2015年3月6日 星期五

2015-03-07 Pakistan Science


The Express Tribune
   
Rare whale caught off Karachi coast dies   
DAWN.com
KARACHI: A rare species of whale was recently caught by fishermen, who were searching for tuna about 120 nautical miles south-west of Karachi. It was identified as a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) about 8.2 feet long, weighing about 400kg.
Pygmy sperm whale dies in fishermen's net   Business Recorder (press release) (blog)
Rare catch: Fishermen catch one of smallest whale species   The Express Tribune

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The Express Tribune
   
Shut down: 25% of Hyderabad division madrassas sealed   
The Express Tribune
The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat has 42 mosques and 10 madrassas in six districts within the Hyderabad division. PHOTO: AFP. HYDERABAD: Around 25 per cent of the 643 madrassas in the districts of Hyderabad division, with an estimated 50,000 students, ...

Police seal 161 madaris in nine districts of Hyderabad Div   Aaj News

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The Nation
   
Mars ocean was bigger than Arctic   
The Nation
Mars once had a body of water bigger than Earth's Arctic Ocean and vast enough to cover the entire surface of the planet, Nasa scientists said in a study released. The new research, providing estimates on the quantity of water on the Red Planet, is based ...

New research indicates Mars may have had an ocean   Tucson News Now
Mars had oceans once, NASA says   SMN Weekly
Mars Once Had More Water Than the Arctic Ocean   Science Times
Clapway   
NBC 10 Philadelphia   
Deutsche Welle   
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Customs Today Newspaper
   
Heavy metal rain may explain Earth, moon differences   
Customs Today Newspaper
FRANCE: We already know that Earth's formation would have been a rough time for the planet — asteroids and even other young planets from the Solar System's birth slammed into our planet repeatedly. Now, though, researchers suspect that that ...

Iron Rain Helped in Formation of Earth's Core: Study   West Texas News
Earth and Moon Study Examines Our Atmospheric Relationship With Iron   Pioneer News

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New York Times
   
US spacecraft reaches dwarf planet for probe   
Gulf Daily News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A US space probe slipped into orbit around Ceres, a miniature planet beyond Mars believed to be left over from the formation of the solar system, Nasa said yesterday. Launched in 2007, the Dawn spacecraft made a 14-month ...

Hello Ceres! NASA spacecraft on first visit to dwarf planet   Concord Monitor
Hello Ceres! Dawn orbits dwarf planet   Houston Chronicle
NASA spacecraft greets dwarf planet Ceres   Tribune-Review
NBCNews.com   
Daily Science Journal   
Science 2.0   
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Daily Mail
   
Jawbone of 'first man' goes on display: 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor ...   
Daily Mail
A momentous and valuable piece of our evolutionary history has gone on display to the public. The 2.8 million-year-old partially complete lower jaw, uncovered in the Afar region of Ethiopia, is thought to belong to a species that may have been the first ...

Jawbone Linking Humans to Ape-Like Ancestors Shown in Ethiopia   Bloomberg
Our ancestors arrived much earlier than thought   Business Standard
Fossil turns clock back on humans   iAfrica.com
Forbes   
Arab News   
Times LIVE   
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NewsHub.org
   
Putting the Focus on Climate Change   
Huffington Post
When I am traveling up and down the Central Coast of California, I'll often take Highway 154 through the Santa Ynez Mountains past beautiful Lake Cachuma, a source of drinking water for 220,000 people in southern Santa Barbara County. But as the drought ...

Research shows how climate change is impacting food safety   Digital Journal
Researchers connect climate change to food safety   Phys.Org
Ministry gets go-ahead on Climate Change Policy   The Nation
The Hindu   
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OCRegister
   
Astronomers see reruns of a 9 billion-year-old star explosion   
OCRegister
An image of a cluster of galaxies photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope acts as a gravitational lens, producing multiple images of the Supernova Refsdal, over the years indicated here. The supernova is behind the cluster and exploded 9 billion years ...

NASA's Hubble discovers four images of same supernova split by cosmic lens   (e) Science News (press release) (registration)
Part of Einstein's general theory of relativity has finally been proved - by accident   Irish Examiner
Astronomers view four images of a supernova, in a first   The News International

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CNET
   
Two adorable new spiders found: Meet Sparklemuffin and Skeletorus   
CNET
Two new species of peacock spider have been found in Queensland, Australia -- the colourful Sparklemuffin and the spooky Skeletorus. by Michelle Starr · @riding_red; 6 March 2015, 3:19 pm AEDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more.
“Sparklemuffin” and “Skeletorus” are two new spider species   ZME Science
Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin: 2 new peacock spiders discovered in Australia   Times Gazette
2 new spider species dubbed 'Sparklemuffin' and 'Skeletorus'   KSL.com
Pioneer News   
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Customs Today Newspaper
   
Astronomers discover planets Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b   
Customs Today Newspaper
NEW YORK: The scientists have discovered two new planets. The names of the planets are Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b. It provides evidence that small habitable-zone planets exist five years ago. It was not known earlier. The question of whether alien ...


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