en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-02-17 South Africa Science

Watch a full day on Pluto-Charon
iAfrica.com
An artist's rendering of NASA's New Horizons space probe approaching Pluto and Charon. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. NASA's New Horizons space probe has managed to capture a time-lapse ...

New Horizons time-lapse shows a full day on Pluto and Charon   Gizmag
The View from New Horizons: A Full Day on Pluto-Charon   Space Daily
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft targets Pluto & its moons from 126m miles away   Customs Today Newspaper
SMN Weekly
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Spirit of Lima Transforms Into Spirit of Geneva En Route to December Climate ...
AllAfrica.com
Geneva — Nations concluded the Geneva Climate Change Talks by successfully preparing the formal negotiating text for the 2015 agreement. A key milestone towards a new, universal agreement on climate change was reached in Geneva following seven ...

Paris talks seek cap on emissions of airline, shipping firms   TODAYonline
Climate talks draw praise, but herald a hard slog ahead   Business Spectator
Negotiators agree on early draft of climate deal in Geneva   Wisconsin Gazette
Ship & Bunker
Newsroom America
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Mars One mission: 5 Britons shortlisted for one-way trip to Red Planet
Telegraph.co.uk
Five Britons have been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars as they hope to become the first humans to step foot on the Red Planet. Four women and a man from the UK are among the final 100 candidates for the Mars One Project which plans to set up a ...

Mystery Mars haze baffles scientists   BBC News
Maggie Lieu makes Mars One shortlist: The astrophysics student with a chance ...   The Independent
Aucklander shortlisted for trip to Mars   New Zealand Herald
CTV News
The Australian
Los Angeles Times
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Souped-up collider to reveal new universe
Times LIVE
It is already credited with helping physicists discover the elusive Higgs boson, which gives objects their mass. File photo. The world's biggest and most powerful atom-smasher will help physicists unmask the secrets of the mysterious "dark matter" that ...

LHC to kick off hunt for supersymmetry particle   Times of India
Large Hadron Collider to restart this spring   Maine News Online
Pictures reveal bigger and better Large Hadron Collider   Telegraph.co.uk
BBC News
The Register
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Demystifying spinning black holes
The Hindu
For those who marvelled at the awe-inspiring, if perplexing, visuals of the spinning black hole in the movie Interstellar, there is another exciting piece of news. The team responsible for the visual effects has provided new insights into the physics of such objects ...

Interstellar technology throws light on spinning black holes   Astronomy Magazine
Interstellar's fake black holes are helping actual scientific research   The Verge
Interstellar sci-fi WORMS its way into spinning black hole science FACT   The Register
Full-Time Whistle
International Business Times UK
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Penguins lost ability to taste fish
BBC News
A genetic study suggests the flightless birds lost three of the five basic tastes long ago in evolution. Taste is critical for survival in most animals, but may not matter in the penguin, which swallows fish whole, say researchers in China and the US. Many other ...

Penguins: Tastefully attired, lacking in taste, study says   Los Angeles Times
Penguins love to eat fish, but they probably can't taste them   Digital Journal
Poor taste penguins lack umami gene   ABC Science Online
Nature World News
ModVive
Tech Times
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Lauren's Science Corner: Weather As A Weapon?
CBS Local
“I got a phone call from two men who said, 'We work as consultants for the CIA, and we'd like to know if some other country was controlling our climate, would we know about it?,'” stated Rutgers University climatologist Alan Robock (one of my former ...

CIA Concerned that Foreign Power May Develop Ability to Manipulate Global ...   West Texas News
Climate Scientist Fears Secret Agencies Will Harness Destructive Weather As A ...   Tech Times
Climate researcher claims CIA asked about weaponized weather: What could go ...   Computerworld
Telegraph.co.uk
The Independent
The Guardian
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Bill Nye to MSNBC: Please Just Say the Words 'Climate Change' Now and Then
Mediaite
In a promo this past week, Fox News mockingly promised to explain “Why global warming isn't stopping the snow falling.” But Bill Nye “the Science Guy” thinks all TV news — not just Fox — could do more to bring the issue of climate change into its everyday ...

Can science solve climate change?   Washington Post
World's Ability To Feed Itself Said Under Increasing Threat From Climate Change   Tech Times
Climate Change This Week: Norway Divests, Siberia Melts, and More!   Huffington Post
Phys.Org
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Europe destroys last space truck to ISS
The Nation
The European Space Agency said it had destroyed its last supply ship to the International Space Station, bringing a seven-year venture to a successful close. The last of five robot delivery vessels that ESA pledged for the US-led ISS project, the Georges ...

Last Supply Ship to ISS Destroyed   Maine News
Incredible time-lapse shows European Space Agency's 'Lemaitre' cargo craft ...   The Independent
Fiery finale: ESA's last ATV space station freighter makes fleet's final re-entry   collectSPACE.com
CBS News
News24
Sputnik International
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What Puts The 'Burst' In Starburst Galaxies?
Tech Times
Starburst galaxies give birth to a vast number of stars. Now astronomers have a better idea how they do it. (Photo : Alma Observatory / B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), et. al. ) The Sculptor Galaxy could show astronomers the process that adds the burst to starburst ...

Why Do Some Galaxies 'Burst'   NDTV
ALMA peers inside star-burst galaxies for the first time   Times of India
This is why some starburst galaxies 'burst'   Business Standard
Astronomy Magazine
National Monitor
University Herald
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