Thursday, March 31, 2016

King Tut's tomb: Doubts raised over what radar scans reveal as second scan scheduled and other top stories.

  • King Tut's tomb: Doubts raised over what radar scans reveal as second scan scheduled

    King Tut's tomb: Doubts raised over what radar scans reveal as second scan scheduled
    Many-faced mystery ... The mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun may be just one of many clues that his stepmother, Queen Nefertiti, us buried in the same tomb. Picture: AFPJamie SeidelNews Corp Australia NetworkFIND of the century, or eternal embarrassment? Growing doubts over the evidence of hidden chambers in King Tut’s tomb has resulted in a fresh set of scans scheduled for tomorrow.The Egyptian antiquities minister’s enthusiastic announcement was quite clear: Radar scans revealed a ‘90 per c..
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  • Scientists have developed 'transparent wood' that can build windows, solar cells

    Scientists have developed 'transparent wood' that can build windows, solar cells
    Despite all our technological advances, wood remains one of our most reliable - and frequently used - building materials. And for good reason: it's strong, cheap, and, if properly managed, renewable. But we could soon start doing a whole lot more with it, with scientists in Sweden successfully managing to made transparent wood using a technique they say would be easy to scale up. That means we could soon have tougher, wood-based windows and, even more excitingly, cheap, wood-covered solar cells..
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  • WATCH: The science of laser hair removal in SLOW MOTION

    WATCH: The science of laser hair removal in SLOW MOTION
    VIDEO It's been hailed as the most popular non-surgical cosmetic treatment in the world, and it's not hard to see why - permanent removal of unwanted body hair sounds almost too good to be true. But is it? Does laser hair removal really kill off hair follicles permanently, and how is that even possible? If you've ever considered undergoing the procedure, or you already have and are just wondering how the eff it even works, Veritasium and Physics Girl have teamed up to find out.  In the video ab..
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  • South Asians may have descended from Denisovans

    South Asians may have descended from Denisovans
    The mysterious hominids are believed to have existed with the Neanderthals Many bloodlines around the world, particularly of south Asian descent, may actually be a bit more Denisovan — a mysterious population of hominids that lived around the same time as the Neanderthals — researchers have revealed.The team from Harvard Medical School and University of California—Los Angeles (UCLA) has created a world map and also used comparative genomics to make predictions about where Denisovan and Neander..
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  • WA's beauty captured by NASA astronaut

    WA's beauty captured by NASA astronaut
    Latest In national17:36 PMBEN MCCLELLAN and NAOMI WHITE THE man who allegedly stabbed his former partner while she was on a first date with a man she met online, killing him, has been charged with murder.17:33 PMJordanna Schriever, Ken McGregor and Sean Fewster UPDATE: The man charged with stabbing his mother to death in the eastern suburbs suffers from mental health issues — and a neighbour claims the victim got engaged just hours before her death.A WA high school has employed security guards a..
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  • Time to cull feral cats, brumbies and deer, Natural Resources Commission review finds

    Time to cull feral cats, brumbies and deer, Natural Resources Commission review finds
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Feral pigs invade Sydney Hundreds of diseased and destructive feral pigs are found and destroyed in greater Sydney every year with some even penetrating suburbia. PT0M0S 620 349 Feral deer need to be declared pests, aerial shooting of wild horses should be reintroduced, and cat owners need to be required to have pets desexed to curb the rising damage from introduced species on the state's agriculture and natural wildlife, the Natural Resources Co..
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  • Scientists probe whether humans killed off the 'hobbit' people 50000 years ago

    Scientists probe whether humans killed off the 'hobbit' people 50000 years ago
    Indonesian archaeologist Thomas Sutikna, and Professor Richard Roberts with a copy of a "hobbit" skull. Photo: University of Wollongong The extinct human species dubbed the "hobbits" vanished from their home on the Indonesian island of Flores far earlier than previously thought, say scientists who suspect our species may have had a hand in the demise of these diminutive people.Researchers on Wednesday said they recalculated the age of bones of the species, ..
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  • Coral bleaching worse than first thought

    Coral bleaching worse than first thought
    Coral bleaching worse than first thought
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