Elon Musk looks to Mars as Earthbound businesses hit a snag and other top stories.

• Elon Musk looks to Mars as Earthbound businesses hit a snag

  by Dana Hull When Elon Musk takes the stage of the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, it won't be to rehash terrestrial concerns like a fatal Tesla autopilot crash or a poorly received merger proposal. Instead, the space and electric-car entrepreneur will be talking about realising his boyhood dream: going to Mars.Musk's keynote address, entitled 'Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species', will tackle the technical challenges and "potential arc..

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• How will Twitter's suitors reap its value?

  

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• Vikings Took Cats on Their Voyages, DNA Study Shows

  

  Vikings were hardy people who valued self-reliance and strength of will. But that doesn’t mean they were immune to the lure of feline companionship. A new study on cat DNA and linage shows that as well as ruling in Egypt and the Mediterranean, cats were welcomed aboard Viking ships. In the new study, samples were taken the remains of cats that date to as recently as the 18th century and as far back as the early Stone Age, around 8,900 to 3,900 years ago, when Europeans had not yet adopted farmi..

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• Palmer Luckey's politics were hiding in plain sight

  

  On Friday evening, a little more than 24 hours after the revelation that boy wonder and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was the moneyman behind a strange scheme to bring down Hillary Clinton using the power of memes, the 24-year-old near-billionaire posted an apology to Facebook. Luckey had, he explained, given $10,000 to a pro-Trump, nonprofit organization called Nimble America because it had “fresh ideas” for how to communicate with young voters. But he asked people to stop renouncing their supp..

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• Support for world-leading action on climate change skyrockets

  

  Public support for world-leading, federal government-level action on climate change has bounced back, according to a new poll, as people perceive environmental impacts around them and support a larger role for renewable energy production.According to the Climate Institute's Climate of the Nation poll, 65 per cent of Australians want their country to lead the world on finding solutions, a significant increase since the time of divisive debates about the Gillard government's carbon tax. ..

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• European Space Agency accused of 'having a problem with promoting women'

  

  A leading space scientist has accused the European Space Agency of having a “problem with promoting women” that has led to men holding almost every top job at the agency. Rita Schulz, who was the lead scientist on the Rosetta comet-chasing mission from 2007 to 2013, also told the Guardian that she had been “shafted” by management when she was dropped from the historic project six months before its culmination. The German scientist, who was ESA’s first and only female project scientist at the t..

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• Vodafone down across Australia

  

  September 25, 201611:50pmVodafone is experiencing problems with data, text and calls across Australia. Picture: AFP/Justin TallisStaff writersNews Corp Australia NetworkVODAFONE users across Australia have been left without coverage, with the company experiencing outages across the network.Customers have taken to social media to report problems accessing data, texts and calls.Some users said they have been without services for about three hours, while others said they couldn’t reach Vodafone dir..

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