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2015-02-05 South Africa Science


The Independent
   
Lewis Pugh to undertake 'world's most dangerous swim' in Antarctic for ...   
The Independent
A man nicknamed the human polar bear for being the first person to ever swim to the North Pole is about to break his own world record with five consecutive one kilometre swims in the Antarctic. Lewis Pugh will be swimming in waters expected to be as cold ...

Pugh to push icy boundaries to save 'Polar Garden of Eden'   News24
This man is taking on the world's 'most dangerous swims' - in his Speedos   Irish Examiner
Man faces 'most dangerous swims'   Belfast Telegraph

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News Tonight Africa
   
Scientists Discover Technique to unboil eggs   
News Tonight Africa
A group of scientists have discovered how to unboil an egg by reverting proteins back to their original state. Eggs are mainly made up of proteins that form long chains of amino acids, which themselves are primarily chains of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and ...

Unboiling the Mystery: UC Irvine Researchers Discuss New Discovery of ...   Full-Time Whistle
The Antigastronomist—Unboiling an Egg   Science Times
Unboiling Eggs: Cracking The Protein Folding Problem   Asian Scientist Magazine
PerfScience   
Scientific American   
The Manitoban   
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E&T magazine
   
Energy sector leads field in cutting carbon footprint   
E&T magazine
The UK's greenhouse gas emissions dropped in 2013 by 2.4 per cent, official figures have revealed, with the country's energy sector contributing the most to the reduction. The energy sector, responsible for 33 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions ...

Scientists Seeking to Save World Find Best Technology Is Trees   BizNews
Climate Change Newsletter - Issue 7   Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

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SpaceFlight Insider
   
Mission to Europa included in proposed NASA budget   
SpaceFlight Insider
A solar-powered spacecraft could fly by Europa many times to achieve similar science return from an orbital mission, but avoid prolonged exposure to the harshest radiation environment around the moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Joe Latrell.
How to View Jupiter -Updated   WHSV
NASA's Europa Mission to Hunt Down Life's Niches   Discovery News
NASA plans mission to Jupiter's extraordinary moon Europa   CNET
Wall Street Journal   
PC Magazine   
The Guardian   
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Mirror Daily
   
Validation of Darwin's Theory; Bacteria That Hasn't Evolved in 2 Billion Years   
Mirror Daily
Evolution is a way of life and living things regularly evolve and change to adapt to the changing environment. However, having said that there are some things which never change even after 2 billion years. An international team of researchers have unearthed ...

Discovery of Bacteria That Hasn't Evolved in 2 Billion Years Is New Validation of ...   ABC News
The mysterious 2 billion-year-old creature that would make Darwin smile   Washington Post
By not evolving, deep sea microbes may prove Darwin right   Los Angeles Times
Christian Science Monitor   
Live Science   
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Irish Independent
   
Giant guinea pig had bite like a tiger, scientists learn   
Irish Independent
A 'guinea pig' the size of a buffalo that lived three million years ago had a bite as strong as a tiger's, scientists have learned. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Experts believe it may have used its giant rodent teeth ...

Largest known rodent wielded its enormous teeth like tusks   Los Angeles Times
Humongous prehistoric rodent had foot-long tusks   Christian Science Monitor
Largest Ever Rodent Used Foot-Long Teeth Like Tusks   Design & Trend
SMN Weekly   
SlashGear   
Tech Times   
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ABC Science Online
   
Slippery zone found under tectonic plate   
ABC Science Online
Earth science A surprise discovery has shown scientists how Earth's tectonic plates slide across the top of the planet's mantle. Researchers were using explosives to collect seismic data on the plate boundary, 15 to 30 kilometres below New Zealand's ...

Kiwi scientists reveal what happens beneath Earth's tectonic plates   New Zealand Herald
Dynamite blast opens tectonic plate to Vic researchers   Stuff.co.nz
What lies beneath? Kiwi scientists make tectonic plate breakthrough   TVNZ
NEWS.com.au   
Live Science   
Smithsonian   
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Scientific American
   
Gravitational Waves Discovery Now Officially Dead   
Scientific American
The result had hinged on the discovery of a curlicue pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, the Big Bang's relic radiation. Credit: ESA/Planck Collab. M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS, Univ. Paris-XI. A team of astronomers that last year ...

Scientists abandon highly publicized claim about cosmic discovery; new results ...   Fox News
Cosmic inflation's 'smoking gun' goes up in smoke   New Scientist
Gravitational waves from early universe remain elusive   Business Standard
Clarksville Online   
Phys.Org   
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ExtremeTech
   
Wonder material Silicene is the key to super-fast computing   
The Hoops News
Super-fast computing might be more plausible than previously thought, now that researchers from the University of Texas have revealed that they have created a one-atom-thin silicon transistor. Researchers noted that silicon has some great properties as far ...

Transistor Made From Silicene Could Lead To Super Fast Computer Chips   Design & Trend
New Material Promises Faster Computer Chips   Voice of America
Silicene makes stable FET   nanotechweb.org
Nature World News   
Immortal News   
University of Texas at Austin News   
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BBC News
   
Birds take it in turns to lead, say scientists   
BBC News
Scientists have worked out how flocking birds solve what they have termed the "social dilemma" of who leads the flock. The researchers, from the UK, Germany and Austria, studied the northern bald ibis, tracking how they - like so many large birds - fly in a V ...

Birds Take Equal Turns Leading The Flying V-Formation   Immortal News
Birds Swap Leading Role in V-Formation Every Few Seconds, Study Shows   The Utah People's Post
Birds Take Turns Leading a V-Formation to Save Energy During Migration   Chinatopix
WallStreet OTC   
Full-Time Whistle   
Capital OTC   
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