Hydrogen found in distant galaxy and other top stories.

• Hydrogen found in distant galaxy

  A view of the VLA radio telescope.PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons In a first, an international team of scientists has detected a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.Using the Very Large Array radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the U.S., the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surroun..

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• Election 2016: 'Misinterpretation': government officials reject claims Great Barrier Reef is mostly dead

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. UN report: Australia's behaviour 'disgusting' Australia's attempt to redact any reference of the Great Barrier Reef from a UNESCO climate change report angers researchers. PT0M40S 620 349 Claims that coral bleaching has caused the "death" of the Great Barrier Reef are distorted and three-quarters of coral in the natural wonder is alive, a Turnbull government agency says.In a statement on Friday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said..

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• What we now know about the universe

  

  NASA Announces More Than 1,200 Newly Discovered Planets2:25On Tuesday, astronomers using the Kepler Space Telescope said they had verified the existence of 1,284 newly discovered planets around distant stars, doubling the number of alien worlds detected by the probe. Image: W. Stenzel/NASA This image provided by NASA shows a barred spiral galaxy 130 million light-years away and is one of the measurements that astronomers used to come up with a faster rate of expansion of the universe. And if ..

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• the cheaper, faster, better MacBook

  

  Like a more powerful, Windows-running MacBook crossed in a rave, the Stealth's looks are a little at odds with its name (although it does run very quietly). Photo: Tim Biggs Laptops haven't really been exciting for a while now. They keep getting thinner and lighter, trying to fill that narrowing gap between your phone and a desktop computer. Each strikes its own balance between portability, capability and affordability, and generally you have to pick which t..

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• King Tut's dagger 'fell from the sky'

  

  Valuable treasure:The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun displayed in his burial chamber in Egypt.— Photo: AFP The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried in Egypt with King Tutankhamun probably came from a fallen meteorite, researchers have determined — a form of metal so prized by ancient Egyptians that they called it “iron from the sky.”The dagger, which was discovered in the folds of the wrapping around the mummified boy king, has long intrigued historians and archaeologists for its great ..

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• Australia to install ground traffic lights for smartphone-distracted pedestrians

  

  Ground traffic lights are set to be installed in Australia as a way to alert smartphone-using pedestrians. A trial implementation for this technology will be conducted in Sydney and is hoped to minimize road death casualties. According to a report by AFP, the New South Wales ( NSW ) state administration will spend A$250,000 ( US$180,263 ) for the traffic lights, which are slated to be installed in December for six months at five sites in Sydney, including crosswalks in the city's central busine..

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• Australians falling victim to fake AGL energy bills in virus scam

  

  Criminals behind ransomware attacks typically request a $200 payment to unfreeze files.A FAKE AGL energy bill email that contains malicious software is infecting computers across Australia, a cyber security expert has warned.The scam asks users to click on a link which then downloads a damaging virus and tries to steal user names and passwords to spread it further, Check Point senior security analyst Raymond Schippers said.Thousands of Australians, including employees from at least a dozen large..

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• Jupiter: Radio map shows planet's stormy weather has deep roots

  

  Jupiter: Radio map shows planet's stormy weather has deep roots Updated June 03, 2016 09:27:50 Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot and other stormy surface features extend 30 to 100 kilometres below the enigmatic surface of the gas giant, a new radio map of the planet's atmosphere has revealed. Key pointsNew technique showed swirling ammonia beneath Jupiter's cloud tops mirrors those on surfaceAlso showed hotspots are ammonia-poor regions encircling planetFindings to help ..

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• New emoji: face palm, shrug and selfie included in Unicode 9.0 candidates

  

  This is how some of the new emoji may appear on your iPhone, once they've been implemented. Photo: Emojipedia You may soon find it much easier to call your friends liars, indicate that you are sick, or make that shrugging guy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with your phone, as the organisation that governs emoji has announced 72 new potential pictographs for release this month.Also included in the full list are: New people, including a pregnant woman and a groom to go with the exi..

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