2015年7月12日 星期日

2015-07-13 U.S. Science


BBC News
   
New Horizons in 'great shape' for Pluto flyby   
BBC News
Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto this week. In the early hours of Monday (GMT), the American space agency probe moved to within a million miles of the dwarf planet and was closing in rapidly.
NASA probe set to make history at Pluto   CNN
Guided By Starlight, New Horizons Speeds Toward Pluto   National Geographic
Pluto's big moon Charon comes into sharper focus   CBS News
NBCNews.com   
Christian Science Monitor   
Washington Post   
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News Ledge
   
Scientists measure geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic ice sheet   
National Monitor
Unexpected readings could lead to improved modelling of Antarctic ice melt and sea level rise. Researchers testing heat in the West Antarctic ice sheet have found a surprisingly high level of geothermal heating. Their results, published in Science ...
Geothermal Heat Flow Lurking Underneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet   News Ledge
Scientists find evidence of geothermal heating under Antarctic ice sheet   News Quench
Scientists stunned to find strong geothermal heating in the Antarctic   Morning Ticker
(e) Science News (press release) (registration)   
Techie News   
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AsiaOne
   
Study finds pandas slower than the average bear   
AsiaOne
Giant pandas are the new couch potatoes of the animal world and just as sluggish as slow-moving sloths, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science. Researchers in China tracked five captive pandas at Beijing Zoo and three wild ...
Lazy lifestyle lets pandas survive on bamboo-only diet   Financial Express
Why are Pandas such lazy bunch?   The Hindu
Why are China's giant pandas so lazy?   Christian Science Monitor
RT   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Monster black hole is too big for its galaxy, say astronomers   
Christian Science Monitor
A new found black hole is much bigger than expected, given the size of its host galaxy. The discovery could call into question our current understanding of how galaxies form. By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com July 12, 2015. Save for later Saved. close.
Hideous CID-947 Black Hole which is relatively bigger than 7 billion times ...   The Market Business
Astronomers baffled by an enormous black hole in the galaxy   The Next Digit
'Here Be Dragons': The Supermassive Black Hole That's Growing Impossibly Fast   The Epoch Times
News Ledge   
Benchmark Reporter   
Nature World Report   
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Echo Examiner
   
Climate Change Not Slowing Down: Expect a 20 Feet Rise in Our Sea Levels   
Echo Examiner
Effects of climate change are now prevalent. Soon, a more adverse impact of it, if not be prevented, would greatly affect the entire world. Scientists have issued many warnings regarding the dangers climate change is posing to our planet. A new study ...
Global Sea Levels Could Soon Rise 20′ as Climate Warms   Environment News Service
Coastal cities might get extinct due to rise in sea levels   Nature World Report
Scientists blame climate change for rising oceans worldwide   State Column
Morning Ticker   
Clapway   
Ledger Gazette   
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CBC.ca
   
Bumblebee population struggling due to climate change, says study   
CBC.ca
Bumblebee populations are dying at an alarming rate and nobody knows why. Fingers have been pointed at pesticides called neonicotinoids, as well as bee habitat loss from human development. But an extensive new study suggests climate change is also ...

Bumblebees on the verge of extinction due to the climate change   The Next Digit
Studies Warn Danger of Declining Bee Population   Pioneer News
Bumblebees Vanish as Climate Warms in America, Europe   Environment News Service
ZME Science   
The Market Business   
Rapid News Network   
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The Guardian
   
Starwatch: Of Pluto and planets   
The Guardian
The evolution of Pluto observation – Lowell Observatory (1930), Hubble Space Telescope (2006), New Horizons (2015). Photograph: Lowell Observatory/Nasa /ESA /JHUAPL. Tom Kerss, Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Sunday 12 July 2015 16.30 EDT Last ...

The Biography of Pluto, Our Favorite Planet   io9
Opinion/Column: Pluto and questions of science   The Daily Progress
The Man Who (Almost) Discovered Pluto...and Also (Almost) Discovered the ...   Discover Magazine (blog)
Boston Globe   
Arizona Daily Sun   
Herald Review   
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Weekly Observer
   
Bat and Plant Symbiosis: a Tale of Feces   
Weekly Observer
The Pitcher plant is a unique kind of plant that feeds on bat feces. Yes, Bat feces. One would think that constantly getting a supply of this unique resource would be hard, but the plant has developed a way to attract bats. The plant attracts bats by ...
Plant species can communicate with bats, say scientists   Christian Science Monitor
Carnivorous plants and bats communicate with each other   The Market Business
Pitcher plants developed ability to reflect ultrasonic calls made by bats back ...   Times Gazette
The Next Digit   
Mid-Day Daily   
Council Chronicle   
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CBS Local
   
'Hogtied' humpback whale saved from a great white shark   
Boston.com
Scientists rescued a humpback whale entangled in ropes and bitten by a great white shark as the shark prowled the waters beneath them Saturday. While conducting research on gases exhaled by humpback whales, Center for Coast13wal Studies ...

Crew Rescues Humpback Whale from Entanglement and Great White Shark   Sentinel Republic
Great White Shark Faces Off Against Tangled Humpback Whale, Rescuers Off ...   Patch.com
'Entangled' Whale Saved From Great White Shark Off Massachusetts   The Inquisitr

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CNN
   
Aging population could drive Obama's climate change policies   
KXLF Butte News
Editor's note: Michael A. Smyer is the former provost and a current professor of psychology at Bucknell University, and the founder of Graying Green: Climate Communication for an Aging World. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. (CNN ...
Global Climate Change: Perhaps the Graying Can Go Green   Clapway
Graying Americans can be "green" thinkers   WCTI12.com
READERS DISCUSS: Is Climate Change real or spin by greenies?   Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
American Thinker (blog)   
azcentral.com   
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