2015年6月15日 星期一

2015-06-16 U.S. Science


Discovery News
   
Study shows climate change's surprising toll on early dinosaurs   
Washington Post
For years, scientists have puzzled over an odd gap in the fossil record for early dinosaurs: Even as dinosaurs spread through the most of the world 200 million years ago, some yet-unknown force kept them from colonizing the tropics. Now researchers may ...

Tropical Climate Was Too Wild for Biggest Dinosaurs   NBCNews.com
Why the first dinosaurs steered clear of the equator   CBS News
Big dinos avoided the tropics due to chaotic climates   SlashGear
Live Science   
Christian Science Monitor   
Tech Times   
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Wall Street Journal
   
Papal Draft Blames Most Global Warming on Human Activity   
Wall Street Journal
ROME—Pope Francis said global warming is due mainly to human activity and is a major threat to life on the planet, and called the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels an “urgent” matter. The popes words appear in a draft copy of “Laudato Si'” (“Be praised”), ...

What to expect when you're expecting Pope Francis's encyclical on the ...   Washington Post
Pope Francis' Leaked Encyclical Draft Attributes Climate Change To Human ...   Huffington Post
Pope Francis warns of destruction of world's ecosystem in leaked encyclical   The Guardian
Fox News   
CNN   
Financial Times   
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TIME
   
Here's a Look at Saturn's Most Tortured Moon   
TIME
Tethys shouldn't be alive—but it's a lovely thing for the solar system that it is, as a recently released picture from the Cassini spacecraft makes evocatively clear. Merely one of 62 confirmed or provisional moons orbiting Saturn, Tethys is easily the one with the ...

Saturn's polar cyclones being driven by storms   Science Recorder
Small thunderstorms may add up to massive cyclones on Saturn   MIT News

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Fortune
   
Elon Musk launches competition for Hyperloop pods   
Fortune
Got what it takes to design a passenger vehicle for this sci-fi, warp-speed dream? Elon Musk and his rocket ship company SpaceX have launched a competition calling for designs for passenger vehicles for the sci-fi high-speed ground transportation idea the ...

SpaceX Announces Design Competition for Hyperloop   New York Times
Elon Musk to build mile-long Hyperloop track to test high-speed transport system   Telegraph.co.uk
SpaceX to hold Hyperloop competition   CNNMoney
Washington Post (blog)   
Bloomberg   
Gizmodo   
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Empire State Tribune
   
MIT Researchers Invents Molecules Over Million Times Colder Than Interstellar ...   
Empire State Tribune
Molecules in the air around us is whizzing, constantly colliding with each other at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour, this behavior is normal at ambient temperatures. But if temperatures were to plunge to near absolute zero, the molecules would come to a ...

MIT Researchers Create the World's Coolest Stable Molecules   Azom.com
MIT Researchers Cool Molecules Down To Near Absolute Zero To Observe ...   Pioneer News
MIT Researchers Created the Coldest Molecules Ever   The Utah People's Post

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CBC.ca
   
Philae lander phones home from comet for 2nd time   
CBC.ca
The Philae spacecraft has been in touch with Earth from a speeding comet for the second time since waking up a few days ago, mission control said Monday, and scientists hope to improve communications with the lander by shifting the trajectory of its mother ...

Philae lander is in pretty good shape for a spacecraft that just slept for 211 days   Mashable
Awakened Philae lander could be working on comet surface again next week   CNET
Comet Probe Makes Contact After 7 Months Of Silence In Space   CBS Local
NDTV   
Chicago Tribune   
Belfast Telegraph   
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Toronto Star
   
Nobel laureate denigrates women   
Varsity
This week, Nobel-prize winning biochemist Sir Richard Timothy Hunt has come under public scrutiny after making some derogatory comments about women in science — or, to use his word, “girls.” The comments were made during a lecture Hunt delivered at ...

Roast male chauvinist pigs   The Straits Times
Nobel Laureate Creates a Social Media Stir Attacking Female Researchers ...   Latinos Post

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Tech Times
   
Diver Didn't Really 'High Five' 22-Foot Long Great White Shark: Here's What ...   
Tech Times
A much-publicized encounter between a great white shark and a diver wasn't a friendly handshake - but it wasn't dangerous either, researchers say. The diver was trying to guide the shark away from the cage to keep it from being injured. (Photo : YouTube ...

That High-Fiving Great White Shark Is Huge. But, Is It The Biggest?   The News Ledge
Video: This might be one of the largest Great White sharks ever caught on camera   JOE
Is it really that dangerous to high-five a great white shark?   Christian Science Monitor
Live Science   
WFMY News 2   
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Bustle
   
Jeb Bush's Global Warming Position Is, Well, Pretty Much Exactly What You'd ...   
Bustle
In her first official campaign speech at Roosevelt Island on Saturday, Hillary Clinton called to let the experts handle climate change, saying, “Ask many of these candidates about climate change, one of the defining threats of our time, and they'll say: 'I'm not a ...

Carbon week: The sun raises the seas   Financial Post
Was There No Global Warming Slowdown? A New Paper Challenges the Theory   The Equation: Blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Climate Change This Week: The Melting Ice Connection, Sharing Solar, and More!   Huffington Post (blog)
The Moral Liberal   
Daily Caller   
Physics Today   
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NDTV
   
International Energy Agency Warns of 4.3 Degrees Celsius Temperature Jump ...   
NDTV
London: The International Energy Agency today warned temperatures could jump by as much as 4.3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century and urged countries to improve their pledges on reducing emissions. In a report ahead of a climate change ...

Every country is now pledging to tackle CO2 emissions. It's still not enough.   Vox
Oversized PM to call for climate action   Daily Mail
Energy agency: Climate plans won't prevent temperature increase   The Hill
The Ecologist   
Digital Journal   
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