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src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201707/r1724016_26906985.JPG" align="left" alt="">Indigenous rock shelter pushes Australia's human history back to 65,000 years</a> </h4> <p class="item007 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 20 July 2017</span><br>New excavations of a rock shelter near Kakadu National Park indicate humans reached Australia at least 65,000 years ago - up to 18,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Deep connection</span></p> <h4 class="item008"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-07-05/milky-ways-stellar-speedsters-are-escapees-from-another-galaxy/8677288?section=science"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201707/r1718029_26779802.png" align="left" alt="">Super-fast stars in the Milky Way are 'runaways' from another galaxy</a> </h4> <p class="item008 itemList"><span class="txdate">Wednesday, 5 July 2017</span><br>New research suggests super-fast stars in the Milky Way are actually 'runaways' - from another galaxy. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Runaway stars</span></p> <h4 class="item009"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-29/cockie-drummers-beat-a-regular-rhythm-to-catch-a-mate/8656770"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1715912_26735693.JPG" align="left" alt="">Cockie drummers beat a regular rhythm to catch a mate</a> </h4> <p class="item009 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 29 June 2017</span><br>Just like a human drummer, male palm cockatoos uses drumsticks to beat out a steady rhythm. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Beat of love</span></p> <h4 class="item010"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-20/cats-spread-across-world-revealed-by-dna-study/8631150"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1712892_26673470.jpg" align="left" alt="">The origin of the tabby coat and other cat mysteries revealed</a> </h4> <p class="item010 itemList"><span class="txdate">Tuesday, 20 June 2017</span><br>A new study on how cats conquered the world - and our hearts - has answered long-standing questions. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Feline history</span></p> <h4 class="item011"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-16/chinese-satellite-breaks-quantum-entanglement-distance-record/8620240"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1711633_26646363.jpg" align="left" alt="">Chinese scientists use satellite to smash quantum entanglement record</a> </h4> <p class="item011 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 16 June 2017</span><br>Scientists have used satellite technology for the first time to generate and transmit entangled photons - particles of light - across a record distance of 1,200 kilometres on Earth. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Spooky action</span></p> <h4 class="item012"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-08/einsteins-impossible-dream-comes-true/8598552"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1708748_26586455.jpg" align="left" alt="">Einstein's light bending theory directly observed in distant stars for first time</a> </h4> <p class="item012 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 8 June 2017</span><br>Astronomers have used the gravitational warping of light, predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago, to measure the mass of a distant star for the first time. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Einstein's impossible hope</span></p> <h4 class="item013"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-08/300-000-year-old-remains-pushes-back-origin-of-species/8594632"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1708418_26579636.jpg" align="left" alt="">Discovery of 300,000-year-old fossils rewrites origins of our species</a> </h4> <p class="item013 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 8 June 2017</span><br>The discovery of fossil remains of Stone Age humans in Morocco pushes back the date of the origin of Homo sapiens by 100,000 years. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Human evolution</span></p> <h4 class="item014"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-06/hot-jupiter-like-planet-is-most-extreme-alien-world-discovered/8580620"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1707668_26563773.jpg" align="left" alt="">Scorching alien planet is most extreme world ever discovered</a> </h4> <p class="item014 itemList"><span class="txdate">Tuesday, 6 June 2017</span><br>The hellish alien Jupiter-like world dubbed KELT-9b is beyond what astronomers have ever studied. It glows like a comet and is so hot it's likely that molecules break apart and atmosphere evaporates. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Hot discovery</span></p> <h4 class="item015"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-02/third-gravitational-wave-detected-by-ligo/8579350"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201602/r1535859_22962565.jpg" align="left" alt="When two black holes collide, the resulting gravitational ripples can be felt across the cosmos">Third gravitational wave detection puts new spin on black holes</a> </h4> <p class="item015 itemList"><span class="txdate">Friday, 2 June 2017</span><br>For the third time, physicists have detected a gravitational wave: a tiny ripple in the fabric of space-time. </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Space-time ripples</span></p> <h4 class="item016"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-01/parker-solar-probe-nasas-journey-to-touch-the-sun/8572540"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201706/r1705947_26526832.jpg" align="left" alt="">NASA's 'mission of extremes' will touch the Sun</a> </h4> <p class="item016 itemList"><span class="txdate">Thursday, 1 June 2017</span><br>It's been on NASA's bucket list for 60 years, and now the ambitious mission to touch the Sun is in its final phase before launch. So just how do you send a spacecraft into the Sun without it burning up? </span><span class="description"><br><span class="slug">Parker Solar Probe</span></p> <h4 class="item017"> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-05-31/who-were-the-ancient-egyptians/8572076"><img src="https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201705/r1705298_26513596.jpg" align="left" alt="">Who were the ancient Egyptians? 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