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• Cygnus Spaceship Launch Restarts Orbital ATK Cargo Missions for NASA

  06-12-2015 23:47
  
  With a brilliant afternoon launch, the private spaceflight company Orbital ATK returned its Cygnus cargo ship to flight after a year on hiatus Sunday (Dec. 6), launching vital supplies and NASA gear to the International Space Station. The unmanned Cygnus spacecraft blasted off from a pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:44 p.m. EST (2144 GMT) Sunday after a three-day delay caused by bad weather. The liftoff marks the first resupply mission for NASA by Orbital ATK sinc
  
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• Liftoff: First U.S. shipment in months flying to International Space Station

  06-12-2015 23:37 via cbc.ca
  
  A U.S. shipment of much-needed groceries and other astronaut supplies rocketed toward the International Space Station for the first time in months Sunday, reigniting NASA's commercial delivery service.
  
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• Orbital heads back to International Space Station on cargo run

  06-12-2015 23:33
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Sunday, sending a long-awaited Orbital ATK cargo ship on its way to the International Space Station for NASA.
  
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• Canada invited to facilitate climate talks for 1st time in a decade

  06-12-2015 23:05 via cbc.ca
  
  France's foreign minister has invited Canada to help facilitate the final, crucial negotiations on a climate change deal this week, a request that hasn't come Canada's way for a decade.
  
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• Japanese Spacecraft Gets 2nd Chance at Venus Today

  06-12-2015 22:31
  
  A robotic Japanese spacecraft gets a second and final chance to orbit Venus today (Dec. 6), exactly five years after the first attempt went awry. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Akatsuki probe was supposed to begin circling Venus on Dec. 6, 2010, but its main engine conked out during a critical orbit-insertion burn and the spacecraft went sailing off into space. Now, the time has finally come for Akatsuki to try again.
  
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• UN talks to tame global warming enter final, crunch phase

  06-12-2015 18:47
  
  Pope Francis on Sunday urged nations to act with "courage" a day before UN talks aimed at saving mankind from the direst impacts of global warming enter their crunch phase.
  
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• Scientists gather to discuss Arctic under shadow of changing climate

  06-12-2015 18:26 via cbc.ca
  
  Top Arctic scientists will gather in Vancouver this week to discuss everything from caribou populations to the high cost of food — but underlying it all is the unsettling speed with which the northern climate is changing.
  
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• The Latest: Virgin CEO calls for bold action on climate

  06-12-2015 16:52
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:
  
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• Craters, glaciers and mountains: NASA releases sharpest-ever images of Pluto

  06-12-2015 16:49 via cbc.ca
  
  NASA has released the sharpest images yet of the dwarf planet Pluto, taken from its New Horizons spacecraft during its now-famous flyby on July 14.
  
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• Tiny parasites mxyozoa are jellyfish cousins, study finds

  06-12-2015 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A 200-year-old zoological mystery about the origins of a group of tiny fish parasites is as close as ever to being solved, thanks to research with a Canadian connection, and the answer is potentially astonishing.
  
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• Tiny jellyfish cousin 'redefines what we think of as animal'

  06-12-2015 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A 200-year-old zoological mystery about the origins of a group of tiny fish parasites is as close as ever to being solved, thanks to research with a Canadian connection, and the answer is potentially astonishing.
  
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• High-potency pot smokers show brain-fiber damage

  06-12-2015 14:00
  
  People who smoke potent pot had signs of damage in a brain communication link.
  
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• Overflowing Brazil delegation brings flair to climate talks

  06-12-2015 13:53
  
  By Alister Doyle PARIS (Reuters) - Once in a while at the global climate talks in Paris, the sea of mostly dark business attire is broken up by flashes of orange, yellow and red feathers from the spectacular headdress of Brazilian campaigner Jose de Lima Kaxinawa. De Lima Kaxinawa belongs to the Kaxinawa, also known as the Huni Kuin, a tribe that lives in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and Peru and whose way of life is under threat from deforestation. This is because Brazil has once again appli
  
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• NSA's shuttered program was 'a sacrificial lamb' in U.S. mass surveillance

  06-12-2015 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The National Security Agency in the United States may have shuttered its controversial bulk phone record collection program, but that doesn't mean people living in that country suddenly have their communications free from government scrutiny.
  
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• UK under fire on climate policy

  06-12-2015 10:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government faces criticisms for an alleged mismatch between words and deeds on climate policy.
  
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• At climate talks, African nations pledge to restore forests

  06-12-2015 08:35
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tree by tree, more than a dozen African governments pledged to restore the continent's natural forests at the United Nations climate talks on Sunday.
  
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• To earn gratitude, put some effort into it

  06-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Southern California) Researchers found that when done with high effort, the trivial courtesy of holding the door for others can inspire a 'thank you' or a favor in return, creating a virtuous cycle of gratitude.
  
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• Study shows age doesn't affect survival outcomes in patients with MDS who receive a HCT

  06-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Padilla Speer Beardsley) Prospective study, presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, shows age doesn't affect survival outcomes in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who receive a hematopoietic cell transplant.
  
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• Radio shadow reveals tenuous cosmic gas cloud

  06-12-2015 06:00
  
  (National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources. This radio shadow revealed the composition and conditions of diffuse gas in the Milky Way galaxy.
  
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• Emerging technologies help advance the understanding, detection and control of epilepsy

  06-12-2015 06:00
  
  (American Epilepsy Society) A smartphone-induced EEG waveform and an intelligent algorithm for seizure detection are among the emerging technologies to be unveiled at the American Epilepsy Society's 69th Annual Meeting. Four innovative studies presented at the meeting promise to reshape current paradigms for seizure detection and epilepsy management.
  
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• Clinical trial results show new drug is better for CLL patients

  06-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Rochester Medical Center) Older adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia may have an alternative to toxic chemotherapy as their first treatment, according to a national study to be reported online Dec. 6, 2015, in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by a Wilmot Cancer Institute oncologist.
  
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• Taking to the hills: tribal groups face up to climate change

  06-12-2015 05:42
  
  Tashka Yawanawa's Amazonian tribe lived on the plains along the Gregorio River for millennia -- until a wall of flood water last year forced them to flee their homes for good.
  
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• Study: Boaters can help orcas by slowing down

  06-12-2015 05:33
  
  BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A new University of Washington study of underwater noise finds that killer whales are bothered more by a fast boat than a large one or by a number of them in close proximity.
  
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• Climate pact: Battle lines redrawn in the blueprint

  06-12-2015 05:30
  
  Diplomats crafting the blueprint for a worldwide climate rescue deal tendered their 48-page offering, concluding a bitter four-year haggle that seemed often to teeter on the brink of collapse.
  
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• Quebec frogs in line for federal habitat protection

  06-12-2015 03:02 via cbc.ca
  
  A little brown frog at the heart of a prolonged legal battle is on the way to receiving emergency protection in Quebec, the federal government announced Saturday.
  
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• Fuelling its growth with coal, India champions the poor in Paris

  06-12-2015 00:10
  
  By Alister Doyle and Tommy Wilkes PARIS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's hardline position in global climate talks has made it a potential villain for Western nations as it warns that its greenhouse emissions, mostly from burning dirty coal, may keep rising past the middle of the century. Its little-known team came to Paris with a mission to force rich nations to lead the way in curbing emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the summit that "climate justice" meant poor nations needed "room to
  
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