us-hotdailynews: 2015-07-16 U.S. Science

Good Question: Why Does Pluto Matter?
CBS Local
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – On Wednesday afternoon, NASA released a series of photographs of Pluto that show ice mountains as high as the Rockies. Those pictures came from an unmanned spacecraft that took nine-and-a-half years to make the three-billion ...

Pluto mountains   BBC News
Pluto as New Horizons Saw It: Up Close and Personal   New York Times
NASA New Horizons Pluto mission finds ice peaks, massive canyons   CBC.ca
USA TODAY
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Reuters
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What's a pentaquark? And why is this tiny particle a big deal?
Christian Science Monitor
The new discovery of a pentaquark by the Large Hadron Collider validates a 50-year notion about the nature of matter. By Tia Ghose, Livescience.com July 15, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. The Large Hadron Collider is the world's most powerful ...
Pentaquark: Hadron Collider team with SU scientists discover new particles   Syracuse.com
CERN finds a new class of particles   Livemint
The Large Hadron Collider just discovered Pentaquarks   The Independent
ABC News
Le News
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Discovery of 'twin Jupiter' points to Solar System 2.0
NEWS.com.au
THERE'S something odd about our solar system. We've found some 470 stars with several planets circulating around them. It's only now that we've spotted one that looks a lot like our own. So far we have observed 1858 planets orbiting other suns. There ...
Eso telescope finds Jupiter's twin or 'solar system 2.0' orbiting a sun like ...   Daily Mail
Brazilian scientists discover Jupiter-like planet   GlobalPost
Astronomers discover 'Jupiter 2.0.' Could Earth 2.0 be next?   Christian Science Monitor
Tech Times
Discovery News
The Space Reporter
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This 50-million-year-old worm sperm is a scientific treasure
Engadget
Scientists in Antarctica have come across one of the rarest specimens on record: ancient, fossilized worm sperm. "Because sperm cells are so short-lived and fragile, they are vanishingly rare in the fossil record," explains Benjamin Bomfleur, one of ...
50-Million-Year-Old Sperm Found in Antarctica   Newsweek
Oldest sperm ever is discovered in Antarctica, by accident   Washington Post
Oldest Animal Sperm Lasts 50 Million Years in Antarctica   NBCNews.com
Chinatopix
Science Recorder
Newser
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Scientists warn geo-engineering is not the answer to climate change
Business Green
Climate-engineering techniques such as recapturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reflecting solar radiation will not help tackle climate change in the short term, research finds. A new EU-wide analysis - published yesterday by a group of 14 ...

Ditch meat to fight climate change?   CNN
Temperature swings caused by climate change may increase death rate   Ars Technica
The Goverment's greenhouse gas emissions target misses the climate change ...   Stuff.co.nz
Nature.com
The Guardian
Salon
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TIME

How Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse
TIME
Increasingly hot and dry climates, the result of global climate change, have led to a worsening of wildfires around the world, according to new research. In turn, wildfires are aggravating climate change by killing trees that could absorb carbon in the ...

Wildfire season becoming longer globally: Study   The Straits Times
Scientists say the planet's weather is becoming more conducive to wildfires   Washington Post
Climate Change May Have Lengthened Global Wildfire Season By As Much As ...   Headlines & Global News
ThinkProgress
InterAksyon
Science News
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Walsh to visit Rome for conference with Pope Francis
Boston Globe
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who credits his Catholic faith with helping him overcome cancer as a child and alcoholism as an adult, will travel to the Vatican next week for an audience with Pope Francis. Walsh will be one of 50 mayors from the world's most ...

A history of Donald Trump thinking he knows better than Boston   Boston.com
Boston mayor to discuss human trafficking at Vatican   SFGate
Mayor Walsh Will Travel To Vatican For Conference With Pope   WBUR

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CNET

The cold, hard truth is the Earth probably isn't headed for a mini ice age
CNET
Don't fret, Internet. Reports about a mini-ice age coming our way in the next 15 years aren't as dire as they sound. by Danny Gallagher · @thisisdannyg; 16 July 2015 12:15 am BST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. email. comments. more. reddit.
The truth about some media's 'mini ice age'   Business Spectator
Effects of global warming not reduced by possible mini-Ice Age   Science Recorder
That new 'ice age' study is hot air   MSNBC
Houston Chronicle (subscription)
Northern Star
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Camera trick helps researchers tell Malaysia's black leopards apart
Astro Awani
This undated handout photo released by the Rimba Group and received on July 15, 2015 shows a black leopard photographed after triggering by a remote camera in the forests of Peninsula Malaysia. - AFP PHOTO / RIMBA GROUP. close. The content may ...

Turns Out Black Leopards Have Spots; Scientists Have Figured Out How To See ...   Tech Times
It Turns Out Black Leopards Actually Have Spots   Huffington Post
Camera trick helps scientists reveal undetectable spots on black leopards   The Borneo Post
Popular Science
Times of Oman
Clapway
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NDTV

NASA's Curiosity rover shows Mars' Earth-like primitive continental crust
Financial Express
NASA's Curiosity rover has provided evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust using ChemCam laser instrument, which showed that the rocks were surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks. By: ANI | July 15, 2015 12:54 pm ...

Did MARS once have OCEANS? Curiosity discovers continental crust   The Register

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