en-na-hotdailynews: 2015-01-23 Namibia Science

Doomsday clock moves to three minutes before midnight (poll)
cleveland.com (blog)
Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stands beside the old Doomsday Clock, which showed five minutes until midnight. Benedict announced during a news conference Thursday the new clock reads three minutes until ...

Three minutes to midnight: Climate and nuclear threats see Doomsday Clock ...   South China Morning Post (subscription)
The Doomsday Clock Moves 2 Minutes Closer To Midnight   NPR (blog)
Scientists Warn We're Ever-Closer To The Apocalypse   Huffington Post
USA TODAY
The Australian (blog)
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Goosebumps And Gas: New Data From Rosetta Probe Describes Comet
NPR (blog)
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the hurtling hunk of dust and ice that's being tailed by an Earth-made space probe as it hurtles toward the sun,. We're learning more about the comet that a European Space Agency paired up with its Rosetta probe, ...

Rosetta's up-close views of comet: stunning, but puzzling   Christian Science Monitor
Surprising Findings Raise Questions About Comet's Origins   Voice of America
Rosetta Spacecraft Raises New Questions About Comet's Origin   NDTV
NBCNews.com
News24
The Australian
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Tool making arose earlier among human ancestors
Los Angeles Times
Our ape-like ancestors may have stopped dragging their knuckles and started making tools a half million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors. Thomas H. Maugh ...

Tool use in human ancestors may have developed earlier than originally thought   SMN Weekly
Get a Grip: Hints of Oldest Tool Use Found in Ancient Hand Bones   NBCNews.com
Pre-Humans Used Tools with Human-Like Hands: How the Bones Show the ...   Tech Times
Geek Infinite
National Column
ABC Science Online
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Rare, crazy-looking shark caught by Australian fisherman
Christian Science Monitor
Of course, from the shark's perspective, it's probably we humans who are the crazy-looking ones. By Tanya Lewis, LiveScience January 22, 2015. close. The bizarre creature was pulled up from a depth of nearly a mile, off the southeastern coast of Australia.
A 'Living Fossil' Frilled Shark Found In Waters Of Victoria   International Business Times AU
Rare 'living fossil' — an eel-like shark with 300 razor-sharp teeth — caught off ...   National Post
Australian fishermen catch “horrific-looking” frilled shark   seattlepi.com (blog)
Huffington Post
The Express Tribune
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CNN

Laser treated metal can bounce-off water
Geek Infinite
Researchers from University Rochester have made metal water resistant to an extent where the water droplets just bounce off like tiny basketballs. The newly designed metal will have multiple applications like storing water in countries facing water scarcity, ...

Rare waterproof metal where water droplets simply bounce off [VIDEO]   America Herald
Amazing New Material Is So Water Resistant That Liquid Bounces Right Off   Business Insider
Scientists have developed a Metal so water-resistant that bounces water drops ...   Frontline Desk
Wall Street Hedge
The Weather Channel
WTMA
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Interstellar travel could be possible 'using wormhole at centre of galaxy'
Metro
Interstellar travel could be more than Hollywood fiction after scientists suggested a wormhole exists at the centre of our galaxy. Experts believe it would be possible to navigate through the giant doorway, which has the potential to take us to another galaxy or ...

Milky Way May Contain Interstellar Style Space-Time Tunnel   NDTV
Milky Way wormhole could be real-life 'Interstellar': study   New York Daily News

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