This concern for Thomson won’t change the script

Source: The Punch

Under pressure himself over his crusade against Craig Thomson, Tony Abbott has moved to present a softer side, suggesting that the ex-communicated Labor MP should quit politics for, ... wait for it, his own good. “The best thing for everyone, to take ...
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Weekend Punch: Tea or coffee?

Source: The Punch

Greece makes the final and Ireland gets in on a golden ticket. How awkward and embarrassing. Love it. #sbseurovision The weird thing about #eurovision is you've got this massive collection of dorks in a room and no one is w ...
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Skytree and CANFAR Host Educational Webinar on How to Perform Machine Learning or Advanced Analytics on Big (Astronomical) Data Sets

Source: Freshnews.com

WHAT: A highly informative webinar where attendees learn how CANFAR (the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research), the world’s first cloud computing system for astronomy, is successfully using Skytree’s high performance an ...
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Giant Telescope Project Goes to South Africa, Australia

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Kathleen Chaykowski in Pretoria, South Africa and Gautam Naik in LondonA consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope t ...
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ET spotting goggle-plex goes to Oz & S. Africa

Source: Russia Today

Artists impression of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project (REUTERS/Handout) A battle for the world's largest radio telescope has ended in a draw, with both Australia and South Africa winning the right to host the unique projec ...
Full article at: Russia Today  More like this  1 day ago, 10:38am CDT

CERN’s prodigal neutralino comes back from outer space

Source: Quantam Diaries

Christer Fuglesang, a former physicist who worked at CERN and now an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut brought back to CERN a neutralino he had taken along on his mission to the Internal Space Station in 2009. Yesterday, Christer Fuglesang (right) f ...
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No place for ET to hide: Plans unveiled for most powerful telescope in human history - 3,000 radio dishes spread across South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Super-telescope built from 3,000 dishes across three countriesWill cost $2 billionUltra-powerful machine will 'see back to dawn of time' Machine will process more than an 'exabyte' of data every day - mo ...
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Cosmic harmonies: Fellows Friday with Bilge Demirkoz

Source: TED

CERN particle physicist Bilge Demirköz investigates everything from dark matter to the possibility of antigalaxies, trying to understand what we — and the universe — are made of. What is it about space and the investigation of dark matter and antimatter ...
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South Africa: Decision Time for SKA

Source: AllAfrica.com

The location of a huge radio telescope strong enough to detect extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe could be settled on Friday when the group in charge of the project meets in the Netherlands. When ...
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