2325 and counting: Kepler doubles its haul in largest exoplanet discovery ever
Since it launched six years years ago, NASA's Kepler space telescope has provided a guiding light in our search for extraterrestrial life, scanning the sky for potentially habitable Earth-size planets. Today the agency has announced the discovery of almost 1,300 new exoplanets, doubling the craft's previous tally and giving the chances of finding another world just like ours a healthy little boost. The announcement was made after researchers sifted through Kepler's July 2015 planet catalogue, w..>> view originalSamsung and LG in battle for SUHD TV market, and leave 3D off the scene
Samsung and LG in battle for SUHD TV market, and leave 3D off the sceneChris GriffithThe AustralianMay 11, 2016 6:00PMSavePrint Technology reporterSydneyChris's love affair with computing spans more than 45 years. He learnt to program in the late 1960s, studied computer science in the early 70s, worked on mainframes, taught programming, ran a small business networking PCs in the 80s, and built websites in the 90s. In journalism he has written extensively across rounds, been a columnist and comm..>> view originalAncient bubbles offer insight into promordial earth
Tiny bubbles that formed inside volcanic rock 2.7 billion years ago are providing big insights into the conditions on primordial Earth.Scientists said an analysis of gas bubbles trapped in ancient basalt rock that formed from ancient lava flows in western Australia showed the planet back then possessed a much thinner atmosphere, with air pressure half of what it is today.That finding contradicts a long-held notion that Earth then had a thicker atmosphere to compensate for a fainter sun, with sun..>> view originalDrone captures rare moment as whales take down juvenile shark
You might think sharks have little to fear as they glide about the ocean, but dolphins and their relatives can be pretty cunning predators themselves. A drone has captured a rarely seen moment of maritime madness, filming a pack of false killer whales chase and kill a juvenile shark off the coast of Sydney, Australia. Drone hobbyist and cinematographer Bruno Kataoka didn't set out to capture the event, but has landed himself a slice of footage that wouldn't look out of place in a professional w..>> view originalCoral bleaching puts damselfish in distress
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Can we reverse coral bleaching? We head north to Queensland to see if anything can be done to save the Great Barrier Reef. PT1M48S 620 349 The odour from coral bleaching is masking the smell of predators to small reef fish, a Queensland study has found.A research team of scientists from James Cook University and Sweden's Uppsala University spent two months on a field study at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef last year to determine wheth..>> view originalAxe discovery in WA: Aboriginal ancestors' tool is world's oldest
The fragments of the axes were found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.AUSTRALIA was the birthplace of the axe, scientists believe after identifying a nearly 50,000-year-old fragment discovered in Western Australia.The tool was found by archaeologists in the remote Kimberley region and shows that early Australians were technological innovators and were more advanced in their use of tools than previously thought.The thumbnail-sized fragment is dated between 44,000 and 49,000 years old,..>> view original'Dismay': NASA appeals to CSIRO not to cut global climate efforts
EXCLUSIVE Video will begin in 5 seconds. How aerial maps are made using AERONET Modern aerial mapping is made possible by removing atmospheric distortions caused by fine particles called 'aerosols', NASA scientist Brent Holben explains. PT1M6S 620 349 The US space agency NASA has appealed to CSIRO to abandon plans to cut a key monitoring program that it says will undermine Australia and the world's ability to monitor and predict climate change. The cost to our international r..>> view originalUncharted 4 is the best (and possibly last) game of its kind
For decades, big budget video games were designed to look like films. Why not? Films became, in the 20th century, the most popular form of storytelling. Spread across dozens of genres and forms, films can be funny or sad, artsy or pedestrian, unabashedly childish or confidently mature. They play on towering screens in Times Square theaters just as well as they do on bedsheets strung from tree to tree in a backyard patio. People who sit at sturdy tables made of exotic woods and drink tiny bottle..>> view originalCanadian teen William Gadoury's discovery of 'Mayan city' debunked as junk science
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Digital Indiana Jones finds lost city 15-year-old Canadian, William Gadoury claims to have discovered a lost Mayan city using Google Maps and ancient Central American star charts. PT1M4S 620 349 The apparent discovery of a previously unknown Mayan city in the Yucatan jungle by a 15-year-old Canadian boy has been dismissed as "junk science" by a US archaeologist who was also a child prodigy at the same age on the same subject.Others think the new ..>> view original
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
2325 and counting: Kepler doubles its haul in largest exoplanet discovery ever and other top stories.
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