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PGT: Tiger Woods is considering playing in another PGA Tour event before the Australian Open. Perhaps Las Vegas or Disney World?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian National University scientists have successfully bent light beams around an object on a two dimensional metal surface, opening the door to faster and cheaper computer chips working with light.

Apparently when it occurs on a business trip. An Australian public servant is suing her employer for compensation after being injured while having sex during a business trip. She works for ComCare, the Australian government’s—wait for it—workplace safety organization

PGT: Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples has said that his two wild cards should join him at the Australian Open prior. Reportedly Tiger Woods will oblige.

They're weird.

SINGAPORE, July 14 (Reuters) - Climate scientists haveturned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy [More]

Two years ago you could scarcely open a newspaper without reading about health care, and you might be forgiven for thinking (or hoping) that the debate was over. Yet the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was signed into law in March 2010 offers more concrete plans for reforming the health insurance system than for reforming the health care system. It will change how we pay for health care but not how much we pay --and that is a problem

Why is big tobacco suing the Australian government? Take a look at government-mandated tobacco warning labels

Feds will launch a probe on Google, a start-up that shows if you've been hacked, a study on how men and women divide their work schedules, and more. Is Google in the doghouse? Federal regulators will be issuing subpoenas to Google, "launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising," The Wall Street Journal reports .

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Gale Crater, a 150-kilometer-wide depression named after an Australian banker-turned-amateur astronomer, has emerged as the preferred destination for the next spacecraft to set wheels on Mars. [More]

By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australian climate scientists say they have received death threats, emails with sexual slurs and other insults in a surge of abuse that appears to be a coordinated campaign of intimidation. [More]

Sick of hearing that climate change doesn't exist from people who haven't studied the matter, climate scientists get together to fix the problem the only way they know how: hip-hop. There is nothing more amusing than incongruous people rapping (Andy Samberg has built a career on this notion), and there is perhaps no more incongruous rappers than Australian academics

Is it possible that the traditional office worker has the most dangerous job in America? Consider the following studies that found sitting for extended periods is hazardous to your health. In 2007, Dr

The death of Osama bin Laden elicited many different types of responses and feelings--triumph, sorrow and anger among them. Each of us, as individuals, is capable of having conflicting feelings about the death of the al Qaeda leader, depending on how we happen to see ourselves at any given moment--as parents, spouses, workers, Americans, and so forth. The variety of our responses reveals the subtle and powerful forces surrounding social identity: how we relate to different groups and roles, which is changeable and influenced by circumstances

Kids who swap out regular dairy products for low-fat varieties consume less saturated fat but don't seem to lose weight, according to Australian researchers.