News
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Continents ‘prone to destruction’ in infancy
Geologists model the origin of the cratonic mantle.
Digging deep into the planet’s past, Australian geologists have discovered why no trace remains of the continents for...
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I heard a scream, what did it mean?
Possibly not the obvious, study suggests. It’s about context.
If someone screams, most people will run to their rescue, fearing the worst. But they may be surprised to learn that ...
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Glaciers may answer a Martian mystery
New study offers new theory on faint young Sun paradox.
Rather than flowing across its surface during a warm, wet phase early in its history, the water that carved the river...
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Giddy up and go, by the numbers
Study models best (legal) way to win a thoroughbred race.
Given its subject matter, a newly released study’s opening line may be among the year’s most useful when it comes to ...
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The protein that walks, folds and rests
New images provide insights into muscle disorders.
The myosin protein is well known for walking, but now it seems it also sleeps. 3D visualisation of: top, the shutd...
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Using forests to fight global warming
Analysis offers direction for policy and resource priorities.
The cost of leveraging nature’s precious trees to help buffer the planet from global warming could amount to nearly U...
Rolling out the red dirt carpet
South Australia ready to welcome home Hayabusa2.
In the dusty red heart of the South Australian outback, a small town with an explosive past is waiting for a delivery...
Not great news for the Great Barrier Reef
Global authority lists its health as critical.
By Jon Day and Scott Heron, James Cook University The Great Barrier Reef is now in “critical” condition and the he...
Features
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Conversation
What are reinfection and viral shedding?
Virologists explain the important differences.
By Lara Herrero and Eugene Madzokere, Griffith University Over recent weeks and months, we’ve heard of several CO...
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Citizen Science
Monitoring coastline erosion risk
Project makes an impact with drone technology.
There’s no better picture of the Australian summer than people flocking to the beach to cool off. Aside from getting ...
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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...
Space
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Focus
Rolling out the red dirt carpet
South Australia ready to welcome home Hayabusa2.
In the dusty red heart of the South Australian outback, a small town with an explosive past is waiting for a delivery...
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Glaciers may answer a Martian mystery
New study offers new theory on faint young Sun paradox.
Rather than flowing across its surface during a warm, wet phase early in its history, the water that carved the river...
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A new way of making oxygen on Mars
Breakthrough process is about more than Perseverance.
In a discovery that may someday help astronauts on Mars, scientists have found a new way of making oxygen under Marti...
Technology
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Diving with Clio is quite an adventure
New AUV works hard and travels far and wide.
Engineers in the US have built an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that appears to up the ante in terms of underwa...
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Swift by design, drone by nature
Ornithopters not just a flight of fancy.
Hovering, darting, gliding, diving and braking, the fleet-winged contraption in the video below is at the cutting edg...
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Nature
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Honeybees have unique personalities, like us
Being an individual is good for the whole.
Individuals shape a community and its collective patterns of behaviour – and not just in humans, it turns out. Sci...
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NatureWrap: Dolphins are clever breathers
Plus helpful rats, jaguar threats and acoustic wings.
Dolphins actively slow their hearts before diving and can even adjust their heart rate to suit how long they plan to ...
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Naming that plant just got easier
Researchers streamline the list of known vascular species.
A major difficulty in plant research is the sheer abundance of names. Most databases contain multiple or archaic ...
Earth
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Conversation
Not great news for the Great Barrier Reef
Global authority lists its health as critical.
By Jon Day and Scott Heron, James Cook University The Great Barrier Reef is now in “critical” condition and the he...
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Continents ‘prone to destruction’ in infancy
Geologists model the origin of the cratonic mantle.
Digging deep into the planet’s past, Australian geologists have discovered why no trace remains of the continents for...
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Using forests to fight global warming
Analysis offers direction for policy and resource priorities.
The cost of leveraging nature’s precious trees to help buffer the planet from global warming could amount to nearly U...
History
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There’s more than one way to grow a beak
Madagascar fossil adds new twist to bird evolution.
A new fossil discovered on the ever-surprising island of Madagascar suggests ancient Mesozoic bird beaks and faces we...
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People chose the coast during the big chill
Evidence found of persistent occupation in South Africa.
Excavations on South Africa’s southeast coast have uncovered evidence of persistent human occupations from the end of...
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Conversation
NZ fossils reveal a new southern seal
And that’s changed thinking about a rare marine mammal.
By James Patrick Rule and Justin Adams, Monash University, Erich Fitzgerald, Museums Victoria, and Felix Georg Marx, ...
People
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Shaped for the times
Researchers offer new theory on Venus figurines.
The enigmatic Venus figurines, one of world's earliest known examples of art, are the subject of much conjecture. ...
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Citizen Science
Monitoring coastline erosion risk
Project makes an impact with drone technology.
There’s no better picture of the Australian summer than people flocking to the beach to cool off. Aside from getting ...
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Health
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I heard a scream, what did it mean?
Possibly not the obvious, study suggests. It’s about context.
If someone screams, most people will run to their rescue, fearing the worst. But they may be surprised to learn that ...
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Conversation
What are reinfection and viral shedding?
Virologists explain the important differences.
By Lara Herrero and Eugene Madzokere, Griffith University Over recent weeks and months, we’ve heard of several CO...
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Hold on, that’s why we have fingerprints
Researchers explore the ridges, wet and dry.
Researchers have discovered that by regulating moisture levels, our fingerprints play a key role in our ability to gr...
Core Sciences
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Giddy up and go, by the numbers
Study models best (legal) way to win a thoroughbred race.
Given its subject matter, a newly released study’s opening line may be among the year’s most useful when it comes to ...
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The protein that walks, folds and rests
New images provide insights into muscle disorders.
The myosin protein is well known for walking, but now it seems it also sleeps. 3D visualisation of: top, the shutd...
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When bacteria behave like liquid crystals
Two studies watch closely as they move and build.
Two studies just released cast new light on the cunning ways of bacteria. Both involve collaboration – and prompt com...