2015年10月1日 星期四

2015-10-02 U.S. Science


Spaceflight Now
   
October 2, 2015 in News: Charon takes center stage in new batch of New ...   
Spaceflight Now
This enhanced color view of Pluto comes from New Horizons' Ralph color camera. The colors highlight the subtle variations in the composition of Charon's crust, with the reddish region near the north pole — informally named Mordor Macular — standing ...
Pluto's Moon Charon is Battered, Bruised and Beautiful   Discovery News
Fly Through Pluto Moon Charon's Giant Canyon in Spectacular New Video   Space.com
Gorgeous new images of Charon reveal a violent past for Pluto's moon   Washington Post
Modesto Bee   
Science Recorder   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had help from volcanoes, study says   
Los Angeles Times
These are layered lava flows of the Deccan Traps east of Mumbai, India. Scientists think that volcanic activity here may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. These are layered lava flows of the Deccan Traps ...
Double trouble: asteroid, volcanoes implicated in dinosaur doom   Reuters
Asteroid Impact + Earthquakes + Volcanoes = Goodbye Dinosaurs   Tech Times
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs had help from volcanoes   Science Recorder
Raw Story   
Clapway   
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moviepilot.com
   
'The Martian' Flips The Script on Damsels in Distress   
moviepilot.com
The Martian hits the big screen this weekend, and on first glance, it's the typical adventure/rescue flick with a little desperate survival thrown in for good measure. Look a little closer, however, and you'll quickly realize that this is much more ...
'The Martian' Ending Is A Big Change From The Book — But That's Not ...   Bustle
Mars in the movies: Interesting facts about the Red Planet's depictions on the ...   Deseret News
'The Martian' confirms life — and fun — on Mars   The Detroit News
Florida Today   
Orlando Sentinel   
Gwinnettdailypost.com   
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New York Times
   
India Announces Plan to Lower Rate of Greenhouse Gas Emissions   
New York Times
NEW DELHI — Under growing pressure to join in an international accord to battle climate change, India on Thursday announced its long-term plan to reduce its rate of planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution and to aggressively ramp up its production of ...

India Unveils Climate Target to Cut Carbon Intensity   NDTV
India unveils climate target to cut energy intensity   Reuters
Paris Climate Deal Should Be Comprehensive, Equitable: India   The New Indian Express
Huffington Post   
The Nation   
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Discovery News
   
Dwarf Planet's Weirdly Mysterious Surface Mapped: Photos   
Discovery News
New maps of Ceres show the dwarf planet's mysterious bright spots and huge, pyramid-shaped mountain in a new light. The new maps of Ceres come courtesy of NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the heavily cratered dwarf planet since ...

Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots Aren't Made of Ice After All   Gizmodo
NASA thinks it knows what Ceres' mysterious bright spots are made of   CNET
New maps show dwarf planet Ceres in unprecedented detail   CBS News
SlashGear   
Phys.Org   
Jewocity.com (press release) (blog)   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Lunar eclipse amazes faithful watchers   
NEagle
Reports of the September 27, 2015 total lunar eclipse are coming in. From where people were blessed with clear skies or at least breaks in the clouds that allowed a peek, the reddened Moon immersed in the Earthen shadow providing a stunning display of ...

First private moon landing planned for 2017   The Space Reporter
REFILE-Moon Express contracts Rocket Lab for launches to land spacecraft on ...   Reuters
Students Rally to View of the Super Blood Moon   The Stony Brook Press
Scienceline   
NYSE Post   
SUNY The New Paltz Oracle   
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CBC.ca
   
'Nation's T. Rex' Strikes A Rapacious Pose   
NPR
What's come to be called "the nation's T. rex" now stands — though not in the United States. It's in Canada. The nearly complete and much heralded tyrannosaurus skeleton — the first ever owned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History ...

A T. Rex skeleton will be exposed at a DC museum in 2019   Pulse Headlines
'Nation's T. rex' stands upright for the first time in 65 million years — and ...   Washington Post
T. rex reconstruction: Canadian team readies skeleton for Smithsonian   CBC.ca

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Phys.Org
   
Are the blueprints for limbs encoded in the snake genome?   
Phys.Org
Corn snake embryo expression of the hindlimb/phallus gene Tbx4 (purple stain). Credit: Carlos R. Infante. Hundreds of millions of years ago, a common ancestor of mammals, birds, and reptiles evolved a phallus. We don't know much about phallus evolution ...

Blueprints for limbs encoded in the snake genome University of Georgia   EurekAlert (press release)
Snake Genomes Reveal Shared Plans for Making Legs, Penises   National Geographic
In Photos: How Snake Embryos Grow a Phallus   Live Science
Headlines & Global News   
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Tech Times
   
Scientists Alarmed Over Number Of Guadalupe Fur Seals Deaths: What Causes The ...   
Tech Times
The United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced an 'unusual mortality event' among Guadalupe fur seals found in the Southern California coast and Mexico. (Photo : Holger Detje | Pixabay). Since January 2015, around 80 ...

Guadalupe fur seals starving at unusuallly high levels   10News
Endangered Guadalupe fur seals washing ashore   KSBY San Luis Obispo News
Guadalupe fur seals dying at an alarming rate off California coast   Los Angeles Times
UPI.com   
KCBX   
TakePart   
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CBS 8 San Diego
   
Balboa Park - One of the nation's great public spaces   
CBS 8 San Diego
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Balboa Park in San Diego was designated by the American Planning Association Thursday as one of the nation's six great public spaces in conjunction with National Community Planning Month. The APA cited the 1,200-acre park's ...

Lexington Avenue named one of 15 'Great Places in America' by the American ...   Mountain Xpress (blog)
KC Crossroads makes the cut as one of 15 great places in America according to ...   fox4kc.com
Flint Farmers Market named to 'Great Places in America' list   MLive.com
Rapid News Network   
Dispatch Times   
Asheville Citizen-Times   
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