Thursday, February 28, 2013

Daily News: Reuters Science News Headlines - Seals take scientists to Antarctic's ocean floor

Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:14 PM PST

Seals take scientists to Antarctic's ocean floor 
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:14 PM PST
Handout photo of a Southern Ocean elephant seal wearing a sensor on its head as it sleeps on an island in the Southern Ocean, AntarcticaSYDNEY (Reuters) - Elephant seals wearing head sensors and swimming deep beneath Antarctic ice have helped scientists better understand how the ocean's coldest, deepest waters are formed, providing vital clues to understanding its role in the world's climate. The tagged seals, along with sophisticated satellite data and moorings in ocean canyons, all played a role in providing data from the extreme Antarctic environment, where observations are very rare and ships could not go, said researchers at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystem CRC in Tasmania. ...
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Canada to fund non-nuclear sources for medical isotopes 
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 11:04 AM PST
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada expects to be able to make enough medical isotopes through non-nuclear methods by 2016 to replace those now produced by an aging reactor and better assure an uninterrupted supply for medical imaging, a government minister said on Thursday. To that end, the federal government will fund three research institutes developing cyclotron and linear accelerator technologies for production of isotopes on a commercial scale, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said. ...
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"Mind melds" move from science fiction to science in rats 
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:52 AM PST
A split screen image shows an encoder rat in Natal, Brazil and decoder rat in a lab at Duke University, North Carolina.NEW YORK (Reuters) - The scientists call it a "brain link," and it is the closest anyone has gotten to a real-life "mind meld": the thoughts of a rat romping around a lab in Brazil were captured by electronic sensors and sent via Internet to the brain of a rat in the United States. The result: the second rat received the thoughts of the first, mimicking its behavior, researchers reported on Thursday in Scientific Reports, a journal of the Nature Publishing Group. ...
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China's next manned space mission to launch this summer 
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 12:04 AM PST
Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang wave during a departure ceremony at Jiuquan Satellite Launch CenterBEIJING (Reuters) - China's next manned space mission will launch sometime between June and August, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, state media said on Thursday, the latest part of an ambitious plan to build a space station. The Shenzhou 10 and its crew will launch from a remote site in the Gobi desert and then link up with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Chinese astronauts carried out a manned docking with the module for the first time last June. ...
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