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Launceston retailers join forces to ban shoplifters

Launceston business owners have escalated their campaign to stop shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in the city. They have launched a strategy to ban shoplifters from Launceston businesses. Under the partnership, store owners can ban shoplifters ... >> view original

These Students Built A Working Hyperloop (A Very Tiny One)

Elon Musk's Hyperloop is an idea as ambitious as it is fantastical. A train that travels at 760 mph through a pressurized tube is a hard sell, even with it gracing the latest cover of *Popular Science magazine. So it's pretty cool to see a real, working version ... >> view original

Cut emissions to protect citizens: court

A Dutch court ordered the government on Wednesday to slash greenhouse gas emissions to help fight global warming. It is a landmark ruling in a case brought by hundreds of concerned citizens that could pave the way for similar legal battles around the ... >> view original

Great Barrier Reef government panel to include climate change experts

A panel committee appointed to advise the Australian government on the Great Barrier Reef has been announced. Photograph: Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/Corbis. Australia Associated Press. Saturday 27 June 2015 22.07 EDT. Share on Facebook ... >> view original

NIGHTMARE town overtaken by 25000 deadly poisonous TARANTULAS

More than 25,000 venomous spiders have descended on a small town in Australia and experts have no idea why. Maningrida, which is 300 miles east of Darwin, is crawling with the creatures. However arachnologist, Dr Robert Raven, thinks the takeover ... >> view original

High-performance microscope displays pores in the cell nucleus

The nuclear pore complex is comprised of several layered rings: the cytoplasmic ring (gold), the spoke ring within the pore (blue) and the nucleoplasmic ring (green). Credit UZH An active exchange takes place between the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm: ... >> view original

Slumbering black hole in Milky Way roars back to life

A black hole that hasn't been heard of since 1989 has suddenly become active again and is now the brightest object in the X-ray sky. by Michael Franco · @writermfranco; June 26, 2015 4:01 PM PDT. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. email. comments. >> view original

New study on fruit flies shows that male sexual attention harms attractive females - News

Too much male sexual attention harms attractive females, according to a new Australian and Canadian study on fruit flies. Associate Professor Steve Chenoweth from The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences said the study showed that ... >> view original

Climate change cannot be addressed without breaking from capitalism

“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train – namely, the human race – to activate the emergency brake.” – Walter Benjamin. The longer ... >> view original

Museum thrilled as rare basking shark is added to its collection

A rare basking shark accidentally caught in the nets of a fishing trawler off Portland has had his body donated to science. Weighing almost three tonnes, the 6.5 metre-long male basking shark was the surprise find for fishermen on Sunday, who found the ... >> view original