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Jamie Seidel
Jamie SeidelContributor

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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Innovation
A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in flight. Picture: USAF

Stealth bombers to be scrapped

THE United States is set to retire its most potent aircraft, the B2 ‘Spirit’ stealth bomber, early. But another must now fly until it is 100 years old. The reason is … Top Secret.

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Space
An artist's impression of the strange interstellar object Oumuamua.

Alien object’s violent past

THE ‘Oumuamua interstellar object hurtling through the solar system has just got more mysterious. Astronomers believe they may know what set it off on its incredible trans-galactic journey.

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Innovation
This photo taken on February 5, 2018 shows a police officer wearing a pair of smartglasses with a facial recognition system at Zhengzhou East Railway Station in Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province. Chinese police are sporting high-tech sunglasses that can spot suspects in a crowded train station, the newest use of facial recognition that has drawn concerns among human rights groups. / AFP PHOTO / - / China OUT

These glasses know who you are

ORWELL had nothing on this: Chinese police are being issued sunglasses that come complete with facial-recognition features capable of picking a suspect out from a crowd.

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Space
Our Sun may be due for a 'grand minimum' in its 11-year hot-cold cycle, cooling the Earth by several tenths of a degree Celcius and tumbling weather patterns.

Why our sun is growing dim

IT’S producing less sunspots, less magnetism and less ultraviolet radiation. But don’t expect this once-in-400-year cooldown by our life-giving Sun to halt climate change.

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Animals
The marbled crayfish. Source: Frank Lyko, DKFZ

Mutant crayfish taking over world

IN just over 20 years, a freaky ten-legged mutant crayfish capable of asexual reproduction — basically cloning itself — has boomed in numbers across the world. Now scientists know where it came from.

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Space
This handout image obtained from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows an artist’s impression shows an imagined view from close to one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. Seven planets recently spotted orbiting a dim star in our Milky Way galaxy, are rocky, have water, and are potentially

Four ‘waterworlds’ right next door

ALIEN life could be a stone-throw away. The Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed four extraordinary planets — all within the ‘Goldilocks zone’ of a nearby star — are rich with water.

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