en-my-hotdailynews: 2015-01-01 Malaysia Science

Songbirds: How do they know when tornadoes are coming?
The Star Online
You might want to be careful about who you call “bird-brained”. Some of our feathered friends exhibit powers of perception that make humans appear helpless. New research shows that little songbirds known as golden-winged warblers (Vermivora ...

Weird Science   St. Albert Gazette
Bird's eye view   Gilmer Mirror

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Mid-Day

Stargazers build galaxies
Mid-Day
London: An international team of astronomers has developed a simulation of the universe in which realistic galaxies are created. In the simulation, the mass, size and age are similar to those of observed in the galaxies. The simulation of strong galactic winds ...

Scientists have gone beyond their destination and created a universe ...   Full-Time Whistle
Eagle simulation can go backwards and forwards in 'cosmic time'   Daily Mail
Meet 'Eagle' – a simulation of universe created in the 'Cosmology Machine'   International Business Times UK
Belfast Telegraph
Herald Sun
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Maine News Online

Opportunity Rover facing memory issues: NASA
Maine News Online
Over the past several years, Mars Opportunity rover has traveled 26 miles on the Red Planet's surface. But now, it is facing computer memory problems, which NASA engineers have described as 'amnesia'. NASA project manager John Callas said that the ...

NASA team hacks Opportunity to treat Mars rover's amnesia   Los Angeles Times
NASA's venerable Opportunity Mars rover to get new lease on life   SMN Weekly
NASA plans to fix Mars Rover Opportunity's Amnesia via Hacking   Capitalberg
io9
Christian Science Monitor
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Wired

Beyond Apollo Welcomes Comet Lovejoy
Wired
NASA's Rosetta that never was: the cancelled CRAF spacecraft releases a lander at Comet 22P/Kopff. NASA. Toward the end of 2013, Comet ISON was all over the space & astronomy news. Then, alas, the poor snowball disintegrated into a spray of dust as it ...

A naked-eye comet, visible in the New Year's Eve sky   Los Angeles Times
Ring in the New Year with comet Lovejoy   SMN Weekly
Lovejoy: The New Year's Comet   Ricochet.com
ABC News
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Capitalberg

British scientists are gearing up to complete “unfinished business”; LHC
Capitalberg
Particle accelerator, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been shut off for two years because of a major upgrade. The machine is under laid beneath Swiss and French borders. Now when the machine recommence it will generate the atomic collision with ...

LHC team's 'unfinished business'   shropshirestar.com
Expect some big scientific breakthroughs in 2015   Business Standard
Dwarf Planet Road Trip, Ebola's End: 2015 Predictions   Discovery News

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West Texas News

NASA's Dawn mission will reach Ceres by March
West Texas News
Dawn spacecraft that NASA launched on September 27, 2007 has entered its approach phase towards Ceres, the next destination in its multi-year tour of the giants in the asteroid belt. According to the space agency, Dawn has been programmed by Mission ...

Dawn spacecraft starts final approach to Ceres   SMN Weekly
Dawn spacecraft begins approach to dwarf planet Ceres   CBC.ca
NASA spacecraft begins final approach to dwarf planet Ceres   Delhi Daily News
Philly.com
Full-Time Whistle
9news.com.au
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NBCNews.com

Belize's 'Blue Hole' Reveals Clues to Maya's Climate Collapse
NBCNews.com
SAN FRANCISCO — The ancient Maya civilization collapsed due to a century-long drought, new research suggests. Minerals taken from Belize's famous underwater cave, known as the Blue Hole, as well as lagoons nearby, show that an extreme drought ...

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