Atlantic east of Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday. (AP). A SpaceX rocket ...

Leaked Barge Video Reminds SpaceX How Nearly Perfect The Landing Was   Gizmodo
Research and Cargo Are on Their Way to the International Space Station [Video]   Guardian Liberty Voice
Elon Musk: "Humans Need To Be A Multiplanet Species"   io9
Science Times   
The Times (subscription)   
Denver Business Journal (blog)   
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NPR
   
Frequency Poaching Radio Astronomy:   
eHam.net
It appears that amateur radio is not alone in the commercial assaults upon frequencies. In a filing from a manufacturer to install automated lawn mowing equipment that would use the frequency band of 6240 to 6740 MHz. The company iRobot has filed with ...

Astronomers Are Furious About the Roomba Lawnmower   Gizmodo
The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers   Wired
Could a lawnmower scupper our chances of finding aliens? Astronomers say ...   Daily Mail
WYSO   
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World Tech Today
   
Rare sperm whale caught on tape by Gulf researchers aboard Nautilus   
Chron.com
The Gulf exploration crew that made headlines in 2014 for spotting ghost sharks, dumbo octopuses, vampire squids from hell, a sunken Nazi war boat and other oddities has made its first big discovery of a new season at sea. This week, researchers aboard ...

Watch: Curious whale interrupts ocean dive   USA TODAY
Moment Robosub has a close encounter with a sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico   Daily Mail
Researchers Happen Upon One Whale of a Surprise Off The Coast of Louisiana   IJ Review
Mashable   
Uncover California   
gulflive.com   
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USA TODAY
   
Panel's findings fuel renewed attacks on asteroid plan   
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A NASA advisory panel's conclusion that the agency should scrap its controversial plan to corral part of an asteroid into orbit around the moon provided fresh ammunition Thursday to Republicans in Congress who have been saying the ...

Russia Will Continue to Back International Space Station, NASA Tells   Nasdaq
Top Nasa official defends asteroid mission and Earth research to Congress   The Guardian
NASA's Bolden House Testimony features arguments about ARM, Mars, and the ...   Examiner.com
Forbes   
9NEWS.com   
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Tech Times
   
Photo Captured Of Rare Monkey Thought To Be Extinct Proves Species Is Alive ...   
Tech Times
A rare monkey not seen since the 1970s and assumed to be extinct by many experts has been photographed in the Republic of Congo. Bouvier's red colobus monkey has no fear of humans, which has made it vulnerable to hunters. (Photo : Wildlife ...

First-ever photo of rare monkey species proves they're not extinct   Mashable
The First Ever Picture Of A Monkey Everyone Thought Might Be Extinct   io9
Thought extinct for decades, a rare monkey is captured on film for the first time   Washington Post
Phys.Org   
CBS News   
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