us-hotdailynews: 2015-07-02 U.S. Science

Gigantic Sinkholes Dot Surface of Rosetta's Comet
Discovery News
Scientists have found gigantic sinkholes more than 200 yards (183 meters) in diameter -- twice the length of a football field -- and just about as deep breaking the surface of the comet being studied by the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft. Play Video ...
Giant sinkholes spotted on Rosetta's comet   Los Angeles Times
Rosetta spacecraft finds massive sinkholes on comet's surface   Reuters
What Do Florida and a Comet Have in Common? Sinkholes   National Geographic
The Nation
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How saber-toothed cats grew their mouth swords
Vox
How much time does it take to grow a 7-inch-long mouth dagger? Our new video explains: An error occurred. Unable to execute Javascript. Like this video? Subscribe to Vox on YouTube. The saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis roamed America during the ...

Sabre-tooth tiger didn't grow its teeth until the age of three   Daily Mail
I'll bite: ancient saber-toothed cat's teeth grew prodigiously   Channel News Asia
Saber-Toothed Cats Grew Dagger-Like Fangs Faster Than You Think   Tech Times
Laboratory Equipment
Phys.Org
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Hermaphrodite worm shoots sperm into its own HEAD if it can't find a mate
Daily Mail
From the shooting of sperm darts to post-coital cannibalism, there is not much that surprises researchers in the world of animal reproduction. However, a new study has raised the bar - a creature which procreates by jabbing a needle-like 'penis' into ...
Flatworms Self-Fertilize By Injecting Sperm Through Their Heads   Science World Report
When flatworms can't find a mate, they self-fertilize   UPI.com
No Mating Partner? No Problem: This Flatworm Injects Sperm Directly Into Own ...   Tech Times
Popular Science
BGR
Starpulse.com
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Pluto's Black Spots and Charon's Dark Pole Grow in New Horizons View
NBCNews.com
NASA's New Horizons mission is kicking off its climactic month of July with amazing views that clearly show Pluto's black spots and Charon's dark pole growing in the spacecraft's virtual windshield. After traveling for nine years and 3 billion miles ...
The strange dynamic of Pluto's chaotic family   Irish Times
New Horizons gets "all clear" for July 14 Pluto flyby   CBS News
Nasa probe detects methane on Pluto surface   Times of India
Orlando Sentinel
The Verge
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A Drone Airplane for Mars? Way-Out Red Planet Ideas Are Taking Flight
NBCNews.com
NASA has been talking about sending airplanes to Mars for more than a decade, but the revolution in small satellites and drone airplanes just might turn the concept into a reality at last. If the plan being hatched at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research ...
Revealed: NASA's first plane to Mars   India Today
NASA to Test a Prototype for Surveying Landing Sites on the Red Planet   NY City News
NASA wants to send a space boomerang to Mars   TechnoBuffalo
Computerworld
Christian Science Monitor
Voice of America (blog)
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Elon Musk-backed Group Awards Millions in Grants to Keep Us Safe from AI
NBCNews.com
A volunteer-run organization backed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is awarding $7 million in grants to 37 projects aimed at keeping artificial intelligence safe and "beneficial." The Boston-based Future of Life Institute says the recipients were ...
Elon Musk-backed group gives $7M to explore artificial intelligence risks   CNET
Musk sets out to slay demon   Times LIVE
Boston group awards $6m to jump-start artificial intelligence research   Boston Globe
Breitbart News
Upstart
Fortune
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Is it endangered? More study for alligator snapping turtles
Naples Daily News
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Feds say no to "threatened" status for wolves   Bismarck Tribune
Change to listing of gray wolves rejected   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feds move one Arizona species toward endangered status, one the other way   Cronkite News

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Variety

Pope Francis says he supports setting a fixed date for Easter Sunday
Fox News Latino
Pope Francis said he supports the idea of setting a fixed date for Easter Sunday, which for centuries has moved back and forth according to the lunar calendar. Easter and the Holy Week that precedes it is rooted in the Jewish Passover and fixed on the ...
Former Priest Chris Donahue on LGBT Community Working Within the Church   Variety
Pray with Pope Francis at MSG: Vatican confirms U.S. itinerary   Examiner.com
Pope Francis' environmental encyclical gets waylaid in West Virginia   National Catholic Reporter
First Things
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
The Fort Stockton Pioneer
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Once in a blue moon: It's happening in July
Orlando Sentinel
Save the date for July's blue moon. Such a celestial moment is not a harvest moon, blood moon or new moon. By modern definition, a blue moon is a calendar quirk, the second full moon within a month. Save the date for July's blue moon. Such a celestial ...

full orange moon   ChicagoNow (blog)
Full moon names for July   WLKY Louisville
A blue moon coming in July   NJ TODAY
Daily Californian
WSB Radio
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Hundreds view Jupiter and Venus at St. Petersburg College's Gibbs campus
Tampabay.com
Dining Planner: Where to eat on the Fourth of July, plus a showing from Dr. BBQ. Top News. Crayons abound as Crayola Experience opens in Orlando's Florida Mall · 'In Living Color' show featuring Warhol at Tampa Museum of Art a 'rare treat' · Stage ...

Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Visible on June 30, July 1   Patch.com
Venus and Jupiter planetary conjunction gives skywatchers a Canada Day treat   CBC.ca
What's up in the sky   Southernminn.com
FOX 9 News
The Daily Voice
ABC News
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