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2015-01-26 Canada English Science


Digital Journal
   
Mountain-sized asteroid set to hurtle past Earth   
The Globe and Mail
Scientists are gearing up to observe a mountain-size space rock as it hurtles past our planet on Monday. The 500-metre-wide asteroid designated 2004 BL86 is larger than most of the celestial interlopers that periodically whiz by the globe. However, the ...

The asteroid is coming -- here's how you can see it   Chicago Daily Herald
Mountain-sized asteroid to fly by Earth Monday, may be visible from NC   myfox8.com
Asteroid called 2004 BL86 to pass relatively closely to Earth on Monday   OregonLive.com
AL.com   
The Durango Herald   
Viral Global News   
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Daily Times
   
Australia stands alone as international community makes real progress on ...   
Daily Californian
A world in which the ever more pressing issue of climate change is denied, ignored or marginalized is one of uncertainty and insecurity. For decades, the evidence of man's effect on the climate has piled up. It is now in such abundance that only those with the ...

Why Trudeau's provincial carbon plan is a good move for Canada   The Globe and Mail
Hong Kong religious leaders voice climate change alarm   ucanews
The heat is on   Frontline
Full-Time Whistle   
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TIME
   
Doomsday Clock: Earth is '3 minutes' to catastrophe   
The Star Online
Climate change and nuclear threats prompt the keepers of the Doomsday Clock to move it "two minutes" closer to the end of time. Created in 1947 by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, the ...

Climate change brings world closer to 'doomsday': scientists   Daily Times
The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Doom   Slyck
3 Minutes from Doomsday: Atomic Scientists Speak out   The Next Digit
Toronto Sun   
Computerworld   
Scientific American   
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Canada News
   
Oceans are warming so fast that readings are now off the chart   
The Weather Network
Friday, January 23, 2015, 5:25 PM - Oceans are warming at an accelerated pace -- forcing scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to re-scale its heat chart to account for the warming that occurred in 2014. John Abraham ...

Ocean heat content is climbing so quickly that the tracking chart 'broke'   Mashable
Oceans are warming so rapidly they are breaking scientific charts   Digital Journal
Oceans were so hot in 2014 they broke scientists' charts   The Independent
Salon   
SportAct   
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Science Times
   
GMO's that can do vital tasks can be freed without fear of environmental damage   
SMN Weekly
Scientists from the Harvard Medical School said they were able to successfully create a genetically modified organism or GMO that can only survive in the presence of a designed environment, meaning they cannot survive in the wild. Scientists call it synthetic ...

Scientists design GMOs that can't escape into the wild   CBC.ca
New Life Made with Custom Safeguards   Scientific American
Harvard, Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOs safer   E Canada Now
Full-Time Whistle   
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
WPX News   
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Nature World News
   
Climate may impact how human languages evolve and sound   
Business Standard
Languages with complex tones are more likely to occur in humid regions of the world, while languages with simple tones are found in frigid areas or dry deserts, scientists say. To find a relationship between the climate and the evolution of language, one ...

Climate affects development of human speech   Odisha Sun Times
Climate affects the development of human speech   (e) Science News
Climate Affects Development of Human Speech: Study   NDTV

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Yahoo News Canada
   
Orcas could land on endangered list   
Tribune-Review
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will decide whether to list orca whales as endangered, clearing the way for groups to pressure the Seaquarium in Miami to retire Lolita from performing, and send her back to the waters off Washington ...

In danger or endangered? Will 'world's loneliest orca' be released into the wild?   PBS NewsHour
Lolita The Orca Is One Step Closer To Being Released   The Inquisitr
After 44 years, Miami orca may edge closer to freedom   GlobalPost

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Gizmag
   
Rosetta reveals comet secrets   
Gizmag
A generation ago, Astronomers thought of comets as simple things – huge dirty snowballs of rock and ice with a few organic chemicals thrown in. But after six months orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the unmanned Rosetta probe has shown ...

Rosetta Findings Show Weird Facts About Comet - (full-timewhistle)   Full-Time Whistle
European space probe provides close-up of comet   Columbus Dispatch
Final attempt to hunt for missing comet lander   Times of India
The Nation   
SMN Weekly   
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CBC.ca
   
PHOTOS: Canadian photographer caught in poo-storm from giant sperm whale ...   
CBC.ca
Sometimes, it's a dirty job for underwater photographer Keri Wilk. (Photo courtesy of Keri Wilk). Listen. It's a poo-nado, a poo-nami, or just a poo-storm. Whatever you want to call it, it's a rare underwater event that most people would do their best to avoid.
Underwater Photographer Gets Caught in a Sperm Whale 'Poopnado,' Brings ...   Huffington Post
Divers 'soaked in faeces' in whale 'poonado'   BBC News
Sperm whale blasts tons of shit all over the place (Photo – Video)   Canada News
E Canada Now   
The Weather Network   
New York Daily News   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Robotic Arms Install Remote-Sensing Instrument On ISS - (full-timewhistle)   
Full-Time Whistle
“Robotic controllers let the CATS out of the bag!” So says NASA spokesman Dan Huot in a cool new NASA timelapse video showing in detail how CATS crawled around the space stations gangly exterior and clawed its way into its new home – topped off with ...

Robotic arms install remote-sensing instrument on ISS   BioScholar News
Remote sensing instrument CATS successfully fitted on ISS   Techie News
CATS Out of The Bag, Crawling Around ISS for Science Down Below   Universe Today
Chinatopix   
New Hampshire Voice   
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