en-ie-hotdailynews: 2015-08-19 Ireland Science

NEWS.com.au

Comets helped seed life on earth, scientists say
NEWS.com.au
Compelling new evidence that comets helped seed life on earth has emerged from experiments mimicking the bombardment of early earth. Scientists in Japan generated protein building blocks by re-creating impacts by comets containing water, amino acids ...

Comets could have sparked life on Earth, scientists show   Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have found more evidence that human life came from comets   Irish Examiner
More Evidence That Comets May Have Brought Life to Earth   Universe Today
The Register
Daily Mail
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Popular Science

The Sun Briefly Built An 'Eiffel Tower' Larger Than Our Whole Planet
Popular Science
Though the solar copy bore an uncanny resemblance to the tower in France, this particular shape was a solar prominence, a loop of ionized gas that projects out from the sun's surface. Fittingly, the first observation of a solar prominence was made by a ...

Look How Massive This Eiffel Tower Shape on the Sun Is   Gizmodo
Göran Strand spots arc of gas from the sun that looks like the Eiffel Tower   Daily Mail
Man captures striking image of 'Eiffel Tower' on the surface of the SUN   Mirror.co.uk
RedOrbit
Discovery News
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NBCNews.com

Dogs have evolved to be more like cats
Irish Examiner
Climate change helped in the design of dogs, forging man's best friend from a creature that was more like a cat, scientists have learned. Ancestors of dogs living in north America 40 million years ago resembled small mongooses and, like cats, were ...
Climate Change in America Turned Forests Into Plains, Dogs Into Wolves   NBCNews.com
Study shows cat-like dogs evolved due to climate change   AmeriPublications
New discovery shows that dogs used to look more like cats   Dispatch Times
Science a Gogo
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cleveland.com

Proposed space elevator would tower 12 miles high
cleveland.com
Thoth Technology, a Canadian firm, has secured a patent for a 12-mile-high space elevator, but getting it built remains a challenge. (Thoth Technology). Print Email · Cliff Pinckard, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Cliff Pinckard, Northeast Ohio Media ...
The Unlikely Quest to Build a Tower Tall Enough to Take Astronauts to Space   Gizmodo
Going up? Next stop, space launch pad   The Straits Times
Space Elevator Could Be Rocket Alternative for Astronauts   ABC News
CBC.ca
Irish Times
CBS News
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CBS Local

World's first flower revealed
Daily Times
A plant that had no petals and lived underwater more than 125 million years ago could be the oldest known 'flower', according to scientists. The aquatic Montsechia vidalii was once abundant in freshwater lakes in what are now mountainous regions of ...
Discovery Of 130 Million-Year-Old Fossil Suggests Earth's First Flowering ...   CBS Local
Paleobotanists identify what could be the mythical 'first flower'   The Times
Fossil reveals world's first flowering plant   Science Recorder
Telegraph.co.uk
Times Gazette
Headlines & Global News
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Christian Science Monitor

Islamic leaders join Pope in urging fossil fuel phase out
The Australian
Islamic leaders from 20 countries today launched a Climate Change Declaration urging governments to deliver a strong, new international climate agreement in Paris this December. According to the declaration this needs to signal the “end of the road for ...

Islamic Experts Urge More Muslim Action On Climate Change   NDTV
Islamic experts urge more Muslim action on climate   The Nation
Muslim Scholars Call for Climate Action   Voice of America
Al Jazeera America
BBC News
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India Today

What Facebook is to social media, The Drinkable Book is to...
India Today
Each page of The Drinkable Book is embedded with silver and copper nano-particles, which kill the bacteria that cause deadly waterborne diseases. IndiaToday.in New Delhi, August 18, 2015 | UPDATED 16:54 IST ...

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