The American National Library of Congress have announced the latest additions to the the National Recording Registry.

The addition of the 25 works - including singles, live recordings, albums and film soundtracks - will see the registry grow to 500 entries.

Among the new entries are American Hip Hip group Run-DMC’s 1986 album Raising Hell, Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 album Rumours, The Sound of Music Soundtrack, and "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets.

Researchers with Australian technology company Electro Optic Systems have developed a high powered laser that could potentially be used to nudge satellite and space debris.

Low powered lasers are used to track objects orbiting earth and this latest innovation will allow scientists to create systems that can alter the trajectories of some of these objects.

In Europe researchers are developing harpoon and net systems that can be used to intercept and capture space debris in orbit.

Green groups are pressuring the Northern Territory government to introduce a targeted climate policy.

The Federal Environment Department has released data that total emissions from the Northern Territory increase by 28 per cent between 2005 and 2016 contrasting the 18 per cent decrease in NSW and 14 per cent reduction in Queensland.

The Territory emissions only represent 3 percent of the national total.

The upward trend in emissions is in stark contrast to other states focus on reducing emissions which is seen as unacceptable by environment groups.

Water extractors and locals in Northern NSW are divided over bids to increase the production of bottled water.

Locals are worried extra water extractions will affect their reliant supply from the Bilambil Valley, however a hydrology report commissioned in 2016 by one of the local extractors found the water extraction from his aquifer is ‘not likely’ to affect the town supply.

$60 million worth of illegal tobacco has been destroyed at properties in Pine Creek and North Isis, both south of Bundaberg following raids by Queensland Police, the Australian Border Force, and the Australian Taxation Office.

The operation began via a series of tip-offs on CrimeStoppers and destroyed 30 tonnes of plants and 45,000 seedlings, according to Detective Sergeant Andrew Self.

QUT Kelvin Grove Students took to George Street yesterday to protest Federal Government cuts to tertiary education.

The National Union of Students were protesting against new government plans which include lowering the HECS repayment threshold to $45,000, loss of less popular courses and a reduction in student support services.

The remains of a mysterious creature have been discovered on a beach in the Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge in American state of Georgia.

Debate has been raging online and in the biological world over whether or not the rotting carcass, which resembles a small plesiosaurus, is a hoax.

Chantal Audra from the Tybee Island Marine Science Centre hypothesized that, if real, the decomposing body may belong to a type of deep sea shark, distorted to it’s dinosaur-like appearance by the decomposition process.

Girls in Tonga will be banned from playing rugby in schools after Education Minister Penisimani Fifita issued a statement saying it was against Tongan traditions and culture for girls to play rugby.

There has been strong backlash against the government over the decision; Australian international player of Tongan descent Caroline Fairs says the ban is ludicrous.

Services manager for Oceania Bruce Cook said “when girls play rugby they transcend the gender limits set on females."