Peckish pollys and townie turkeys
Help keep an eye on birds in the bush and the suburbs.
Each week Cosmos takes a look at the latest projects and news about Citizen Science in Australia. This week Ian Conne...
The supersizing of quantum physics
Smashing noise limits by squeezing light.
Quantum physics is the realm of tiny particles no longer. Scientists at the giant gravitational wave detector LIGO in...
News
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This is an amphibian with a difference
Researchers find evidence of snake-like venom glands.
Researchers have discovered snake-like venom glands in an amphibian for the first time – along the teeth of the littl...
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Lab-grown cells used to study viruses
Ability to ‘fast fail’ may accelerate success.
Australian scientists have found that human airway cells grown in a laboratory can reliably be used to study respirat...
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Warming waters could disrupt fish spawning
Study reveals crucial differences in heat tolerance.
Climate change could force many of the world’s fish species to leave their traditional spawning areas and even affect...
Features
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History
Florence Merriam Bailey flips the bird
She made it fashionable to watch not wear them.
In the late 19th century one of the first environmental protection movements sprang up, triggered by public concerns ...
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Conversation
Be alert but not alarmed
New H1N1 swine flu found in China.
By Ian M Mackay, University of Queensland Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potentia...
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Conversation
Four unusual things about coronavirus
What we’ve learned about what we’re dealing with.
By Sanjaya Senanayake, Australian National University It is now almost six months since the world became aware of ...
Space
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Moon may be much more metallic
NASA radar suggests there are sub-surface riches.
The Moon might be more metallic than researchers thought. And that comes from no less a source than NASA. The scie...
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A chance to see a planet’s interior
Astronomers find surviving core of a gas giant.
Astronomers have discovered the surviving core of a gas giant orbiting a distant star, offering, they say, an unprece...
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Missing: a large and unstable blue star
Even the Very Large Telescope can’t find it now.
A massive and unstable star is missing from a dwarf galaxy, and astronomers are intrigued. It may just have become...
Technology
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Smile, we’re taking a good look at your teeth
Scientists now know a little more about decay.
Materials scientists in the US say they have cracked one of the secrets of tooth decay by identifying a small number ...
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Taking protective clothing up a notch
Playing with fibres may offer new performance levels.
US researchers are developing a nanofibre they believe could revolutionise safety gear for soldiers, emergency servic...
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Nature
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This is an amphibian with a difference
Researchers find evidence of snake-like venom glands.
Researchers have discovered snake-like venom glands in an amphibian for the first time – along the teeth of the littl...
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Warming waters could disrupt fish spawning
Study reveals crucial differences in heat tolerance.
Climate change could force many of the world’s fish species to leave their traditional spawning areas and even affect...
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Citizen Science
Peckish pollys and townie turkeys
Help keep an eye on birds in the bush and the suburbs.
Each week Cosmos takes a look at the latest projects and news about Citizen Science in Australia. This week Ian Conne...
Earth
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E-waste is surging but recycling isn’t
Report reveals the size of a global problem.
Electronic waste – discarded products with a battery or plug – is the world’s fastest growing waste stream, according...
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Metal lodes may be hidden deep
Geologists identify structural lines with real potential.
Scientists have discovered structural lines around 170 kilometres below the Earth’s surface they say appear to signal...
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Conversation
South Pole warming faster than we feared
Research reveals its true sensitivity to climate change.
Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not be very sensitive to warming, but our research shows a ...
History
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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...
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The Australian story, told beneath the sea
Archaeological sites could fill vast historical gaps.
Submerged archaeological sites discovered off Australia’s northwest coast offer a new window into the migrations, liv...
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Meet a giant ancestor of wombats
Prehistoric fossils tell more about marsupial evolution.
Fossils from a giant marsupial that roamed central Australia during the late Oligocene, 25 million years ago, reveal ...
People
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History
Florence Merriam Bailey flips the bird
She made it fashionable to watch not wear them.
In the late 19th century one of the first environmental protection movements sprang up, triggered by public concerns ...
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Does she look grumpy to you?
Language sways how we perceive expressions.
There are umpteen ways that communication can distort people’s perception and hence the way they respond to someone, ...
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Health
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Conversation
Be alert but not alarmed
New H1N1 swine flu found in China.
By Ian M Mackay, University of Queensland Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potentia...
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Conversation
Four unusual things about coronavirus
What we’ve learned about what we’re dealing with.
By Sanjaya Senanayake, Australian National University It is now almost six months since the world became aware of ...
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Focus
COVID-19's problem of confounding variables
Peter Doherty looks at issues around seasonal change.
As Shakespeare’s Richard III has it: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer…’ But is the summer e...
Core Sciences
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Lab-grown cells used to study viruses
Ability to ‘fast fail’ may accelerate success.
Australian scientists have found that human airway cells grown in a laboratory can reliably be used to study respirat...
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Research
The supersizing of quantum physics
Smashing noise limits by squeezing light.
Quantum physics is the realm of tiny particles no longer. Scientists at the giant gravitational wave detector LIGO in...
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Understanding how brains fold and misfold
Study offers new genetic insights into a critical process.
Australian and Swiss researchers say they have new clues to how a baby’s brain folds as it develops in the womb, a pr...