Adelaide ‘breakthrough’ for deadly virus
Katie Meyler, founder and CEO of More Than Me, went to Liberia to build a school for young girls. But everything has changed since Ebola struck. Watch Ms. Meyler’s journey unfold through her Instagram account. French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres health care workers in Monrovia, Liberia, treating Ebola patients in …
Aussie discovery over origin of life
Ridges in the ancient Dresser Formation in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia that preserve ancient stromatolites and hot spring deposits. Picture: Kathleen Campbell ANCIENT fossil evidence discovered in Western Australia could dramatically change our understanding of how life began on Earth, vindicate a discarded 19th century theory by Charles …
History of mankind could be wrong
The species could be the first hominid ever to exist. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) EVERYTHING we might know about the history of human evolution could be wrong, with scientists postulating that Africa may not be the birthplace of man. Scientists have traced the first hominid species to Europe some 7.2 million …
Future ‘past worst case scenario’
Overview of flooding in New Orleans as result of devastating storm Hurricane Katrina. WHAT if we could have stopped catastrophic disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the threat of Islamic State? Two national security and counter-terrorism experts believe governments were warned about some of the world’s …
Australia home to original ‘Big Bird’
Fossil finds show giant ‘tall turkeys’ once roosted in the sand, perched in the trees — and flew the skies — of Australia’s Pleistocene landscape. BLACK swans. Huge hopping ‘mice’. Would Australia’s early explorers totally flipped out had they encountered our giant flying turkeys? Though they had long since gone …
A short history of alien encounters
Children eye a model of an alien on display inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. DO aliens exist? The question has baffled people for centuries. From Roswell to the Rendlesham Forest incident in the UK, these are the sightings and conspiracy theories which UFO hunters reckon …
‘Aliens are in our solar system’
UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn. A FORMER NASA engineer at the Ames Research Center claims aliens are in our solar system and they are creating rings around planets like Saturn. Dr. Norman Bergrun, who previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center has recently made comments that UFOs …
Can this odd hobby change laws of space?
Can one man’s strange claim to ownership of land on Mars revamp international space law? BRITISH man Dr Philip Davies, is a 50-year-old family doctor from Hampshire and has arguably one of the most bizarre part-time hobbies you’ll hear about. For the past six or so years he has used …
The star sending ‘strange’ radio signals
A red dwarf star, not pictured, is sending out strange signals. Picture: AFP A STAR located just 11 light-years away from Earth is sending out ‘strange’ radio signals with experts saying they can’t rule out that it’s coming from aliens. The radio signals from space appear to be coming “almost …
Aussie discovery excites world
A child faces off against a diprotodon (giant wombat) at the Australian Museum. Source: Australian Museum. THE discovery of globally significant artefacts in Australia has ignited the world’s imagination about what life was like 65,000 years ago. Previously it was thought the continent was inhabited by megafauna — huge kangaroos …