NEWS.com.au - GJ 667C isn't as hot as the sun, but is thought to be close enough to absorb as much incoming light and energy as Earth. Picture: AFP Source: AFP INTERNATIONAL astronomers say they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar ... |
ABC Online - Dr David Bowman has floated the idea of introducing elephants to control gamba grass. [ABC] Australia could introduce large herbivores such as elephants as part of a radical biological solution to the problem of bushfires and invasive species, ... |
ABC Science Online - Tim Cooper coring a massive Porites coral at the Rowley Shoals in Western Australia.(Source: Timothy Fraser Cooper) Warming growth As coral growth rates decline around the world due to increases in temperature and atmospheric CO2, some reefs off the ... |
Science AAAS - by Daniel Strain on 1 February 2012, 1:00 PM | 0 Comments Eight-legged architect. When tugged, individual threads on this spider web, the creation of a wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi), snap to save the whole. |
Radio Australia - Scientists have found that the humble sea cucumber can play an important role in protecting coral reefs from the impacts of climate change. |
Zee News - Sydney: Long-term climate change has often destabilized civilizations through food shortages, hunger, infectious disease and unrest, a study reveals. |
NEWS.com.au - The 4m Athlete is in peak physical condition weighing in at 2267kg. Picture: NASA Source: NASA Athlete's wheels double as feet when they lock in position to allow it to climb over rocky terrain. |
BBC News - By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News A huge crustacean has been found lurking 7km down in the waters off the coast of New Zealand. |
CNET - by Dara Kerr February 1, 2012 6:06 PM PST Follow @darakerr The images were captured by a video camera on one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecrafts on January 19. |
Sydney Morning Herald - The interior of a Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber. Photo: University of Oxford Scientists in the US have created the world's first atomic X-ray laser. |
Daily Mail - By Julian Gavaghan This is the out-of-this world photograph of the beauty of an amazing comet streaking across the cosmos. Caught on camera over a swamp in Australia the stunning image shows the trail of the Comet Lovejoy as it passed close to Earth. |
ABC Online - ELEANOR HALL: Sixteen scientists have moved to ramp up scepticism over climate change with a weekend opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. |
DigitalJournal.com - By JohnThomas Didymus By JohnThomas Didymus. Adelaide - Thirty-thousand-year-old late Pleistocene bison bones discovered in permafrost at a Canadian goldmine have provided scientists the opportunity to establish means for determining how animals adapt ... |
Washington Post (blog) - By Elizabeth Flock If you worry about the domestic use of drones, this video may give you nightmares. Since at least 2010, researchers at GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have been working with nano quadrotors, managing to get them to fly ... |
iTWire - The US space agency NASA announced the release of its first multi-player online game Space Race Blastoff on Monday, January 30, 2012. |
Register - The latest data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe has found a curious disparity in the distribution of some of the key elements of our solar system, notably why there is so much oxygen in it. |
