en-ie-hotdailynews: 2015-04-16 Ireland Science

ISS and DRAGON craft in space chase over Clare
The Clare Herald
The “DRAGON” re-supply craft, which was successfully launched this week, and will be visible along with the International Space Station (ISS) in Irish skies tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow night at 9.51pm and 8.57pm respectively. As the below photograph ...

Look up: Ireland to get stunning view of space mission Tuesday to Thursday   Irish Examiner
Dragon set to chase International Space Station in Carmarthenshire sky   Carmarthen Journal
How to see the International Space Station   Mother Nature Network
Coventry Telegraph
South Wales Evening Post
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BBC News

New study on terrifying 'zombie worms'
The Weather Network
Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:55 PM - A new study has shed new light on the nature of 'zombie worms' -- bone-eating creatures that were thought to have evolved alongside whales. Researchers at the University of Plymouth have discovered the worms ...

Fossils Show How Boneworms Dined on Ancient Sea Serpents   NBCNews.com
Bone-Eating Zombie Worms Feasted On Giant Marine Reptiles In Prehistoric ...   Headlines & Global News
Zombie worms may have wiped out fossil records for many dinosaur species   Siliconrepublic.com
BBC News
Belfast Telegraph
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Fox News

Video: New footage shows how close SpaceX Falcon 9 came to sticking the ...
San Jose Mercury News
On Wednesday afternoon, SpaceX released a YouTube video of Tuesday's failed recovery of a Falcon 9 rocket. It was the second landing attempt of the year, after the first failed in January. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that lateral velocity caused the ...

Watch SpaceX rocket explode after failed landing   USA TODAY
Latest video shows how close SpaceX got to landing Falcon 9   Mashable
SpaceX Checks Throttle Valve After Flawed Falcon 9 Recovery Attempt   Aviation Week
Gizmodo Australia
Ars Technica
First Coast News
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BreakingNews.ie

Can penguins predict the sex and name of the royal baby?
BreakingNews.ie
Everyone loves penguins. Penguins are great. They're so great that they can even predict the sex and name of the royal baby. Well, they can try anyway. These gentoo penguins at the National Sea Life Centre were happy to give it a go. What do you think they ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

What really happens when you crack your knuckles
Sydney Morning Herald
In what might be one of the most obscure scientific discoveries of 2015, researchers have identified once and for all what happens when you crack your knuckles. It had been assumed for almost 50 years that joint cracking – which gives great relief to some yet ...

Watch This Gross MRI of a Knuckle Cracking   Wired
researchers crack the knuckle mystery   Toronto Sun
Knuckle Cracking Secret Revealed - It's A Gas!   Tech Times
ABC Science Online
Reuters
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The Register

First color pics: Pluto, Charon as you've never seen them before
The Register
Pic NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken the first true color photograph of Pluto and its largest moon Charon – all while speeding toward the dwarf planet at four kilometres a second (8,950 miles per hour). The pictures were taken from around 115 ...

Closing in on Pluto   San Antonio Express-News
Pluto's secrets to be revealed this summer   Houston Chronicle
New Horizon's Sends Back First Color Image of Pluto and Charon   Science Times
KABC-TV
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Los Angeles Times
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Discovery News

Early Earth May Have Swallowed a Mercury-Like Planet
Discovery News
The jostling of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in the solar system's early days may have delivered a Mercury-type building block to baby Earth, providing the planet with the chemistry to heat its convecting, liquid metal core to this day, a new study shows.
Early Earth May Have Absorbed Mercury-like Object   Space.com

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CBS Local

Gray Whale Swims 13988 Miles In Pacific, Breaks Migration Record
CBS Local
The fluke of a gray whale emerges from the water. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images). Related Tags: Animals, Gray Whale, Grey whale, Pacific Ocean, Records, Whale. (CBS) – The western gray whale now holds the record as the mammal with the longest ...

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