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2014-12-29 Australia Science


Canberra engineer Jacque Comery to lead Australian Antarctic Division team on ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Environmental engineer Jacque Comery will swap her hard hat and high-vis vest for layers of thermals when she takes a year off work to lead the Australian Antarctic Division's Macquarie Island expedition. Temperatures during her 12-month stint at the harsh, ...


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Scientists warn that superb parrots still vulnerable   
Sydney Morning Herald
A proposal to downgrade protection of the superb parrot will undo years of conservation work, say Canberra environmentalists. Listed as threatened under Commonwealth legislation, the long-tailed green parrot with a splash of yellow and orange across its ...


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Daily Mail
   
New version of the Large Hadron Collider aims to solve some of the even ...   
Daily Mail
CERN's Large Hadron Collider will be restarted in March after a £97 million upgrade that could help solve some of the universe's greatest remaining mysteries. The world's biggest particle collider, located near Geneva in Switzerland, has been undergoing a ...

Atom Smasher Will Renew Hunt for Strange Particles in 2015   Live Science
Stand back, revamped Hadron collider is going for the big one   The Sunday Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Research: Female Australian praying mantis fakes fertility to feed on mate   
Sydney Morning Herald
As you probably know, the female praying mantis will sometimes bite her mate's head off. It's not something that the insects make a habit of, exactly – they probably only do it when a male is particularly aggressive, or when the female needs a nutrient boost in ...

Fatal Attraction: Australian Female Praying Mantis Fakes Fertility to Put Mate on ...   Tech Times
When she's hungry, you might be on the menu   Waterloo Record

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The Nation
   
Moscow varsity to freeze DNA of every creature   
The Nation
DM Moscow - A Russian university is planning to create a 'Noah's Ark' consisting of the frozen DNA of every creature that has ever lived. Moscow State University has received the country's largest-ever scientific grant to embark on the project, which is ...

Moscow State University to create massive biological databank   SMN Weekly
'Noah's Ark': Russia to build world first DNA databank of all living things   RT
Russia Is Building 'Noah's Ark': DNA Databank Will Cover All Living Things   The Inquisitr
Jerusalem Post   
Gizmodo Australia   
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San Jose Mercury News
   
SpaceX to attempt landing rocket on ocean barge   
San Jose Mercury News
As if launching a rocket into space wasn't hard enough, Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX, will attempt to land one on the bull's-eye of a barge floating in the ocean. That's his bold way of aiding the effort to reduce the waste and ...

Next Launch Of SpaceX To The Space Station Delayed   SMN Weekly
Elon Musk's SpaceX plans a different kind of rocket launch   The Australian Financial Review
SpaceX will try landing a rocket on a tiny ship at sea   CNNMoney
Columbus Dispatch   
Orlando Sentinel   
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FlightCentric.com
   
“Pee Power” For Mars Missions: Urine Technology To Be Sent to Red Planet   
FlightCentric.com
Professor Gerardine Botte proposes urine technology - an urine converter named “GreenBox”- for future Mars missions. GreenBox is one of the finalists in a Mars One competition that aims to send new technologies to the red planet. No doubt, there won't be ...

GreenBox, which turns pee into drinkable water, in the running for Mars mission   Examiner.com
'Pee Power' Technology Could Be Used During Anticipated Mars One Mission   Full-Time Whistle
Professor proposes urine converter for Mars mission   The Space Reporter
Pioneer News   
Chron.com   
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NDTV
   
New Route To Mars Will Make Manned Missions Easier And Cheaper   
The Inquisitr
Traveling to Mars is expensive, and can cost hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, the launch time is limited to only every 26 months, as this is the time when Mars and Earth are optimally aligned. Now, mathematicians have found a new route to Mars that ...

New Mars Route May Make Manned Mission Cheaper and Easier: Research   NDTV
We Found A New And Cheaper Way To Get To Mars   Gizmodo Australia
Mathematicians propose new method to make Mars mission precise and cost ...   Delhi Daily News

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Businessinsider India
   
How This Hoax About Space Fooled Over One Million Facebook Users   
Businessinsider India
If you've been paying attention on Facebook recently, you might have noticed a friend or two sharing a story about a phenomenon that would supposedly be happening in early January of 2015. "Strange natural occurrences are happening in the world today.
Mission seeks to unlock Pluto's secrets   Brantford Expositor
Will A Planetary Alignment in January 2015 Allow Us to Float On Earth?   Island Crisis News
You're Not Going to Become Weightless on January 4th   Macro Insider
Joplin Globe   
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Acoustic Zoom could save dolphins' hearing while aiding geologists   
Gizmag
If you've ever been asleep on a yacht in harbor when a submarine tests its sonar, you know that underwater sound is anything but trivial – one ping can send you out of your bunk and across the room. Small wonder that the major navies spend a fortune ...


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