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Candies help researchers examine effects of water currents on surrounding ...
The News Reports
Researchers have identified the complex process governing how water currents share and ultimately dissolve surrounding materials using candies. The research helped unravel the mysteries surrounding other complex issues related to morphology of ...

American Researchers Reveal How Water Currents Shape, Dissolve ...   E Canada Now
Not Candy Crush—Scientists Identify Nature of Candy Sculpture   Lab Manager Laboratory News
Researchers use candies to discover how water currents shape, dissolve ...   Techie News

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Clapway

Student To Become First Mom On Mars
Clapway
Maggie Lieu, an astrophysics doctorate student at the University of Birmingham, UK, is hoping to become the first mom on Mars. Within the next ten years – if all goes according to plan, – she will aboard a one-way flight to her destination, all thanks to the Mars ...

The Hazards of Other Planets   New York Times
Moncton professor vying for one-way ticket to Mars   CTV News
British woman wants to be the first to give birth on Mars   Sun News Network
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Neil Armstrong's purse: First moonwalker had hidden bag of Apollo 11 artifacts
collectSPACE.com
The first man to walk on the moon kept a bag full of small parts from the lunar module "Eagle" that he and his Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin famously piloted to a landing at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969. The stowage bag was discovered by Armstrong's ...

Today in sports history   Hamilton Spectator
One small step for man, one giant dusty place   Simcoe Reformer
44 Years Ago Today Apollo 14 Touched Down on Moon   Microfinance Monitor
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OurWindsor.ca

The supermaterial that could launch a revolution
OurWindsor.ca
Graphene, a material that can be derived from the lead in an ordinary pencil, is on the cusp of transforming everything from touchscreens to tennis rackets. Graphene. Colin McConnell/Toronto Star. PhD student Changhong Cao demonstrates the Scotch Tape ...

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Nature World News

Killer Whales Live Up to Their Name in Whale-on-Whale Predation
Nature World News
(Photo : Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries) A pair of killer whales revisited the scene where they devoured another whale. Seabirds scavance for scraps from above. Despite their fame as movie stars and entertainers, orca whales were first and foremost known as ...

Genetics lab unravels mystery killing at sea   (e) Science News
Killer Whale Victim Identified by Biologists with New DNA Evidence   Science World Report

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The Mary Sue

'Make-a-wish' coins changing the colour of Yellowstone's thermal springs
The Weather Network
Friday, February 6, 2015, 6:09 PM - Discovered by geologists in what's now known as Yellowstone National Park in 1871, the Grand Prismatic Spring is the third largest hot spring in the world with a diameter of 90 metres and a depth of 50 metres. It's arguably ...

So Many People Threw Pennies Into This Yellowstone Hot Spring That It ...   The Mary Sue
People throwing pennies changed the color of a Yellowstone hot spring   Boing Boing

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(e) Science News

Astronomers breathe new life into venerable instrument
(e) Science News
How do astronomers determine the shapes of objects that are too far away to photograph? One method is by using spectropolarimetry, an observational technique that measures the way light waves align after they scatter through clouds of gas and dust in ...

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Vancouver Sun

Opinion: The upstream battle to save rivers
Vancouver Sun
Our waterways have done much to define us as British Columbians. Rivers face an array of challenges and much has been written about the obvious pressures; pollution, urbanization,the excessive extraction of water and the building of dams. These are ...

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