in-hotdailynews: 2015-05-03 India Science

Combined Event involving Asteroid Hit and Volcanic Eruptions led to Doom of ...
Uncover California
A group of researchers from UC Berkeley has proposed that when an asteroid crashed into earth around 66 million years ago, its impact might have led to the eruption of thousands of volcanoes on the other side of the planet. Both the factors could have led to ...

Did Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid Ignite Massive Volcanic Eruptions? (Weekend ...   The Daily Galaxy (blog)
Dino-killing asteroid triggered largest lava flow on Earth   RedOrbit
Asteroid that killed dinosaurs may have triggered largest lava flows on Earth   Daily News & Analysis
SFGate
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The Indian Express

India holds census of rare Asiatic lions
The Nation
AHMEDABAD - India on Saturday began a five-yearly count of asiatic lions in the western state of Gujarat's Gir sanctuary, the last habitat for the endangered big cats globally, an official said. The last census in 2010 revealed 411 lions were living in the 20,000 ...

Enumerators fan out in Gir to count lions   The Hindu
Much awaited lion census starts at Gir sanctuary from Saturday   Times of India
As jungle sheds its leaves, lion census to start in Gir today   The Indian Express

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The New Indian Express

India to be CERN member soon: Official (Lead)
Web India
Ending months of speculation, the central government has given the green signal for India's associate membership to CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, a top ministry official said on Saturday. "The government has approved India's ...

India to be CERN Member Soon: Official   The New Indian Express

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BBC News

Wildlife decline may lead to empty landscape
The Nation
London - Populations of some of the world's largest wild animals are dwindling, raising the threat of an 'empty landscape', say scientists. About 60 percent of giant herbivores - plant-eaters - including rhinos, elephants and gorillas, are at risk of extinction, ...

Large Herbivores Face Extinction: Threatened Wildlife May Result to an 'empty ...   Empire State Tribune
Wildlife Declining Rapidly Says Scientists   Gazette Review
World at risk of 'empty landscape' as large herbivores face extinction   Economic Times

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TechCrunch

Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure ...
TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a smartphone ultra-zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA. The tool, which uses a little 3D-printed box that acts as a high-resolution microscope, can be ...

Smartphone attachment lets smartphones image DNA   SlashGear
3D-Printed Attachment Transforms Smartphone Into Microscope That Scans DNA   Ubergizmo (blog)
3D-printed attachment turns any smartphone into a DNA-scanning microscope   Gizmag
Pc-Tablet Media
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NYOOOZ

Okhla bird park: The threat is in the nest
Times of India
NOIDA: It took a long legal battle, one of the most discussed in recent times, to secure the perimeters of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. But now that the government has agreed to ringfence the park with a no-construction zone, is its fragile ecology now adequately ...

Bird protection may jeopardise 50000 houses in Noida   ET Realty

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NYOOOZ

MP: Dhamnar caves conservation plan can be replicated, says ASI
NYOOOZ
Having completed the first phase of the preservation wherein 14 of the 51 caves at the site were restored, the ASI Bhopal circle has presented it as a conservation model that could be replicated elsewhere in the state and country. About the specific four-step ...

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