2015年3月11日 星期三

2015-03-12 Canada English Science


Techie News
   
Scientists unlock mystery of environment's control on animal sizes   
Techie News
Scientists at McGill University have managed to unravel the mystery of how an animal's growth is controlled by environment factors also known as epigenetic factors. A team led by Professors Moshe Szyf and Ehab Abouheif, from the McGill's Departments of ...

Scientists turn ant clones into dwarfs or giants using epigenetics   CBC.ca
Scientists show how nature controls animal sizes   CTV News

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Quartz
   
Are electric cars really good for the environment? Depends on how they are ...   
OCRegister
The Nissan Leaf may run on electricity, but how beneficial that is for the environment depends on how the electricity is generated. Countries need to cut the carbon intensity of their electric power supply if we want to make electric transportation systems an ...

Electric cars are still not good for the climate   Quartz
Former Liberal MP appointed Ontario climate change adviser   CTV News
Special Advisor and Climate Action Group   Government of Ontario News
The Weather Network   
580 CFRA Radio   
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McGill Reporter
   
Acting on climate change: Solutions from Canadian scholars   
McGill Reporter
“The mobilization of Canadian voters is essential to give courage to politicians and push for larger-scale, meaningful political responses to climate change,” says Catherine Potvin, Canada Research Chair Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forests.
OFA president appointed to Ontario's Climate Action Group   BetterFarming.com
Provincial climate change policy public discussion tour makes stop in Mississauga   Mississauga
Scale and Focus of Climate Litigation Outside of United States   New York Law Journal (registration)
Edmonton Journal   
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CBC.ca
   
Shroud of Turin replica of Jesus burial cloth on display in Windsor   
CBC.ca
The controversial Shroud of Turin is the subject of a week-long exhibit opening at a Catholic church in Windsor Wednesday. A replica of the reputed burial cloth of Jesus is the centrepiece of the display at Most Precious Blood Church on Meldrum Road.
CSI-style look at Shroud of Turin coming to Royersford's Sacred Heart   The Phoenix
Orthodox Jew who examined Shroud of Turin to give Windsor lectures   Windsor Star (blog)

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Globalnews.ca
   
2 Russians, 1 American return from 6 months aboard ISS   
CTV News
MOSCOW - A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts' nearly six months aboard the International Space Station. The capsule carried Russians Alexander Samokutayev and Elena ...

2 Russians, 1 American return from 6 months on space station   BlackburnNews.com

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E Canada Now
   
The Science of Indian Food   
E Canada Now
Indian Food1 Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan have analyzed over 2,000 recipes to learn why Indian food tastes so good. It is indeed very different from Western food. 200 ingredients are used in Indian food, out of the 381 ...

Why is Indian food so enjoyable?   The American Bazaar
Indian scientists find why Indian food tastes so dang good   Canada News
Why does Indian food taste so good?   Independent Online
Huffington Post   
Customs Today Newspaper   
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The Salinas Californian
   
Winners named in this year's York County Science and Engineering Fair   
York Daily Record/Sunday News
The York County Science and Engineering Fair announced this year's winners Wednesday evening at an award ceremony in the Pullo Center at Penn State York. The Grand Champion Project. Senior winners were Alec Gayrama, an 11th grade student at ...

Burlington students competing at regional science fair   InsideHalton.com
Henry County science fair winners head to state   NeighborNewspapers.com
Monterey Co. science fair winners to be shown Sunday   The Salinas Californian
Great Falls Tribune   
Southeast Missourian   
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The New Yorker
   
Are we in a human epoch and if so, when did it begin?   
National Monitor
According to new research, the dawn of the human influenced geological age may have begun with a rapid drop in greenhouse gasses. Anthropocene is a proposed geologic chronological term for an epoch that begins when human activities have had a ...

New study pegs the beginning of the Anthropocene in 1610   SMN Weekly
Mass Deaths in Americas Start New CO2 Epoch   Scientific American
'Anthropocene' epoch for Earth etches human impacts in stone   Los Angeles Times
The Guardian   
Forbes   
Headlines & Global News   
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Daily Mail
   
Images reveal new volcanic land mass near Tonga that could soon disappear   
Daily Mail
Beautiful images have emerged of a new island that has formed off the coast of Tonga - although scientists say it could soon disappear. The photographs were taken by three men who climbed to the peak of the land mass 40 miles (65 km) northwest of the ...

See extraordinary first pictures of newly-formed island discovered in the Pacific ...   mirror.co.uk
Beautiful Pictures Show Newly Created Volcanic Island Off Tonga   Huffington Post UK
New island in the Pacific will soon disappear   Telegraph.co.uk
ABC Online   
MINA   
TravelPulse   
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Bradford Times
   
These award-winning science pictures are mesmerizing   
Bradford Times
Photographs have sure come a long way. Long gone are the days of pointing, shooting and hoping for the best. This year's Wellcome Image Awards finalists take photography to a whole new level using science imaging techniques. The results are fascinating.

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