en-ng-hotdailynews: 2015-05-22 Nigeria Science

Large Hadron Collider busts energy-level benchmark
Times of India
GENEVA: The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday. "Protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 ...

World's Most Complex Machine Gets Ready for More Atom-Smashing   NBCNews.com
Eight Things To Know As The Large Hadron Collider Breaks Energy Records   Forbes
World's largest particle collider busts record   gulfnews.com
The Independent
Daily Mail
Irish Examiner
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Antarctic glaciers thinning so fast, it's like a switch was flipped
Christian Science Monitor
A new study finds that processes related to global warming are weakening several Antarctic ice shelves surprisingly quickly – causing glaciers to lose large amounts of ice. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer May 21, 2015. close. Icebergs calved by glaciers on the ...

Some Antarctic glaciers reached a tipping point in 2009   ABC Online
Antarctic Peninsula in 'dramatic' ice loss   BBC News
Antarctic glaciers lose ice in surprise collapse   Sydney Morning Herald
Reuters
Metro
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SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Earth from ISS
The Space Reporter
Today's splashdown of a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule marks the end of the longest-lasting Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) completed thus far. According to NBC News, the Dragon capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean ...

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down In Pacific After Successful Mission   Tech Times
SpaceX Dragon supply craft returns space station science home   Examiner.com
Critical NASA Research Returns to Earth Aboard U.S. SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft   eNews Park Forest
Brevard Times
Reuters
Arab News
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Ocean's hidden world of plankton revealed in 'enormous database'
BBC News
The hidden world of the ocean's tiniest organisms has been revealed in a series of papers published in the journal Science. An international team has been studying samples of plankton collected during a three-year global expedition. They have so far found ...

Global ocean census uncovers trove of unknown life   CBS News
Plankton research reveals a world of diversity in one tiny speck   Malay Mail Online
Multiyear Study Examines Plankton At Global Level, Finds New Information On ...   Tech Times
Arizona Daily Star (blog)
Worcester Telegram
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Pakistan welcomes French president call on climate pact
The Nation
Islamabad - Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has welcomed the remark of French president regarding the much-awaited global climate agreement, asking the rich countries that a roadmap for ramping up climate finance for ...

Big Energy clashes with John Kerry on how to fix climate change   THE BUSINESS TIMES
UN climate fund gears up to deploy cash after Japan inks pledge   Daily Mail
What's missing from our climate pledges? Low-carbon R&D   The Conversation AU

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'Top 10' new species includes cartwheeling spider, 'chicken from hell'
TODAYonline
Life reconstruction of the new oviraptorosaurian dinosaur species, Anzu wyliei in its 66 million-year-old environment in western North America as seen in an undated handout illustration by Mr Mark A Klinger, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
'Chicken from hell' part of 2014's top new species   Times of India
Top 10 new species list includes cartwheeling spider   ABC Science Online
Top 10 new species of 2015 (pictures)   CNET
Headlines & Global News
Science Recorder
Newser
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How the Octopus is 'Seeing' Without Eyes
Yibada (English Edition)
The California two spot octopus possesses light sensitive proteins on their skin for them to "see". (Photo : UCSB). Scientists reveal that some octopus species can "see" with their skin. This type of sensory perception does not work exactly the same as eyesight ...

Light Sensors in Cephalopod Skin   The Scientist
Octopus's skin can detect light the same way its eyes do   Mumbai Mirror
Octopus Vision: Study reveals Octopus can See from their skin   Empire State Tribune
UPI.com
Daily Mail
Treehugger
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Dogs were domesticated at least 27000 years ago, ancient wolf bone suggests
South China Morning Post (subscription)
Genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone found below a frozen cliff in Siberia is shedding new light on humankind's long relationship with dogs, showing canine domestication may have occurred earlier than previously thought. Today's dogs, from ...

Dogs And Humans Have Been Best Friends For As Long As 40000 Years   Headlines & Global News
Dogs split from the wolf pack earlier than thought, DNA analysis suggests   Duluth News Tribune
Family tree of dogs and wolves is found to split earlier than thought   Houston Chronicle (subscription)
SFGate
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Software to provide insights into Type 1a supernovae
The Space Reporter
New software that enables astronomers to discover Type 1a supernovae in time to observe and analyze them could provide scientists with important insights about the physics behind these phenomena. Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ...

Caltech Research Confirms Supernova's Single-Degenerate Origin   West Texas News
Supernova shockwave hitting a red giant could solve star exploding mystery   Daily Mail
Supernova hits star, reveals its origin   Business Standard
Nature.com
R & D Magazine
Phys.Org
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Science explains why men exist
NEWS.com.au
SOME women would prefer a world where men don't exist. Just picture it. No hogging the remote. No beard clippings in the sink. After all, it works for other species. Komodo dragons can reproduce without sex with a male partner. So can whiptail lizards, ...

Solved: The mystery behind why men exist!   India Today
This Is The Reason Why Men Still Exist, Study Says   Design & Trend
Why do men exist? Scientific study explains   The Daily Star

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