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2015-05-03 U.S. Science


Naples Daily News
   
Radiation from long Mars journey could damage astronauts' brains   
Naples Daily News
This photo released by NASA shows a view of Mars that was stitched together by images taken by NASA's Viking Orbiter spacecraft. (AP Photo/NASA). HOPD. Copyright 2015 Journal Media Group. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, ...

Big names converging on Washington for the Humans to Mars Summit this week   National Monitor
Astronauts at Risk from Space Radiation, Claims Study   Uncover California
Neuron-disrupting cosmic rays will make travel to Mars a risky undertaking   Empire State Tribune
American Live Wire   
NBCNews.com   
Twin Falls Times-News   
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Modern Readers
   
Elusive new bird discovered in China   
Business Standard
An international team of researchers has discovered an elusive new bird with a distinctive song in China. The new bird, the Sichuan bush warbler, shunned the limelight so far by hiding in grassy, scrubby vegetation over the years. However, its distinctive song ...

Unique Bird Call Helps Experts Identify New Species: Here Are Other Examples ...   Tech Times
New Bird Species: Warbler Found in China   Clapway
Scientists used a distinctive song to find Sichuan Bush Warbler bird species   The Next Digit
Sci-News.com   
MSUToday   
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The Market Business
   
NASA's Earth Science Budget Slashed by House Science Committee   
The Market Business
Republicans have voted to slash NASA's budget for the Earth Science division. With this cut, there was an approved budget authorization for this agency to use funding to see Orion and the Space Launch System continue. This was voted on after an earlier ...

NASA fails to acquire additional budget for its Earth Science Division Advocacies   Times Gazette
House Republicans declare war on climate change scientists, slash NASA's ...   National Monitor
The NASA 2016 Budget Remains Up in Space   Clapway
Gizmodo   
The Hill   
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Portland Sun Times
   
Underwater volcano erupts off Oregon coast   
Portland Sun Times
The suspected eruption at the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles offshore, was not much of a surprise to scientists. Bill Chadwick, a geologist at Oregon State University, predicted an eruption would occur this year. He appears to ...

Undersea Volcano Apparently Erupts Off Oregon Coast, No Tsunami Threat   CBS Local
Volcano erupting off the coast of Oregon not a threat: Scientists   Uncover Michigan
Axial Volcano off Oregon Coast erupting magma for a week, researchers predict ...   World Tech Today
Business Insider   
OregonLive.com   
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Quartz
   
NASA Achieves a Breakthrough with EM Drive Project   
NY City News
Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Centre have tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in vacuum that could practically facilitate space travel in and around the solar system. In this new research, the scientists at NASA have successfully tested ...

NASA's fiction-like “Warp-Drive” space travel nearing possibility?   Times Gazette
NASA 'Warp Drive' Project The EmDrive Won't Save Mars Mission From Cancer ...   The Inquisitr
Is NASA Moving Toward a Hyperspace Drive?   Discovery News
Times of India   
Newsmax   
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Boise Weekly
   
Study: One in Six Species Faces Extinction From Climate Change   
Boise Weekly
One out of six species faces extinction as a result of climate change and urgent action must be taken to save large numbers of animals from being wiped out, an analysis said Thursday. The study, published in the US journal Science, found that a global ...

Climate Change Accelerates Species Extinction, Claims Global Study   West Texas News
Study: Global Warming to Push 1 in 13 Species to Extinction   RYOT
One out of Six Species Could Face Extinction From Climate Change: Study   Gazette Herald
theday.com   
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Wired
   
Mauna Kea's Thirty Meter Telescope Project Sees Further Protests   
NY City News
In what can be seen are the most aggressive move of the protesters against the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in the last seven years, was yesterday's blockade along the way that led to the construction site. Thursday saw the Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees ...

Hawaiians furious as new Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea pushes ahead   National Monitor
Mauna Kea Telescope Project Under Heavy Fire   Wall Street Hedge
Star-Crossed on a Hawaiian Mountaintop   New York Times
Slate Magazine   
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Clapway
   
The Bombardier Beetle Mace and How it Works   
Clapway
Not everyone treats bugs, spiders, and beetles like equals. Unless they're pretty like a ladybug or a butterfly, they can get pretty gross. One bug that's making its name known is the Bombardier Beetle. This beetle looks like an ant with a tic on its back.
Bombardier Beetles Defend Themselves With Mace-Like Substance [Video]   Guardian Liberty Voice
MIT Study unearths Bombardier Beetle's Machine-Gun Bum mechanism   The Westside Story
Bombardier Beetles Defend Themselves by Spraying Hot Liquid from Their ...   Eastern Morning Herald
Washington Post   
Gizmodo Australia   
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Daily Times
   
Keen sense of touch allows bats to fly with precision   
Daily Times
Bats fly with breathtaking precision because their wings are equipped with highly sensitive touch sensors, cells that respond to even slight changes in airflow, scientists say. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, as well as Columbia University and the ...

Bat Wings and Their Special Sensory Cells   Clapway
Small Hairs on Bats' Wings hold answer to their Maneuverability   The Market Business
Flying like Bats not easy, somatosensory receptors vital for perfect flight   Inferse
Empire State Tribune   
Wired   
Yahoo News   
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Belfast Telegraph
   
Video: The Pillars of Creation - 3D image shows the awe-inspiring structures   
Belfast Telegraph
The Pillars of Creation are one of the most iconic images ever to be captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, astronomers have produced the first complete three-dimensional view of these beautiful columns of interstellar gas and dust. Credit: European ...

New 3D Images Reveal That 'Pillars Of Creation' May Disappear Into Nothingness   Tech Times
Pillars of Creation to Erode In About Three Million Years   PerfScience
'Pillars of Creation' Set to Fade into Oblivion, Reveal 3D Images from ESO's ...   NH Voice
The Post   
CNET   
Gizmodo   
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