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2015-05-02 Australia Science


ABC Online
   
HATS-6b: Discovery of 'puffy' new planet brings scientists closer to finding new ...   
ABC Online
A "puffy" new planet orbiting a small, cool star has been discovered 500 light years away from Earth, by a team of scientists conducting research that could one day find new planets capable of hosting life. Named HATS-6b, the new planet is challenging the ...

Astronomers Discover Giant Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Too Big for Its Star   Sputnik International
New exoplanet too big for its star   Astronomy Magazine
HATS-6b: Astronomers Discover Strange Saturn-like Exoplanet   Sci-News.com

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Daily Mail
   
Dolphins more at risk of extinction than clams   
Futurity: Research News
Scientists are using a detailed study of marine animals that died out over the past 23 million years to identify which animals and ocean ecosystems may be most at risk of extinction today. Researchers say worldwide patterns of extinction have remained ...

Scientists turn to the past for the future   The Australian (blog)

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
A sea lion named 'Rubbish' found wandering the streets of San Francisco   
Sydney Morning Herald
San Francisco: Man, this sea lion has had a pretty tough go of it. This adorable little guy – nicknamed "Rubbish" – was spotted hiding under a parked car in San Francisco's Marina neighbourhood on Thursday morning and then promptly rescued, according to ...

Sea lion on shore leave ends up in the gutter   The Times (subscription)
Cute Sea Lion Pup Wanders Through Streets of San Francisco   Breitbart News

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Immortal News
   
Warp drive space travel closer to reality?   
Times of India
Nasa may have successfully tested a form of space flight that could carry people to the moon in a few short hours -and eventually let us fly at speeds approaching that of light. The agency has built an electromagnetic (EM) drive, using technology that shouldn't ...

NASA Makes Warp Drive Reality   Immortal News
Fly to the moon in FOUR HOURS: NASA secretly working on warp drive   Daily Star
NASA's futuristic EM drive is exciting, but skepticism warranted   mySanAntonio.com (blog)
Irish Examiner   
Newsmax   
NASASpaceflight.com   
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The Australian (blog)
   
Did St Paul see a meteor lighting the road to Damascus?   
The Australian (blog)
St Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus could have been the result of being blinded by a large meteoric fireball like the one that blazed over Chelyabinsk in 2013, a planetary scientist has suggested. William Hartmann, of the Planetary Science Institute ...

When science gets tough, we're suckers for superstition   The Times (subscription)
Ancient Signs in the Sky: Did a Meteorite Change the Course of Christianity ...   Ancient Origins

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RT
   
Zombie howl: Newly discovered X-ray glow could be from matter-hungry stars   
RT
“Howls” of dead stars feeding on their stellar neighbors – that's one of the ways baffled scientists described a haze of high-energy X-rays at the core of our galaxy spotted by NASA's cutting-edge Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). NuSTAR is a ...

NuSTAR captures mysterious high-energy X-ray glow from the center of the ...   Gizmag
NASA space telescope sees possible X-ray 'screams' from zombie stars   Examiner.com
NuSTAR captures 'screams' from zombie stars   RedOrbit
Clarksville Online   
Phys.Org   
Yahoo News   
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Uncover California
   
Scientists progress towards practical quantum computing   
Uncover California
A team of scientists has dealt with errors expected to affect quantum computing up to some extent. This will help in the journey of the realization of a practical quantum computer. It is expected that quantum computers will lead to new capabilities, which could ...

IBM Researchers Close To Building A Practical Quantum Computer   ValueWalk
IARPA, IBM lay foundation for quantum computing   GCN.com
IBM Scientists Develop New Quantum Computing Breakthrough   Highlight Press
BBC News   
Gizmodo Australia   
Phys.Org   
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CBC.ca
   
Peer reviewer tells female biologists their study would be better if they worked ...   
CBC.ca
When biologists Megan Head and Fiona Ingleby submitted a research paper to the highly-respected scientific journal PLOS ONE, they were shocked that their submission was rejected. And not for the obvious reasons. In their anonymous peer review, they ...

Female Scientists Told To Add A Male Author To Their Study   Huffington Post
Journal to Authors of Gender Bias Study: You Need a Man's Help   TakePart
PLOS ONE Update on Peer Review Process   PLoS Blogs (blog)

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Scientific American
   
Pluto May Have Icy Cap   
Scientific American
A bright spot on Pluto (right) could be nitrogen ice. The dwarf planet is shown with its largest moon, Charon. Credit: NASA. Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest that Pluto has a polar cap made of some kind of ice. The pictures, taken over the ...

Instruments on Pluto space probe built at Southwest Research Institute   KSAT San Antonio
How to pronounce Pluto's moon Charon   RedOrbit
Overflow seating arranged for Pluto event at VVC   Victorville Daily Press

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TechCrunch
   
Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure ...   
TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a smartphone ultra-zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA. The tool, which uses a little 3D-printed box that acts as a high-resolution microscope, can be ...

Smartphone attachment lets smartphones image DNA   SlashGear
3D-printed attachment turns any smartphone into a DNA-scanning microscope   Gizmag
A Phone With The Ultimate Macro Feature   Med Device Online (press release)
Pc-Tablet Media   
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