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2015-06-03 U.S. Science


The Times (subscription)
   
Endangered fish abandon the mating game for virgin births   
The Times (subscription)
Endangered sawfish are warding off the threat of extinction partly through virgin births, biologists have found. In the first example of the phenomenon, known as parthenogenesis, observed in the wild, scientists found that female smalltooth sawfish off Florida ...

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
These Lonely Sharks Reproduce Without Sex, and Who Can Blame Them   Slate Magazine (blog)
NY City News   
Atlanta Journal Constitution   
CBC.ca   
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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 ...

Chimps Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says   New York Times
Cooking skills may have emerged millions of years ago   BBC News
Chimps Would Totally Cook If Only We Made Ape-Friendly Easy Bake Ovens   Gizmodo
Slate Magazine (blog)   
Reuters   
Discovery News   
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BBC News
   
Large Hadron Collider to turn on 'data tap'   
BBC News
The Large Hadron Collider is about to pave the way to a new era in physics. Scientists are waiting for the first new data to start flowing from the underground particle smasher, as the LHC begins its first "physics collisions" in two years. The vast machine will ...

Large Hadron Collider Is Ready to Kick Particle Physics into High Gear   NBCNews.com
Cern atom collider to restart with a bang after upgrade   Irish Times
Large Hadron Collider poised to reach full speed and new discoveries   euronews
Yahoo News UK   
Reuters   
Empire State Tribune   
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NBCNews.com
   
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 ...

High Pacific Waves Keep NASA's Flying Saucer Grounded in Hawaii   NBCNews.com
NASA to broadcast live video from 'flying saucer' flight on Wednesday   RT
NASA's 'Flying Saucer' to Take Off from Hawaii   PerfScience
Empire State Tribune   
Business Standard   
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Daily Times
   
Bright spots on moon result of comet crashes: Study   
The Hindu
... : Lunar swirls or wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon's surface were created by the numerous comets that crashed into the lunar surface over the past 100 million years, says a new study. The researchers used computer models to simulate the ...

Crashing comets caused mystery swirls on Moon   Financial Express
Mystery Moon Swirls Caused by Blasts of Comet Gas?   Discovery News
Moon's swirly features could be caused by comet impacts   The Space Reporter
Tech Times   
Clapway   
Science /AAAS   
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NH Voice
   
Online Portal 'Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole' Launched   
NH Voice
International scientists launched the online portal 'Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole', wherein data collected through seal expeditions would be displayed. Scientists from the University of St. Andrews, engaged seals and installed special ...

Seals With Sensors Help Scientists To Collect Data From Remote Area In ...   International Business Times AU
This Seal Has a Sensor on Its Head for Gathering Data About Antarctica   Gizmodo
Seals Help Scientists Probe Remote Seas   Discovery News
Modern Readers   
Headlines & Global News   
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National Geographic
   
So Long, Hyperion, and Thanks for all the Pits   
National Geographic
Saturn's moon Hyperion looks more like a frosted honeycomb or cosmic kitchen sponge than just another cratered old sphere. In fact, the 360-kilometer long moon is one of the more bizarre-looking objects in the solar system. On May 31, NASA's Cassini ...

9 Close-Up Photos of Saturn's Spongy Weirdo Moon, Hyperion   PC Magazine
Saturn's Spongy Moon, Hyperion, Gets Final Close-Up from Cassini Probe   NBCNews.com
Time to Look at Saturn's spongy moon Hyperion in new light, says NASA   The Westside Story
WAAY   
Slate Magazine (blog)   
eNews Park Forest   
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International Business Times UK
   
Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has ingenious scheme to scoop up polluting plastics ...   
International Business Times UK
Call it a Roomba for the ocean. A young Dutch innovator has come up with a boom invention to help the Pacific Ocean rid itself of some of the 8 million tons of plastics. Boyan Slat's plan is to set up enormous floating barriers in rotating tidal locations around ...

A Brilliant 20-Year-Old Built This Spacecraft-Looking Machine to Clean Up ...   Mic
A 20-Year-Old Has a Fantastic Plan To Make the Ocean Self-Cleaning (Video)   The Epoch Times
Ocean Cleanup Array Is On The Brink Of Freeing The Oceans Of Plastic Pollution   The Inquisitr
Mother Nature Network (blog)   
Examiner.com   
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Orlando Sentinel
   
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 ...

Killer marsupial orgies: 2 new species mate self to death in 14-hour sex binges   Examiner.com
Meet the marsupial that has so much sex it dies   Gladstone Observer
These Newly Discovered Marsupials in Australia Will Live for One Year and Die ...   RYOT
Science Recorder   
Stuff.co.nz   
Tech Times   
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NBCNews.com
   
NASA celebrates 50th anniversary of Gemini IV mission   
Chron.com
Some five decades ago, the U.S. finally got its chance to close the gap with the Soviet Union in the "Space Race." In early June 1965, NASA launched the Gemini IV rocket, supported by the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. The MSC would later be ...

'Suit Up': NASA Documentary Celebrates 50 Years of US Spacewalks   NBCNews.com
An American walked in space for the first time 50 years ago   Mashable
Fifty years ago today America walked in space and caught Russia   Houston Chronicle (subscription)
International Business Times UK   
New York Daily News   
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