2014年10月2日 星期四

2014-10-03 India Science

  Science AAAS   
52-million-year-old beetle fossil discovered in Gujarat  Business Standard
In a Jurassic Park-like discovery, scientists have chanced upon a 52-million-year-old amber encased fossil of a beetle, which thrived in ant colonies, from Gujarat providing oldest known example of social parasitism among insects, scientists here claimed ...

52-Million-Year-Old 'Ant-Loving' Beetle Caught in Amber   Yahoo News UK
Photo gallery: The oldest known insect parasite   Science AAAS
52-million-year-old amber preserves 'ant-loving' beetle   Science Codex
Business Insider Australia   
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World's oceans get a lousy grade for health  Futurity: Research News
The northwestern Pacific Ocean is the least healthy of the world's oceans and the western Indian Ocean and eastern central Atlantic are the healthiest, according to a new assessment that gives the overall health of the Earth's oceans a barely passing grade of ...

State high seas get thumbs up   The Asian Age
Rating the planet's oceans   R & D Magazine

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  ANINEWS   
Meet the 14 year old who's smarter than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and ...  The Standard Digital News
Worcester, UK: Paulius Zabotkiene has more brain power than legendary boffins like Hawking, Einstein and billionaire Bill Gates according to his Mensa test. A 14-year-old boy has scored an incredible 162 on an IQ test - higher than Stephen Hawking, Albert ...

Meet the teen genius who's smarter than Einstein   ABP News

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  Science World Report   
Newly Discovered Ants in Brazil Copy Other Ants to Survive  Chinatopix
The upright pooture of the C. Ampla Ant (left )is being copied by Mirror Ant Turtle (right) to easily steal food from them. share on facebook. share on twitter. A new study published in The American Naturalist featured a new breed of Brazilian ants that can mimic ...

Newly discovered deviant ant species!   Northern Voices Online
Nature collides with James Bond: Newly discovered ant species hides in plain ...   Eureka! Science News
New Ant Species Hides in Plain Sight Like a Spy   Discovery News

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  Daily Mail   
New material that steals oxygen from air may have medical uses  Pune Mirror
The crystal change colour with oxygen. They are black when they are saturated with oxygen and pink when the oxygen has been released again. RELATED. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that ...

Crystal invented that can store, release, and replenish oxygen on command   Geek
'Wonder material' sucks oxygen out of room and could help us breathe ...   Daily Mail
New Material Can Adsorb and Release Oxygen   Chinatopix
ScienceAlert   
The Asian Age   
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  ABC News   
Moon's hidden valleys revealed, challenges conventions about its evolution  Times of India
LONDON: Scientists have identified a huge rectangular feature on the Moon - 2,500km-wide that is believed to be the remains of old rift valleys that later were filled with lava. This discovery of rift valleys for the first time on the moon challenges conventional ...

Lunar Lava Left 'Strikingly Geometric' Shapes on Moon's Surface   Scientific American
The Mystery Behind Moon's Strange Shapes   ABC News
Man on the moon formed by volcanic activity, not asteroid impacts   Examiner.com
ValueWalk   
Tech Times   
ExtremeTech   
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  Fox News   
Rare evolutionary twist morphed dino arms into bird wings  Fox News
The ulnare bone (labeled ue) forms and vanishes during the development of a chicken embryo. (Vargas, et al. PLOS Biology.) When dinosaurs evolved into birds, they had to adapt their arms into wings in order to take flight, a process that altered their skeletal ...

How do you get from dinosaur arms to bird wings? It's all in the wrist. (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Fossil Bones Reveal How Dinosaur Arms Evolved into Bird Wings   Science World Report
Dinosaur Arms to Bird Wings: It's All in the Wrist   Discovery News
Nature World News   
Tech Times   
International Business Times   
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  Press & Sun-Bulletin   
Rare 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse in New Zealand next week  TVNZ
The moon will mysteriously vanish from New Zealand's night sky for one hour next Wednesday night. The rare terrestrial event known as a lunar eclipse will not occur again until 2018. Maximum eclipse will occur at 11.55pm when the moon is high in the sky.
Lunar eclipse visible early morning Wednesday, Oct. 8.   Bellingham Herald
Catch a lunar eclipse at moon set   NEagle
Nightowls will get a glimpse at the lunar eclipse next week   660 News
Huffington Post   
Daily News & Analysis   
Colorado Springs Gazette   
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  Daily Mail   
Atmosphere in Titan choked with gigantic polar clouds of hydrogen cyanide  Times of India
LONDON: The atmosphere in Titan, the largest moon of Saturn is choked with gigantic polar clouds of hydrogen cyanide, roughly four times the area of the UK. Scientists from Britain's University of Bristol, Leiden Observatory and the Netherlands Institute for ...

Researchers find cyanide clouds four times the size of Britain on Saturn's biggest ...   Daily Mail
Giant cold, toxic cloud hangs over Saturn's largest moon 'Titan'   Zee News
Yikes! This cloud on Saturn's moon Titan is made of icy poison   Los Angeles Times
News24   
Firstpost   
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  Zee News   
Two new Jupiter-sized planets discovered orbiting Twin stars  Zee News
London: Astronomers have spotted two new Jupiter-sized planets, with each orbiting one star of a binary-star system. Many stars are part of binary systems, which are Twin stars formed from the same gas cloud. For the first time, research at Keele University ...

Astronomers discover two new planets orbiting twin stars   T4 Magazine
'Cousin' planets discovered around Twin stars   Big News Network.com
Keele University astronomers discover rare 'cousin' planets beyond our solar ...   Stoke Sentinel
World Science   
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