en-ie-hotdailynews: 2015-05-21 Ireland Science

This may be the flag Earthlings will raise when we reach an alien planet
Firstpost
Have you ever wondered what Earth's flag would it look like? Well, if we ever colonise another planet here's the flag that will be flying high. OSKAR PERNEFELDT website. Made up of seven white rings in an interlocking pattern on a blue background and ...

Should this flag represent the planet Earth?   The Weather Network
oskar pernefeldt envisions the international flag of planet earth   Designboom
NASA Supports Replacing American Flag With A New Design, International Flag ...   The Inquisitr
Social News Daily
Wired.co.uk
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Most detailed image of Medusa Nebula captured by the Very Large Telescope
Mashable
A multi-colored cloud of gas representing one of the last gasps of a dying star glows about 1,500 light-years from Earth. A powerful telescope in the Southern Hemisphere captured a new photo of the beautiful cloud, called a planetary nebula, shining in space.
Medusa Nebula   Economic Times
Medusa Nebula Seen Like Never Before In Stunning New Image From The Very ...   Tech Times
Our Best Glimpse Yet Of The Stunning Medusa Nebula   io9
Satellite PR News (press release)
CNET
EurekAlert (press release)
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Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya
Brisbane Times
Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis with stone tools found in the West Turkana area of Kenya. New York: By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who ...

Stone tools in use for 3.3m years   Irish Examiner
Stone tool discovery confirms theory of early humans   Toronto Star
The World's Oldest Stone Tools Were Not Made By Humans   Gizmodo
BBC News
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The study on gay marriage that was too good to be true
Sydney Morning Herald
It was the study that some said could rewrite the political rule book. Forget focus groups, road-to-Damascus moments and negative campaign advertising. What if you could change people's minds on an issue such as gay marriage simply by ... talking to them?
Retraction Sought in Study on Views of Gay Marriage   New York Times
Study of views on gay marriage should be retracted, coauthor says   Los Angeles Times
Researcher retracts landmark same-sex marriage study, claims co-author ...   CBC.ca
Washington Post
Politico (blog)
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Texas hunter shoots rhino for US$ 350000, calls it conservation
ABC Online
A Texan hunter paid $350,000 for the right to kill an elderly black rhino in Nambia, with government officials saying the proceeds will go towards conserving the species. A US HUNTER who paid US$350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia successfully ...

Hunter pays $350000 to shoot black rhino: 'I believe in survival of species'   The Guardian
Texas hunter Corey Knowlton shoots endangered rhinoceros in Namibia after ...   Sydney Morning Herald
After the black rhino hunt, a village celebrates meat delivery   CNN

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Giant pandas can't stomach bamboo, say researchers
Times of India
BEIJING: Despite two million years of munching almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda's gut has not adapted to eating the plant -putting the creatures in an "evolutionary dilemma", scientists said. The surprising study , reported by online US journal ...

Panda guts not suited to digesting bamboo   Nature.com
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns

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Snakes' ancestors had hind legs with toes, ankles
Times of India
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, researchers ...

Ancient snakes were nocturnal hunters with tiny legs   CBS News
Researchers come up with First Comprehensive Reconstruction of Ancestral ...   Uncover California
Snakes Used To Have Limbs And More Frightening But Started Evolving 128 ...   Reporter Advocate
Clapway
Newser
Live Science
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Japan aquariums to stop buying Taiji dolphins
BBC News
Japan's aquariums have voted to stop acquiring dolphins caught during the controversial annual hunt in the town of Taiji. It comes after the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Waza) suspended Japan's membership because of the "cruel" way the ...

Japan Aquariums to Stop Obtaining Dolphins from Taiji   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Japan aquariums say they'll stop getting Taiji-hunt dolphins   STLtoday.com
Japanese association to ban aquariums from obtaining dolphins captured via ...   AsiaOne
The Guardian
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US military launches secret space plane X-37B
India Today
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. File photo: Reuters.The US Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane was launched on Wednesday for its fourth secret space mission. The reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket at 11:05 am ...

Star Wars: the Air Force's new X-37B space plane shrouded in secrecy   State Column
US Military Space Plane Begins a Fourth (Mostly) Secret Mission   New York Times

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Spacecraft sailing on sunbeams begins test flight
The Guardian
People watch the Atlas 5 rocket lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photograph: Craig Rubadoux/AP. Hannah Devlin Science correspondent. @hannahdev. Wednesday 20 May 2015 19.53 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 20 May 2015 20.42 EDT.
Secret space plane, solar sail launch aboard Atlas V   myfox8.com
Solar sail tests Sagan's dream of flying with Sun's photons   euronews
Solar space sails are real, and Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson are stoked   Grist
The Planetary Society (blog)
Wired
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