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Bacchus Marsh prepared for season-defining month as it looks to end Ballarat ...

The club faces reigning premier North Ballarat City this weekend, before tackling Darley, Sunbury and East Point. Bacchus Marsh president Adam Sutherland said the club would relish the challenge. “We'd like to think we're probably the fifth best team ... >> view original

Wildlife officers try to save rare whale stranded in lagoon on Great Barrier Reef

An Antarctic minke being tagged by marine scientists in the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: James Cook University/AAP. Australian Associated Press. Tuesday 7 July 2015 03.15 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 7 July 2015 03.21 EDT. Share on Facebook ... >> view original

Australia's Pacific neighbors facing unaffordable climate change bill study funds

Australia's small island neighbours in the South Pacific face an enormous bill to protect their coastal buildings and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change and extreme weather, one they are unlikely to afford. Research out of the University ... >> view original

Robotics expert Rodney Brooks raises $53m for Rethink Robots

Rethink Robotics founder Rodney Brooks says robots such as Sawyer, pictured on the left, and Baxter will take over many factory-floor production jobs. Yolanda Redrup. Share on twitter · Share on Google Plus. by Yolanda Redrup. An Australian-born ... >> view original

Killer sea snail venom may yield new cancer drugs

Melbourne: Scientists have discovered thousands of toxins hidden deep within the venom of a sea cone snail in Queensland, which may help develop new drugs to treat pain, cancer and other diseases. Researchers used biochemical and bioinformatics tools ... >> view original

Catch a rare astronomical threesome in the sky on Tuesday night

On Tuesday evening Canberrans can watch the International Space Station as it passes close to Venus and Jupiter in the north-western sky. At 6:25pm AEST, the ISS, which looks like a fairly bright, moving star, will appear low in the north-western horizon. >> view original

Photographer captures International Space Station flying across moon

London: An Australian photographer has clicked a breathtaking image of the International Space Station (ISS) as it was passing over the Moon. It took Dylan O'Donnell almost a year to get the stunning image, Daily Mail reported. The US space station ... >> view original

Big discoveries heralded by a faint breath of hydrogen from a distant galaxy

The Square Kilometre Array had detected a tiny signature from 5 billion light years away that heralds great finds in the future. by Michelle Starr · @riding_red; 6 July 2015, 4:29 pm AEST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. email. comments. more ... >> view original

Humpbacks tandem breach reveals the drama and romance of their annual ...

ROMANCE, drama and a bit of biff — things get pretty wild at sea for migrating humpbacks on the east coast of Australia. First-time whale watcher Katrina Begg was front and centre for the show on Monday when she photographed two humpbacks breaching ... >> view original

Painkillers and antidepressants 'widespread' in Sydney Harbour

Sydney Harbour contains traces of various pharmaceutical drugs such as painkillers and antidepressants, according to a new research paper. The investigation of 30 sites next to stormwater outlets in the harbour shows traces of codeine, paracetamol and ... >> view original