2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 U.S. Science


New York Times
   
Data Suggests Legs and Toes in Ancestor of Living Snakes   
New York Times
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose sinuous body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, ...

What the First Snake Looked Like   Discovery News
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water   NPR
Snake ancestor had tiny ankles and toes and hunted with dinosaurs   Herald Scotland

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Los Angeles Times
   
Evolution abandoned giant pandas after they switched to a bamboo diet   
Los Angeles Times
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals' guts is optimized to digest meat.
Why Pandas Eat So Much Bamboo: They Can Bear-ly Digest It   Newsweek
Latest from Iran   Press TV
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns
Nature.com   
Yahoo News   
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Times LIVE
   
Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

Baby Spiders Reportedly Rain Down on Australian Town   ABC News
'Raining spiders' in rural NSW town spook locals – and the world   9news.com.au

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New York Times
   
Secret Vessel to Test Durability of Materials in Space, NASA Says   
New York Times
A secretive United States Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit on Wednesday. As with the previous flights, the Air Force revealed few details about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of ...

Atlas V rocket set to launch 'mini space shuttle'   News 13 Orlando
Top secret space plane X-37B to blast off but we don't know it it will come back   Daily Mail
Air Force, ULA to launch secretive X-37B spaceplane on Wednesday   MyFoxOrlando.com
Spaceflight Now   
Yahoo News   
Space.com   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Hang gliders on Mars: So crazy it just might work   
Christian Science Monitor
One scientist's idea would create a cost-effective way to increase the number of Mars landers per mission. By Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com May 19, 2015. close. This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and ...

The Case for Standing Water On Mars   Huffington Post
Hang gliders on Mars   CBS News
Marsdrop Program Aims To Put Microprobes On Mars   Tech Times
State Column   
Yahoo News   
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Science 2.0
   
Tunable Liquid Metal Antenna Controlled By Voltage   
Science 2.0
Liquid metal electronics like antennas are intriguing because the shape and length of the conducting paths that form an antenna determine its critical properties such as operating frequency and radiation pattern. Using a liquid metal, such as eutectic gallium ...

Liquid Metal Antenna Could Play Huge Role in IoT   Product Design & Development
Tunable liquid metal antennas   Nanowerk

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
A White House plan to save struggling US bees   
Sydney Morning Herald
Honeybees dying, situation 'unheard of' · Australian scientists may have solved the mystery of bee colony collapse. Los Angeles: The US government will boost research and preserve 2.8 million hectares of habitat for bees, monarch butterflies and other ...

How the honey bee population affects you   Washington Post
White House has a plan to save bees and other crop pollinators   Los Angeles Times
What's in Obama's plan to reverse honey bee and butterfly decline (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Minneapolis Star Tribune   
Vox   
Grist   
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CBS Local
   
Federal Government Takes Notice Of Colony Collapse Disorder In Honeybees   
CBS Local
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — As honeybee hives collapse and farmers crops are put in jeopardy, President Barack Obama announced a national strategy to help keep the bees healthy. With the recent loss of bee colonies, local beekeepers and honey ...

After years of devastation, the American honey bee finally has the White House's ...   Quartz
Report: Honeybees continue to suffer colony collapse   Visalia Times-Delta
Bee colony collapse increased by 42% since last year: More research needed to ...   Empire State Tribune

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WXYZ
   
NASA, America Makes hosting 3D Printed Habitat Challenge   
WXYZ
NASA and America Makes are holding a $2.25 million competition for the best design and build of a 3D printed habitat that could be used for deep space exploration, according to the space agency's website. The space agency says they need shelters that ...

NASA Offers $2.25 Million For Martian Habitat Design - How Could This Contest ...   Tech Times
NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration   ENGINEERING.com
Build the best 3D printed habitat in CAD for Mars mission and NASA will award ...   Mobiletor.com
Financial Express   
Gizmodo   
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Mashable
   
NASA: Big Antarctica Ice Shelf Is Disintegrating   
The Chosun Ilbo
A huge section of Antarctica's ice shelf is rapidly thawing, according to a just-released study by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The loss of ice from polar caps is slowly but steadily raising the level of the Earth's oceans, scientists say.
Antarctic gatekeeper Larson B ice shelf will crumble by 2020, says NASA   Inferse
The World Is About to Lose This 10000-Year-Old Ice Shelf   Mother Jones
NASA: 10000-Year-Old Antarctic Ice Shelf to Disappear by 2020   Newsmax
Telegraph.co.uk   
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