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North Queensland Cowboys have beaten the Brisbane Broncos 31-20 in ...

Celebrating their 20th anniversary, North Queensland produced a stunning 92 per cent completion rate to sink the Broncos 31-20 in a pulsating derby in Townsville. And if anyone personified flawlessness, it was Morgan, who submitted an irresistible ... >> view original

Troposhere is warming up; researchers confirm using publicly available data

The upper levels of the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, the troposphere, are warming up proving that temperatures have actually gone up during to global warming and these increased temperatures have started affecting layers of the atmosphere. >> 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

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

Amazon's Mass. challenge: How hard is it to pick up a box of crayons?

WPI is developing robots for an Amazon-sponsored competition. Their goal is to design robots that can pick products off of shelves and put them into boxes. Photo Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff. skirsner. Scott Kirsner · Follow @ScottKirsner. 6 hours ago ... >> 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

Distant light might hold the key to why the universe is filled with matter

EVERYTHING we see, touch and experience is made up of matter but for the longest time scientists had no idea why it existed. Now they may have found an answer. NASA's Fermi space telescope has detected high-energy light linked to a magnetic field that ... >> 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

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