2015年5月22日 星期五

2015-05-23 U.S. Science


CBS News
   
Antarctic region shows sudden, surprising ice loss   
CBS News
A region of Antarctica once thought to be relatively stable has shown a dramatic loss of ice in recent years, raising concerns about how much it could be contributing to rising seas. Using data from satellites including the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 ...

Yet another Antarctic ice mass is becoming destabilized, scientists report   Washington Post
Antarctic Peninsula in 'dramatic' ice loss   BBC News
Antarctic glaciers thinning so fast, it's like a switch was flipped   Christian Science Monitor
SlashGear   
NBCNews.com   
Reuters   
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Science Times
   
Hubble Observes Unique Star Dubbed "Nasty"   
Science Times
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found surprising new clues about a large, fast aging star that has never been seen before in the Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so different that astronomers have nicknamed it "Nasty 1," a play on its ...

Hubble spots uniquely strange 'Nasty' star   The Space Reporter
Oregon Astronomy: Startling Hubble Finds Include Odd Star   Oregon Coast Beach Connection
This Is The Star That NASA Has Nicknamed The 'Nasty One'   Gizmodo Australia
Discovery News   
CNET   
Astronomy Magazine   
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Science Recorder
   
Reason to Care: Endangered plankton provide half the world's oxygen   
Science Recorder
After a three-and-a-half year, sometimes harrowing, sea voyage covering some 87,000 miles of ocean, a team of researchers from the Tara Oceans Consortium is revealing details of “the most complete description yet of planktonic organisms to date,” ...

Scientists want you to know plankton is not just whale food   Reuters
Scientists discover gorgeous and fragile new sea creatures   Mashable
Ocean's hidden world of plankton revealed in 'enormous database'   BBC News
New York Times   
The Verge   
The Register   
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Science Recorder
   
Implanted brain chips let paralyzed man control arm with his thoughts   
Science Recorder
For the first time in 10 years, a man in California named Erik Sorto, paralyzed from the neck down, was able to lift and sip a drink without help. Sorto was only 21 years old when a gunshot damaged his spinal cord. This amazing breakthrough, documented in ...

Paralyzed man controls robot arm with his mind   WCAX
Paralyzed man controls robotic arm with computer chips in brain   KABC-TV
Future potential of brain chip is limitless after man controls robot arm with his ...   Washington Post
Los Angeles Times   
The Register   
Fox News   
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Live Science
   
Record-Breaking Energy Unleashed in Largest Atom Smasher   
Live Science
The world's largest atom smasher is really cranking now: Protons zipped around the giant underground ring at near light-speed and collided head on, releasing record-breaking energies. The beauty of the fallout from these powerful particle smash-ups can be ...

Highest Energy Collisions ? Not In My Book   Science 2.0
World's Largest Particle Collider Busts Record   Discovery News
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN Sets Particle-Smashing Energy Record   CDA News
Nature World Report   
KCBX   
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NEWS.com.au
   
An artist impression of the galaxy. Picture: NASA Source: NewsComAu   
NEWS.com.au
ASTROPHYSICISTS have discovered a remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns. Known as WISE J224607.57-052635.0, it is the most luminous galaxy to ever be discovered and was located using data from NASA's Wide-field ...

Brightest known galaxy shines like 300 trillion suns   The Space Reporter
Most 'luminous' galaxy in the universe discovered   USA TODAY
NASA spacecraft finds the brightest galaxy in known universe   Mashable
ABC News   
CNET   
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myCentralOregon.com
   
Watch SpaceX Crew Dragon's First Flight From Point of View Video   
myCentralOregon.com
SpaceX/YouTube(NEW YORK) — SpaceX released new point of view video on Friday showing what it was like to be on board its Crew Dragon vessel, which took its first test flight earlier this month. The test was conducted without any crew and was designed ...

Need for speed: What happens when an astronaut hits the 'abort' button   9news.com.au
SpaceX releases Dragon Launch Abort Test footage in Florida   Daily Mail
The final frontier? All aboard SpaceX's test flight via heartstopping video   International Business Times UK

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Los Angeles Times
   
Saturn is in opposition tonight, and you can see it live, right here   
Los Angeles Times
Saturn will be shining more brightly tonight than at any other time of the year, and you can see it live, right here. Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday the astronomy website Slooh.com will broadcast a live feed of Saturn from its telescopes in the Canary Islands. Slooh's ...

Watch live: Saturn is closest to Earth tonight   Orlando Sentinel
See a Live View of Saturn's Rings   TIME
See the gorgeous ringed planet Saturn and its moons   CBS News
Assam Tribune   
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Science Times
   
NASA Releases Best Images Ever of "Alien Lights" on Ceres   
Science Times
NASA has released the most detailed and clear images of the mysterious lights on the dwarf planet Ceres, but unfortunately the agency is no closer to explaining exactly what they are. The Dawn probe took the image above from a distance of 4,500 miles and ...

Tons of fun with the latest Ceres image releases from Dawn   The Planetary Society (blog)
What Are Those Bright Spots on Ceres? Go Vote!   Space.com
NASA captures best photo yet of strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres   Mashable
News Every day   
ExtremeTech   
The News Ledge   
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CBC.ca
   
An octopus can 'see' using its skin   
CBC.ca
A blindfolded octopus isn't blind. California two-spot octopus hatchling. The researchers experimented on skin samples from the California two-spot octopus, like this hatchling. (University of California Santa Barbara). That's because octopuses can detect ...

Can Octopus See With Their Skin?   iSchoolGuide
Octopuses don't really need eyes to 'see' light: They have sensors in their skin ...   Washington Post
Skin that can see is octopus camouflage superpower   CNET
West Texas News   
Mirror.co.uk   
Treehugger   
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