2015年7月13日 星期一

2015-07-14 U.S. Science


New York Times
   
Pluto to Get a Close-Up After a Spacecraft's 3-Billion-Mile Journey   
New York Times
LAUREL, Md. — Almost there. After nine and a half years and three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was on course to take the first close-up look at Pluto on Tuesday morning. “Fasten your seatbelts,” S. Alan Stern, the mission's principal ...

Spotlight shining on Pluto on cold outskirts of solar system   Washington Post
Fasten your Kuiper Belt: Canberra gets a world-first look at Pluto   CNET
As flyby looms, Pluto bigger than scientists thought   CTV News
CBC.ca   
Christian Science Monitor   
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Daily Mail
   
Researchers discover series of terrifying fish off Sydney coast   
Daily Mail
Chief scientist for the voyage, UNSW marine biologist Professor Iain Suthers, said he was amazed they were able to find so many on the tiny critters and the discovery will now change how researchers study juvenile fish. 'We had thought fish only ...
Submerged volcanoes found off Sydney   The Nation
Ancient volcanoes may explain why Australia, NZ separated   Mackay Daily Mercury
Scientists Stumble Across Extinct Volcanoes Off Australia Coast   TIME
CBS News   
BBC News   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Headlines & Global News
   
Plutonium does not Exhibit Magnetism, finds Study   
NYC Today
Absence of magnetism in the rare metal Plutonium has baffled scientists for decades. In a new study conducted by a group of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has unraveled the mystery behind the unique properties of the metal, ...

Scientists have finally discovered the irrationally that lies within plutonium ...   Benchmark Reporter
Plutonium's 'Missing' Magnetism Discovered: Neutrons Reveal unusual   Ledger Gazette
Why magnets fail to stick to Plutonium, Scientists Explain   Times Gazette
Christian Science Monitor   
News Quench   
Clapway   
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Huffington Post
   
Bear necessities: low metabolism lets pandas survive on bamboo   
Washington Post
Giant pandas eat vegetables even though their bodies are better equipped to eat meat. So how do these black-and-white bears from the remote, misty mountains of central China survive on a diet almost exclusively composed of a low-nutrient food such as ...

Why Are Pandas Such Lazy Bastards? Blame Biology   Huffington Post
Bamboo is what makes pandas so dopey   Quartz
What is the world's laziest animal?   Perth Now
Rapid News Network   
Empire State Tribune   
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Capital Wired
   
Majestic humpback whale feeding in New Jersey   
USA TODAY
Ryan Struck hopped aboard his girlfriend's family boat for a little fishing off Sandy Hook Sunday afternoon. It turns out they weren't only ones on the hunt. "We see like a puff, like a little spray. Is that a whale?" Struck recalled Monday morning. It ...
How researchers rescued a 'hog-tied' humpback whale from death by shark   Washington Post
Humpback whale spotted near Sandy Hook   News 12 New Jersey
Stalked by great white shark, whale freed from ropes off Massachusetts   Reuters
NJ.com   
Pioneer News   
Boston Globe   
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KITV Honolulu
   
Road to top of mountain, site of disputed telescope, reopens   
Imperial Valley Press
HONOLULU (AP) — The road to the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island has been reopened. It had been closed after hundreds of protesters flocked to Mauna Kea to prevent construction of a giant telescope from resuming. The University of Hawaii ...

Mauna Kea Summit Road Reopened   Maui Now

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Town Hall
   
The Latest Papal Encyclical: A Catholic's Critique   
Town Hall
Unfortunately, though, it provokes us to consider the possibility that its author has more in common with contemporary leftism than traditional Christianity. The Pope's encyclical read as essentially nothing more or less than a protracted, theologized ...

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Christian Science Monitor
   
Scientists find 'surprisingly high' heat beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet (+video)   
Christian Science Monitor
Geothermal heat under West Antarctica's glaciers are surprisingly high, revealing one more of several heat sources scientists believe to be destabilizing the ice sheet. By Henry Gass, Staff writer July 13, 2015. Save for later Saved · About video ads ...
Natural geothermal heat under Antarctic ice: 'Surprisingly HIGH'   The Register
West Antarctica's Ice Melt Attributed to Astonishingly High Levels of ...   PerfScience
UCSC professor explains how geothermal heating affects the West Antarctic Ice ...   State Column
Science Recorder   
The Standard Daily   
Examiner.com   
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New York Times
   
The Telescope of the 2030s   
New York Times
In what they termed “a call to arms,” an organization of American university astronomers said last week that NASA should begin planning now to launch a sort of supersize version of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 2030s to look for life beyond Earth.
Super telescope proposed for discovering life on Earth-like planets   mySanAntonio.com (blog)
Saturate yourself in Milky Way stars with this stunning Spitzer Space ...   Blastr
UW Astronomer Proposes New Deep-Space Telescope to Scan the Sky for ...   Alaska Native News
Washington Examiner   
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Times Gazette
   
The Aging Population: Key Component in Obama's Climate Change Policies   
Times Gazette
The population aging of the world becomes a critical factor—that President Obama can take advantage of— in taking immediate and instantaneous action on climate change. What is exactly is population aging? Population aging is a phenomenon that occurs ...

Climate change and national interests   Irish Times
Majority of people across the world growing older at faster pace due to ...   West Texas News
The Aging Population: A Key Component in Obama's Climate Change Policies   Vocal Republic
PreventionWeb (press release)   
Maine News Online   
Clapway   
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