Last Top Stories: Darwin kitesurfer fights off six crocodile attacks

Darwin kitesurfer fights off six crocodile attacks

“He poked the croc in the eyes and it let go, but it attacked him again another five times,” he told ABC Darwin. “He is a strong, young lad,” he said. “Obviously he was pretty frightened at the time; the ordeal is starting to sink in.” Despite the ... >> view original

Former soldier says Royal Darwin Hospital refused to treat severe pain, told ...

A decorated former Australian soldier says doctors at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) refused to treat his severe pain and told him it was a made-up symptom from his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Ex-corporal Bernard Ryan has a double crushed ... >> view original

'Sea Sparkles' put on sensational light show in southern Tasmania

Parts of the River Derwent shoreline are lighting up like neon at night thanks to a flash mob of billions of minute marine organisms that glow in the dark. Over the past few nights around Hobart, blooms of single-cell organisms called dinoflagellates have ... >> view original

Australian scientists part of team to discover new mechanism that triggers ...

Australian scientists are part of a team that has accidentally made a breakthrough that could lead to an improved early warning system for volcanic eruptions. Monash University researchers, along with those from universities in Newcastle, New South Wales, ... >> view original

Laser Cannon On ISS? Scientists Have Plan For Fighting Space Trash

The International Space Station (ISS) might be used to clear away some of the Earth's growing orbital space debris. How can the station help? By blasting materials out of orbit with a laser cannon. According to CBS News, around 3,000 tons of debris exist in ... >> view original

Frozen ... A young child is terrified as the strange sound booms from the sky in ...

VIDEO clips from around the world, including Australia, have captured an evil sounding 'trumpet' noise coming from the sky — but no one can explain exactly what it is. A number of people have filmed the bizarre sound over the past 10 years with the latest ... >> view original

​Scientists discover tiny microbes with potential to cleanse Singapore's waterways

A seven-year scientific study has revealed that microbial communities in urban waterways has the potential to play an important role in cleansing Singapore's waterways and also act as raw water quality indicators. The study found that canals designed to ... >> view original

How space can be scarier than you think

Artist's illustration of one model of the bright gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B. The explosion is highly beamed into two bipolar jets, with a narrow inner jet surrounded by a wider outer jet. NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones ... >> view original

The science behind Australia's spooky 'spider rain'

Residents of Goulburn, Australia woke this month to find their town shrouded in eerie, silken webs, while millions of tiny spiders rained down from above, local news reported. “The whole place was covered in these little black spiderlings and when I looked up ... >> view original

UGA study pinpoints the likeliest rodent sources of future human infectious ...

A map shows the global hot spots of rodent reservoir diversity (A) and 150 novel reservoir species predicted by the models to be in the 90th percentile probability of harboring one or more undiscovered zoonoses (B). In both panels A and B, warmer colors are ... >> view original