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2015-01-06 Ireland Science


Newstalk 106-108 fm
   
Dublin Zoo had more visitors than ever last year   
Newstalk 106-108 fm
2014 saw over a million people passing through the Zoo's gates making it Ireland's most popular family visitor attraction. It is the fourth year in a row that visitor numbers have exceeded the million visitor mark with the final figure surpassing last year's figure to ...

Dublin Zoo had a record-breaking year in 2014   Yahoo News UK
What the Afflictions of Circus and Zoo Elephants Have Taught Us About Captivity   One Green Planet
After difficult lessons, Oakland Zoo a leader in elephant welfare   San Francisco Chronicle

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Irish Times
   
CIA claims responsibility for UFO sightings in late 1950s, 1960s   
Irish Times
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has tweeted a declassified document that claims responsibility for over one half of all UFO reports made during the late 1950s and 1960s. The document, titled The CIA and the U-2 Programme, 1954-1974, was the most ...

CIA claim that they're the ones behind most UFO sightings from back in the day   Entertainment.ie

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Irish Examiner
   
11 things to know about Nasa's Dawn Orbiter   
Irish Examiner
5. Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt, the rocky region between Mars and Jupiter. Artist concept showing the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres. Artist concept showing the Dawn spacecraft at Ceres (Nasa/JPL). 6. It measures about 590 miles across – about ...


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BBC News
   
SpaceX to attempt rocket landing at sea   
BBC News
California's SpaceX company will try to soft-land part of its Falcon rocket when it launches a cargo mission to the space station on Tuesday. All segments of a rocket are usually discarded after use and are destroyed as they fall back to Earth. SpaceX, however ...

SpaceX set for space station flight, booster landing attempt   CBS News
Coming Soon From SpaceX's Elon Musk: How to Move to Mars   NBCNews.com
SpaceX: CATS with LASERS to blast off to space station   The Register
CTV News   
Sky News Australia   
Fortune   
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The Space Reporter
   
Rosetta probe fails to locate Philae lander on 67P   
The Space Reporter
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta probe orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko failed to locate the Philae lander on the comet's surface when it photographed the region where mission team members believe the lander to be.
Comet probe 'may revive in March'   Sky News Australia
Missing Philae may wake up in March   Inferse
Philae comet lander eludes discovery (12145)   Full-Time Whistle
Rappler   
RTE.ie   
BBC News   
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Science Codex
   
This whale lives for 200 years, and its genes will hopefully tell us why   
ScienceAlert
Scientists have mapped the full genome of the bowhead whale, which lives for more than 200 years, and have found some unique features. FIONA MACDONALD 6 JAN 2015. Facebook Icon Twitter Icon Email Icon. READ MORE. The bowhead whale ...

Bowhead whale genetic blueprint could hold 'secret for living longer'   ABC Online
Secret of ageing well? Check out the bowhead whale   Malay Mail Online
Does 200-year-old whale hold secret to fountain of youth?   Science Recorder
SMN Weekly   
Voice of America   
Consolidate Times   
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Ars Technica
   
Earth-sized planets discovered by Kepler may really be Earth-like   
Ars Technica
Ever since exoplanets were first discovered in the 1990s, astronomers have dreamed of finding an Earth-like planet amongst the stars. Better detection techniques have allowed us to find smaller and smaller exoplanets. But when we spot a planet beyond our ...

'Super Earths' Around Nearby Stars Get New Attention   The Inquisitr
Astronomers reveal a recipe for finding planets similar to Earth   National Monitor
How to make a planet just like Earth   Science AAAS
Full-Time Whistle   
FlightCentric.com   
SMN Weekly   
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Capitalberg
   
Disco Clam has a strange sparkling defense mechanism   
Capitalberg
Researchers found that disco clam has a flashy defence mechanism a spectacular light show to scare away potential threats. This small 3 inched long clam has tiny silica spheres which shines can reflect. The clam has a unique ability to use this strategy both ...

Disco Clam: A clam with a sparkling defense mechanism   Full-Time Whistle
'Disco clams' use their groovy flashing lights to fight off predators   Washington Post
Stayin' alive: Disco clam has a flashy defense strategy   Fox News
Phys.Org   
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Stuff.co.nz
   
Sun's coronal hole is 410 times the size of Earth   
Stuff.co.nz
An image of a dark hole on the sun hundreds of times larger than our planet has been captured by Nasa. The enormous coronal hole near the south pole of the sun was captured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on Nasa's Solar ...

NASA: 'Hole' in the sun nothing to worry about   3News NZ
Coronal Hole Spotted On The Sun Is Hundreds Of Times Bigger Than The Earth   Huffington Post
Nasa spots huge black mark spreading over the sun   Metro
Washington Post   
The Inquisitr   
The Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency   
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CBS Local
   
Look Up! Comet Lovejoy To Come Closest To Earth Tuesday Night   
CBS Local
Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earth's horizon behind airglow in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2011. credit: NASA. DETROIT (WWJ) – If the ...

A Guide To Spotting Comet Lovejoy   ValueWalk
Comet Lovejoy Will Be Visible In This Week   Voice Chronicle
Don't miss! Green comet Lovejoy glows its brightest   Delhi Daily News
Space.com   
Business Insider Australia   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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