en-pk-hotdailynews: 2014-12-13 Pakistan Science

Climate talks extended as negotiators fail to break logjam
Business Standard
Crucial UN Climate talks ran into extra time as the negotiators from more than 190 countries, including India, today struggled to break a deadlock between rich and developing countries to agree on a draft text of a new binding agreement to cut global carbon ...

Lima climate talks at crossroads   Gulf Daily News
Little progress in Peru UN climate talks   The Australian (blog)
Climate talks create more CO2 than a small country as 12500 politicians fly to ...   Daily Mail
ABC Online
Toronto Star
Brisbane Times
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Scientists Have Recreated What Could Be Life's First Spark
Guardian Liberty Voice
In the lab, scientists have recreated what could be life's first spark. Although it will probably never be understood just exactly how life began on Earth, scientists do have several different concepts which they use in order to try and attempt to answer such a ...

Comets, asteroids could have created building blocks for life   Times LIVE
Scientists Use Super-Powerful Laser To Simulate 'First Spark Of Life'   Huffington Post
Scientists Recreate What Might Be Life's Very First Spark   American Live Wire
Design & Trend
Science Careers Blog (subscription)
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Stephen Hawking and the Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Guardian Liberty Voice
The theory has been promoted by the likes of Ray Kurzweil, with the concept of the Singularity, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides machines with the ability to be more powerful than humans. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of the co-founders of PayPal has ...

Google's Eric Schmidt snarks at the idea of killer robots   Economic Times
Bring on our robo-lords; they can't be worse than us   InfoWorld
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is the future: Eric Schmidt   PerfScience
Deccan Herald
CNET
Daily Times
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An unprecedented flock of genomes redraws the bird tree of life
Chicago Tribune
BOSTON — We may never know what came first — the chicken or the egg — but thanks to the largest-ever study of avian genomes, we now know a lot more about where both of them came from. Analyses of 45 bird genomes, published for the first time this ...

Texas Tech Biologist Leads Team of Scientists in Mapping Crocodilian Genomes   News/Talk 790 KFYO
Mapping the "Big Bang" of Bird Evolution   Scientific Computing
Scientists Have Mapped Out A 'Mind-Blowing' Tree Of Avian Evolution   io9
Science Codex
The Alcalde
Voice of America
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Meteor showers visible over the weekend
The Australian (blog)
THEY'RE pea-sized pieces of cosmic rock and they're lighting up our night sky this weekend. THE annual Geminids meteor shower is hitting earth's atmosphere, with Saturday and Sunday the best nights to see it. Andrew Jacob, the Sydney Observatory's ...

Geminids meteor shower: Live updates as dazzling show lights up night sky   Mirror.co.uk
Geminids 2014 to streak across the sky overnight into Saturday and Sunday   lehighvalleylive.com
Geminids Meteor Shower: Peak Weekend Viewing Times   Patch.com
Boing Boing
YubaNet
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Did European scientists find dark-matter signal buried in X-rays?
Los Angeles Times
Scientists say they may have discovered a possible dark matter signal coded in the X-rays emanating from two bright objects in the sky. The findings, set to be published next week in Physical Review Letters, could offer tangible evidence for the existence of ...

Did a European spacecraft detect dark matter?   Christian Science Monitor
Dark Matter Will Be Studied Thanks to Odd X-Ray Signal   Design & Trend
Astronomers Found Evidence of “Dark Matter”?   Christianity Daily
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Full-Time Whistle
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