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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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China railgun ship. Picture: Twitter

New gun has rocked the world

CHINA has just changed the game. It has released photos of a new “supergun” capable of making many of the West’s defences obsolete.

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mm7864, King Tut, Tut, Tutankhamun, Gold, Death Mask, mask, The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, New Kingdom, Egypt, 18th Dynasty

Exploding King Tut’s last great secret

WILL a new survey of Tutankhamun’s tomb expose an ancient plot to erase a heretic queen from history? Archaeologists are right now digging to expose the truth.

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A lost Mayan civilisation has been revealed beneath the forests of Guatemala through the use of laser scanners. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City

Lost city found after hundreds of years

PYRAMIDS. Palaces. Temples. An incredible ancient Mayan capital — with suburbs of up to 60,000 houses — has been discovered after more than 1,000 years hidden away.

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(FILES): This November 17, 2005 file photo shows a Standard Missile Three (SM-3) being launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a joint Missile Defense Agency, US Navy ballistic missile flight test. The US Defense Department said late February 20, 2008 it had successfully used a ship-board missile to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite before it plummeted to Earth.

Russia outraged by taboo move

RUSSIA has attacked one country’s plans to construct a new missile defence system in the face of North Korean aggression.

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An image released by Chinese state-run media showing what appears to be a hypervelocity glide vehicle, similar to two successfully tested by new intercontinental ballistic missiles in November.

Missile gives China the edge

CHINA has just taken a huge step ahead of the United States in military technology, launching the first hypersonic missile.

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A Chinese fighter test-fires a long-range anti-aircraft missile during exercises earlier this year. Picture: Xinhua

‘China will pay a very high price’

AN escalation in Chinese military drills has upset one nation, which has now warned Beijing of dangerous consequences if it invades.

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These surveillance photographs released by the US Treasury Department purport to show a North Korean vessel receiving oil from a Chinese registered ship.

Is China cheating on NK sanctions?

CHINESE merchant ships have been caught on camera alongside North Korean vessels on the high seas, transferring their cargoes of oil in violation of UN sanctions.

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111003-N-ZZ999-003 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 3, 2011) An F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1). The F-35B is the Marine Corps Joint Strike Force variant of the Joint Strike Fighter and is designed for short takeoff and vertical landing on Navy amphibious ships. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Seaman Natasha R. Chalk/Released)

China’s F-35 fighter warning

CHINA has warned another nation not to convert its warships into F-35 stealth fighter carriers — or it will revive the dark days of WWII.

A participant performs during a procession of 'Krampus' monsters in Schwadorf, Austria on November 24, 2017. Krampus is traditionally the evil sidekick of Santa, sent to frighten naughty children and

You’d better not cry: Krampus is coming

SICK of Saint Nick? Kids in need of a serious wake-up call? This long-forgotten legend may be exactly what you need: Krampus, Santa’s demonic sidekick.

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A Coast Guard cutter Stratton boarding team investigates a self-propelled semi-submersible stopped in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015.US Coast Guard/Petty Officer 2nd Class LaNola Stone

The fight to find ‘narco subs’

AMERICA is fighting a new front in its war on drugs — locating, tracking and intercepting fleets of sophisticated homemade submarines loaded with cocaine.

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