uk-hotdailynews: 2015-04-29 U.K. Science

Race to find meteorite worth thousands of euro
UTV Ireland
A meteorite that is believed to have crash-landed somewhere in Ireland at the weekend could be worth thousands of euro to the person who finds it. This long-exposure photograph taken on April 23, 2015 on Earth Day shows Lyrids. A meteorite. ©Getty ...

Experts hunting for 'extremely valuable' asteroid that crashed to Earth   Daily Mail
Attention treasure-hunters! €10k pieces of meteorite fall in Ireland   Irish Independent
Watch mystery fireball fly through night sky illuminating countryside 'like daylight'   mirror.co.uk
Yahoo News UK
Immortal News
Irish Mirror
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The giant SPONGE floating in space: Stunning close-up reveals Saturn's ...
Daily Mail
But this crumpet-like rock is in fact one of Saturn's outer moons, measuring 255 by 161 miles (410 by 260km). Named Hyperion, the moon's porous surface can be seen in incredible detail in this image taken by Cassini as it performed a flyby of the satellite.
Saturn's sponge-like moon captured in glorious detail   The Guardian
Detailed image reveals Saturn moon   Belfast Telegraph
This is Hyperion, one of Saturn's moons   Irish Examiner
Phys.Org
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CNET

New spectroscopic images of Mercury are a rainbow of colour
CNET
Images taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft and released in the probe's final days use colour to reveal the mineral composition of Mercury's surface. by Michelle Starr · @riding_red; April 28, 2015 7:46 PM PDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin.
MESSENGER probe faces imminent impact   The Space Reporter
MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into Mercury on Thursday   National Monitor
Spacecraft Snaps Dramatic Images Of Mercury Before A Smashing End   Tech Times
ABC Science Online
NOLA.com
New York Times
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New York to turn off lights for migrating birds
The Hindu
Birds taking on arduous flights as they migrate up the U.S. East Coast will have one less peril to worry about — bright lights from state-owned and -managed buildings in New York. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday said that state buildings will ...

New York state goes dark to protect migrating birds   Telegraph.co.uk
New York state to turn lights out for migrating birds   The Guardian
New York State to Turn off Non-Essential Outdoor Lighting during Peak Migration   NYC Today
BBC News
CBC.ca
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Hackers Can Take Over That Robot Performing Your Surgery
CBS Local
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A team of researchers successfully hacked a robot designed to carry out surgical procedures, prompting fears the devices could be taken over by hackers with malicious intent. The researchers from University of Washington ...

Hackers hijack a surgery robot - with potentially LETHAL consequences   mirror.co.uk
Surgery-bot can be hacked to HACK YOU TO PIECES   The Register
Researchers mount cyber attacks against surgery robot   Help Net Security
iMedicalApps
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MoS2 performance improved dramatically with boron nitride encapsulation, like ...
Market Business News
The performance of 2-dimensional material MoS2 (molybdenum disulfide) can be significantly improved by encapsulation in boron nitride, say scientists from the US, Japan, Denmark and South Korea. Two years ago, Wang Fong-Jen, James Hone, and ...

Graphene helps study other 2D semiconductors   ElectronicsWeekly.com
Boron Nitride Encapsulation Improves Performance of 2D Semiconductor   Azom.com
Two-dimensional semiconductor comes clean   ECNmag.com

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Chilesaurus diegosuarezi: Scientists name 'platypus' dinosaur after child who ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Birmingham: Paleontologists have unearthed a strange new species of dinosaur that is unlike anything they have seen before. The newly described Chilesaurus diegosuarezi was an ostrich-size dinosaur that walked upright like a Tyrannosaurus rex but had ...

Animals of the World   BBC News
'Jigsaw puzzle' dinosaur Chilesaurus boasted weird mix of traits   Thanh Nien Daily
Bizarre new dinosaur to be named 'diegosuarezi', after boy who discovered it   National Monitor

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TIME

A Month Spent in Space—and 11 More to Go
TIME
A year in space is marked in part by the holidays that will pass while you're away. Christmas? Sorry, out of town. Easter? Ditto. Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, Halloween? Catch you next year. It's fitting then, that the first holiday astronaut Scott Kelly spent in ...

Astronaut living in zero gravity is optimistic his unique year-long mission will be a ...   National Monitor
Can humans hibernate in space?   The Guardian
Astronauts on International Space Station watch Gravity film   BBC News
CNET
mirror.co.uk
Metro
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Astrophysicists create most complete 3-D map of the universe
The Space Reporter
The most comprehensive map of the universe completed to date covers nearly two billion light-years of space. facebook · twitter · google_plus · reddit · pinterest · linkedin · mail. A team of scientists has created a detailed map of our cosmic “neighborhood” ...

Waterloo astrophysicists help create detailed 3D map of nearby Universe   Hamilton Spectator
3D master map reveals most complete picture of our universe   Daily Mail
3D map of Universe most comprehensive yet, spans nearly 2bn light years   Market Business News
TechRadar
Science Daily
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Briny water under Antarctica's surface could host life
ABC Science Online
Extreme life An airborne survey of a presumably dry Antarctic valley has revealed a stunning and unexpected interconnected subsurface briny aquifer deep beneath the frozen tundra. The finding, reported today in Nature Communications , not only has ...

Scientists finally understand why 'blood' is gushing from famous glacier   National Monitor
Antarctica's Blood Falls Could Hold Secrets To Alien Life   Tech Times
UT researcher leads team to find life beneath Antarctica   Knoxville News Sentinel
Uncover California
Daily Mail
The Verge
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