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2015-01-04 Canada English Science


ABC News
   
New Year's Comet: Glowing Green Comet Lovejoy to Light Up Sky   
ABC News
Here's a cosmic New Year's treat: A glowing green comet will shine brighter into the New Year, providing an incredible opportunity for skygazers to enjoy the sight. The comet Lovejoy is moving across the sky near the Orion constellation, making it even easier ...

Comet Lovejoy blasts into our skies   New Zealand Herald
Glowing green Comet Lovejoy to light up sky (Video)   Canada News
Green comet 'Lovejoy' lights up the New Year sky   The Independent
Mirror.co.uk   
Huffington Post Canada   
RT   
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CBC.ca
   
Orca calf born to endangered southern resident pod   
CBC.ca
A calf has been born in the endangered southern resident orca population. The Center for Whale Research confirmed the birth of a new calf J-50, which it believes is a few days old, to the mother, J-16. Ken Balcomb, a senior scientist with the center in ...

Orca midwife? It may have happened, scientists say   USA TODAY
Calf Born To Endangered Southern Resident Orca Population In British Columbia   E Canada Now
Pregnant killer whale's death fuels worry about species' survival   SFGate
The Seattle Times   
The Weather Network   
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National Post
   
Researchers find the ancient genetic link between fish fins and animal hands   
National Post
It's no big news that hands and feet evolved from aquatic fins. But when you look at a modern fish, it's hard to imagine just how how fins like theirs evolved into the hands, wrists and fingers that you and any other four-limbed animal on earth has. Even for ...


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Morning Vertical
   
Christmas bird count tallies tanagers (and eagles and ducks)   
HollandSentinel.com
John Mitchell of South Haven pauses to look at a bird on Fri., Jan. 2, 2015 in Douglas while bird counting with others from the Sarett Nature Center. Emily Brouwer/Sentinel Staff. John Mitchell of South Haven pauses to look at a bird on Fri., Jan Volunteers from ...

Cheyenne Community Gathers for Christmas Bird Count Event   KGWN
Hamilton Christmas bird counters spot unusual palm warbler   CBC.ca
Annual Audubon Bird Count Makes Unusual Sightings   CBS Local
Woodstock Sentinel Review   
Voice Chronicle   
lehighvalleylive.com   
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CBC.ca
   
NASA studies inflatable heat shield for Mars landing   
CBC.ca
Something as simple as a child's toy design might help NASA scientists solve the complex problem of landing astronauts on Mars. Safely landing a large spacecraft on the Red Planet is just one of many engineering challenges the agency faces as it eyes an ...

Child's toy design could help humans get to Mars   WHAS 11.com (subscription)
Inflatable spacecraft tested   Tribune-Review
NASA Studies Inflatable Spacecraft   The Ledger
SMN Weekly   
Daily Mail   
CTV News   
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Digital Journal
   
Scientists puzzled over Pacific Coast seabird die-off   
Digital Journal
Scientists have been puzzling over the mass die-offs of hundreds of Cassin's auklets. There have been reports coming in from British Columbia to as far south as San Louis Obispo. California this past year. The small, white-bellied gray birds seem to be ...

Scientists investigate mass die-off of sea birds that appear to be starving on ...   Weyburn Review
Pacific Coast sea bird die-off puzzles scientists   Chron.com

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the Irish News
   
Young readers can journey to the Arctic with these books   
Quad-Cities Online
The rollicking rhymes of Kim Norman's “Ten on the Sled” parody “Ten on the Bed.” Ann Herbert Scott's jealous older sibling discovers there's always room “On Mother's Lap.” Teri Sloat recounts children's escape from “The Hungry Giant of the Tundra.” In “Eye ...

Heart-melting journey through Svalbard   the Irish News
Nunatsiaq News: top environmental stories of 2014   Nunatsiaq News

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Researchers Show Neutrinos can Deliver not Only Full-on Hits but also ...   
Lab Manager Magazine
In what they call a “weird little corner” of the already weird world of neutrinos, physicists have found evidence that these tiny particles might be involved in a surprising reaction. By University of Rochester | January 03, 2015. Print Email ...

Neutrinos can deliver full-on hits and “glancing blows”   R & D Magazine

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New Hampshire Voice
   
14 Stars may Come in our Solar System within Next Few Million Years   
New Hampshire Voice
European astrophysicist Coryn Bailer-Jones has predicted a possibility that around 14 stars may come in our solar system within the next few million years. Coryn Bailer-Jones works at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Death Star Reality Check: Other Doomsdays Loom Larger   NBCNews.com
Rogue Star HIP 85605 on Collision Course with our Solar System, but Earthlings ...   Universe Today

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Full-Time Whistle
   
Researchers create robotic 'thinking' sea turtle - (Time)   
Full-Time Whistle
The new roboticturtle will be able to perform surveillance and energy harvesting and also detect nuclear wastes and navigate to areas that are deemed hazardous for humans. The new underwater robot will be among the most manoeuvrable and will help ...

Next-gen Thinking Biomimetic Robots Perform Surveillance, Energy Harvesting   Scientific Computing
TurtleBot Harvests its Own Energy, Thinks   ENGINEERING.com
Researchers create robotic 'thinking' sea turtle   Austrian Tribune
Fiji Times   
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