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2015-06-22 Ireland Science


Irish Independent
   
Owls in ca-hoots with quiet science   
Irish Independent
A new material that could make wind turbines and even aircraft quieter by mimicking the design of owls' wings that allows them to silently hunt their prey has been developed by scientists. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To.
Owls' silent swoop may be key to quieter wind farms and control air flow   Daily Mail
Quieter wind turbines one step closer after Cambridge University scientists ...   The Independent
How owls could help make wind turbines and planes quieter   Science Codex
Cambridge News   
Alaska Native News   
Business Insider Australia   
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SDE Entertainment News
   
Meet the world's weirdest creature with a four-headed genitalia and spikes on its ...   
SDE Entertainment News
It has been dubbed the 'world's weirdest creature' and among its quirks is its four-headed 'manhood'. The long-beaked echidna, native of Papua New Guinea, is certainly a strange little beast. It's 'manhood' has been fascinating biologists as it has four heads.

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New York Times
   
Few Echo Pope's Environment Plea in Sunday Sermons   
New York Times
On the first Sunday after Pope Francis issued a landmark document on the environment, Roman Catholics attending Mass in Kenya, France, Mexico, Peru and the United States said they were thankful that he was using his pulpit to address climate change, ...

Resignations reflect Pope Francis's hard line on sex abuse cases   Irish Times
Cardinal Wuerl backs pope on global warming but says Bush's response was ...   Fox News
Papal encyclical raises new fear: contemporary evils might actually persist   Sydney Morning Herald
U-T San Diego   
Philly.com (blog)   
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The Hindu
   
Science behind summer solstice   
The Hindu
While jokes about the summer solstice including the one that said our planet would be only 5 km away from the Sun had been trending on the Internet, the northern hemisphere welcomed the first day of the summer on June 21. What is solstice? A solstice ...

Father's Day summer solstice: Dads get the longest day of the year (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
From Print Edition   The News International
Thousands mark summer solstice at Britain's Stonehenge   The Nation
Kansas City Star   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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The Independent
   
Why would you do this? Men surf on the back of a rare shark (+video)   
TVNZ
Footage of two men surfing on the back of a rare whale shark has sparked outrage. The video, thought to have been filmed in Venezuela, shows the men standing on to the flat-backed shark while holding a rope attached to a boat, the Mirror reports. The stunt ...

VIDEO: Pair slammed for 'surfing' whale shark   Whitsunday Times
Video: Pair caught surfing on whale shark   3News NZ
Great white shark circles boat off New York coast and feeds on whale   Telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian   
New York Daily News   
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The Land Newspaper
   
Climate: elephant in room for northern Aus   
The Land Newspaper
THE RECENTLY recently released white paper on developing northern Australia ignores an elephant in the room: climate change. While the paper sees a bright future for the north (roads, rail, dams and food), without considering climate change we can't be ...

Climate for change: our action plan to save the future   Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's peace threatened by climate change   WA today
Australia military 'unprepared' for climate impacts – experts   RTCC
The Australian   
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Orlando Sentinel
   
Study: Lakes on Titan could be similar to sinkholes on Earth   
Orlando Sentinel
Close-up radar image showing both empty and liquid-filled depressions (coloured blue) on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.A new study suggests that the moon's surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkholes on Earth. The radar image was created ...

Polar Winds On Saturn's Moon Titan Makes It More Earth-Like Than Previously ...   Huffington Post
These moons are better than planets   Khaleej Times
Cassini captures detailed images of Saturn's moon Dione   Engadget

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CNN
   
A new mass extinction could be underway, researchers say   
CNN
Sudan is not just any rhino. He's the last known male northern white rhino left in the world. As the only male, the fate of the subspecies rests on his ability to conceive with two females at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya. Sudan, 42, has ...

Experts Say We Are in the Sixth Massive Extinction Period   Pioneer News
Holocene Extinction: Sixth Mass-Extinction Has Been Triggered   Immortal News
Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here, Earth Losing Species 100 Times Faster In Than ...   Headlines & Global News
Daily Democrat   
WPXI Pittsburgh   
Thrasher Backer   
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The Inquisitr
   
NASA Releases First New Horizons 'Near-True' Color Videos Of Pluto [Video]   
The Inquisitr
NASA has released the first “near-true” color videos of Pluto and its largest natural satellite, Charon, captured by the New Horizons probe approaching the dwarf planet. The two newly released videos show the complex orbital interaction of the two bodies.
NASA publishes 1st 'near-true color' images of Pluto (VIDEO)   RT
A Spacecraft Launched In 2006 Is About To Try For Our First Good Photo Of Pluto   malaysiandigest.com
Spaceship set to fly by, collect data about Pluto   Press Herald

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