2015年7月1日 星期三

2015-07-02 Pakistan Science


Think-tank formed to devise climate protection policies   
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has formed a high level think-tank of experts, who would support the ministry to taking better and informed decisions in various areas of climate change and allied issues. The think-tank, called the ...
Government sets up first think-tank on climate change   Business Recorder (press release) (blog)

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NBCNews.com
   
A Drone Airplane for Mars? Way-Out Red Planet Ideas Are Taking Flight   
NBCNews.com
NASA has been talking about sending airplanes to Mars for more than a decade, but the revolution in small satellites and drone airplanes just might turn the concept into a reality at last. If the plan being hatched at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research ...
Revealed: NASA's first plane to Mars   India Today
NASA to Test a Prototype for Surveying Landing Sites on the Red Planet   NY City News
NASA wants to send a space boomerang to Mars   TechnoBuffalo
Computerworld   
Voice of America (blog)   
Christian Science Monitor   
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The Australian Financial Review
   
SpaceX shows space station supply is, actually, as hard as rocket science   
The Australian Financial Review
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft breaks apart shortly after liftoff at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday. John Raoux. by The Lex Column. Most businesses are more straightforward than rocket science. Resupplying the ...

SpaceX moves test of crew safety system to Florida   USA TODAY
Air Force says rocket accident won't bump SpaceX from competition   Reuters
Authorities Warn Public Of Dangerous Debris From Rocket Explosion Washing ...   Tech Times
Texas A&M The Battalion   
Fortune   
WCBD   
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NH Voice
   
Clocks pause for a second to allow Earth to catch up   
The Hindu
If Wednesday seemed longer than other days of the year, blame the Earth and not the clock. For, the clocks keeping India's time in the national capital paused for a second to allow the Earth to catch up, inserting a 'leap second' into the Indian ...
Duration of Standard Day to Increase by One Second   Rapid News Network
Last Day of June Was One Second Longer   JP Updates
Why people care about the leap second   KING5.com
ecns   
Moultrie Observer   
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Voice of America
   
Rosetta Spacecraft Finds Massive Sinkholes on Comet's Surface   
Voice of America
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA—. The comet being studied by Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has massive sinkholes in its surface that are nearly wide enough to swallow Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, research published Wednesday shows. Scientists suspect ...

Gigantic Sinkholes Dot Surface of Rosetta's Comet   Discovery News
What Do Florida and a Comet Have in Common? Sinkholes   National Geographic
Giant sinkholes spotted on Rosetta's comet   Los Angeles Times
The Space Reporter   
The Guardian   
NBCNews.com   
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NBCNews.com
   
Pluto's Black Spots and Charon's Dark Pole Grow in New Horizons View   
NBCNews.com
NASA's New Horizons mission is kicking off its climactic month of July with amazing views that clearly show Pluto's black spots and Charon's dark pole growing in the spacecraft's virtual windshield. After traveling for nine years and 3 billion miles ...
The strange dynamic of Pluto's chaotic family   Irish Times
Nasa probe detects methane on Pluto surface   Times of India
New Horizons gets "all clear" for July 14 Pluto flyby   CBS News
Orlando Sentinel   
Christian Science Monitor   
The Verge   
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Irish Examiner
   
Great Barrier Reef outlook poor but not in danger   
Irish Examiner
The heritage committee of Unesco has said the outlook for Australia's Great Barrier Reef is poor due to threats including pollution and climate change but stopped short of listing it as “in danger”. Environmental campaign-ers had urged the committee to ...

World Heritage Committee decides against declaring reef as 'in danger'   ABC Online (blog)
Qld takes to social media to promote reef   9news.com.au
GoPro on turtle's back gives breathtaking view of Great Barrier Reef   CTV News
Queensland Country Life   
Mackay Daily Mercury   
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Tampabay.com
   
Hundreds view Jupiter and Venus at St. Petersburg College's Gibbs campus   
Tampabay.com
Dining Planner: Where to eat on the Fourth of July, plus a showing from Dr. BBQ. Top News. Crayons abound as Crayola Experience opens in Orlando's Florida Mall · 'In Living Color' show featuring Warhol at Tampa Museum of Art a 'rare treat' · Stage ...

Venus and Jupiter planetary conjunction gives skywatchers a Canada Day treat   CBC.ca
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Visible on June 30, July 1   Patch.com
What's up in the sky   Southernminn.com
FOX 9 News   
wivb.com   
Dispatch Times   
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Daily Mail
   
Can YOU see the 'third property' of light? Scientists reveal human supersense ...   
Daily Mail
The ability lets us see a mystery third property of light known as 'polarisation', which tells us the orientation in which light waves are oscillating. Animals, like bees and ants, use the polarisation patterns in the sky as a navigation aid. And with ...
Did you know we share the same 'super-vision' found in bees and octopuses?   Irish Examiner
The Sixth Sense You Didn't Know You Had   Discover Magazine (blog)
Humans 'can see polarised light'   Herald Sun
Tech Times   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Scientists discover lizard that changes sex in the sun   
Telegraph.co.uk
A lizard that changes sex in the sun has been discovered by scientists. It is the first time the phenomenon has been seen in reptiles in the wild and could have implications for other animal species because of climate change. The cold-blooded ...
Climate change is threatening to turn the world's male reptiles into females   Sydney Morning Herald
Climate Change Can Cause Animals to Switch Sex   Discovery News
Male bearded dragons that change sex make better mothers, study finds   ABC Online
Washington Post   
Tech Times   
The Australian (blog)   
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