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2015-11-02 Malaysia Science


KREM.com (subscription)
   
Halloween asteroid "Spooky" lives up to name   
KREM.com (subscription)
DENVER, Colo - It's both out of this world and downright spooky. On Halloween, an asteroid nicknamed "Spooky," passed within about 300,000 miles of Earth. That's not close enough to do any damage here, but scientists used it as an opportunity to learn ...

Skull-Shaped Halloween Asteroid Zips by Earth, a Treat for Scientists   Space.com
Skull-Faced 'Dead' Comet Skims Past Earth on Halloween   NDTV
That asteroid that flew by Earth on Halloween sort of looks like a skull   Christian Science Monitor
The Star Online   
Irish Times   
CNN   
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The Guardian
   
Swimming with humpback whales to be trialled at WA's Ningaloo marine park   
The Guardian
A whale breaches off the coast of Western Australia where humpback populations have rebounded to 90% of their pre-whaling numbers. Photograph: Geographe Bay Tourist Association. Staff and agencies. Sunday 1 November 2015 01.09 EDT. Share on ...

Swimming with humpback whales trial in Western Australia   Stuff.co.nz
Humpback whale swimming tours set to begin off WA's Ningaloo coast   ABC Online
WA's Ningaloo Marine Park to trial swimming with humpback whales   The Australian
Perth Now   
9news.com.au   
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The Nation
   
Nobel medal fetches nearly $800K at auction   
The Nation
The Nobel Prize awarded in 1963 to a Cambridge professor for his revolutionary work on the central nervous system has sold at auction for nearly $800,000. The 23-carat gold medal awarded to the late Alan Lloyd Hodgkin went under the hammer in Los ...

If you can't win one, you can buy a Nobel medal for RM3.4m   Malay Mail Online

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The Nation
   
Renewables key in race against climate change clock   
The Nation
PARIS: Any plausible game plan for capping the rise of Earth's surface temperature depends on replacing fossil fuels with energy sources that generate little or no carbon pollution. That means renewables, especially solar and wind, both of which face ...
Climate change treaty will be the flop of the year   The Australian Financial Review
To Paris and beyond   Business Recorder (press release) (blog)
Planned emissions cuts not enough to save climate, says UN   Christian Science Monitor
Financial Times   
unfccc   
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PhillyVoice.com
   
Spurred by civilization, 'coywolves' rapidly spread in Northeast U.S.   
PhillyVoice.com
Over the course of the past two centuries, a slow but sure transformation – aided by the growth of human civilization – has led to the creation of a hybrid canine species that is rapidly expanding in the Northeast United States. Biologists believe the ...
Coywolf: New coyote-wolf hybrid sees explosion in numbers   The Independent
New species or accident of breeding? Scientists divided over coywolves   Malay Mail Online
Humans have created a new top predator that is taking over the Northeast   Tech Insider (blog)
AlterNet   
SlashGear   
Raw Story   
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Free Malaysia Today
   
El Nino covers arid Atacama desert in flowers   
Free Malaysia Today
COPIAPO: Here's a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Nino: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile's Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The cyclical warming of the central Pacific may be causing ...

What Desert Flowers Tell Us About Astronomy   Forbes
Atacama Desert: Why Are Rare Flowers Blooming In the Earth's Driest Place?   Tech Times
Startling natural spectacle: Pink flowers burst in the 'driest place on earth'   Times Gazette
PerfScience   
The Tico Times   
Skymet Weather   
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The Hindu
   
Inching closer to 'Last Ocean' sanctuary   
The Hindu
Creation of a vast marine sanctuary in Antarctica's “Last Ocean” inched closer at international talks recently as China for the first time backed the proposal, officials said, with Russia understood to be the last holdout. The Commission for the ...
Southern Ocean progress remains stalle   Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Fishing Main Hurdle to Antarctic Marine Reserves: Australia   Sudan Vision
Antarctica reserve fail disappoints Ross descendant   Radio New Zealand
Tech Times   
New Straits Times Online   
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Daily Life
   
How climate change disproportionately affects women   
Daily Life
In a few weeks' time, world leaders, policy-makers, scientists and lobbyists will converge on Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and hopefully agree to a universal and binding agreement on climate to serve as the successor to ...

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Market Business News
   
Rare Omura's whales filmed for the first time   
Market Business News
The first-ever field observations of Omura's whales, the world's rarest whales, have been made by an international team of scientists off the coast of Madagascar. The biologists, who published their research in the Royal Society Open Science journal, ...

First glimpse of rare whale   The Daily Star
Omura whale spotted in the wild   Junior College
World's rarest whale filmed for first time off coast of Madagascar allaying   inside KOREA
Sydney Morning Herald   
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Calgary Herald
   
Rescue of humpback whale caught in massive fishing line caught on camera: Watch   
Calgary Herald
An entangled humpback whale off the Southern California coast was discovered during a whale watching trip in Long Beach. Rescuers have since managed to cut it free. 02X148_50DD_9. Rescuers from nearby Sea World helped free a humpback whale ...

California Rescuers Free Humpback Whale Entangled In Fishing Line   Tech Times
Entangled whale found off California coast just one of many, say experts   Christian Science Monitor
California rescuers free entangled whale in two-day operation   abc7news.com
Mashable   
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