Great Barrier Reef: Scientists Send Letter To Australian PM, Call For Action To Save The Bleaching-Damaged Structure and other top stories.

• Great Barrier Reef: Scientists Send Letter To Australian PM, Call For Action To Save The Bleaching-Damaged Structure

  

  An international team of scientists and coral reef experts have, in a letter to the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, urged greater action to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef — a region that is currently witnessing its worst bleaching event on record. The letter, signed by past and present presidents of the International Society for Reef Studies on behalf of over 2,000 attendees of the International Coral Reef Symposium recently held in Honolulu, was sent to Turnbull on Saturday.“..

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• Juno probe to be sent perilously close to Jupiter

  

  The Juno spacecraft passes in front of Jupiter in this artist's depiction. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech London: Scientists are preparing for a bumpy ride as they send a spacecraft perilously close to Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet.The Juno probe is due to reach the gas giant on July 4 after a five-year, 2.25 billion kilometre journey from Earth. Three LEGO figurines representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and..

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• Successful first observations of galactic center with GRAVITY

  

  The GRAVITY instrument is now operating with the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope, and even from early test results it is already clear that it will soon be producing world-class science. GRAVITY is part of the VLT Interferometer. By combining light from the four telescopes it can achieve the same spatial resolution and precision in measuring positions as a telescope of up to 130 metres in diameter. The corresponding gains in resolving power and positional acc..

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• Greens want more Antarctic research

  

  Greens want more Antarctic researchThe Greens want to almost double the amount of time an Antarctic research vessel is out at sea and hire 30 scientists to study ice-sheet collapse.Increasing the amount of days the CSIRO's RV Investigator can sail from 180 to 300 will cost $194.5 million over the next 10 years, while adding 30 scientists to the Australian Antarctic Division will cost $44 million over the same period."The work of Australia's Antarctic scientists is pivotal in understand the risk ..

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