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Live blog: New Horizons flyby of Pluto

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imageThe last photo sent to Earth by New Horizons before its flyby, and arguably the 'textbook' photo of the planet for the next few decades.NASA

From 9.30pm AEST (12.30pm BST, 1.30pm ASAT, 7.30am EST), I’ll be blogging live as we follow NASA’s coverage of the New Horizons mission. Refresh this page every few minutes for the latest updates.

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Queensland's budget puts it back on track to be a smart state

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imageQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (left) and Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt (centre) prior to the Queensland Budget being delivered in State Parliament in Brisbane.AAP Image/Dave Hunt

As part of its state budget package presented today, the Palaszczuk government in Queensland is investing A$180 million in a push to get industry,...

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Meet the English professor who taught fanfic at an Ivy League university

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imageComing to a lecture theatre near you.EPA/Andy Rain

Fifty Shades of Grey is only the most notorious of many recent novels that have their origins in online fan fiction, or fic. Although fic has been around for a long time, it has only recently become so visible in mainstream culture – and so more commercial.

It might then surprise you,...

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  1. How Latin America has blazed a trail by tackling inequality
  2. Museums are using virtual reality to preserve the past – before it's too late
  3. Cameron puts his faith in drones in the fight against Islamic State
  4. Do the mainstream media have a moral obligation towards citizen journalists?
  5. Following Nemo: marine life is heading south
  6. Africa's border disputes are set to rise – but there are ways to stop them
  7. Some useful tips on how to raise an argumentative child
  8. BRICS herald new era in international political economy
  9. Unlocking the mystery of how true seals disappeared from the Cape
  10. Joyce breaks cabinet rules, but his fate is PM's call
  11. Bowie and gender transgression – what a drag
  12. Could early infant screening and intervention help prevent autism?
  13. Greece's total surrender to German demands shows failure of euro integration
  14. Submissions to family violence royal commission reveal a fragmented system
  15. A Greek tragedy: the long-lasting damage of Tsipras’ adventurism
  16. The off-topic Conversation #51
  17. Workaholism isn't a valid requirement for advancing in science
  18. The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene, Part 2
  19. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is meant to back winners, not minnows
  20. Outdated views shut entrepreneurial women out of capital markets
  21. What's the best way to take notes on your laptop or tablet?
  22. Explainer: what are superbugs and how can we control them?
  23. Remembering the ‘old’ Department of Immigration's nation-building traditions
  24. Freedom Stories: what I've learned from filming Australia's asylum seekers
  25. Science can drive the sustainability of our precious soils, water and oceans
  26. Greece: a Europe forged in crisis may have just laid the foundations for the next
  27. Could the Pill save the polar bear?
  28. New Horizons is an old spacecraft – but it will transform our knowledge of Pluto
  29. With hopes low, Tsipras may have just done the best deal possible for Greece
  30. Making sense of our evolution
  31. What kind of university can help reduce poverty?
  32. NHS spending is less transparent and accountable in more deprived areas
  33. A new weapon of Islamist extremists is...poetry?
  34. The calamity of the disappearing school libraries
  35. Could 'balanced harvesting' really feed the world and save the oceans?
  36. Elon Musk's high-speed Hyperloop train makes more sense for Mars than California
  37. How a virtual 'mob boss' from Texas became the new face of organized crime
  38. Why do flags matter? The case of Japan
  39. Come to Paris climate conference, prime minister: French ambassador
  40. As CEO exits, Reddit finds to its cost that even unpaid workers can go on strike
  41. Politics podcast: Christophe Lecourtier on the 2015 Paris climate conference
  42. ASIC’s Fashion Faux-Pas
  43. The government should keep its hands off clean energy finance
  44. For those seeking to boost voter turnout, Scotland is a false friend
  45. Watch your language when talking about autism
  46. China's migrant worker crisis and the children who are left behind
  47. The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse 'memories' is still causing damage today
  48. How being Celtic got a bad name – and why you should care
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