en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-06-03 South Africa Science

PlanetiQ Announces Successful Test Of Its GPS Weather Forecasting
Forbes
Satellite data company PlanetiQ announced today that it's successfully conducted the first test of its Pyxis weather sensor. The Pyxis sensor is planned to be installed on PlaentiQ's constellation of 12 satellites, which are aimed to be launched in 2016 & 2017.
New Satellite&Based Sensors Could Deliver The Most Accurate Weather ...   Fast Company
PlanetiQ tests sensor for commercial weather satellites   Reuters UK
A Bethesda Startup Might Be Better at Predicting Hurricanes Than the Government   DC Inno

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Why the Paris Climate Summit might actually work
Mashable
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius listens to Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bonn, Germany, Monday, June 1, 2015.
Europe's Oil Giants Call For Carbon Pricing   Huffington Post
Nota Bene: Sir, please tax our products. Signed, CEOs   Financial Post
Oil Industry Takes Aim at Coal, Pushes Gas Ahead of Climate-Change Talks   Wall Street Journal
Calgary Herald
Reuters Africa
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TIME

Chimps Are Capable of Cooking, Scientists Say
TIME
Chimpanzees have the mental abilities to cook, researchers say, and would choose to cook their food if given the opportunity. Though chimps can't heat up raw foods on their own—they can't quite produce fire—scientists found that when presented with two ...

Cooking skills may have emerged millions of years ago   BBC News
Chimps Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says   New York Times
Chimps Would Totally Cook If Only We Made Ape-Friendly Easy Bake Ovens   Gizmodo
Firstpost
Slate Magazine (blog)
Channel News Asia
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Research troll reveals weight loss chocolate study was a prank
Sydney Morning Herald
Earlier in the year the world was finally treated to some good news from science: a report was published that claimed to show that eating chocolate could help you lose weight faster. Although it all seemed too good to be true, the story was reported in news ...

Chocolate weight-loss study was a fake, research troll reveals   Stuff.co.nz
Bitter taste of the chocolate 'study'   The Globe and Mail
Opinion: Too many people bite into reports that chocolate is good for you   Montreal Gazette
The Conversation AU
Independent Online
The Daily Meal
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NASA's 'flying saucer' Mars lander ready for test
USA TODAY
Flying saucers from other planets might not be real, but that doesn't mean they can't inspire modern space-flight designs. NASA plans to test its flying-saucer technology Wednesday with the launch of a high-altitude balloon carrying the space agency's Low ...

NASA to broadcast live video from 'flying saucer' flight on Wednesday   RT
High Pacific Waves Keep NASA's Flying Saucer Grounded in Hawaii   NBCNews.com
NASA to test supersonic parachutes in flying saucer launch   Business Standard
Empire State Tribune
PerfScience
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Sawfish resort to 'virgin births' for survival
Times of India
WASHINGTON: Scientists have documented in Florida a series of "virgin births," reproduction without mating, in a critically endangered sawfish species pushed to the brink of extinction by over-fishing and habitat destruction. The scientists said on Monday it ...

Endangered fish abandon the mating game for virgin births   The Times (subscription)
On the verge of extinction, female sawfish resort to 'virgin births' to survive   Hamilton Spectator
The strange 'virgin births' of the smalltooth sawfish   Los Angeles Times
Atlanta Journal Constitution
NY City News
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These marsupials mate to death
USA TODAY
There is such a thing as fatal attraction, especially if you're a small mammal in Australia. Researchers have discovered "suicidally-sexed marsupials" that mate so frequently and constantly that they die, according to research released Monday from the ...

Meet the marsupial that has so much sex it dies   Gladstone Observer
Killer marsupial orgies: 2 new species mate self to death in 14-hour sex binges   Examiner.com
These marsupials sex each other to death   Stuff.co.nz
Science Recorder
RYOT
Tech Times
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