According to Justice Harrison, Dawson had three motives to kill his wife. Source: Twitter. The NSW Supreme Court has found Chris Dawson guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette, 40 years after her disappearance. Justice Ian Harrison handed down the verdict after a 10-week long trial saying, “I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Lynette…
“The minimum of a 27cm sea level rise will happen “no matter what we do going forward,” according to Dr William Colgan. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Even if fossil fuel burning ends today, scientists say there is now no way to prevent a future sea level rise of at least 27cm. The research in the recently…
“The goal, using an Electron launch vehicle and Photon spacecraft, is to send a probe to around 30 miles’ altitude, where Venus’ atmospheric conditions are closer to those found on Earth,” said Rocket Lab. Source: Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab will launch the very first private mission to Venus in an effort to see if there…
It is estimated this dinosaur was 12 metres high and 25 metres long, based on the size of the bones found in the garden. Source: Instituto Dom Luiz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon). The remains of what might be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe is being unearthed in a backyard…
“I’ve decided not to meddle in political affairs,” said the Sadrist Movement leader. Source: Shutterstock. At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in Baghdad after Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation from Iraqi politics. The prominent Shi’ite cleric announced on Twitter that he was commencing his “final withdrawal” from Iraqi politics after failing…
NASA said the next earliest opportunity for a launch is Friday 2 September. Source: NASA, Twitter. NASA has been forced to delay the launch of the test flight of its new moon rocket Artemis 1 due to an issue related to the engine. The rocket was set to launch on Monday with three test dummies…
Police have alleged that the man used his influence within the Jehovah Witness community to commit the crimes. Source: Shutterstock. A 61-year-old Sunshine Coast man has been charged with numerous rape and sexual assault offences that happened between 2008 and 2018. On Sunday August 28, police went to the man’s address in Mooloolaba and took…
The portrait of Churchill by Yousuf Karsh, the acclaimed Canadian-Armenian portraitist, was displayed along with some of his other work in the hotel where Karsh used to live. Source: Wikimedia Commons. An investigation is underway into the heist of an iconic Winston Churchill portrait that was mysteriously stolen and replaced with a copy. The 1941…
Moderna alleges Pfizer/BioNTech copied technology that Moderna had developed years before the pandemic began. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Moderna has sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in developing the COVID-19 vaccine, alleging Moderna technology was copied. The lawsuit alleges Pfizer/BioNTech copied the mRNA technology Moderna had patented between 2010 and 2016, before…
Artificial moonlight and controlled temperature were successfully used on the corals to replicate the environmental conditions that prompt spawning. Source: Australian Institute of Marine Sciences. For the first time, captive-raised corals have been successfully bred out of their natural reproductive window in the Great Barrier Reef. The first offseason coral spawning by the Australian Institute…