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Angry Wollongong Coal shareholders, protesters front the company's annual ...

Wollongong Coal CEO Milind Oza was asked whether the company is fit to run a mine, as is being questioned by anti mining group Lock the Gate Alliance, which is asking the NSW Government to cancel its mining rights. "I will answer all the questions but ... >> view original

Killer Whale Throws Seal '80 Feet Into the Air' – Awesome Video [WATCH]

It looks like we have to be more observant near seas where bizarre things are likely to happen. After a giant fossilized shark tooth was found on a North Carolina beach, a new video circulating the web shows a killer whale throwing a seal 80 feet into ... >> view original

Star light gets scientists thinking

An alien megastructure is among theories astrophysicists ponder to explain a star's highly unusual flickering. The Kepler space telescope has discovered an unusual flickering light. Photo / Getty Images. Right now the star KIC 8462852 is really hot ... >> view original

Five Reasons To Teach Robotics In Schools

Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this? The Queensland government has just announced plans to make teaching robotics compulsory in its new curriculum ... >> view original

Palau set to create one of world's biggest marine sanctuaries

Palau's president Tommy Remengesau is set to sign a law turning most of the country's waters into a marine sanctuary, which will be one of the biggest in the world. The sanctuary will be about the size of California — making it the world's sixth ... >> view original

Sun and moon 'face-off' for Western Australian star-gazer eyes only

Western Australian star-gazers will be treated to a unique astronomic event at dusk when the sun and the moon briefly 'face-off' from opposite horizons. University of Western Australia physics professor David Blair told 720 ABC Perth that at the same ... >> view original

Supermoon: Look out for the last big one of year tonight

Mark Furler Mark Furler is APN Australian Regional Media's group digital editor. He's an award-winning journalist who has lived and worked on Queensland's Sunshine Coast for more than 25 years. He's passionate about fighting for a better go for locals. >> view original

World View completes major flight test of Voyager spacecraft scale replica

Commercial spaceflight company World View came a step closer to carrying tourists to the edge of space with a successful test flight last weekend. At Page, Arizona, a one-tenth scale replica spacecraft was carried by high-altitude ballon to a height of ... >> view original

Moon, planets, space station may meet

In fact, if you're reading this column before 7 a.m. this morning, or go out before sunrise tomorrow morning, you can still see those two bright planets in the east posed in a pairing similar to the one the Magi would have seen as they arrived to find ... >> view original

Enceladus: NASA to conduct 'deepest ever' flyby of Saturn moon to investigate ...

NASA is planning to sample an extraterrestrial ocean to find out whether it could be habitable. The space agency said its Cassini spacecraft will fly through an icy plume spurting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. It will be Cassini's closest ever approach ... >> view original