2015年1月26日 星期一

2015-01-27 Canada English Science


Full-Time Whistle
   
Keep your eyes on the sky for asteroid appearance   
CTV News
Amateur astronomers will have the opportunity to witness a rare cosmic event on Monday night as an asteroid approximately three times the size of McMahon Stadium will pass close to Earth. Given its proximity to our planet, asteroid number 2004BL86 will be ...

Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth   The Nation
Mountain-sized asteroid that flew past earth had own moon   Business Standard
asteroid comes unusually close to Earth   Stuff.co.nz
Discovery News   
Forbes   
Full-Time Whistle   
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KelownaNow
   
Vancouver Aquarium staff rescue sea lion from ocean debris   
The Globe and Mail
A Steller sea lion in danger of death after it became entangled in ocean debris was rescued by a team from the Vancouver Aquarium on Monday, but two others are still in trouble. The rescue team spotted the three animals in Fanny Bay a few weeks ago amid ...

Vancouver Aquarium Rescues Tangled Sea Lions   KelownaNow

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Dark Matter marries joyous work of theatre with quantum physics   
The Province
Kate McIntosh says Dark Matter is her favourite theatrical creation. The 2010 work makes its local première at this year's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. The Belgium-based, New Zealand-born and trained dancer/conceptual performance artist ...


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TIME
   
This is how we ended up on the brink of doomsday   
Chron.com
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the world is closer to a human-caused doomsday. The group recently moved the Doomsday Clock three minutes closer to midnight. It cited nuclear concerns and continued global warming trends as the reason for the ...

Countdown to catastrophe: Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight   Toronto Sun
Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight   Scientific American
Scientists Moved Doomsday Clock Closer to Midnight   Daily Science Journal
The Star Online   
U-T San Diego   
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Gizmag
   
Scientists develop biological safety lock for containment of modified organisms   
Gizmag
Researchers have developed E. coli bacteria that can't survive without specially-supplied synthetic amino acids (Image: Shutterstock). It's been the premise of many a sci-fi/horror movie ... a genetically-modified organism is created in the lab to help the human ...

Scientists at Harvard and Yale create 'Jurassic Park' GMOs, designed for safety   Examiner.com
Scientists Continue To Press Forth to Develop and Research GMOs   Pioneer News
Harvard, Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOs safer   E Canada Now
The Hankyoreh   
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Digital Journal
   
Finding new ways to turn starch into biofuel   
Digital Journal
A new class of enzymes can degrade previously resistant forms of starch, according to a new study. The resultant product is a source of material for making biofuels. Starch is a polysaccharide found in food and plants. Finding ways to effectively break down all ...

Scientists shed new light on biomass breakdown   R & D Magazine

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New York Times
   
Hoping to Set Sail on Sunlight   
New York Times
To sail on winds of sunlight has long been a dream of rocket scientists. The Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes space exploration, announced Monday that it would send the first of two small craft testing the technology of solar sails into orbit this May, ...

LightSail Spacecraft to Sail on Sunlight by Catching and Reflecting Photons   Tech Times
Privately-funded Solar Sail Prepared For Launch   Full-Time Whistle
Bill Nye's Tiny Orbital Craft Will Sail On Sunlight   Fast Company

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Reuters
   
Commercial space rides for US astronauts to save millions: NASA   
Reuters
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station successfully capture the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the robotic arm as the station travels over the Mediterranean Sea at 05:54 EST (10:45 GMT) January 12, 2015. Credit: Reuters/NASA TV/Handout via ...

NASA greenlights SpaceX and Boeing to carry crew to ISS in 2017   The Register
21st century space race is on   San Antonio Express-News
NASA and partners confirm: Astronauts to take part in commercial launches in ...   SpaceFlight Insider
CNBC   
Washington Times   
Xinhua   
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ScienceBlog.com
   
Entanglement on a chip: Breakthrough promises secure communications and ...   
(e) Science News
Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts, engineers have created a new micro-ring that entangles individual particles of light, an important first step in a whole host of new technologies. Entanglement -- the instantaneous connection between ...

Entanglement on a chip   R & D Magazine
Entangled Photons Emitted from Silicon Microring   Photonics.com

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Canada News
   
A Canadian photographer captures images of a whale 'poopnado'   
KERA News
Canadian underwater photographer Keri Wilk was diving off the coast of Dominica last March when a sperm whale approached him and his fellow divers. What happened next came as shock to Wilk. He says the whale stopped “and unleashed what's been ...

Canadian diver caught in 'poonado'   St. Thomas Times-Journal

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