2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 U.S. Science


Los Angeles Times
   
'First flowers' may have 'bloomed' in water, not on land, fossils suggest   
Los Angeles Times
By analyzing more than 1,000 fossil remains, scientists have discovered that an unassuming, 130-million-year-old water-dwelling plant could be one of Earth's first flowering plants. Montsechia vidalii, described in the Proceedings of the National ...
Prehistoric Fossil Found in Spain May Be Mythical 'First Flower'   NBCNews.com
Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'   BBC News
World's Oldest Flowering Plant Came From the Water   Newsweek
I4U News   
Washington Post   
The Sun Daily   
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NBCNews.com
   
Asia's Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers Could Fuel Future Conflicts   
NBCNews.com
The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over the past 50 years — a rate of loss about four times greater than the global average during that time, new research shows. By 2050, half of the remaining ...
Central Asian glaciers thaw fast with warming in threat to hydro power, farms   Sydney Morning Herald
How Asia's melting glaciers could fuel conflict   Christian Science Monitor
Central Asia Mountain Range Has Lost a Quarter of Ice Mass in 50 Years, Study Says   Wall Street Journal
UPI.com   
Tech Times   
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BBC News
   
City grime 'breathes back out' polluting nitrogen gases   
BBC News
Scientists say the grime which clings to urban surfaces "breathes out" nitrogen gases when hit by sunlight. The dark muck was known to absorb such gases from the air, but it appears the nitrogen does not stay locked away. In rooftop experiments in ...
SUNLIGHT releases smog-forming particles trapped on grimy buildings and streets   Daily Mail
Why sunny days turn urban grime into dangerous pollution   Telegraph.co.uk
​Grime on city streets becomes pollution in the air   CBS News
RT   
U.S. News & World Report   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Cassini spacecraft studies moon that orbits Saturn backward   
Christian Science Monitor
The tiny moon of Hyrrokkin is one of the Norse group of Saturn's 60 or so moons, which orbits the gas giant in a retrograde direction. By Morgan Rehnberg, Sen August 17, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. Tiny Hyrrokkin hides amongst a field of stars ...
Pushing the limit with 1000 mph winds…   WNCT (blog)
Cassini to make final flyby of Saturn's moon Dione   The Space Reporter
This Week's Night Sky: Spot a Gap in Saturn's Rings   National Geographic
Daily Beast   
CBS News   
Forbes   
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Times LIVE
   
DNA set to replace the hard drive   
Times LIVE
The next challenge is to find a way of searching for information encoded in strands of DNA floating in a drop of liquid. File photo. Image by: Gallo Images/ Thinkstock. DNA could be used to store digital information and preserve essential knowledge for ...

Forget Hard Drives: DNA-Based Storage Solutions Can Last Thousands Of Years   Tech Times
DNA Data Storage Lasts Thousands of Years   Discovery News
Single DNA molecule could store information for a million years following ...   The Independent
Gizmodo   
Scientific Computing   
Science World Report   
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Ledger Gazette
   
ISS Astronaut Shares Another Dazzling Northern Lights Video   
Huffington Post
If you think the Northern Lights look beautiful from Earth, take a look at this dazzling new video (above) from Scott Kelly. The NASA astronaut shot the video of a shimmering aurora borealis from his perch aboard the International Space Station -- and ...
Astronaut Scott Kelly captures northern lights in time-lapse video   Sentinel Republic
NASA astronaut captured footage of the northern lights from the International ...   Quartz

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NDTV
   
Page out of innovation: A book that filters water   
Times of India
LONDON: The next time you want to get clean water, all you need to do is tear a page from your very own "drinkable super book". Scientists have created pages which are impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles - a highly inexpensive, simple ...

'Drinkable Book' Promises to Filter Dirty Water   TIME
Take a leaf out of this book for clean drinking water   Times LIVE
'Drinkable book' could provide millions with purified water   RT
Christian Science Monitor   
Quartz   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Tech Times
   
NASA Developing Gecko-Inspired 'Gripper' System That Would Help Robots Climb ...   
Tech Times
Engineers turn to nature and the "sticky feet" of geckos as inspiration for robots that could climb around the International Space Station. Unlike adhesive tape or Velcro, the feet of such robots would never wear out or lose their "stickiness," the say ...
This gecko-inspired robot could some day crawl along the space station   Christian Science Monitor
NASA scientists develop gecko-inspired astronaut anchors   Gizmag
Gecko-Inspired, Robot Lemur May Work on the International Space Station   Science World Report
NDTV   
I4U News   
Headlines & Global News   
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Livemint
   
Did dinosaurs walk together on this beach? Amazing footprints give clues.   
The Market Business
A new study has revealed that about 142 million years ago, two predatory dinosaurs strolled along a beach and left their large footprints behind in the sand. These footprints, that have now become fossils, are aiding researchers to understand what kind ...
Dinosaur footprints could give clues to the ancient creature's social behavior   Science Recorder
Strolling dinosaur duo: How social were carnivorous beasts?   Christian Science Monitor
Dinosaurs' footprints on German beach deliver fascinating insights   Livemint
SlashGear   
Times Gazette   
Fusion   
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Irish Examiner
   
VIDEO: Bizarre 'spaghetti monster' discovered 4000 feet under water   
Irish Examiner
Following on from the horrifying news that octopuses are basically aliens, this week scientists are introducing us to an even stranger undersea life form. BP workers were filming 4,000 feet under the sea off the coast of Angola with a remotely operated ...

Bizarre undersea critter: What's a 'Flying spaghetti monster'? (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
BP workers capture video of strange-looking animal 4000 feet under sea   Northern Californian
Deep Sea Siphonophore Looks Just Like Pastafarianisms Flying Spaghetti Monster   The Escapist
ValueWalk   
Morning Ticker   
State Column   
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