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2015-09-09 Namibia Science


Mashable
   
NASA confused the moon with the sun in photos posted to Twitter   
Mashable
Oh, NASA. That is not a picture of the sun from the International Space Station. That's a picture of the moon. On Tuesday, NASA's official Twitter account, which boasts 12.1 million followers, posted a photo taken by NASA astronaut and current year ...
NASA Goofs Up In Image Description   Ubergizmo
NASA snaps photos of the ISS making its way across the sun   Engadget
Space Station Crosses Sun's Face in Stunning Photo from Earth   NBCNews.com
Nature World Report   
Pioneer News   
Universe Today   
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BBC News
   
Real deal or meal deal? Will new climate treaty be a 'nothing burger'?   
BBC News
The fate of the world won't be decided over the next three weeks - but the fate of a proposed global climate treaty just might be. By the first week in October the world should have a good idea what the shape and scale of that ambitious project will be ...
Will the Paris climate talks hit it out of the park or be a planetary strike-out?   Christian Science Monitor
Why we should be more optimistic about the Paris climate summit than Copenhagen   Business Green
Red lines on a green field: What India should do at climate talks   Hindustan Times
Mother Jones   
Huffington Post   
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The Nation
   
Astronaut controls robot from space   
The Nation
European experts have pulled off a major advance that might one day help build new worlds in space after an astronaut in the International Space Station remotely guided a robot on Earth by feel. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen performed the ...

An ISS astronaut controls a robot ... on Earth?   Morning Ticker
"Autobiographical memory" lets robots act as knowledge go-betweens for ISS crews   Gizmag
Watch an Astronaut In Orbit Control a Robot On Earth Using Haptic Feedback   Gizmodo
The Space Reporter   
Hindustan Times   
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Newsweek
   
'Whale Vomit' Chunk Slated to Sell for $11K at Auction   
Newsweek
A chunk of whale vomit, found on a North Wales beach, has an estimated auction value of around $11,000. Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers. Filed Under: Tech & Science, Whales. A dog walker on a North Wales beach recently happened across a ...

Would you pay $10000 for this vomit?   CNBC
Dog walker finds £7000 lump of whale vomit on a beach in Wales   Mashable
Rare lump of whale vomit to be auctioned   French Tribune
Times of India   
Softpedia News   
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NBCNews.com
   
Sperm Whales Sing in Dialect, Learn Local 'Culture'   
NBCNews.com
Echoing through the ocean are the songs of innumerable whales, and while they all might sound vaguely similar to us humans, the subtle differences between them indicate regions of whale "culture": groups of like-minded individuals who happen to sing ...
Researchers find sperm whales speak to each other in local dialects   Daily Mail
Cliques of clicks: How sperm whale dialects influence social groups   Christian Science Monitor
Sperm whale 'dialects' suggest cultural learning   CBC.ca
Malay Mail Online   
TheChronicleHerald.ca   
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PPP Focus.com
   
World's oldest fossil sea turtle discovered   
PPP Focus.com
Its fossils are believed to be 110 million years old. “We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that's about 25 million years older”, rejoices Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt basis on the Senckenberg Analysis Institute.
Fossilized Remains of World's Oldest Sea Turtle Discovered   NBCNews.com
Researchers find world's oldest fossilised turtle in Colombia   Austrian Tribune
World's Oldest Sea Turtle Was 6 Feet Long, Fossil Shows   Discovery News
CSUF News   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
End of the world prediction after meteor strike and 'blood moon' prophecy   
Telegraph.co.uk
The arrival of the latest “blood moon” on September 28 will bring a massive world-ending meteor strike, some minority Christian groups are claiming. This will be the fourth blood moon - a phenomenon created when the moon passes into the earth's shadow ...

Watch This Month's Lunar Eclipse Live!   Sky & Telescope
Will a blood moon trigger the end of the world on September 28?   WalesOnline
Rare supermoon lunar eclipse lines night sky this month   New York Daily News
The Independent   
Jobs & Hire   
The Weather Channel   
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University Herald
   
The troubling reason why deep ocean mercury is reaching California's coasts   
Washington Post
We're taught from a young age to be afraid of mercury poisoning — it's the reason most people are careful never to break a thermometer. But human pollution is putting mercury into the environment anyway, in both the gases we pour into the atmosphere ...
Seals, Sea Lions contributing to high mercury levels in costal ecosystems   Northern Californian
Molted elephant seal skin leeching mercury into coastal waters   UPI.com
Molting Elephant Seals contributing toxic mercury to coastal ecosystems   Dispatch Times
University Herald   
Rapid News Network   
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Popular Science
   
You Can Hunt For Fossils In Kenya From Your Computer   
Popular Science
The area near Lake Turkana and the Turkana basin in Kenya is rich with fossils. Traveling to Kenya to search for fossils used to be an expensive, time-consuming proposition. Now, all you need is an Internet connection. A new project called Fossil ...

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Maine News Online
   
'Light Pollution' is to be blamed for dark skies   
Maine News Online
During the study, conducted by Robert Manning of the University of Vermont, visitors of the Acadia National Park surveyed. The participants were inquired about their preference for sights unimpaired by manmade objects. Around 90% of the participants ...
Dark skies are disappearing and 'light pollution' is to blame   KRWG News22
Dark, star-filled skies draw visitors to national parks, survey finds   Arizona Daily Sun
Around 99% of the world's skies polluted with light, scientists say   Jewocity.com (press release) (blog)
MyTechBits   
News Every day   
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