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2015-11-08 Australia Science


The Australian
   
Ancient rat discovered in East Timor bigger than a cat   
The Australian
It's every moggy's nightmare — a rat big enough to chase cats. Australian researchers scouring archaeological deposits in East Timor have unearthed the remains of what they say is the world's largest ever rat. And it survived alongside the island's ...
ANU team discover largest known fossils of giant rats on East Timor   The Canberra Times
Canberra archaeologists discover fossils of giant rats the size of dogs in ...   ABC Online
Beware of the MEGARAT: Researchers find fossils of the biggest rodent in ...   Daily Mail
Washington Post   
Nature World News   
Science World Report   
Australian National University   
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NYSE Post
   
Kangaroo farts won't save the world   
The Verge
Scientists locked kangaroos in a room to measure their farts. In theory, this was to see if their guts contained bacteria that might reduce methane emissions if placed in other animals' guts; in reality, this was done because there isn't much else ...
Faster digestion in kangaroos reduces methane emissions   HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
Decreasing methane yield with increasing food intake keeps daily methane ...   Journal of Experimental Biology - The Company of Biologists

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ABC Science Online
   
Heatwaves attributed to human induced climate change   
ABC Science Online
KIM LANDERS: A heatwave in Adelaide last January, severe frosts in south-eastern Australia and a late-autumn heatwave across the country have all been attributed to human-induced climate change. The findings are reported in the fourth issue of the ...


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Australia to lead climate change fund   
Herald Sun
Australia will help lead the charge on distributing a kitty of climate change cash to developing countries on the frontline of global warming. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced Australia will co-chair the Green Climate Fund board with South ...

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Phys.Org
   
New Horizons completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers   
Phys.Org
Path to a KBO: Projected route of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft toward 2014 MU69, which orbits in the Kuiper Belt about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. Planets are shown in their positions on Jan. 1, 2019, when New Horizons is projected to …more. NASA ...
Scientists nudge New Horizons towards mysterious object   Times of India
New Horizons is Officially Off to the Kuiper Belt!   Gizmodo
New Horizons Changes Course For 2019 Encounter   Aviation Week
NYC Today   
The Space Reporter   
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Gizmag
   
Hubble data reveals ancient white dwarfs at the core of the Milky Way   
Gizmag
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been analyzed by a team of astronomers, uncovering a population of very old white dwarf stars. It's the first time the ancient stars have been observed, and their study provides clues regarding the early ...

Space Photos of the Week: This Star's Throwin' a Tantrum   WIRED
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered clues to the early ...   Daily Star Gazette
Milky Way: Young Stars in an Old Bulge   Sky & Telescope
ECNmag.com   
Inverse   
Popular Mechanics   
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ScienceAlert
   
Scientists have found a gene that could be the key to growing food in space   
ScienceAlert
Australian scientists have found the gene that allows a native tobacco plant to grow and reproduce in an incredibly short amount of time, and in arid, desert conditions. If applied to other plants, this gene could be the key to getting crops to survive ...

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Iceland Monitor
   
VIDEO: Iceberg breaking off from glacier   
Iceland Monitor
YouTube user Olen Adventures has published a video capturing the moment when a chunk of an Icelandic glacier breaks off into water. The video shows the moment when a black chunk of glacial ice breaks off from Svínafellsjökull glacier in South Iceland ...


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ScienceAlert
   
The White House is prepping for a huge solar storm that could kick us back ...   
ScienceAlert
For our electronic way of life, the Sun is a formidable foe, and the White House is taking protective action against it. On October 29, the White House's National Science and Technology Council released its strategic plan to prepare for an extreme ...
New plans promise better response to space weather risks   The Weather Network
US readies for space storms that could crash critical networks   Computerworld
US braces for 'extreme weather event' from space that could result in $2 ...   Raw Story
Gospel Herald   
ESA   
The White House   
Wikipedia   
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The Inquisitr
   
Coywolf: Why Are Coyotes Breeding With Wolves And Making Wolf Hybrids? [Videos ...   
The Inquisitr
The coywolf has been dubbed America's newest super-predator, but what has caused this coyote, wolf hybrid to appear in the first place? The coywolf is gaining in numbers and current estimates are that there are millions in North America. While many ...
Meet the coywolf, New Jersey's apex predator   NJ.com
Have you heard of a coywolf? The hybrid species is booming in numbers   AL.com
Coywolf: The new species of wolf and coyote spreading across America   International Business Times UK
Field and Stream (blog)   
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