2015年6月25日 星期四

2015-06-26 Pakistan Science


PerfScience
   
Efforts to Develop Aphids Resilient Wheat Defeated in Field Trials   
PerfScience
In an era where genetically engineered products have swayed the markets by offering novel features, a genetically modified (GM) wheat has failed in the field-scale tests to live up to its promises. The controversial technology of genetic modification (GM), ...

GM wheat trial funded by taxpayers has failed, GM Freeze claims   Daily Mail
Genetically modified wheat flunks field test for repelling aphids   Science Recorder
'Pointless' £3m GM wheat trial fails   Telegraph.co.uk
BBC News   
Reuters   
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New York Times
   
Corals may already have the right genes to survive some global warming ...   
Concord Monitor
Warming ocean waters due to climate change have been ravaging coral reefs over the past few decades, but researchers have discovered that, with the help of some breeding, the threat may be kept at bay. Some corals already have the genes needed to ...

Coral breeding may help cooler reefs survive warming —US study   GMA News
Research finds certain corals have DNA to adapt to warmer climate   The Japan Times
Good news for reefs: how corals could survive a heating planet   Christian Science Monitor
Voices   
UPI.com   
Sentinel Republic   
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Mashable
   
NASA and Microsoft plan to bring the HoloLens into space   
Mashable
NASA and Microsoft are again teaming up on the HoloLens. But this time, the goal is to bring the augmented reality headset into space. NASA and Microsoft announced Project Sidekick Thursday, a new experiment that aims to bring Microsoft's holographic ...

Microsoft HoloLens Bound for Space   Wall Street Journal (blog)
HoloLens is headed to the International Space Station (Tomorrow Daily 199)   CNET
Microsoft's HoloLens is headed out of this world, with help from NASA   PCWorld
BizTek Mojo   
Stuff.co.nz   
TIME   
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NBCNews.com
   
Red Planet Roadmap: NASA Asks Where on Mars Astronauts Should Land   
NBCNews.com
NASA has already begun trying to figure out where its first Mars astronauts should touch down, about two decades before the pioneers are scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet. The space agency will hold a workshop in Houston this October to kick off ...

DARPA hopes to terraform Mars with human-engineered organisms   RT
NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots Pyramid-like Formation on the Red Planet   NYC Today
Where will humans first set foot on Mars? Nasa wants suggestions   Daily Mail
moviepilot.com   
KPRC Houston   
National Monitor   
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Yibada (English Edition)
   
Planet with Comet Tail? 'Behemoth' Exoplanet Discovered with Evaporating ...   
Yibada (English Edition)
This artist's concept shows the enormous comet-like cloud of hydrogen bleeding off of the warm, Neptune-sized planet Gliese 436b just 30 light-years from Earth. (Photo : NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon). Astronomers have detected an exoplanet in a nearby ...

Broiling Exoplanet Sports 'Behemoth' Comet Tail   Discovery News
Weird Planet with a Comet-like Gas Trail Spotted by Hubble Telescope   Maine News Online
Unusual Exoplanet Gives Glimpse of What Earth May Have Looked Like   ABC News
Mirror.co.uk   
Empire State Tribune   
Financial Express   
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New York Times
   
How climate change may offset 50 years of health progress   
Times of India
LONDON: A new study has suggested that climate change can possibly erase 50 years of health advancements. University College London's Anthony Costello said that climate change has the potential to reverse the health gains from economic development ...

Coal's health threat   The Times (subscription)
Doing these things for your own health will also help save the planet   Quartz
We've completely underestimated the catastrophic impacts of climate change   Businessinsider India

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NBCNews.com
   
Antarctic 'Yeti' Crab Uses Hairy Chest to Grow Food   
NBCNews.com
What's white and blind and hairy all over? A yeti, of course! Or, in this case, a yeti crab — a marine creature that lives near the thermal vents in the ocean floor where hot water gushes into the sea. There are three known species of yeti crabs, and now, in a new ...

Scientists discover white, hairy Yeti crab in Antarctica   National Monitor
New Animal Species: Hairy-Chested 'Yeti Crab' In Antarctica Grows, Harvests ...   Yibada (English Edition)
Boffins discovers Yeti crab at hydrothermal vent of East Scotia Ridge, Antarctica   Inferse
Science Recorder   
Maine News Online   
Benchmark Reporter   
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CNN
   
NASA Orbiter Finds Puzzling Pyramid-Shaped Structure on Ceres' Surface   
Vocal Republic
Dwarf planet Ceres will get weirder and weirder as Dawn spacecraft attracts close to to its floor. After a few mysterious white lights on prime of certainly one of its craters, there appears to be a pyramid-shaped construction or landform above its equator.
Alien alert! Pyramid like structure on Ceres seen in NASA photographs   Firstpost
NASA spacecraft spots pyramid-shaped peak on Ceres   Financial Express
Dawn spacecraft finds mysterious pyramid on dwarf planet Ceres   The Union Leader
Examiner.com   
GMA News   
International Business Times, India Edition   
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BirdChannel.com
   
New Study Hints Why Parrots Are Such Good At Mimicking Sounds & Speech   
BirdChannel.com
An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds' unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech. The study was called, "Core and Shell ...

Indian scientist reveals why parrots are great human speech imitators   TeCake
Scientists solve mystery of Talking Parrots, it's the different Brain Structure   Pulse Headlines
Discovered: Here's why parrots can talk like humans   Firstpost
Financial Express   
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The Guardian
   
Dinosaur comes out of closet at South Africa university   
The Guardian
Palaeontologists in South Africa have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown dinosaur dating back 200m years. It was found not on a remote desert plain but in a university storeroom. The specimen had been collected in the late 1930s and for decades ...

Scientists discover dinosaur with cross-shaped ankle bone in South Africa   Livemint
Dinosaur With Cross-Shaped Foot Bones Identified in South Africa   Bloomberg
Dinosaur Discovered in Africa is a New Species of Sauropodomorph   Science World Report
Economic Times   
Headlines & Global News   
Clapway   
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