NASA Just Made All Its Research Free Online and other top stories.

• NASA Just Made All Its Research Free Online

  Yesterday, NASA announced a massive new public project that will make all of its publicly funded research available online for free. A new portal, Pubspace, will host thousands of NASA research articles on topics like the toxicity of lunar dust or the make up of Earth's early atmosphere.This resource appears three years after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directed NASA to share more of its research with the public. Before, most NASA papers were only available behind a p..

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• Explorers find 2nd-oldest confirmed shipwreck in Great Lakes

  

  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday.The three-member western New York-based team said it discovered the shipwreck this summer in deep water off Oswego, in central New York. Images captured by a remotely operated vehicle confirmed it is the Washington, which sank during a storm in 1803, team member Jim ..

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• David Goodall, 102yo scientist, told to leave Edith Cowan University post

  

  David Goodall, 102yo scientist, told to leave Edith Cowan University post Updated August 21, 2016 11:10:55 At 102, David Goodall is Australia's oldest working scientist.He's had a career in ecology spanning 70 years, producing more than 100 research papers, earning three doctorates and receiving a member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the field.His work has taken him around the world, but these days you will find him at his office at Edith Cowan Unive..

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• July was 'absolutely' Earth's hottest month ever recorded

  

  NASA data reveal the Earth's temperature reached its highest point in 136 years of record-keeping during July."July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began," tweeted Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is responsible for temperature measurements.It was the 10th-straight month of record-breaking temperatures in NASA's analysis, a substantial 0.18 degrees warmer than the previous hottest July in 2011. "It's a little alarm..

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• The Face Of An Egyptian Mummy Recreated By A Melbourne Forensic Sculptor

  

  The Face Of An Egyptian Mummy Recreated By A Melbourne Forensic Sculptor Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. VIDEO It almost defies belief what modern science is capable of. Take this facial reconstruction of Meritamen, a mummified Egyptian woman who may have lived anywhere from 2000-3500 years ago. The reconstruction was conducted by scientists and researchers from Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and many others. Accor..

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Former Canberra Raider Matt Orford undergoes brain surgery .	Public service job cuts are another attack on Canberra: Labor .