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2015-05-18 U.K. Science


Express.co.uk
   
Sarah Brightman: Why has the singer's dream to blast off into space been ...   
Express.co.uk
That was the date an eight-year-old Sarah sat down with her father at their home in Hertfordshire and watched on the family's black and white television the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take man's first steps on the Moon. The memory of the thrill ...

Sarah Brightman postpones space flight plans, cites personal family reasons   Market Business News
Singer And Aspiring Space Tourist Sarah Brightman Postpones Her Launch   io9
Sarah Brightman representative hopes some money paid for preparations for her ...   Kyiv Post
Hamilton Spectator   
Space.com   
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Daily Mail
   
Amazon rainforest climate tower is taller than the Shard and the Eiffel Tower   
Daily Mail
A huge tower dwarfing some of the world's greatest landmarks has been erected in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in a bid to gather new data on the state of our atmosphere. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory stands 1066ft (325m) high in a remote part ...

Impressive Amazon mast towers more than 1000ft over the rainforest - and is ...   Irish Mirror
Amazon Tall Tower Observatory gives scientists the big picture of the rainforest   The Independent

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BBC News
   
Grey seals are compromising cod stock recovery plans   
BBC News
Grey seals are compromising the recovery of cod stocks off the west coast of Scotland, research has suggested. The cod population has been in long-term decline for many years, largely due to fishing. The EU introduced a recovery plan to try and curb cod ...

Seals to blame for low cod stocks not over-fishing   Scotsman
Don't blame fishing: cod stocks are falling to seals   The Times (subscription)

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Discovery News
   
Giant Squid Lore and Legends Date Back Centuries   
Discovery News
A giant squid washed up on New Zealand's South Island earlier this week, a specimen whose tentacles reached over 16 feet in length. It caused quite a stir when found, and was rescued from birds and other scavengers by a local museum. According to an ...

Giant Squid: New Zealand Sea Monster's Death A Mystery [Photo]   The Inquisitr
Giant Squid With 16-Foot Long Tentacles Washes Up On New Zealand Beach ...   Tech Times
Giant squid with large tentacles found in New Zealand beach [Video]   The Next Digit
Benchmark Reporter   
Fishing World   
ABC News   
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Zee News
   
Earth's capacity to absorb CO2 has gone up: Study   
Zee News
Washington: There are some good and bad news for climate change enthusiasts. Researchers have found that along with the rise in carbon emissions, the Earth's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere has also gone up. But there is no ...

Earth can absorb more CO2 in parallel with rising emissions, new study shows   Market Business News
Spy satellite to spy on countries' CO2 emissions   The Sunday Times
Earth Wins Time as Land and Seas Absorb More Carbon   Truthdig
InfoTel News Ltd   
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International Business Times AU
   
Robotic Pets To Replace The Real Ones In A Decade   
International Business Times AU
(IN PHOTO)Sony's second-generation "Aibo" (R) faces the original toy dog at the unveiling of the company's latest entertainment robot in Tokyo October 12, 2000. Sony Corp let its new robot pet, complete with waggling ears and attitude, out of the kennel on ...

Virtual pets 'the norm in future'   BT.com
Will Robots Replace Cats?   CatChannel.com
Robotic Dogs, Cats Soon to Replace Live Pets? Expert Says Ethical Issues Must ...   Gospel Herald
Huffington Post UK   
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Live Science
   
Octopus-Inspired Robotic Arms Can Multitask During Surgery   
Live Science
A robotic arm inspired by octopus tentacles could make it easier for surgeons to access hard-to-reach parts of the body. A new robotic device uses a series of inflatable chambers to mimic how an octopus can twist, elongate and bend its limbs in any direction.
Octopus Arm Inspires Future Surgical Tool   Science Times
Robot Inspired By Octopus Tentacles Could Save Lives   Tech Times
Out on a limb: Octopus inspires medical robotics   The New Age Online
Techie News   
Popular Science   
HardOCP (press release)   
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Times of India
   
Even fruit flies exhibit emotions   
Daily Times
Fruit flies also exhibit similar emotions as we do when encountered with a stimulus, finds a new California Institute of Technology (Caltech) study. The researchers studied the phenomenon by deconstructing the idea of an emotion into basic building blocks ...

Can A Fly Feel Fear?   Pioneer News
Even fruit flies experience emotions similar to humans – Says new study   Times Gazette
Fruit flies appear to experience emotions, according to new study   National Monitor
Inferse   
New York Times   
Newser   
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News Every day
   
Higgs Boson Article from LHC Has 5000 Authors!   
News Every day
Science has reputation of being difficult to comprehend but a publication co-authored by 5,000 people can overwhelm even scientists. The paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters detailed the Higgs Boson find at CERN and its precise mass.
Physics paper with over 5000 authors a world record   Business Standard
Physics Paper on the Higgs Boson Has Record 5154 Authors   Softpedia News

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Daily Mail
   
As the wind rustles in the willows, on the trail of the rare, engendered and ...   
Daily Mail
When an animal is as endangered as the little cutie we were hoping to see, you'd be foolish to expect anything other than a long wait. Thankfully, there was plenty of evidence that our quarry had made himself at home close by. Canal & River Trust ecologist ...

South Yorkshire nature lovers urged to log sightings of water voles   South Yorkshire Times

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