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• Australian beach covered in a carpet of bright blue jellyfish

  04-02-2017 21:32
  
  The phenomenon, known as a “bloom”, occurred on Deception Bay.
  
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• Ottawa Hospital's new 3D printing progam makes cheaper prosthetic limbs faster

  04-02-2017 18:14 via cbc.ca
  
  The Ottawa Hospital has opened a new medical 3D printing program to make prosthetic limbs quickly and cheaply.
  
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• The cave squeaker returns: Rare frog seen after decades

  04-02-2017 14:31
  
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The cave squeaker is back.
  
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• Artist’s amnesia could help unlock mysteries of memory

  04-02-2017 14:00
  
  In "The Perpetual Now", journalist Michael Lemonick looks at what an artist’s memory loss can teach neuroscientists about the brain.
  
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• Body of former Labour MP Tam Dalyell donated to science

  04-02-2017 13:54
  The body of the veteran Scottish politician Tam Dalyell has been left to science, his family has confirmed. The 84-year-old, who was a Labour MP for more than 40 years, died last week following a short illness. In a statement, his family said he had requested for his body to be left to Edinburgh University for research, followed by a private interment.
  
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• The science behind a Yellowknife man's breathtaking aurora video

  04-02-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Yellowknife's David Yau shot a video of the aurora this past week that he described as 'like a dragon was coming down to my face.' We got some explanations.
  
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• Super Bowl 2017: How to Tailgate Like a NASA Astronaut

  04-02-2017 13:00
  
  When you're making munchies for Sunday's Super Bowl party, consider the challenge astronauts face in space: In a zero-gravity environment where much of the food is freeze-dried, how can you make good football-watching food?
  
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• Lonely Ice Volcano On Ceres May Have Once Had Company

  04-02-2017 13:00
  
  The mystery of the dwarf planet Ceres' lonely ice volcano may have just been solved. NASA's Dawn probe discovered the 2.5-mile-high (4 kilometers) cryovolcano, named Ahuna Mons, in 2015. "Imagine if there was just one volcano on all of Earth," Michael Sori, of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, said in a statement.
  
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• Can Empirical Entertainment Rescue Science in an Alt-Fact World?

  04-02-2017 13:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  MythBusters and Vsauce stars Adam Savage and Michael Stevens weigh in on the role of their new show in communicating science
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• 150-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri Proposed [Video]

  04-02-2017 13:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Humanity possesses the means to place probes into orbit around nearby stars. But do we have the patience?
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• Super Bowl: Astronaut throws football '564,644 yards'

  04-02-2017 10:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa releases a video of the ISS crew preparing to watch the Super Bowl from 250 miles above Earth.
  
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• Cliffs collapse at Hawaii volcano, stopping 'firehose' flow

  04-02-2017 00:04
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A section of sea cliff above a massive "firehose" lava flow on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano has collapsed and splashed into the ocean as tourists and geologists watched.
  
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