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04/07/2019. David Cooke, receiver engineer who worked at the telescope in 1969 and was then 37 years old and is now 87 years of age. CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope, situated outside the town of Parkes in Western NSW. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing. Pictures received by the telescope of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface of the moon were broadcast around the world on 21 July 1969. Britta Campion / The Australian

Aussie stars reached for the moon

They are the Australian heroes of the 1969 moon landing; staff at our tracking stations who were a vital part of the Apollo mission.

Chris Griffith

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 22, 2019 captured marine mammals are seen in enclosures at a holding facility in Srednyaya Bay in the Far Eastern town of Nakhodka. - Whales captured to perform in aquariums and held in cramped pens in far eastern Russia on June 27, 2019 were journeying in trucks back to their home waters after Russian President backed their release. (Photo by Sergei PETROV / AFP)

Russia frees penned whales

Russian scientists yesterday said an effort to put nearly 100 illegally captured whales back in open water had been successful.

The Times

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 28, 2016, a team of foreign archaeologists extract skeletons at the excavation site of the first Philistine cemetery ever found in the Mediterranean coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon. - Ancient bones excavated in Israel and analysed in Germany may have cracked the puzzle of the Philistines' provenance and provided for the first time evidence of the biblical people's European origins, researchers say. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

’Philistine’ is now a compliment

After centuries of bad press, it’s time to rescue the reputation of the Philistines.

Rhys Blakely

WISHWish

Buzz Aldrin wore an Omega Speedmaster when he walked on the moon.

The first watch on the moon

NASA took no chances when it came to the timepiece used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

David Meagher

Arctic odysseyThe Times

A polar fox is fitted with a satellite tracking collar in Krossfjorden, Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic archipelago, on July 29, 2017, as part of research conducted by the Norwegian Polar Institute. Norwegian researchers said Tuesday July 2, 2019, that this young female arctic fox, shown in this photo, has been tracked walking from northern Norway to Canadaâ€™s far north, a distance of 4,415 kilometers (2,737 miles), via Greenland in 76 days. (Elise Stroemseng/Norwegian Polar Institute via AP)

Fox trots 4400km on sea ice

An Arctic fox has crossed sea ice to North America, covering 4400km from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to Canada.

WILL PAVIA

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Sun’s natural cycle will bake Earth

A natural sun cycle will add 2.5C warming to Earth’s climate in coming centuries, new research has found.

Graham Lloyd

World

PAIGUANO, CHILE - JULY 02: Chileans watch the sky prior to a total solar eclipse on July 2, 2019 in Paiguano, Chile. Around 25,0000 tourists arrived to Paiguano, a small town of around 1,000 inhabitants in the Elqui Valley, 650 km away Santiago. This is the only Earth's total solar eclipse of 2019 and the first one since 2017. From this point, the sun will fully disappear for around two minutes. It is best visible from a stripe in the South Pacific, Chile and Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Tourists keen not to see the sun

Tens of thousands of tourists have flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to watch a total solar eclipse.

ResearchScience

Hudson Institute researchers are testing whether a supplement favoured by gym junkies can help prevent the brain damage often suffered as a result of being born premature.Felicity Leddin with her premature baby Ethan now 7 weeks old. Picture : Ian Currie

Preterm babies ‘behind’

Premature birth is linked to significant behavioural and potential learning difficulties that persist at least to school age.

Matthew Denholm

climate warningWorld

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ONLY, Canon - Tales by Light, Peter Eastway.After a glorious sunrise and a crystal clear, blue bird day, the weather in Antarctica changed late in the afternoon. Deteriorating rapidly, we found ourselves in a snow storm, following an ice-breaker out of the treacherous Weddell Sea ice pack. The temperature had also plummeted, with 'grease' ice forming on the mirrored sea surface. The rich blues and aquamarines of the 'growler' icebergs seemed to glow from the steely dark depths below.

Alarm as Antarctic ice retreats

Antarctica’s ice cover has melted by an area four times greater than France in just a few years.

Agencies

Artificial intelligenceNation

Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky who is research director of Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Australian biotechnology company that the university spun-off to focus on developing innovative vaccine technologies. Credit: SA Health

Computer designs flu fighting drug

Human trials have begun of a totally artificial-intelligence-designed drug for combating the flu.

Chris Griffith

Crikey!The World

an artist's impression of Simosuchus clarki

Croc ancestors were vegetarian

Vegetarian crocodiles once roamed the world: a lesson in not stereotyping on the basis of modern examples.

The Economist

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This artist's rendering made available by NASA shows multiple views of the Dragonfly dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan to explore multiple locations, some hundreds of miles apart. On Thursday, June 2u7, 2019, NASA announced it would send the drone to the jovian planet's largest moon. Scientists have long considered Titan an attractive place to study whether it would be capable of supporting microbial life. (NASA via AP)

Drone to search for life on Titan

NASA plans to fly a drone copter to Saturn’s largest moon Titan in search of the building blocks of life.

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TWAM-20190629 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 29 JUN 2019NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONFEE MAY APPLYBut are you truly Vegan? By Matthew EvansMatthew Evans on his farm in southern TasmaniaVEGANS WANT TO SAVE BEESPHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES

So you’re a vegan … but are you, really?

The number of animals that die each and every day to produce vegan food is astonishing.

Matthew Evans

childbirthThe Times

Silhouette of a pregnant woman...sun and nice blue sky behind her.similar image:

Conceiving in winter raises risks

Conceiving in winter raises learning disability risk, a study of almost half a million children suggests.

Helen Puttick

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TWAM-20190629 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 29 JUN 2019NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONFEE MAY APPLYTUNNEL VISION: Will the Large Hadron Collider ever unlock the mysteries of the universe? By Bryan AppleyardPAUL COLLIER IS HEAD OF THE BEAMSPHOTOGRAPHY: GREG WHITE

Temple of truth or tunnel vision?

It’s been years since its last major — and largely predictable — discovery. Will the Large Hadron Collider ever unlock the mysteries of the universe?

Bryan Appleyard

World

A SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The Falcon rocket has a payload military and scientific research satellites. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX’s military ride-share

SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket, carrying 24 research satellites, yesterday, a middle-of-the-night ride-share.

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This handout photo released by NASA shows Expedition 59 NASA astronaut Anne McClain (C) being helped out of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft just minutes after she, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, landed in a remote area near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on June 25, 2019. - McClain, Saint-Jacques, and Kononenko are returning after 204 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 58 and 59 crews onboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA / BILL INGALLS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ---

Crew return after launch scare

The first crew to blast off to the International Space Station following a launch accident last year has landed back on Earth.

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Brain drain ‘good for science’

Leading scientist says nation needs to get comfortable with its best and brightest leaving.

DAVID SWAN

CaffeineThe Times

Kick start your day with a caffeine shot from Cruze Coffee. From a smooth yet strong espresso for only $2.50, Cruze in Grafton St cater to every palette with a selection of more than 30 coffee varieties from around the world, roasted on-site, and which can even be blended to produce just the right taste. And if you prefer something more subtle, they make everything from a flat white to a cappuccino. They also have a store at Cairns Central. Photo by Pasco Rogato for Cairnseye eat section.

Now an algorithm for coffee

The US military is coming to the rescue of fatigued civilians with an algorithm that tells you how much coffee to drink and when.

Rhys Blakely

incredible picturesScience

20-06-19 - Pictures taken this week on Ningaloo Reef Picture shows tourists swimming with whale sharks. Picture by by Three Island Whale Shark Dive owner Michael Husband.

Giants having whale of a time

Rare images of a courtship between whale sharks have been captured off Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef.

VICTORIA LAURIE

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