2014年9月19日 星期五

2014-09-20 Canada English Science

  Windsor Star   
They're everywhere, but can you see them?  Toronto Star
Question of the Week. I fertilized my lawn mid-June. Should I apply a fall fertilizer ? Fertilize with Golfgreen regular formula now and apply the fall formula in late October through November to winterize your lawn. As I think about this, I am blown away: the idea ...

Mark Cullen: Green File   Windsor Star (blog)
Dealing With Plant Blindness   CJAD

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  Manitoba Co-operator   
RCMP investigating after bees poisoned  Manitoba Co-operator
Piles of dead bees were reportedly two inches thick in front of the affected hives, with others spread over the whole bee yard. photo: Submitted. It's a sting being felt by beekeepers across province. And now the deliberate poisoning of hundreds of thousands of ...

Owner of poisoned bees convinced it was "targeted attack"   Winnipeg Free Press

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  Satellite Today   
MDA building $19.8M data system for European Space Agency  CanadianManufacturing.com
VANCOUVER—MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) says its British subsidiary has received a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) valued at about $19.8 million. The British Columbia-based space communications and information ...

MDA gets $19.8M contract to build data relay terminal for European Space Agency   Brandon Sun
MDA's UK Subsidiary Wins ESA Contract for ISS Component   Satellite Today
MDA to build satellite communications subsystem for ESA's Columbus module ...   CNNMoney

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For legume plants, a new route from shoot to root  Science Codex
A new study shows that legume plants regulate their symbiotic relationship with soil bacteria by using cytokinins—signaling molecules— that are transmitted through the plant structure from leaves into the roots to control the number of bacteria-holding ...


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  Businessweek   
Climate Crisis Is Every Working Person's Crisis  Huffington Post
In recent weeks, working people have taken to the streets to stand up for higher wages, protesting corporations that make big profits but pay poverty wages. This Sunday, thousands of us will be out in the streets again, this time to take our place in history by ...

100000 folks expected to turn out Sept. 21 for The People's Climate March   Science Recorder
People's Visioning organizes climate rally   Columbia Daily Tribune
User's Guide to the People's Climate March This Weekend   Bloomberg
Fox News   
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Times of India   
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  Auto World News   
Why chimps kill other chimps — US study uncovers main reason  CBC.ca
The mystery of why male chimps kill other adults has been solved, according to U.S. researchers. Scientists have long wondered why chimps, apart from humans, are among the very few animals who kill each other. Anthropologists have previously pointed to ...

Scientists study roots of combat among chimpanzees   The Courier-Journal
Jill Pruetz on Chimpanzees and Aggressive Behavior   Iowa Public Radio
Chimps May Look Cute, But Controversial New Study Says They're Natural-Born ...   Huffington Post
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Voice of America   
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  iStreet Research   
Rosetta gives us incredibly detailed images of a comet for the first time in history ...  National Post
Ten years ago the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft on a mission to meet a comet. That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It finally accomplished that goal earlier this month — getting into the comet's orbit. But it's not ...

Closest look at a picture of 67P Comet by Rosetta   iStreet Research

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  Phys.Org   
Penn research helps uncover mechanism behind solid-solid phase transitions  Eureka! Science News
Two solids made of the same elements but with different geometric arrangements of the atoms, or crystal phases, can produce materials with different properties. Coal and diamond offer a spectacular example of this effect. While it is well known that one ...

Study helps uncover mechanism behind solid-solid phase transitions   Phys.Org

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  The Guardian   
Why giant house spiders are friends, not a threat  MetroNews Canada
Despite looking like eight-legged crawling death, giant house spiders don't pose a threat to anyone — but they will start invading homes as the days start to grow colder and darker. The uninvited houseguest, Eratigena atrica, which can grow to the size of a ...

Top tips for keeping spiders out of your home   The Guardian
The spiders are coming - here are your questions answered   Bristol Post

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  Lexington Herald Leader   
Waystations help monarch butterflies on their long commute  Lexington Herald Leader
A monarch butterfly fed on the nectar of a Sullivant's milkweed, a prairie wildflower. Milkweed is the plant that monarch eggs and caterpillars need to survive. Recent Headlines. Waystations help monarch butterflies on their long commute 1 hour ago ...

How Land Management Is Affecting The Monarch Butterfly   Indiana Public Media
Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed to survive, but other insects also ...   Houston Chronicle
Quick 5: Local group hosting open house on Monarch butterfly   Leavenworth Times
Sun News Network   
Windsor Star (blog)   
White Mountain Independent   
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