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Joel Selwood says Geelong is ready to face its next challenge, the Sydney ...

SOME Sydney Swans fans would have preferred the scans on Joel Selwood's hand this week to show something nasty but football purists will be the winners now the Geelong skipper has been given the green light to play on Saturday night at ANZ Stadium. >> view original

Watchdog 'buckled on factory trawler' Geelong Star

Other Liberals want to go even further, with Sarah Henderson, the MP for Corangamite, which includes parts of Geelong, organising a petition to have the vessel banned from Australian waters. There is concern in the Liberal ranks that support for the ... >> 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

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

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

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

Spectacular images show thousands of spiders using their silk to fly

Everybody knows the phrase 'it's raining cats and dogs,' but how many times have you heard that it's raining spiders? A resident of the Southern Tablelands in New South Wales took to Facebook to report that millions of baby spiders appeared to be falling ... >> view original

Australian government to double Coral Sea area subject to curbs on shipping

The Coral Sea is adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef which the UN is considering listing as 'in danger'. Photograph: James Woodford for the Guardian. Reuters. Saturday 16 May 2015 01.27 EDT Last modified on Saturday 16 May 2015 01.53 EDT. Share on ... >> 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

Lomborg's think tank looking for a home

Bjorn Lomborg says he is confident the Australia Consensus Centre will go ahead. Ben Rushton. by Tim Dodd. Who would have thought there would $4 million up for grabs for an Australian university? Education Minister Christopher Pyne has put that amount ... >> view original