en-my-hotdailynews: 2015-10-23 Malaysia Science

MH370: Sonar images 'bear all the hallmarks of a debris field'
The Budapest Report
Australian authorities searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have missed the wreckage as they canvassed search sites off the coast of Western Australia, American deep-sea investigators have claimed. Claims by a United States underwater ...
Flight MH370 Latest Update: Australian Authorities Deny Object on Sea Floor is ...   Gospel Herald
Search team hits out at US firm over MH370 'debris' claim   The Malaysian Insider
MH370 officials blast claims they mistook rocks for debris of missing ...   Express.co.uk
Huffington Post UK
SFGate
Mirror.co.uk
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The Straits Times

Climate talks: last stop before Paris summit
GlobalPost
Climate negotiators split on how to fight global warming and who should foot the bill will grapple Friday with finalising a draft agreement ahead of a crucial UN summit. It is the final negotiating day before heads of state and government arrive in the ...
Paris climate summit will hinge on climate aid - poor nations   The Star Online
Bonn climate talks: Questions over cash dominate   BBC News
Rich nations stalling on climate finance: Developing bloc   The Sun Daily
Arab News
Business Standard
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Archinect

The dawn of construction worker robots?
Archinect
Zurich-based architects and roboticists have created the In-situ Fabricator, an autonomous construction robot capable of laying bricks into pre-programmed structures. Designers at the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital ...

All Sorts Of Buildings Could Be Made With This Brick-Laying Robot   Gizmodo Australia
Swiss engineers create game-changing Mesh Mould 3D printing and In-Situ ...   3ders.org (blog)
Swiss engineers design robot construction worker (VIDEO)   Malay Mail Online

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Washington Post

The loudest male howler monkeys are compensating for small, well, you know
Washington Post
Well, this is awkward. It turns out that the male howler monkeys that shout the loudest are compensating for something. Exactly what that is requires a rather delicate explanation. It's sexual in nature. Let's just say big howls used to lure mates come ...
Big monkey voice 'means less sperm'   BBC News
Howl of a good time: Deep monkey roars come with intimate secret   Toronto Sun
The loudest monkeys have the smallest balls   Quartz
TV Newsroom
Rapid News Network
NYSE Post
Cell
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Toronto Star

Throwing a punch at evolutionary beliefs
Toronto Star
A new study claims that punching may have helped our ancestors evolve a unique human hand shape, one capable of forming a fist. The experiment, which relied on cadaver arms strung up with fishing line and guitar tuners, is delightfully offbeat. But ...
Scientists study arms of dead men, suggest hands evolved so males could ...   ABC Online
Evolution Made the Human Fist Fit for Punching   Newsweek
Human Fists Evolved for Punching, Study Says   Flemingsburg Gazette
Times LIVE
Pioneer News
SlashGear
What's New at the U - University of Utah
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The Nation

Crocodiles sleep with one eye watching
The Nation
BBC Canberra - Crocodiles can sleep with one eye open, according to a study from Australia. In doing so they join a list of animals with this ability, which includes some birds, dolphins and other reptiles. Writing in the Journal of Experimental ...
Keeping an eye out: Saltwater crocodiles may sleep with one eye open ...   ABC Online
Crocs Keep an Eye on You While They Sleep   Gizmodo
Crocodiles sleep with one eye open   Sky News Australia
NYSE Post
Discovery News
Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News (blog)
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Daily Mail

Black hole caught SHREDDING a star 'just' 290 million light years away
Daily Mail
Astronomers have spotted a black hole in the process of pulverising a star 290 million light years away. The phenomenon occurs when a star comes too close to a black hole, and the intense gravity of the black hole causes tidal forces that can rip the ...
This is what it looks like when a black hole tears a star apart   Sydney Morning Herald
What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole   Rapid News Network
Nasa animation shows star torn apart by black hole   NYSE Post
Brisbane Times
Nasa
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'Black Death' germ has afflicted humankind longer than suspected
Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The plague germ that caused the "Black Death" in the 14th century and other ferocious pandemics has stalked humankind far longer than previously known. A study unveiled on Thursday of DNA from Bronze Age people in ...

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