2015年5月24日 星期日

2015-05-25 Uganda Science


Grand Forks Herald
   
Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement   
Grand Forks Herald
Patient Erik Sorto takes a drink in this handout photo taken April 2015, provided by Lance Hayashida/Caltech. REUTERS/Spencer Kellis and Christian Klaes, Caltech/Handout via Reuters. Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement.
Paralysed man Erik Sorto gets to hold beer thanks to robotic arm and 'mind control'   Metro
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Lets Paralyzed Man Drink A Beer On His Own   Huffington Post
New neural implant reads a person's intentions to control robotic arm   Ars Technica (blog)
New Zealand Herald   
gulfnews.com   
Washington Post   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
It's finally 2015 - man breaks hoverboard record   
Stuff.co.nz
Catalin Alexandru Duru becomes the first person ever to break the Guinness World Records Title for the Farthest journey by hoverboard. It's finally 2015! This is the year that Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future II; this is, for real, the future. Hence ...

Canadian Catalin Duru breaks world record for furthest hoverboard flight   BBC News
Catalin Alexandru Duru's hoverboard enters Guinness World Records for ...   Metro
Canadian sets record for farthest flight by hoverboard   Toronto Sun
CTV News   
CBC.ca   
TVNZ   
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The News Ledge
   
This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen   
The News Ledge
More than 50 years ago, NaSt1 was discovered by Jason Nassau and Charles Stephenson and classified as a Wolf-Rayet star. 50 years later, NaSt1 is surprising astronomers and is getting a nickname – 'Nasty 1.' You're probably wondering what is a ...

Hubble discovers BL**DY NASTY cannibal star 3000 light-years away from Earth   Inferse
Rare “Naked” Star has Scientists Awed   Empire State Tribune
This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen - The News ...   Gazette Herald
National Monitor   
The Indian Express   
The Week Magazine   
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Independent Online
   
Genome editing: what the future holds   
Independent Online
Washington - Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20 000 genes that encode everything from eye colour to cancer risk. Imagine if those genetic instructions could be tweaked at will — with a snip here and a ...

Ethics of gene-editing technology debated   The Japan Times
Newsweek: CRISPR gene editing could 'save world from hunger' if anti-GMO ...   Genetic Literacy Project
MIT Team Develops CRISPR-Based 'Kill Switch' for GMOs   GenomeWeb
BioPharma-Reporter.com   
Health24   
WBUR   
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Design & Trend
   
Iconic Serengeti National Park Is Disappearing   
Design & Trend
(Photo : Getty Images/Frances M. Ginter) The iconic Serengeti National Park is disappearing as it succumbs to the effects of human activities and climate change. The Serengeti National Park has long been one of the world's most iconic ecosystems, but new ...

Sixty years down the lane, Serengeti Park contract finally lands home   Daily News
Serengeti could disappear under increasing pressures from climate and humans   International Business Times UK
Iconic Serengeti Park is Disappearing   Nature World News
Phys.Org   
EurekAlert (press release)   
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insideHPC
   
Hunting Supernovas with Supercomputers   
insideHPC
Simulation of the expanding debris from a supernova explosion (shown in red) running over and shredding a nearby star (shown in blue). Caltech researchers are using NERSC supercomputers to search for newly born supernovas. The details of their ...

Researchers continue to study mystifying realms of Supernova   NYC Today
'Iron bullets' emitted by exploding stars may have been source of Earth's iron core   News Tonight Africa

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SlashGear
   
'Deep Web' search to help decode space data   
Business Standard
When you do a simple internet search on a topic, the results that appear are not the whole story. Most of the information is buried in the "Deep Web" in the mysterious online world. Now, NASA researchers have joined the US Defense Advanced Research ...

NASA has big plans for DARPA's scary “Deep Web”   SlashGear

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Sacramento Bee
   
Obama's bee report is a bit of a buzzkill   
Sacramento Bee
Billions of dollars and a third of the nation's food supply are at stake. So it's only right that the Obama administration is taking up the plight of the honeybee, a linchpin of our food system. The only thing wrong is that the plan doesn't go far enough. In its report ...

Obama proposes more land to feed bees   Fond du Lac Reporter
Editorial: Plan Bee: Alarming loss of colonies is spurring federal action   Middletown Press
Plan Bee: Alarming loss of colonies is spurring federal action   Bristol Press

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Climate Change Dangerous to Liberia   
The New Dawn Liberia
Authorities of the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA have disclosed here that Liberia lacks climate change experts. As a result, according to the EPA, the country continues to experience more rainfall- even in the dry season. The EPA indicated that ...

Letter, 5/24: The danger of climate change   Lincoln Journal Star

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