2014年8月6日 星期三

2014-08-06 Uganda Science

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Rosetta Rendezvous With Comet, Measuring Happiness with Math, Lowered ...  Voice of America (blog)
Rosetta, launched back in March, 2004, spent over a decade traveling in space to pursue its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov/Gerasimenko. Both the Rosetta and its target comet are about 405 million kilometers from Earth and are located about half-way ...

Probe Makes Space History with Rendezvous with Comet   NDTV
It took 10 years but Euro space probe finally caught up with comet 250million ...   Scottish Daily Record
Comet chaser: Rosetta spacecraft runs down comet after 10-year pursuit   Christian Science Monitor
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Yoshiki Sasai, Japanese scientist at centre of stem cell scandal, found dead  CBC.ca
A senior Japanese scientist embroiled in a stem-cell research scandal died Tuesday in an apparent suicide, police said. Yoshiki Sasai, who supervised and co-authored stem-cell research papers that had to be retracted due to falsified contents, was found ...

STAP stem cell controversy ends in suicide for Japanese scientist   Los Angeles Times
Co-Author of Retracted Stem Cell Paper Commits Suicide   Boston.com
Japanese Researcher, an Author of a Discredited Stem Cell Study, Is Dead   New York Times
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Watch: SharkCam Shows Great White Attack in “Spectacular” Detail  National Geographic
The great white shark is great for a reason: It's a massive, powerful predator that ambushes its prey from below. Now, thanks to an underwater robot, we can see exactly what it looks like to be struck by these awesome animals—in high definition, no less.
Watch great white sharks hunt an underwater robot   Mother Nature Network (blog)
SharkCam Becomes Chew Toy: Great Whites Attack, Bully and Mug Underwater ...   Headlines & Global News
Great White Shark Captured on Camera Attacking Research Robot (Video)   Newsmax.com
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Dutch firm Fugro to lead search for MH370 off Australia  Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Dutch engineering firm Fugro will lead the search of the Indian Ocean seafloor where missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is believed to have crashed, hoping to unlock the greatest mystery in modern aviation. Australia on Wednesday ...

Dutch Contractor To Begin New Search for Missing Malaysian Flight MH370   NBCNews.com
Two massive vessels are about to begin searching the sea floor for Malaysia ...   Washington Post
Search for MH370 enlists new team to comb 60000 square kilometres at the ...   National Post
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The Mars Curiosity Rover celebrates its second landing anniversary  Washington Post
It's been two years since NASA's latest roving laboratory touched down in the Gale Crater of Mars. Its many, many parents are presumably as proud as they were when it first landed: Happy #2YearsOnMars from my team @NASAJPL. May you always ...

Mars: It's All About the Life   Huffington Post
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover completes 2 yrs on red planet   Business Standard
2nd anniversary of Mars rover landing celebrated   Chron.com
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Global warming is man-made phenomenon: Singh  indiablooms
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IBNS) Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, MoS in Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Space & Atomic Energy Jitendra Singh on Wednesday ...

NASA Climate Scientist Explains 15-Year 'Global Warming Hiatus'   CBS Local
Global warming has become normal climate to most   Hartford Courant
For most of us, global warming has become 'normal' climate   Reuters Africa

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Butterflies can change colour quickly through evolution  Wired.co.uk
Gilles San Martin - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The evolution of colours in nature is still a mysterious process, but researchers from Yale University have helped shed light on the subject ...

Wing Colour of Butterfly Changed from Brown to Violet through Selective Breeding   Austrian Tribune
Butterflies are free to change colors   R & D Magazine
Butterfly Changes from Drab Brown to Brilliant Blue After Scientists Influence Its ...   Science World Report
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Why Is There So Much Fraud in Stem Cell Research?  Slate Magazine
Haruko Obokata. Haruko Obokata, a researcher at Riken in Japan, wipes away tears during a press conference in Osaka on April 9, 2014. She has been found guilty of falsifying data in papers she wrote about a simple new method for creating stem cells.
Japanese Stem-Cell Scientist Commits Suicide   Chinatopix
Japanese researcher's death highlights problems in dealing with scientific ...   The Conversation
Scandal-hit Japanese stem cell scientist commits suicide   Tech Times
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African negotiators urge U.S. leadership for U.N. climate deal  TODAYonline
Leaders from nearly 50 African countries listen as U.S. President Obama delivers opening remarks to the first session of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the U.S. State Department in Washington. Photo: Reuters. mail · print. View all comments. Tweet.

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Scientists develop a tomato plant that can grow all night  Los Angeles Times
A tomato plant showing some injury symptoms (yellow spots on the leaves) as a result of growing under continuous light. A tomato plant showing some injury symptoms (yellow spots on the leaves) as a result of growing under continuous light. (Aaron I.
Light gene boosts tomato yields by a fifth   FreshPlaza

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