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Watch a crisis response exercise as it happens in Ballarat

In Ballarat on Saturday, firefighters from across the area will receive calls to reports of a chemical smell on a V/Line train which starts to affect hundreds of passengers on board. It's all part of a counterterrorism exercise organised by the CFA to ... >> view original

Harcourts Ballarat team dons heels for a cause

The Harcourts Ballarat team sported their suits and heels for a walk with purpose along Melbourne's Southbank on Friday for the third annual Walk a Mile in their Shoes campaign, which raised more than $100,000 for White Ribbon Australia. Leading over ... >> view original

Monster squid with 16-foot-long tentacles washes up on New Zealand shore

Cue the “Jaws” soundtrack. No, actually, that would be the theme song from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” Kaikoura Marine Centre and Aquarium biologists on New Zealand's South Island stumbled upon a monster squid on Wednesday in Kaikoura, more ... >> view original

Science Guy Bill Nye opens Kickstarter campaign for spacecraft - Las Vegas Review

Bill Nye The Science Guy discusses oil spill science on CNN's John King USA. (CNN). image. By JILLIAN EUGENIOS CNN. In the future, humans may be able to sail through the universe to discover new lands, much like the early explorers on Earth. >> view original

Spectacular images show thousands of spiders using their silk to fly

Everybody knows the phrase 'it's raining cats and dogs,' but how many times have you heard that it's raining spiders? A resident of the Southern Tablelands in New South Wales took to Facebook to report that millions of baby spiders appeared to be falling ... >> view original

Lomborg's think tank looking for a home

Bjorn Lomborg says he is confident the Australia Consensus Centre will go ahead. Ben Rushton. by Tim Dodd. Who would have thought there would $4 million up for grabs for an Australian university? Education Minister Christopher Pyne has put that amount ... >> view original

Meet the 'science nut' who grew up to be a space archaeologist

Dr Paul Willis, director of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAUS), which has produced the Ultimate Science Guide 2015 to encourage students to take up jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths. When Dr Alice Gorman was a girl she would stare ... >> view original

Port Stephens whale watching season in full swing

The Port Stephens whale watching season officially starts today, and cruise operators are already reporting sightings of the migrating mammals. Industry statistics suggest that around 18-thousand whales will travel past the region, with humpbacks and ... >> view original

Are climate scientists cowed by sceptics?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change members present the new climate report in Berlin in Germany in April 2014. Photograph: Joerg Carstensen/Corbis. Ed King for RTCC, part of the Guardian's Environment Network. Friday 15 May 2015 12.41 EDT. >> view original

Lightning Ridge opal miner says having dinosaur named after him will 'make him ...

Opal miner Bob Foster is none too pleased at the prospect of having a new species of dinosaur bear his name 30 years after he discovered its fossilised remains. Back in 1985, Bob Foster had no interest in dinosaurs — his only concern was striking it lucky in ... >> view original