Victorian rivers aren’t recovering from drought
One third of water catchments are struggling.
One-third of Victorian water catchments have not recovered eight years after severe drought, according to a new paper...
News
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How genetic is your face?
New research pinpoints genes that are responsible for facial similarities in siblings.
New research might provide an insight into an age-old question: do your siblings really know you better than anyone e...
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How does AI think?
Sometimes AI makes its own rules to solve puzzles.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines can be trained to solve puzzles on their own, by learning to recognise rules an...
COSMOS WEEKLY is now available!
Friday just became the day with extra science oomph!
It’s worth repeating: science has never been more important or interesting. Scientists are working to return us to a ...
Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
Features
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Conversation
Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget's lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind
More needs to be allocated to fundamental science research.
By John Shine, Garvan Institute The story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in earl...
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Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
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History
Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck gets a virus
Nephew of a renowned brewer, Delbruck converted lifelong learning into a collaboration-enriched N...
In what has to be one of the best titles for a paper ever submitted for publication – “The Sword and the Armour: scie...
Cosmos Briefing
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Cosmos Briefing: Intelligent Manufacturing
How will AI change our manufacturing sector, and what skills will we need to stay competitive?
Join our Cosmos Briefing – Intelligent Manufacturing, Thursday 20 May Over the next decade, the Australian manufactur...
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Cosmos Briefing: Water Policy in Australia
How do we protect our most precious resource?
Water is the most vital resource on Earth and underpins all areas of survival. Over the next 10 years, we will need m...
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Balancing mining and sustainability
Rio Tinto’s approach to mitigating its environmental impact.
The effects of mining on the environment can be immense. Damage to ecosystems and cultural sites, high carbon emissio...
Space
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Rocket debris draws international criticism
Remnants of China’s biggest rocket splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
A large, uncontrolled piece of rocket debris hurtled towards Earth over the weekend – more than 20 tonnes travelling ...
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Voyager 1 hears plasma ‘hum’
The distant space probe has found a signal from the interstellar gas.
The most far-travelled thing humans have ever made, Voyager 1 is still transmitting trinkets of information to Earth....
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The search for alien life
New technologies and techniques are searching for signs of alien life as never before. What and w...
In the midst of lockdown, a voice echoed in my headphones from a world away, carefully explaining to me that one of t...
Nature
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Prescribed burning in numbat habitat under fire
Scientists warn strategic fires are killing native wildlife, including endangered numbats.
Western Australian scientists petitioned their Premier this week for a full, independent scientific enquiry into the ...
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Spotted gum, complete
A second species of eucalypt has had its complete genome revealed.
A second complete eucalypt genome has been assembled and publicly released following a decade-long project involving ...
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Earth
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When bushfire experts disagree
Science relies on dispute – especially in the face of the climate crisis.
The 2019–20 megafires are seared into the minds of most Australians in a series of red-tinged images: thousands seeki...
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Victorian rivers aren’t recovering from drought
One third of water catchments are struggling.
One-third of Victorian water catchments have not recovered eight years after severe drought, according to a new paper...
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Glyphosate dangerous to beetles as well as plants
The herbicide could harm bacteria that insects rely on.
The commonly used herbicide glyphosate might not be just bad news for bees. New research has found it could have broa...
History
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Ancient mammals gathered by the ocean
Early mammals used marine habitats just a few million years after the dinosaurs disappeared.
US scientists have uncovered hundreds of fossilised footprints stretching out over a kilometre in Wyoming – and it’s ...
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Disappearing ancient Indonesian rock art
Cave weathering is accelerating in pace with climate change, study finds.
Some of the world’s earliest known cave art in Indonesia is “weathering at an alarming rate”, according to a study pu...
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Bronze Age migrations changed the genomics and culture of ancient Italians
Pontic-Caspian Steppe culture and genes found in Italian burial sites.
Ancient DNA has told the story of how Bronze Age Italians interacted with people from Eastern Europe. Many ancient...
People
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Conversation
Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget's lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind
More needs to be allocated to fundamental science research.
By John Shine, Garvan Institute The story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in earl...
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Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
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Health
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Olympic genes to go higher, faster, stronger?
Sports doping experts have been sounding warnings about gene engineering for decades, and its dir...
In preparation for the postponed Tokyo Olympics, athletes all around the world are lining up to be injected with gene...
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The questions of long COVID
Many mysteries remain around those who don’t quite recover from COVID-19.
Roughly a year after it became apparent that COVID-19 was not just another flu, the virus continues to wreak havoc ac...
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South Australia accelerates COVID-19 vaccine development
The UniSA-Sementis vaccine aims to target mutant variants.
A South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to accelerate the development...
Core Sciences
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How genetic is your face?
New research pinpoints genes that are responsible for facial similarities in siblings.
New research might provide an insight into an age-old question: do your siblings really know you better than anyone e...
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Wireless brain implant to make friends?
Tiny, wireless brain implant programs mice socialise when light shines on it.
For the first time ever, scientists have used a wireless brain implant to make mice socialise with each other, accord...
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Next Big Thing: Catalysts can change the world
It is possible to step towards a sustainable world – you just have to be clever with the chemistr...
We now have more cars in Sydney’s CBD then we had in the 1970s, yet our air quality is radically better. Why? Because...
Technology
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What if instead of blaming readers of misinformation, we showed them how to tell the difference between facts and falsehoods?
Fake news can have fatal consequences, and the technology already exists to help the people most ...
People die because of misinformation. When hydroxychloroquine was publicised as a possible treatment for COVID-19, a ...
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Where’s my flying car?
The Jetsons cartoons gave a boomer generation a vision of seemingly magical powered flying vehicl...
Backed by billions in venture capital and a recent IPO, one startup aims to have its flying taxi on the market in thr...
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How does AI think?
Sometimes AI makes its own rules to solve puzzles.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines can be trained to solve puzzles on their own, by learning to recognise rules an...