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Ballarat's Catfish and Bendigo's Masons exemplify rise of country-town cuisine

Damien Jones grew up in Ballarat and then ran away to a bigger life, learning how to cook Thai food with Australia's renowned David Thompson – first at Darley Street in Sydney and later as Thompson's head chef when he opened the Michelin-starred ... >> view original

Fish can be friends, researchers find

As sweet as Dora and Marlin's friendship on Finding Nemo was, marine biologists have generally assumed fish did not have the brain power to co-operate. But new research has overturned that theory, finding some pairs of fish watch each other's back ... >> view original

Tiny Imperfections In Liquid Crystals May Soon Be Used To Manufacture ...

Defects that run through liquid crystal can serve as miniscule tubes for channeling molecules into particular positions. The method can be used to produce nanomaterials in varying shapes. (Photo : Chris Dlugosz | Flickr). Researchers from the ... >> view original

Foster + Partners designs robot-built 3D-printed Mars shelter

Foster + Partners has designed some of the most famous buildings in the world and, if one of its recent designs is anything to go by, it may soon have buildings on other planets, too. The firm has designed a shelter for up to four astronauts on Mars ... >> view original

False killer whales smile for the camera off Hawaiian coast

September 27, 2015: A Hawaiian tour guide has caught a false killer whale seemingly smiling at her GoPro as she filmed the curious mother and her calf. FTBAPGL. A false killer whale has been caught in a rare moment, seemingly smiling for an underwater ... >> view original

16 photos that will make you want to travel to the Philippines

Ariel's Point Philippines TripAdvisor. The Philippines are a group of over 7,000 islands in the Western Pacific. It's the ultimate paradise for beach bums, divers, and adventurers. The country offers a vast array of waterfalls, lagoons, caves, and ... >> view original

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ANTHONY SHARWOODnews.com.au. Share; Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter; Share on Google+; Share on Reddit; Email a friend. DARK clouds loomed over the Bureau of Meteorology at the height of Tony Abbott's short-lived reign as Prime Minister. >> view original

New 'Dragon-Scale' Pluto Images From New Horizons Telescope Stun Astronomers

William McKinnon, a member of the New Horizons team who specializes in geology, geophysics, and imaging, said in a statement, “It's a unique and perplexing landscape stretching over hundreds of miles”. The latest high-resolution images of the planet ... >> view original

It's impossible but scientists find black hole that is 30 times bigger

Scientists report an impossible celestial event that has overturned all theories on black holes. They have detected a supermassive black hole at the center of a newly found galaxy that's way too big than current theories permit. The galaxy, named ... >> view original

25 September 2015 in News: Black hole rethink after 11-year cosmic search ...

One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with CSIRO's Parkes telescope has shown that an expected background of waves is missing, casting doubt on our ... >> view original