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2015-07-25 South Africa Science


Irish Mirror
   
The end of the world is NOT nigh: Scientists postpone the apocalypse until 2100   
Irish Mirror
The human species has been given a stay of execution by scientists who have put back the predicted day of the apocalypse back by 50 years. Experts at Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute have decided the earth will be wiped clean ...
The end is nigh! Not quite   Independent Online
Scientists use computer model to predict end of the world   Daily Mail

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BGR
   
Scientists have created self-aware robots, but don't start panicking yet   
BGR
Scientists have just made a robot that has demonstrated self awareness during a particular test, but that doesn't mean Judgement Day is coming. We're probably a long way from having to defend our race against robots, as the men behind the machines have ...

Self-Aware Robot Solves Riddle   Discovery News
The man who created the world's first self aware robot says this next ...   Business Insider
What should we make of the fact that robots are now 'self aware'?   Memeburn

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theSouthAfrica
   
Four Relatively Easy Ways to Understand Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity   
AllAfrica.com
Most people know who Albert Einstein is, or have some vague idea of the scientist with the wacky hair. What people have a hard time understanding are the theories that made Einstein a household name. According to Sheldon Herbst, from the University of ...

4 easy ways for you to understand Einstein's theory of special relativity   MyBroadband
27 of Einstein's personal letters going on auction block   Redding Record Searchlight

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IcelandReview
   
Iceland protests five-nation fishing deal in Arctic   
Economic Times
REYKJAVIK: Iceland has protested at a five-nation accord to ban unregulated fishing around the North Pole and says it will not be bound by the deal. The foreign ministry in Reykjavik on Thursday hauled in the ambassadors of the five countries that ...
Another View: No fishing at North Pole   The Herald-News
Russia, US & Others Sign Arctic Fishing Ban   Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
Iceland Left Out of Arctic Fishing Accord   IcelandReview

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Benchmark Reporter
   
Two new studies use gene analysis to suggest that Native American people were ...   
Benchmark Reporter
Two separate studies both published on Tuesday in the prominent scientific journals suggest that indigenous people from the Brazilian Amazon and New Guinea plus Australian comprise two distinct populations across the Americas. The publications provide ...


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NorthJersey.com
   
Montclair residents remember the Apollo 11 moon landing   
NorthJersey.com
There are certain dates in history that most people can remember where they were and what they were doing. A half-mile away from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16,. Buy this photo. HOTO COURTESY OF ALFRED BERUTtI. A half-mile away ...

A lunar geologist gives a reality check for NASA funded return to the moon study   Examiner.com
The Lunar Colonies Of Our Wildest Dreams   Atlas Obscura
We Stopped Going   WMRA
Al Jazeera America   
Metro   
DailyO   
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New York Times
   
Pluto's Atmosphere Is Thinner Than Expected, but Still Looks Hazy   
New York Times
Pluto's thin air may be falling to the ground. The total mass of the atmosphere on Pluto appears to have fallen by half in just two years, scientists working on NASA's New Horizons mission reported during a news conference on Friday. “That's pretty ...
Pluto is covered with flowing ice - and hazier than scientists thought   Irish Independent
Diver killed by shark off Tasmania   TVNZ
Pluto's relegation to 'dwarf'   Washington Post
Telegraph.co.uk   
Los Angeles Times   
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WTVC
   
Scientists Find Closest Thing Yet to Earth-Sun Twin System   
WTVC
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have identified a "close cousin" to Earth that's orbiting a sun-like star and might harbor life. "It is the closest thing that we have to another place that somebody else might call home," said Jon Jenkins from ...
Earth's 'Cousin' Found; Burnt Scroll Made Readable, ET Search Boosted   Voice of America (blog)
NASA Discovers First Earth-Like Planet   WLTX.com
Billions of Earth-like planets in galaxy: NASA scientist   The American Bazaar
NewsBusters (blog)   
Washington Post   
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Sky News Australia
   
Four-legged snake fossil found in museum   
Sky News Australia
The first known fossil of a four-legged snake has been discovered by a scientist on a routine field trip to a museum. It is hoped the find will help unravel the mystery of how serpents lost their legs. Dave Martill, from the University of Portsmouth ...
Four-legged snake discovered   Telegraph.co.uk
Four-legged snake fossil discovered   The Nation
Four-limbed, long-fingered snake hints at a creepy crawly evolutionary journey   Washington Post
The Straits Times   
CBS News   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Horrific images show slaughter of 250 whales in Faroe Islands hunt   
Telegraph.co.uk
Up to 250 pilot whales have been killed as part of an annual hunt in the Faroe Islands, prompting calls from anti-whaling activists for the barbaric practice to be stopped. Images taken by the Sea Shepherd group, show the sea turning red with the blood ...
GRAPHIC IMAGES: 250 pilot whales killed in annual slaughter in Faroe Islands   9news.com.au
The sea turned red: Islanders' brutal slaughter of 250 stranded whales   New Zealand Herald
The Mass Slaughter of Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands Needs to Stop   RYOT
scallywagandvagabond   
TakePart   
Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News (blog)   
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