en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-05-29 South Africa Science

Volcano erupts on Japanese island
Independent Online
Tokyo - A volcano on the remote southern Japanese island of Kuchinoerabujima erupted suddenly on Friday, blasting plumes of black smoke high into the sky, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of the island's residents and forcing airlines to divert ...

The moment an erupting Japanese volcano blew its top   TVNZ
Volcano erupts on remote Japanese island of Kuchinoerabujima, 150 residents ...   ABC Online
Small Japanese Island Evacuated as Volcano Violently Erupts   NBCNews.com
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Unesco reconsidering Great Barrier Reef heritage status
BBC News
Australia faces a dent to its reputation and a potentially devastating blow to its tourism industry should one of the country's most iconic natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, be listed as "in danger" by the United Nations. Tony Fontes loves diving the waters ...

Reef should avoid UNESCO listing: Hunt   The Australian (blog)
Great Barrier Reef ruling   ABC Online (blog)
Great Barrier Reef: Unesco to release draft ruling on 'in danger' listing   The Guardian
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Meet the soul-sucking "dementor" wasp
CBS News
In 2014, scientists discovered 139 new species in the Greater Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. One of them is a vicious wasp that kills its victims by turning them into zombies and eating them alive.
Dementor Wasp, Toothy Bat Among New Species Found in Asia   Newsweek
'Dementor' wasp turns cockroaches into zombies   Fox News
Scientists discovered 139 new species in the Greater Mekong in 2014: WWF report   Sydney Morning Herald
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Live Science
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New species of human ancestor found
Irish Examiner
A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-known “Lucy” species had company in what is now Ethiopia. A lower jaw, plus jaw fragments and teeth, dated at 3.3m to 3.5m years old, were found in the Afar ...

Anthropologists Have Discovered a Totally New Human Ancestor   Gizmodo
New species of human means more ancestors   The Hoops News
New Species of Ancient Human Found in Africa   TIME
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GMA News
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Whoops! A creationist museum supporter stumbled upon a major fossil find.
Washington Post
Canadian Edgar Nernberg isn't into the whole evolution thing. In fact, he's on the board of directors of Big Valley's Creation Science Museum, a place meant to rival local scientific institutions. Adhering to the most extreme form of religious creationism, the ...

Alberta creationist discovers rare fish fossils in basement dig   CBC.ca
Alberta creationist estimates his fossils date back 4000 years, scientists say 60 ...   CTV News
60-million-year-old fish fossils found in Calgary   Calgary Herald
Bay Today
Kimberley Daily Bulletin
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Robots Can Adapt like Animals [VIDEO]
Nature World News
Robots can apparently adapt like animals, new research finds, a trait that could provide tremendous benefits to society such as in search-and-rescue missions and putting out forest fires. Using incredible instincts, robots can be programmed to automatically ...

Self-Healing Robots Can Now Quickly Adapt To Injury   Immortal News
Self-healing robots take step towards disaster relief   The Star Online
Animal-inspired robots could be used to help explore space   TweakTown
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Empire State Tribune
Gazette Herald
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Freedom and liberty should not be red flags for climate science denial, but they are
The Guardian
Protesters in Canberra, 2011, to plans in Australia to introduce a price on greenhouse gas emissions. Photograph: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images. Graham Readfearn · @readfearn. Thursday 28 May 2015 22.55 EDT Last modified on Thursday ...

Upcoming Decision Could Wipe Out U.S. Commitment on Climate Change   Huffington Post
France's Ségolène Royal lambasts slow pace of climate talks   Financial Times
China considering enhanced climate change actions: official   EastDay.com
ThinkProgress
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Village
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Evidence of earliest murder comes to light
The Hindu
Lethal fractures preserved in an almost fully preserved early human skull indicate the earliest instance of murder in human history, some 4,30,000 years ago (Middle Pleistocene). The skull was recovered from an archaeological site Sima de los Huesos in ...

Unearthed: World's first murder victim   Times of India
Scientists point to the two holes in this skull as evidence of the earliest known ...   National Geographic
CSI Pleistocene: Scientists Discover Earliest Evidence of Murder in Human History   ABC News
Irish Times
U.S. News & World Report
CBC.ca
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Another private venture plans colony on Mars
The Space Reporter
An international venture composed of representatives from the US, Russia, Poland, the Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced a bold plan to start a human colony on Mars around 2029. Titled Mars Polar, the project seeks to colonize Mars' ...

InSight NASA Probe Begins Testing For Mission To Mars   Tech Times
Tiny CubeSats to watch NASA's next Mars mission   Christian Science Monitor
NASA testing Mars lander for 2016 mission   Times of India
The Denver Post
Empire State Tribune
Gazette Herald
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Early humans left Africa through Egypt, study says
Christian Science Monitor
225 human genome sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians point to a Northern exit out of Africa as the most likely route by the ancestors of all Eurasians. Luca Pagani. View Caption. When a group of modern humans began their exodus out of Africa some ...

Out of Africa: How early humans first got to Europe   CBS News
Modern Humans Trekked Out of Africa Via Egypt, DNA Study Suggests   NBCNews.com
Modern humans spread out of Africa from Egypt new study finds   Daily Mail
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