Features
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History
Henri Laborit feels our pain
French surgeon a pioneer of modern anaesthetics.
In her new book Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness, Australian journalist Kate Cole-A...
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Update
COVID news and trends @ 27 November
A digest of science and reporting highlights.
The numbers Global As at 19:03 CET on Wednesday 25 November, cases confirmed worldwide by national authorities ...
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Conversation
The life and times of a forensic linguist
What they do, and what it takes to do it.
By Georgina Heydon, RMIT University If you’re an avid viewer of crime shows, you’ve probably come across cases in ...
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Conversation
We need to promote the right kind of fire
Changing patterns threaten species with extinction.
By Luke Kelly and Katherine Giljohann, University of Melbourne, Annabel Smith, University of Queensland, and Michael ...
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Awards
Eureka! A new crop of science winners
R&D, leadership, engagement and school science honoured.
By Noor Gillani, The Conversation From potential new diabetes therapies, to an environmentally friendly sewage tre...
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Focus
Southern recovery of ecosystem engineers
Helping cool-water oyster reefs make a comeback.
We tend to default to the colourful – to coral – when we think of oceanic reefs, but 200 years ago, thousands of kilo...
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Snapshot
Zooming in on space
Lots of pixels and our second minimoon.
When trying to find things in space, it helps to have technology on your side. And the technology keeps getting bette...
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Citizen Science
Changing behaviours of birds
Observe how they are coping in altered environments.
The sight of a sulphur-crested cockatoo raiding a household wheelie bin might do little more than irritate the averag...
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History
Hans Berger has a real brainstorm
Accident inspires a career and the invention of EEG.
Hans Berger, inventor of electroencephalography, wanted to investigate the mysteries of the stars but ended up reveal...
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Conversation
How to read reports of COVID vaccine trials
An epidemiologist’s guide to the important bits.
By Adrian Esterman, University of South Australia It’s been a busy week or so for news about COVID vaccines. Firs...
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Snapshot
Shadows in space?
Hubble gets down and dusty with IC 5063.
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the heart of the active galaxy IC 5063, 156 million light-years from Earth, reve...
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Update
COVID news and trends @ 20 November
A digest of science and reporting highlights.
The numbers Globally, COVID daily case numbers have plateaued slightly in the past few days after reaching a recor...