2015年6月22日 星期一

2015-06-23 U.S. Science


National Geographic
   
Ancient Man Had Neanderthal Great-Great Grandfather   
National Geographic
Analysis of the jawbone of a man who lived about 40,000 years ago reveals the closest direct descendant of a Neanderthal who mated with a modern human. Picture of a neanderthal reconstruction. A reconstruction shows a Neanderthal woman holding a ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals 'interbred in Europe'   BBC News
Early Europeans interbred with Neanderthals – study   GMA News
Early human may have had a Neanderthal for a great-great-grandparent   CBS News
Christian Science Monitor   
Washington Post   
Reuters   
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Sky News Australia
   
US 'climate change deaths to reach 57000'   
Sky News Australia
Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths in the United States from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration has argued in a new report that warns of dire effects of global warming. Monday's report underscores the ...

Risk of Extreme Weather From Climate Change to Rise Over Next Century ...   New York Times
EPA: Fighting Climate Change Will Save Lives   Voice of America
White House: Action Needed Now to Slow Climate Change   ABC News
Washington Post   
Sydney Morning Herald   
TIME   
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Mashable
   
Cassini sees 3 beautiful crescent moons from Saturn   
Mashable
Sure, you've seen a crescent moon from Earth, but I bet you've never seen three. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured not just one but three crescent moons in a single photo. Saturn's moons Titan, Mimas and Rhea all make an appearance in the new image ...

NASA's Cassini captures rare, triple crescent moon on Saturn   SlashGear
Like Earth, Saturn's moon Titan also possesses lakes and seas   The Hindu
New NASA images show the surface of Saturn's moon Dione   Fox News
PC Magazine   
CNET   
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Popular Mechanics
   
European satellite blasts off to provide new color view of Earth   
Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla An unmanned Vega rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Monday to put a sophisticated Earth-watching satellite into orbit, a European Space Agency webcast showed. Flying for the fifth time, the four-stage Vega rocket, lifted off at ...

Watch a Vega rocket launch a satellite to space at 9:52PM ET   The Verge
Vega successfully launches Sentinel-2A mission   NASASpaceflight.com
It's A Go! Arianespace's Vega Flight VV05 Takes Sentinel-2A—To Join ...   SatNews Publishers
BBC News   
Reuters Africa   
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Discovery News
   
Philae Comet Lander Back in Touch With Mothership   
Discovery News
Ground control teams overseeing Europe's Philae comet lander begin the week with some good news: The intrepid robot is back talking to the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft. After a seven-month hibernation, Philae which landed in an unintended, shadowed ...

Rosetta and Philae at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko   Phys.Org
Comet probe Philae dials home   Sky News Australia
Philae 'doing very well'   The Hindu
Space.com   
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The Space Reporter
   
New Horizons closes in on Pluto   
The Space Reporter
After a journey of nine years and three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons probe is finally close enough to Pluto to reveal intriguing surface feature. Using four images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Orbiter (LORRI) and color data obtained by the ...

NASA's New Horizons Probe Gives Us Our First Look at the 'Person in Pluto'   NBCNews.com
First Color Animation of Pluto and Moon Charon Courtesy of New Horizons   Yibada (English Edition)
Pluto, get ready for your close-up next month   OregonLive.com
Washington Post   
The Register   
The Bell Jar   
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NEWS.com.au
   
Look up: Solar storm lights up our life   
NEWS.com.au
THERE'S a battle going on over our heads: Earth's ionosphere is fighting to repel an onslaught of raw energy shot at us from the Sun. The sights are spectacular. Two strong solar storms have slammed into Earth in recent days, increasing the chances of ...

Solar storm smacks earth   Sky News Australia
Watch for Incredible Northern Lights From Tonight's Geomagnetic Storm   Gizmodo
Northern Lights Surge as Huge Solar Storm Reaches Earth   Slate Magazine (blog)
CBC.ca   
NBCNews.com   
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Wall Street Journal
   
The Miracle of Pope Francis   
Wall Street Journal
You might call it his first miracle. Pope Francis has succeeded in getting the New York Times NYT 0.98 % to do what perhaps no pope has done before: hail a papal teaching as “authoritative.” For decades the Times has warred with popes over moral issues ...

Why papal encyclicals continue to be relevant   Irish Examiner
Pope Francis and climate change   Irish Times
Pope calls for us to care for our 'common home'   San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)

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Daily Mail
   
Scientists tame lightning bolts with laser beams using Advanced Laser Light ...   
Daily Mail
At present, lightning rods on tall buildings can increase the likelihood that the high voltage bolts will strike in one place, although the precise path they will take remains unpredictable. Now Canadian scientists have found a way of directing a lightning arc in the ...

LIGHTNING   The Hindu
Laser beams may control path of lightning   Daily Times
Lightning Bolts' Paths Could One Day Be Controlled With Lasers   Headlines & Global News
Laser Focus world   
AZoOptics.com (press release)   
Weekly Observer   
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NBCNews.com
   
Ceres Shows Off a 'Pyramid' Mountain and Those Puzzling White Spots   
NBCNews.com
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has beamed home the best-ever photo of the mysterious bright spots that speckle the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. The new image resolves Ceres' strange spots, which are found inside a crater about 55 miles (90 kilometers) ...

Is this proof of alien life?   NEWS.com.au
Mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres brought into focus by Dawn ...   The Denver Channel
Dawn shows pyramid-shaped peaks on surface of Ceres   The Space Reporter
Science Recorder   
MINA   
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