Invasive species threaten biodiversity
Experts highlight economic and environmental impact.
Leading international experts have estimated that even moderate increases in the spread of invasive plant and animal ...
Five years since New Horizons saw Pluto
Here are 10 things NASA says we’ve learned from that.
It’s exactly five years since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us a close-up view of Pluto, after a 10-year, 4.8-b...
News
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A camera system with bugs – but that’s OK
Energy efficiency makes wireless vision possible.
Yes, that is a beetle wearing a camera backpack. Not because it needs to: just because it can. Or, more accurately...
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Smartphone = personality
Privacy alert: a behavioural measurer is in your pocket.
A new personality study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science coolly walks a fine line between ...
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Global methane emissions hit record high
More than half linked to human activities, study suggests.
Global emissions of methane have reached the highest levels on record, according to a new study. A visualisation o...
Features
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Conversation
Numbers show carbon pricing works
Largest-ever study backs up the economic theory.
By Paul Burke and Frank Jotzo, ANU, and Rohan Best, Macquarie University Putting a price on carbon should reduce e...
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Citizen Science
Finding the flu and watching for ‘wollies’
Join a study into influenza and look out for pine trees.
Each week Cosmos takes a look at the latest projects and news about Citizen Science in Australia. FluTracking Y...
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Focus
COVID-19: The lessons learned to date
Peter Doherty continues his analysis of the first months.
Part 2 of 3. Read Part 1. Humanity has been on a very steep learning curve since, reacting to a 31 December 2019 r...
Space
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Fast work captures fleeting SGRB
It left the most distant optical afterglow ever detected.
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the second-most distant well-established short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) eve...
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Focus
Five years since New Horizons saw Pluto
Here are 10 things NASA says we’ve learned from that.
It’s exactly five years since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us a close-up view of Pluto, after a 10-year, 4.8-b...
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Can AI predict future of planetary systems?
SPOCK algorithm does a year’s work in just minutes.
As the number of known exoplanets mounts to more than 4000, astronomers are finding that more and more lie in full-fl...
Technology
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A camera system with bugs – but that’s OK
Energy efficiency makes wireless vision possible.
Yes, that is a beetle wearing a camera backpack. Not because it needs to: just because it can. Or, more accurately...
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Exploring potential of solar-flow batteries
Merging two technologies may provide efficient solar storage.
Scientists continue to advance the potential to use solar-flow batteries to provide electricity in remote areas. A...
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Nature
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It’s complicated being green
For some frogs, it’s more than skin deep.
Green frogs tend to be green for the same reason, but a new study suggests they don’t all achieve it in the same way....
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Baboon tolerance is an individual thing
Habituation doesn’t mean they drop their guard.
Wild baboons accustomed to human observers still do not consider them a neutral presence, according to a new study. ...
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Conversation
Which species win in a warmer climate?
Research suggests it depends where they evolved.
By Luciano Beheregaray, Jonathan Sandoval Castillo and Katie Gates, Flinders University As the global climate shif...
Earth
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Research
Invasive species threaten biodiversity
Experts highlight economic and environmental impact.
Leading international experts have estimated that even moderate increases in the spread of invasive plant and animal ...
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Global methane emissions hit record high
More than half linked to human activities, study suggests.
Global emissions of methane have reached the highest levels on record, according to a new study. A visualisation o...
-
Conversation
Numbers show carbon pricing works
Largest-ever study backs up the economic theory.
By Paul Burke and Frank Jotzo, ANU, and Rohan Best, Macquarie University Putting a price on carbon should reduce e...
History
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An ancient story of change and adaptation
Study fills gaps in history of Aboriginal Australians.
Archaeologists are continuing to unravel the complex history of Australia’s Aboriginal people, the world’s oldest civ...
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A new tiny relative of dinosaurs, pterosaurs
From little things sometimes very big things grow.
Scientists say the fossil of a small reptile related to dinosaurs and pterosaurs suggests some of the largest animals...
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Understanding the allure of red ochre
Researchers dive into early Mexican history.
Red ochre was so valuable to the Paleoindians of the early Americas that they were willing to risk their lives to col...
People
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Smartphone = personality
Privacy alert: a behavioural measurer is in your pocket.
A new personality study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science coolly walks a fine line between ...
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Citizen Science
Finding the flu and watching for ‘wollies’
Join a study into influenza and look out for pine trees.
Each week Cosmos takes a look at the latest projects and news about Citizen Science in Australia. FluTracking Y...
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Health
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Novel way to get lungs ready for transplants
Scientists restore rejects through cross-circulation to a pig.
Damaged human lungs could be made suitable for use in transplants through cross-circulation to a pig, new research su...
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Focus
COVID-19: The lessons learned to date
Peter Doherty continues his analysis of the first months.
Part 2 of 3. Read Part 1. Humanity has been on a very steep learning curve since, reacting to a 31 December 2019 r...
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Yet more evidence these are good for you
Studies link fruit, vegetables and grains to lower diabetes risk.
You just can’t ignore the fact that fruit, vegetables and grains are good for you. The latest reminder comes from ...
Core Sciences
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Filling the gaps in our genomic maps
Scientists report first complete assembly of human chromosome.
Scientists say they have determined the complete sequence of a human chromosome for the first time and at an unpreced...
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Build it like an earwig wing
Insect-inspired fans offer wide-ranging applications.
When you marvel over inspirational things in nature, the earwig (Proreus simulans) doesn’t tend to come to mind. A gr...
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History
Maria Goeppert Mayer: from nuisance to Nobel
Success and professorships were family affairs.
The co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics was Maria Goeppert Mayer – one of only two women to receive it since...