uk-hotdailynews: 2015-03-07 U.K. Science

Nasa's Dawn probe achieves orbit around Ceres
BBC News
The US space agency's Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the Solar System between Mars and Jupiter. A signal from the satellite confirming its status was received by ground stations at 13:36 GMT. Ceres is the first of the dwarf ...

NASA spacecraft orbiting dwarf planet Ceres   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hello Ceres! NASA spacecraft on first visit to dwarf planet   Concord Monitor
Hello Ceres! Dawn orbits dwarf planet   Houston Chronicle
Science 2.0
Tribune-Review
Gulf Daily News
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Don't look away now, the climate crisis needs you
The Guardian
The Guardian is embarking on a major series of articles on the climate crisis and how humanity can solve it. In the first, an extract taken from the Introduction to THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Naomi Klein, the author argues that if we treat climate change as ...

Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre   Business Green

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China takes environmental documentary that went viral off the web
The Guardian
A man measures air quality from his balcony in Beijing as his daughter looks on. Smog has become a concern across China. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters. Tania Branigan China correspondent. Friday 6 March 2015 09.34 EST Last modified on ...

China Blocks Web Access to 'Under the Dome' Documentary on Pollution   New York Times
China Blocks Web Access to Documentary on Nation's Air Pollution   NDTV
Film highlighting pollution woes vanishes from China's Internet   MiamiHerald.com
Wall Street Journal
Financial Times
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Never wash your car, clothes, and windows again – new paint keeps them clean
Market Business News
Imagine never having to wash your clothes, car or windows ever again, and they remain spotlessly clean forever. This dream may soon become a reality, according to British and Chinese scientists who have created a self-cleaning, waterproof paint. According ...

Self-Repairing Paint Straight from London Engineers   Empire State Tribune
Scientists create self-cleaning paint   Telegraph.co.uk
Revolutionary new self-clean coating could spell the end of washdays   The Independent
Reuters
Ars Technica
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Supermoon solar eclipse: Sky-gazers to be treated to two celestial events before ...
The Independent
Sky-gazers will be in for a celestial treat before the Spring Equinox, as the deepest solar eclipse since 1999 and a Supermoon will fall on two consecutive days - a phenomenon known as a Supermoon eclipse. On 20 March, parts of the UK will be gradually ...

Spring Equinox Supermoon solar eclipse: Rare celestial phenomenon will make ...   mirror.co.uk
How to (safely) watch the solar eclipse in Wales   WalesOnline
Solar Eclipse 2015: 13 facts you ought to know   Canterbury Times
Astronomy Now Online
Hereford Times
Pocklington Post
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Mars ocean was bigger than Arctic
The Nation
Mars once had a body of water bigger than Earth's Arctic Ocean and vast enough to cover the entire surface of the planet, Nasa scientists said in a study released. The new research, providing estimates on the quantity of water on the Red Planet, is based ...

10 Questions: Candidate in Mars One Mission   NBC 10 Philadelphia
New research indicates Mars may have had an ocean   Tucson News Now
Mars had oceans once, NASA says   SMN Weekly
Science Times
Clapway
The Independent
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Green bus shelter that generates its own electricity 24×7 developed by ...
Market Business News
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, eco-companies, and a firm of architects have developed a “green bus shelter” that could eventually generate enough electricity to become completely power autonomous. The researchers have used green wall ...

Cambridge University builds plant-powered bus shelter   BBC News
'Solar hub' bus shelter to be unveiled at Cambridge Science Festival 2015   Cambridge News
Plants light up 'green' bus shelter   Yahoo News UK
Phys.Org
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Ridged 'glass' could let astronauts drink martini in zero gravity
Daily Mail
The start-up chose to 3D print the cup so the complicated design can be refined quickly – with each design taking around 15 hours to print. Because there is already a printer on the ISS, the idea is that glasses could be printed off straight away, without the ...

Drinking cocktails in space now possible, says Californian company   Market Business News
Zero Gravity Cocktail Project seeks funding   The Spirits Business
Zero gravity cocktail glass ready for takeoff   The Drinks Business

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