New high resolution images reveal Mercury is tectonically active and other top stories.

• New high resolution images reveal Mercury is tectonically active

  NEW IMAGES FROM NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft have revealed previously undetected fault scarps – cliff-like landforms – on Mercury that are small enough to suggest the planet is geologically young. Published in Nature Geoscience, the new NASA findings suggests that Mercury is still contracting, and that Earth is not the only tectonically active planet in our Solar System, as previously thought. “The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with..

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• Queensland 'asteroid' sparks concerns over near earth asteroid monitoring

  

  Astronomers have raised concerns about the ability to watch for near-Earth asteroids bigger than the one thought to have lit up the central Queensland sky on Monday night.Several experts said an asteroid was likely responsible for the multiple reports of a large bang, a flash in the sky and tremors near Gladstone about 8.30pm on Monday. Astronomer Owen Bennedick argued there needed to be funding for observatories to monitor asteroids. Photo: supplied Astronomer Owen Bennedick from Wappa ..

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• Don't Worry, The Earth Is Not Locked Into 7 Degrees Of Warming

  

  The internet is abuzz with a new climate study that seemed to deliver a bombshell conclusion: The amount of carbon humans have put into the atmosphere may have already committed the planet three to seven degrees Celsius of global warming. Image: Micolo J/Flickr Three to seven degrees Celsius is a big amount of warming — an apocalyptically big amount. The Paris climate accord, adopted less than one year ago by nearly 200 nations, resolved to slash global carbon emissions so that we don’t exceed..

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• Australian scientists just froze light like Kylo Ren from Star Wars

  

  A cloud of atoms used to make the stationary light. Photo: Supplied Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.Lead researcher Jesse Everett said controlling the movement of light was critical to developing future quantum computers, which could solve problems too complex for today's most advanced computers. Kylo Ren uses the force to stop a blaster beam before it can hit him in..

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• Meteor described as 'mini sun' streaks over central Queensland

  

  Meteor described as 'mini sun' streaks over central Queensland Updated September 27, 2016 15:27:54 A bright light and loud explosion in the sky over central and southern Queensland last night was probably a fiery meteor, experts believe.A number of Queenslanders have contacted ABC Local Radio to say they witnessed what appeared to be a fireball streak across the sky about 8.30pm on Monday night.Emerald resident Jim said he was on the phone at the time and was shocked by..

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