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A teacher recruitment drive in New Zealand has seen just ten Australian teachers make the move across the Tasman Sea. The country’s Ministry of Education wanted to recruit at least 400 overseas teachers to fill the shortage for this academic year, with just more than 240 recruited so far mostly from the United Kingdom and South Africa. Sky News has tracked one of the Australians who uprooted her life, explaining her motivation for the move across the ditch as an opportunity to ‘take some jumps professionally’. Читать дальше...

Authorities say they don’t believe anyone could survive after a plane, operated by Atlas Air, crashed into a Texas bay in the United States. At least three people were aboard the cargo plane when it nose-dived into shallow water less than two metres deep. The Boeing 767 jetliner was en route from Miami to Houston.

TYPHOON “Wutip” may enter the Philippines this week and will be locally named “Betty,” the state-run weather bureau said on Sunday. In its forecast earlier in the day, the Philippine…READ

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the National War Memorial, located next to India Gate in the heart of the national capital, to the nation tomorrow.He will dedicate the memorial at a solemn function in accordance with military traditions, according to an official release.The National War Memorial is a state-of-art monument spread over an area of approximately 40 acres and is a tribute to Indian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for the country post-independence, it said.The memorial... Читать дальше...

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Take two cancer cells and compare their genomes. Surprisingly, they can be quite different.This genetic variation is one of the hallmarks of cancer, and one reason why treating cancer is so hard.If a tumour is made up of cells with many different genomes, a single drug might not kill them all. But, knowing the genetic variation can help us develop targeted treatments.

Dorrian & Whittaker, Conversation
The outer region of the solar system may be the least explored, but scientists have managed to unravel several of its mysteries in recent weeks. On New Year's Day, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons encountered the icy object Ultima Thule for the first time, shedding light on how it formed. Astronomers have also just discovered a previously unknown moon orbiting Neptune, which has been dubbed Hippocamp.

Bruce Bower, ScienceNews
Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi's partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 million years ago.

Nathaniel Scharping, Discover
People all around the world (or at least where Netflix is available) have been exhausting themselves of late trying to spark joy in their lives. The urge comes from cleaning guru Marie Kondo, whose philosophy rests on the principle that we should rid our homes and minds of things that don't inspire bursts of pleasure.

Ed Cara, Gizmodo
A real-world experiment in Berkeley, California might help settle the debate over whether taxing sugary soft drinks can make people healthier. A new study found that the drinking habits of Berkeley residents got better and stayed better over the three years after a 2014 soda tax was passed.

Police and emergency services are responding to a jet boat crash on the Clutha River near Hawea, Central Otago Lakes District.

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable

Troels Schnfeldt can trace his path to becoming a nuclear energy entrepreneur back to 2009, when he and other young physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen started getting together for an occasional beer and nuclear meetup.The beer was an India pale ale that they brewed themselves in an old, junk-filled lab space in the institute's basement.

Annette Ekin, Horizon
We're fighting a different kind of wildfire whose behaviour experts are struggling to predict.Climate change and negligent forest management are causing higher-intensity, faster-moving fires that can generate enough energy to evolve into erratic firestorms, known as pyroCbs, in the face of which first responders can do little.

Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Dark matter is not only the most abundant form of matter in the Universe, it's also the most mysterious. Whereas all the other particles we know of atoms, neutrinos, photons, antimatter and all the other particles in the Standard Model interact through at least one of the known quantum forces, dark matter appears to interact through gravity alone.

Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
When Becky Evans started studying cat-human relationships, she kept hearing, over and over again, about how cats are psychopaths.On one hand, anyone who has looked into the curiously blank face of a catloaf knows exactly what that means. But also, exactly what does it mean to apply a human mental diagnosis to felines?

Kristina Vrouwenvelder, Sci American
Orange skies, icy dunes and methane cloudsno, it's not some post-apocalyptic picture of Earth. It's what Saturn's moon Titan might look like to explorers. While it doesn't sound like paradise, scientists, including my colleagues in chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, think Titan has enough in common with Earth that it's worth studying. But is there life on Titan? Right now, we can't say for sure.

Ellen Airhart, Popular Science
Pests have plagued U.S. presidents for generations. A rat nearly ate First Lady Frances Cleveland's pet canary in the mid-1880s, according to Real Life at the White House: Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence.

Rahul made an impressive half-century on his comeback but Pant was needlessly run-out during India’s three-wicket defeat against Australia in the first T20 International.

Umesh Yadav had 14 runs to defend and it was down to six off the last two balls when his wide yorker attempt was smashed by Pat Cummins

Yuen Yiu, Physics Central
Inspired by a technique first developed by botanists during the 1990s, materials scientists in the past few years have been making an almost oxymoronic-sounding material: transparent wood. While the biologists, who were studying the structure of wood, needed only small pieces, materials scientists have proposed applications like load-bearing windows and have focused on scaling up the technique.

A new University of Bath study now finds that skin cells taken from patients with a rare genetic disorder are ten times more sensitive to damage from ultraviolet A (AVA) radiation in laboratory tests, than those from a healthy population.Experts believe that the work, which has involved designing a brand new molecule with potential to be added to sun cream, could benefit those with Friedrich's Ataxia (FA), as well as those with other disorders characterised by mitochondrial iron overload, notably Wolfram Syndrome and Parkinson's disease... Читать дальше...

SEATTLE — Matisse Thybulle had 17 points, six steals and five blocked shots, Jaylen Nowell added 12 points, and Washington claimed a share of the Pac-12 regular season title with a 64-55 win over Colorado on Saturday night. The Huskies (22-5, 13-1 Pac-12) won for the 15th time in 16 games and claimed a share

TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – An official with the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum said the country was not only self-sufficient in gasoline production but had excess production capacity, which could be earmarked for exports.

Welcome to my salon, where the freaks don't just come out at night and the corporate girls are the most kinky.

A tourist from the United Kingdom died at Ocean Beach in Tairua yesterday. Andrew Massey, aged 68, from Kent, had been swimming with family members when he got into trouble in the water shortly before 6pm. Mr Massey was brought to shore and CPR was ...

With the view to making the selection process fair, Bhojpur Municipality has started taking examinations to screen teachers to be hired on contract basis.