L'Australian Space Agency (ASA), in collaborazione con le autorità di gestione delle emergenze, ha isolato Forrest Beach nel Queensland dopo il ritrovamento di sei sfere metalliche argentate. Gli oggetti si sono rivelati essere "space balls", ovvero serbatoi a pressione in leghe di titanio utilizzati nei vettori spaziali, precipitati in mare a causa del rientro incontrollato di un razzo e spinti a riva dalle correnti. Alice Gorman, archeologa spaziale della Flinders University, ha ipotizzato che i serbatoi si siano staccati prima del raggiungimento delle orbite più alte, data l'assenza di bruciature termiche evidenti. L'intervento di messa in sicurezza ha richiesto l'uso di tute protettive speciali per scongiurare contaminazioni da idrazina, un propellente altamente tossico e infiammabile potenzialmente rimasto all'interno dei contenitori.

Spriggina floundersi, a marine species that lived during the Ediacaran period 550 million years ago, is one of Earth’s earliest bilaterally symmetrical animals.

The post Ediacaran Sea Creature May Hold Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

From 300 animals to thousands the numbat is fighting back.

Australia just posted its biggest month ever for electric car sales, and for the first time seven different EVs each cleared 1,000 units in a single month.

Every one of them is either Chinese-owned or Chinese-built — and that includes the Tesla Model Y that topped the chart, which rolls off the line in Shanghai.

Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course.

In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government's chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans in Australia. (More specifically, the Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program targeted fixed-line broadband services provided over the NBN, Australia's government-owned wholesale open-access broadband network, as well as services delivered over other access networks.)

According to the final report that the ACCC distributed, the routers are whiteboxes that were “supplied by SamKnows” and that “perform tests to measure internet performance using test servers maintained by SamKnows and hosted in Australia.”

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Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course.

In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government's chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans in Australia. (More specifically, the Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program targeted fixed-line broadband services provided over the NBN, Australia's government-owned wholesale open-access broadband network, as well as services delivered over other access networks.)

According to the final report that the ACCC distributed, the routers are whiteboxes that were “supplied by SamKnows” and that “perform tests to measure internet performance using test servers maintained by SamKnows and hosted in Australia.”

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Some of these places look like dream destinations until you learn the disasters hiding underneath

I geologi svelano un legame inaspettato tra un antichissimo e catastrofico impatto meteoritico e le più grandi riserve di metallo prezioso del pianeta.

The evidence from Australia is clear, says Dr Reuben Kirkham, Director of the Free Speech Union of Australia: Sir Keir Starmer's social media 'ban' is doomed to fail. And it targets the wrong things anyway.

The post Keir Starmer’s Doomed Social Media ‘Ban’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, one of Australia’s richest fossil sites.

The post New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Britain said it would ban social media access for children under 16 starting in 2027, joining several other countries introducing similar measures.

Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online.

Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day. Last month, the peak body for men's health decided to address this by teaching boys about gender equity. But men are not dying for lack of feminism, says Bettina Arndt.

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The new Australian "hate speech" legislation criminalizes criticism of Israel or Jewish identity, potentially labeling such discourse as harassment. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland confirmed that if Jewish Australians feel intimidated, related actions could be prosecuted. Critics warn this undermines democracy and enables totalitarian practices by silencing political opposition.

Australia's hate speech laws are under debate after passing the House of Representatives. Critics argue the definition of hate speech is subjective, potentially threatening free speech. Concerns arise over the bill’s ability to target legitimate political discourse while seemingly failing to address extremism comprehensively. A crucial Senate vote is pending.

Nour Haydar speaks with Christopher Knaus about the BHP files – the cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners – which show that the world’s biggest miner has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation

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Exclusive: Mining giant says technology is not yet advanced enough to run a fully electrified fleet but experts say it is hooked on federal fuel tax credits

• Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

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BHP has continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying diesel trucks in the Pilbara despite internal documents suggesting it would increase emissions and be “misaligned” with its decarbonisation goals.

The mining giant is Australia’s biggest consumer of diesel and trucks are its biggest single source of diesel emissions. Replacing the fleet with battery-electric trucks is considered a critical step in the multinational’s efforts to decarbonise.

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Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes -- the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus -- huddled in oxygenated seafloor patches for over a billion years before breaking free into open water.

The post Study: Early Complex Life Forms Were Bottom-Dwellers appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Exclusive: Cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners show multinational has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation

• Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

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The world’s biggest miner has halted or delayed projects to cut vast amounts of emissions and has quietly war-gamed options to push major climate investments in its Western Australian iron ore operations into the next two decades, internal documents show.

An exclusive investigation based on documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners can reveal that BHP, one of Australia’s biggest historic emitters, has dumped plans for a facility that could have significantly reduced emissions and has put on ice renewable projects designed to power its iron ore operations in the vast, resource-rich Pilbara region.

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Exclusive: BHP once dubbed climate change an ‘existential’ threat. But leaked documents show it has backtracked on decarbonisation at a vast network of mines

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In the middle of 2019, London was sweltering through a heatwave.

Temperature records tumbled. Frail, ill and elderly people died in their hundreds.

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