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'It's unidentified, flying and an object' — UFO baffles experts

DAMIEN McCARTNEY and TAMARA HOWIENT News. Share; Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter; Share on Google+; Share on Reddit; Email a friend. A VIDEO of a bright ball of light flying through the air has even the experts baffled. The video, snapped in ... >> view original

Australia needs a space program: Ziggy Switkowski

National Broadband Network chairman Ziggy Switkowski has lamented the absence of a government-funded space program in Australia on the day the mammoth infrastructure builder successfully hurled a satellite hundreds of kilometres above the earth and ... >> view original

How NASA is preparing to put men — and possibly women — on surface of Mars

News Corp Australia. Share; Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter; Share on Google+; Share on Reddit; Email a friend. IS there life on Mars? The intriguing possibility is fueling the most ambitious, daring and downright dangerous voyage any person has ... >> view original

Invisibility Cloak (Of Sorts) For Solar Panels

Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have come up with an interesting approach to boosting the conversion efficiency of solar panels. Even the most efficient solar panels only convert a fraction of the sun's energy into electricity. A ... >> view original

Turtle swimsuit to help Queensland researchers discover diet and habitat habits

Queensland researchers have developed a swimsuit for endangered sea turtles that collects the reptile's faeces and could help identify their foraging areas. University of Queensland (UQ) PhD student Owen Coffee, who is researching the diet of ... >> view original

Dinosaur extinction theories could be united as a result of research breakthrough

New research suggests that the asteroid or comet that slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago rocked the planet so violently that it accelerated a massive volcanic eruption in India, a double catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs and 70 per cent ... >> view original

Researchers 'unify' two popular dinosaur KT extinction theories

A team at Berkeley is arguing that both an asteroid and volcanic activity were responsible for the KT extinction event. The extinction of the dinosaurs gave mammals an opportunity to emerge. By Brian Anderson -. 2015-10-02. For centuries now ... >> view original

How The Martian movie could keep much-needed money flowing like water for NASA

It's been a big week for Mars — and for NASA, whose astronauts hope to get there. First came the agency's announcement about detecting flowing water on the planet, news that made headlines around the world. Closing out the week, NASA will make its way ... >> view original

New Antarctic research jobs not enough to make up for cuts, union says

The Federal Government has been criticised for spruiking the creation of 40 new science jobs in Tasmania despite three times as many jobs losses due to budget cuts. Forty scientists will eventually be employed under the $24 million Antarctic Gateway ... >> view original

Shark theory #24: It's because of salmon and leatherjacket

THIS white shark business has been blamed on everything from trifling river dredging right through to a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. But it's all part of the boom-and-bust cycle of the sea. I think I can explain why they're here now in numbers ... >> view original