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2015-05-17 U.S. Science


TIME
   
Russia loses Mexican satellite after rocket failure   
DAWN.com
MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday lost a Mexican satellite on launch just hours after a glitch with a manoeuvre involving the International Space Station, the latest in a string of embarrassing failures for its troubled space programme. Russia's Roscosmos space ...

Mexican Satellite Lost as Russian Rocket Fails After Launch   Wall Street Journal
Russian rocket carrying Mexican satellite crashes after launch   Orlando Sentinel
Russian Proton rocket feared lost after botched launch   RT

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Fox News
   
Earthquakes on active Hawaii volcano could signal new eruption   
Fox News
May 9, 2015: Molten rock spews into a lake of lava near the summit of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. (AP). HONOLULU – A series of earthquakes and shifting ground on the slopes of Kilauea have scientists wondering what will happen next at one of ...

Earthquakes on Hawaii volcano could signal new eruption   Salon

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Inferse
   
Zoos around U.S. celebrate Endangered Species Day   
Inferse
Zoos around the United States will be participating in Endangered Species Day, which was initially funded and set into motion by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Zoos around the U.S. are going to be celebrating Endangered Species Day, which was ...

Why are endangered animals disappearing from U.S. zoos?   News Quench
Sedgwick County Zoo educates visitors on animal extinction   KAKE
Animals in the zoos have disappeared since Endangered Species Day   The Next Digit
Morning Ticker   
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Times of India
   
Early humans had gender equality   
Times of India
A study has shown that in con temporary hunter-gatherer tribes men and women tend to hold equal standing and influence, suggesting that sexual equality was the norm for humans throughout most of our evolutionary history. Mark Dyble, the leading ...

Primitive Human Societies Likely Had Gender Equality, Study Finds   FailedMessiah.com
Study Finds Early Humans Practiced Gender-Equality   Geek Snack
Gender Equality Was The Norm For Early Humans   Capital Wired
The Guardian   
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News Quench
   
Scientists astonished after spotting 4 quasars in deep space in impossibly rare ...   
News Quench
Quasars are rare enough — one scientist estimates the odds of finding four in one star system to be 10 million to one — and it's changing how scientists think about these mysterious cosmic events.
Quadruple Quasar Discovered By Astronomers   Immortal News
Scientists Peplexed, Quasar Quartet Discovered Demolished Current Galactic ...   Reporter Advocate
Quasar Quartet: A One-in-Ten-Million Discovery   NH Voice
Times Gazette   
The Daily Galaxy (blog)   
UC Santa Cruz   
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State Column
   
NASA's plan to produce oxygen on Mars   
State Column
NASA's new project aims to find a sustainable source of breathable air for astronauts on future Mars missions. According to CAD News, NASA has just funded a project that will attempt to produce oxygen on Mars, with the help of microscopic algae and ...

Algae and bacteria will supply the oxygen for Man's Mars Missions   Empire State Tribune
NASA Funds Project to Manufacture Oxygen in Mars   CDA News
NASA Hopes to Rely on Algae and Bacteria for Oxygen Production on Mars   Science Times
National Geographic   
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Helena Independent Record
   
Bumbles stumble: U.S. Honey bee colonies decline 42 pecent in 2014   
Helena Independent Record
Total annual loss percentage from 2014-2015 by state. Respondents who managed colonies in more than one state had all of their colonies counted in each state in which they reported managing colonies. Data for states with fewer than five respondents are ...

Honeybees dying, situation 'unheard of'   Sydney Morning Herald
The USDA's honey bee report is a buzzkill   Reuters Blogs (blog)
How You Can Help the Bees   Huffington Post
New York Times   
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Times of India
   
Even fruit flies exhibit emotions   
Daily Times
Fruit flies also exhibit similar emotions as we do when encountered with a stimulus, finds a new California Institute of Technology (Caltech) study. The researchers studied the phenomenon by deconstructing the idea of an emotion into basic building blocks ...

Threat stimulus fear in Flies just like Humans   Inferse
Fruit flies appear to experience emotions, according to new study   National Monitor
Research shows that fruit flies too experience a state of fear   The Next Digit
New York Times   
Newser   
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WMTW Portland
   
Harsh winter could affect deer hunting permits   
Observer-Reporter
AUGUSTA, Maine – Wildlife regulators in states where deer hunting is a way of life and an important tourism draw are implementing or considering deep cuts to hunting permits after a tough winter killed off many of the animals. Severe winters are perilous for ...

Early snow helped Maine deer hunters have a big year   Foster's Daily Democrat
Suppression program has coyotes on the run   Lewiston Sun Journal

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Clapway
   
Trap-Jaw Ants Can Escape by the Skin of Their Teeth   
Clapway
The trap-jaw ants, or Odontomachus, are a species of carnivorous ants that are mostly found in travel all over the world. They live in the tropics as well as the subtropics of the entire world. These ants have a pair of very large mandibles that point straight out.
Ants use jaws to catapult themselves out of death traps   Ars Technica (registration) (blog)
Spring-Loaded Jaws of Trap-Jaw Ants Act as Defensive Weapon   Uncover Michigan
130-MPH Spring-Loaded Jaws Help These Ants Escape Predators   Wired
Huffington Post   
Yahoo News   
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