Australian Scientists Say We Are On The Evolutionary Path To Becoming Cyborgs and other top stories.

• Australian Scientists Say We Are On The Evolutionary Path To Becoming Cyborgs

  Our excitement with and rapid uptake of technology — and the growing opportunities for artificial brain enhancement — are putting humans more firmly on the path to becoming cyborgs, according to evolution experts from the University of Adelaide. Professor Maciej Henneberg and Dr Aurthur Saniotis have worked to chart the full scope of human evolution, with a look at the past, present and future development of our species. Image: Shutterstock And while they believe that future humans will more re..

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• Rosetta's Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought

  

  If you thought a comet that contains the building blocks of life and creates its own weather couldn’t get any more interesting, think again. Scientists finally have a theory as to why comet 67P — also known as Rosetta’s comet — has two distinct lobes. It’s actually two distinct comets, which break up, orbit one another and smash together again and again for all of cometary eternity. And despite how strange this relationship sounds, it may be a lot more common than we thought. Image: ESA That’s..

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• Secret modelling estimates it could cost $16 bilion to save Great Barrier Reef

  

  TONY EASTLEY: Secret Queensland Government modelling, obtained by the ABC, estimates it could cost up to $16 billion over 10 years to achieve the sort water quality needed to help save the Great Barrier Reef. The $16 billion dwarfs the sort of money set aside by both the major parties for fighting pollution on the reef. Mark Willacy has this exclusive report.GEOFF GARRETT: If we carry on as we are, with poor water quality, we are stuffed with a capital S underlined bold. MARK WILLACY: Stuffed..

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• Four great white sharks caught, tagged and released in NSW 'smart' drum line trial

  

  Four great white sharks caught, tagged and released in NSW 'smart' drum line trial Posted June 02, 2016 18:40:52 Four great white sharks have been caught using "smart" drum-line technology on the far north coast of New South Wales.All four animals were caught, tagged and released off Evans Head on Wednesday and Thursday, marking the first successful use of the technology on great white sharks in the state.Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair said it was a "watershe..

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• King Tutankhamun buried with dagger made of space iron

  

  King Tutankhamun buried with dagger made of space iron, study finds Updated June 02, 2016 14:18:23 King Tutankhamun, the boy king of Egypt, was buried with a dagger made of iron from space, a new study has found. The weapon, placed on the right thigh of the mummified body, came from iron of meteoric origins, a team of Italian and Egyptians researchers has confirmed.The team used a non-invasive X-ray technique to confirm the composition of the iron without damaging it, a..

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• How the world will look in 2100

  

  A circular tunnel around the planet. Sure, why not? Picture: NASA Ames Research CentreHAVE you ever contemplated how the world will look in 2100?If you envisioned massive man-made habitats floating in the deep space, you share a similar view to NASA.All the way back in 1975, the space agency commissioned Don Davis and Rick Guidiceto to illustrate potential space colonies of the future.The retrofuturist artwork was born from a team at NASA tasked with conducting 10 weeks of research into off-worl..

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• Ancient Plants Tell Story of Madagascar's Human's Ancestry

  

  In 2005, a study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics found the human inhabitants of Madagascar can trace their genetic lineages back to two regions, the relatively nearby Eastern Africa and the Southeast Asian island Borneo, around 4,500 miles away. At the time, the researchers noted that while the Malagasy people’s lineage is roughly a 50-50 split between the two regions, they speak a language derived exclusively from Indonesia. Now, researchers believe they’ve found archaeologi..

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• Hydrogen signal from remote galaxy detected

  

  Hydrogen signal from remote galaxy detected, expert says Updated June 02, 2016 10:25:30 The detection of a faint signal of hydrogen from a galaxy more than five billion light years away will push the boundaries of astronomy forward, a Perth-based radio astronomer says.Dr Attila Popping from the University of Western Australia is part of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) team which made the discovery.The team analysed data collected by the Kar..

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• Was Planet 9 born of a different star?

  

  Space Was Planet 9 born of a different star? Anthony Wood June 1, 2016 A team of researchers from Lund University, Sweden, has run a series of computer simulations to test the likelihood that the as-of-yet undiscovered Planet 9 formed in the orbit of an alien star. Whilst the planet has not yet been directly observed, evidence of its gravitational influence may have been observed perturb..

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