Sarah Basford Canales
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Jacqui Lambie Is Letting the Internet Decide Whether She’ll Vote to Ban Mobiles in Immigration Centres
An important vote on whether mobile phones should be banned in immigration centres lies in the hands of Senator Jacqui Lambie and she’s asking the internet what it thinks. A bill, proposed back in May, was debated in Parliament this week and will soon be voted on. It would see the Minister of Home Affairs,…
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Two ‘Impossible’ Black Holes Mysteriously Collided in Space
Black holes remain a perplexing enigma to the space community and a new observation by Australian researchers really just confirms that. Two enormous black holes were spotted in space. They weigh in at around 85 and 66 times the mass of the Sun but that wasn’t the strange thing about them. Our current scientific understanding…
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A Boomer NASA Satellite Made a Final Fiery Flight Back to Earth
A NASA satellite launched back in 1964 made its final journey in a return to Earth over the weekend, disintegrating as it shot through the atmosphere. The satellite, Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1), was launched back in September 1964 to help us better understand planet Earth. It was the first of six satellites with the…
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Google Shuts Down More Piracy Sites in Australia
Google is working to remove hundreds of piracy sites in Australia that just keep bouncing back. A Sydney Morning Herald report has said the tech giant is moving to de-index hundreds more piracy sites as they reappeared under new domains. While Google had already been working to voluntarily take down the offending sites without a…