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2015-01-18 South Africa Science


Nanotechnology application in fabric could reduce the need for heating   
The New Age Online
A metallic textile could be so efficient at keeping us warm it may banish the need for indoor heating entirely -- or significantly reduce it, according to new research out of Stanford University in the US. Embedded with metallic nanowires, the fabric keeps a ...


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Independent Online
   
Polar bears migrate to icier islands   
Independent Online
Juneau – Some polar bear clusters have slowly moved to islands north of Canada, which are retaining the Arctic ice for longer, according to a new scientific study that predicts the migration, linked to climate change, would continue. The study as based on ...

Polar bears migrate north as rising temperatures hasten Arctic ice melt   The Guardian
Study: Polar bears seek new habitats further north   PBS NewsHour
Polar bears moving northward because it's getting too warm where they are   Market Business News
Western Daily Press   
West Texas News   
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Island Crisis News
   
NASA spots newborn Tropical Storm Chedza creating landfall   
Union Gazette
Tropical Storm Chedza rapidly intensified from a tropical low pressure area to a tropical storm through the morning hours on January 16 near Madagascar's southwestern coast. NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured an image of the newborn ...

Two cyclones flare up in the southern Indian Ocean, one particularly intense ...   Washington Post (blog)
NASA spots newborn Tropical Storm Chedza making landfall   Phys.Org
Triple Threat of Tropical Trouble over Indian and Pacific Oceans   WTXL ABC 27
EurekAlert (press release)   
Island Crisis News   
AllAfrica.com   
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Haaretz
   
Missing Mars space probe finally located on red planet   
Haaretz
Beagle 2 spacecraft went AWOL on Christmas Day, 2003, when it was supposed to land on Mars and start transmitting data back to Earth. By The Associated Press | Jan. 18, 2015 | 1:49 AM. submit to reddit. A file handout image released by the European ...

Long-lost lander rediscovered on Mars   The Space Reporter
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter releases photos of UK's Beagle 2 Mars ...   Full-Time Whistle
Beagle 2: probe find rewrites history and vindicates Colin Pillinger   Telegraph.co.uk
Science Times   
The New Age Online   
Los Angeles Times   
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RT
   
NASA telescope spies 3 new potentially habitable (and close) planets   
RT
NASA's Kepler telescope has its eye on three new potentially habitable planets. At a distance of 150 light years, the three “lukewarm” bodies are among the closest candidates for habitable life. The star they orbit is known m as EPIC201367065. It's an M-class ...

Kepler finds closest lukewarm Earth-like planet yet   The Space Reporter
Hawaii Scientists discover three-planet system using Kepler Space Telescope   Full-Time Whistle
Thin atmosphere is enough to keep many exoplanets spinning   Ars Technica
National Monitor   
USA TODAY   
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Daily Times
   
It's official! 2014 really was the hottest year on record   
Daily Times
Global temperatures last year were the highest since records began in 1880, US scientists claim, Daily Mail reports. Temperatures across the world averaged 0.8°C above 20th century averages - making 2014 the warmest year in records dating back 134 ...

It's official: 2014 was the hottest year   Science Recorder
NASA: 2014 Was Warmest Year On Record   CBS Local
NASA, NOAA officially announced 2014 as the hottest year ever   Frontline Desk
Geek Infinite   
Science Times   
WDTV   
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Tech Times
   
SpaceX releases video of rocket crash-landing on ocean barge   
SFGate
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating ocean barge after a launch — an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. The video released Friday shows the 14-story rocket ...

The 'No Cigar' Moment: SpaceX Releases Falcon 9 Crash Landing on Ocean ...   Tech Times
Elon Musk video of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crash landing   BBC News
Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet   Businessweek
The Register   
Wall Street Journal   
PC Magazine   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Oceans facing wildlife Armageddon: 'We are falling off a mass extinction cliff - but ...   
Full-Time Whistle
Humans are plundering the oceans with seafloor mining, shrimp farms, satellite-guided giant-scale sea-fishing with a gold-rush-like fervor that threatens to destroy much of its wildlife in the same way so many land animals became extinct, a new study warns.
Ocean life mass extinction: Humans destroying life in water? 500 extinct species   Examiner.com
Ocean life faces mass extinction   CNBC
Sixth Extinction Proves Slower at Sea   Scientific American
SportAct   
One Green Planet   
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