Sunday, February 28, 2016

Getting bike laws right means balancing rights of cyclists and motorists and other top stories.

  • Getting bike laws right means balancing rights of cyclists and motorists

    Getting bike laws right means balancing rights of cyclists and motorists
    From March 1, as part of the “Go Together” road safety campaign, motorists in New South Wales must keep a minimum distance of one metre when passing cyclists. This becomes 1.5 metres when the speed limit is above 60 km/h. NSW joins South Australia, Queensland and the ACT in passing laws to enforce this. But while the introduction of the one-metre rule has been widely welcomed, cyclists have been decidedly less positive about other aspects of the Go Together package. ID requirements and..
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  • Solved! First distance to a 'fast radio burst'

    Solved! First distance to a 'fast radio burst'
    For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves originate in the distant universe. The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature, was made using CSIRO radio telescopes in eastern Australia and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope in Hawaii. "Our discovery opens the way to working out what makes these bursts," Dr Simon Johnston, Head of Ast..
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  • Adelaide car wash crash driver reported for drink-driving

    Adelaide car wash crash driver reported for drink-driving
    Adelaide car wash crash driver reported for drink-driving Posted February 28, 2016 09:02:22 A driver alleged to have crashed through the glass window of a car wash at an Adelaide service station has been reported for drink-driving.Police were called to the service station at the corner of Churchill Road and Northcote Street at Kilburn about 7:30pm on Saturday.They said a car had crashed into a window and its driver allegedly had a blood alcohol reading of 0.237.A 50-y..
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  • US Army researchers patent limited-range bullet to reduce chances of collateral damage

    US Army researchers patent limited-range bullet to reduce chances of collateral damage
    Safer munitions may seem like a contradiction in terms, but modern designers put a lot of effort into creating weapons that do the least unintentional harm after or if they fail to do their job. THE US ARMY IS WORKING ON A SELF-DESTRUCTING BULLET IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE RISK OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE Researchers from the US Army Armament, Research, Development and Engineering center recently patented a new type of bullet. This bullet, unlike any other, is designed to self-destruct after traveling ..
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  • From human evolution to teeth evolution; Scientists discover a strange but exciting link between the two

    From human evolution to teeth evolution; Scientists discover a strange but exciting link between the two
    University in Australia suggests that changes in human teeth can explain a lot about human evolution. Researchers think these changes can be much simple than previously thought and can predict the sizes of the missing teeth from hominin fossils. There is a huge different between modern humans’ set of teeth and the hominin species’, particularly in the wisdom teeth. As our ancestor needed to chew a lot more than we currently need to, it seems interesting that we still grow wisdom teeth despit..
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  • After Black Ops 3, Can We Avoid Advanced Warfare 2 - Go Old School?

    After Black Ops 3, Can We Avoid Advanced Warfare 2 - Go Old School?
    Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was a major success for Treyarch and Activision in 2015. In terms of sales it was the best-selling video game of the year, the seventh consecutive year a Call of Duty title took the crown in North America. The latest installment helped boost total life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise to more than 250 million units and Activision are loving it. However, the community seems a bit jaded. Black Ops 3 has a review score of 6/10 on Steam and a very low score ..
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  • How an MIT team created a warning system for rogue waves

    How an MIT team created a warning system for rogue waves
    A new way of predicting the onset of rogue waves, also known as killer waves, has been developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Until now, efforts at predicting them were limited to costly, inefficient, and time-consuming computer models that aimed to map out every individual wave in a body of water.This new method, published Feb. 11, 2016, in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, is simpler, easier, and faster. It aims to give sailors and sea-platform workers a window ..
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