2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 Pakistan Science


BBC News
   
What makes a planet habitable?   
BBC News
Water in liquid form is thought to be a necessity for life on Earth. Naturally, some say that life may flourish under other conditions, and perhaps even in the absence of water. While that may be true, take a look around - life seems to do quite well ...
The 9 Mindblowing Things NASA Has Already Discovered in 2015   Mic
Exoplanets: Unbelievable worlds beyond our own   The Nation (blog)
Earth's Doppelganger May Have Vast Oceans   Sputnik International
Space.com   
Nashua Telegraph   
Clapway   
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Daily Pakistan
   
Robot turns 'mother,' creates babies that can evolve   
Daily Pakistan
WASHINGTON (Web Desk) –In a major technological development, scientists have built a 'mother' robot that can build babies out of mechanised blocks, and then create new ones that evolve from the previous generation. The findings show that robots can be ...

Robot 'mother' builds babies that can evolve   Times of India
Mother Robot to create baby robots   The Tech Bulletin

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The Nation
   
Ancient civilisation wiped out by comet   
The Nation
The island of Sardinia may be Plato's island of Atlantis, an expert claims. Writer and Atlantis expert Sergio Frau says the southern end of the Mediterranean isle resembles an underwater Pompeii, which may have been the inspiration for Plato's ...
Sardinia could have been Atlantis before comet triggered an enormous tidal wave   Daily Mail
The Lost City of Atlantis May Be Hiding in Plain Sight   Newser
Did a Comet Destroy Ancient Sardinia?   Ancient Origins

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Daily Times
   
Climate change may cause conflict, violence: study   
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD – Climate change presents substantial threats to physical and mental health, and may also create social instability, conflict and violence, a new study has revealed. The study by researchers from Columbia University and the University of ...

Study shows how climate change threatens human health   Click Green
Study Shows How Climate Change Threatens Health   Newsroom America
Climate change may cause battle, violence: Study   Bharat Press

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9news.com.au
   
Spectacular collision of galaxies captured on camera   
9news.com.au
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Professor Quentin Parker at the University of Hong Kong and Professor Albert Zijlstra at the University of Manchester, using the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia, according to a paper published by ...

Astronomers capture a stunning galaxy collision, the closest ever of its kind   Sydney Morning Herald
HKU scientists find new galaxy closest ever to earth   ecns
Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy collision   The Times
Financial Express   
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BBC News
   
Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'   
BBC News
Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world's first known flowering plant. Researchers studied more than 1,000 fossils of the Montsechia Vidalii species as part of the study. The ...
Prehistoric Fossil Found in Spain May Be Mythical 'First Flower'   NBCNews.com
'First flowers' may have 'bloomed' in water, not on land, fossils suggest   Los Angeles Times
Plant from 130 million years ago is among 'first flowers'   The Sun Daily
Newsweek   
Washington Post   
I4U News   
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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   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Livemint   
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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   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Scientific Computing   
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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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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 Facing Threat From Glacier Ice Loss: This Is How Bad The Situation Is   Tech Times
Wall Street Journal   
I4U News   
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