uk-hotdailynews: 2015-04-15 U.K. Science

Scientists find 'dark matter' interacts with more forces than just gravity
The Independent
Dark matter may not be so dark after all, after scientists witnessed the mysterious cosmic entity interacting with the universe around it an entirely new way. Despite accounting for an estimated 85 per cent of matter in the Universe, dark matter has never been ...

Dark matter may not be completely 'dark' after all, say scientists   Telegraph.co.uk
Is dark matter more active than we thought?   Daily Mail
Dark matter is really dark, but not totally dark: Scientists are dialing in the darkness   Washington Post
Science Codex
Discovery News
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Jurassic Park in real life: The race to modify the DNA of endangered animals and ...
The Independent
Jurassic Park has a lot to answer for. It made the idea seem so simple. Take the DNA from a microscopic drop of dinosaur blood, preserved for 65 million years in the gut of a mosquito trapped in fossilised amber. Carry out a bit of jiggery-pokery involving ...

Race to modify the DNA of endangered animals and resurrect extinct ones   Belfast Telegraph
Coming soon to a zoo near you – woolly freaking mammoths!   Techly
Biologist explains the science of 'de-extinction' in new book   Phys.Org

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No, global warming is not going to take away your fish and chips
Washington Post
Nowhere do people love fish and chips more than in the United Kingdom, where the National Federation of Fish Friers calls it “the undisputed National dish of Great Britain” and claims sales of 1.2 billion pounds Sterling per year. No wonder, then, that when a ...

Is this the end of fish and chips? Warming seas could spell end of British classic   The Independent
Warmer seas will cause haddock and plaice prices to soar   Daily Mail
Warming seas mean haddock could be staple of the past   Financial Times
Telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian
BBC News
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Trying to explain why are common dolphins are becoming so common.
Herald Scotland
Dolphin-spotters are being sought this summer by conservationists trying to explain the recent substantial increase in common dolphins off the west of Scotland, with climate change a likely cause. Dolphin-spotters are being sought this summer by ...

Common dolphin numbers on the increase off the Scottish west coast   Island News & Advertiser
Dolphin sighting rise investigated   Wear Valley Advertiser

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Zombie worms ate plesiosaur bones
BBC News
A type of deep-sea worm that eats whale bones has existed for 100 million years and may have chewed up chunks of the fossil record, a study suggests. Researchers found bore-holes indicative of Osedax worms in the fossilised flipper of a plesiosaur, and ...

'Zombie worms' ate bones of prehistoric reptiles - meaning fewer fossils to help ...   mirror.co.uk
Zombie worm 'destroyed fossils'   Warrington Guardian

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Dazzling meteor shower which fills the sky with shooting stars begins this week
Express.co.uk
A DAZZLING meteor shower which fills the sky with shooting stars will begin this week. By Dion Dassanayake Dion Dassanayake. PUBLISHED: 22:39, Tue, Apr 14, 2015 | UPDATED: 23:53, Tue, Apr 14, 2015. A picture of the Lyrid meteor shower GETTY.
Lyrids Meteor Shower April 16-23, 2015: Peak dates, times - How to watch ...   ChristianToday
Radiant Meteor Shower With Chance For 100 Shooting Stars Per Hour Begins ...   CBS Local
Lyrids meteor shower to light up night skies in Herts and Essex   Herts and Essex Observer
Uttoxeter Advertiser
Cambridge News
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds water below the surface of Mars
Daily Times
Mars has liquid water just below its surface, according to new measurements by NASA's Curiosity rover, The Guardian reports. Until now, scientists had thought that conditions on the red planet were too cold and arid for liquid water to exist, although there ...

Analytical Wanderer Discovers Convincing Proof: Liquid Water Possibly Near ...   Empire State Tribune
Curiosity finds evidences of liquid brine on Mars   La prensa
Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water On Mars   From Quarks to Quasars
CNET
The Guardian
The Register
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Keepers issue challenge on mountain hare numbers
Aberdeen Press and Journal
A £1,000 challenge has been thrown down by gamekeepers to conservation groups as the row over mountain hare culling grows more bitter. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) have offered a £1,000 reward to conservation groups if these groups ...

Call to rethink hare culling   BBC News
Ban mountain hare culls for three years urge Scottish wildlife organisations   Smallholder
RESTRAINT URGED OVER HARE CULLS   Herald Scotland
The Times (subscription)
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International Space Station visible over Harrogate
Ripon Today
The International Space Station (ISS) will be visible as it passes over North Yorkshire a number of times during evenings in April. The ISS is the largest Space Station/ laboratory ever built and it can be spotted with the naked eye at certain times as it orbits ...

How to spot the International Space Station as it passes over Coventry in April   Coventry Telegraph
LOOK UP: International Space Station to glide across Derbyshire's night skies on ...   Derbyshire Times

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Charles Darwin the tortoise opens University of Lincoln science lab
BBC News
A tortoise called Charles Darwin has officially opened a science laboratory at the University of Lincoln. Darwin, who lives at the university, was joined by TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham, who has been appointed visiting professor. The presenter ...

Tortoise called Charles Darwin upstages Chris Packham at launch of £11m ...   Lincolnshire Echo
Springwatch presenter Chris Packham unveils Lincoln university laboratories   The Lincolnite

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