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2015-02-08 Canada English Science


Full-Time Whistle
   
Not Candy Crush—Scientists Identify Nature of Candy Sculpture   
Lab Manager Laboratory News
A team of scientists has identified the complex process by which materials are shaped and ultimately dissolved by surrounding water currents. The study, conducted by researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and ...

Researchers Show How Water Currents Shape, Dissolve Surrounding Material   E Canada Now
1000 licks to reach the center of a lollipop   Futurity: Research News
Candies help researchers examine effects of water currents on surrounding ...   The News Reports
Techie News   
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Sun News Network
   
British woman wants to be the first to give birth on Mars   
Sun News Network
24-year-old Maggie Lieu is 1 of 600 people still in the running to be a passenger on the $4 billion Mars One project. There was originally 200,000 applicants. But, if she makes it to Mars, she plans to colonize it and to be the first one to give birth. "To start a ...

Maritimer hopes to make third cut for Mars One mission   Full-Time Whistle
Brit wants to give birth to first baby on Mars   Techie News
British student applies to be first mom on Mars   WantChinaTimes
Clapway   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
'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 ...

Explanation Of Yellowstone's Spring   Clapway
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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Zee News
   
Hearing may have evolved over 300 million years ago   
Business Standard
A new study has found that the early terrestrial vertebrates were able to hear 300 million years ago, even when there was no tympanic middle ear development. The research led by Aarhus University described that lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite ...

Researchers reveal how hearing evolved   (e) Science News

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The Guardian
   
How scientists are using Lego to handle insects   
The Guardian
An unusual scientific paper has just appeared online. Its authors are all entomologists. But the paper is as much about Lego as it is about insects. The first author is Steen Dupont, a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London who specialises in a ...

How scientists are using LEGO to handle fragile insects   Digital Journal
Solving scientific problems with Lego   Natural History Museum
When scientists play with LEGO: A new creative version of pinned insect ...   Phys.Org
Geek   
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The Times (subscription)
   
New Horizons returns birthday gift to Tombaugh   
The Times (subscription)
The image of Pluto and its moon Charon, taken by NASA�s New Horizons spacecraft, was magnified four times to make the objects more visible. Posted: Friday, February 6, 2015 9:49 pm | Updated: 11:00 pm, Fri Feb 6, 2015. New Horizons returns birthday ...

New Horizons celebrates Clyde Tombaugh's birthday with new Pluto images   SpaceFlight Insider
Pluto, Europa missions could reveal alien life: Bob McDonald   CBC.ca
Pluto? Pah! 6 far crazier space missions we are planning right now   Metro
Mirror.co.uk   
New Scientist   
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Science 2.0
   
Turing Patterns At The Nanoscale   
Science 2.0
The world of single atoms and molecules may seem to be governed by chaotic fluctuations, but a team of researchers has found that the spontaneous formation of Turing patterns - responsible for the irregular yet periodic shapes of the stripes on zebras' ...

Turing also present at the nanoscale   (e) Science News

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CNET
   
Man too busy texting to notice a whale?   
CNET
Technically Incorrect: It isn't every day you see a humpback whale. You won't see one at all if you've always got your nose in your phone. by Chris Matyszczyk · @ChrisMatyszczyk; 6 February 2015 6:31 pm GMT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin.
Man glued to his mobile phone misses rare humpback whale sighting   Telegraph.co.uk
Texting distracts boater from seeing humpback whale   CBC.ca
Man Misses Whale 2 Feet Away Because He Was Glued to His Phone   ABC News
Huffington Post   
Globalnews.ca   
UPI.com   
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PennLive.com
   
Found skull isn't Gettysburg soldier as suspected   
Allentown Morning Call
The skull of the suspected Civil War soldier arrived at the Smithsonian in a square box. The lower jaw was missing, as were four front teeth and some nasal bones, but otherwise it was in remarkable condition, considering it was thought to have been in the ...

'Gettysburg skull' turns out to be far older   Houston Chronicle
Nearly sold 'Civil War' skull is actually 700 years old   CTV News

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Techie News
   
Underwater volcanoes said to be playing a part in global warming   
Techie News
According to a new study carried out by researchers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the US, volcanoes hidden under oceans may have a greater role to play in Earth's long-term climate than previously thought. Researchers ...

Underwater volcanoes may have a major impact on Earth's climate   Examiner.com
Seafloor Eruptions Triggered by Tides, Ice Ages   National Geographic
Undersea Volcanoes Erupt with Gravity, Shifting Earth's Climate   Scientific American
Xinhua   
National Monitor   
Live Science   
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