How ferrets can help in a pandemic
They’re a bit like us, but respond differently to viruses.
About an hour southwest of Melbourne on the Geelong waterfront sits a CSIRO facility that houses one of only a few Ph...
Cyclones can damage even distant reefs
Models underestimate their impact, study suggests.
Here’s some sobering news with the Atlantic hurricane season just days away. New research shows that strong cyclones,...
News
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Chicxulub asteroid created huge hydrothermal system
Researchers examine cores from more than a kilometre down.
Mexico’s 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater continues to reveal its secrets. Just three days ago researchers sug...
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Narrowing down the time of death
New model could vastly improve forensic predictions.
Estimating someone’s time of death can be a complicated and vague affair, with important ramifications – especially i...
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Cannabis identified at Judahite shrine
Researchers link it to ancient cult practices.
Israeli researchers say they have identified traces of cannabis and frankincense at an ancient shrine, suggesting bot...
Features
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History
Gifford Pinchot plants an idea
US politician also made his mark saving forests.
Gifford Pinchot was both a politician and a scientist, living in a time when the two were not mutually exclusive, as ...
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Focus
Genetic knowledge gets a serious boost
First major studies from consortium released.
It seems a long, long time since the Human Genome Project was declared complete: in fact, it’s just over 17 years, an...
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Conversation
Media mythbusting can grow false beliefs
Cognitive bias can overcome even the best of us.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, politicians, medical experts and epidemiologists have taught us about f...
Space
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Cosmic bursts find all that missing matter
Mysterious explosions help solve a longstanding mystery.
Astronomers have used fast radio bursts to finally detect all of the missing “normal” matter in the vast space betwee...
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A 'cosmic ring of fire' of 11 billion years ago
Astronomers say rare galaxy will shake up a few theories.
Astronomers have observed a rare galaxy type as it existed 11 billion years ago, and this, they say, is likely to sha...
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Close encounters likely spawned stellar births
Astronomers reconsider the impact of Sagittarius.
New stars are likely to have been born in the Milky Way as a result of recurrent encounters with the Sagittarius dwar...
Technology
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Chemistry, concrete and ceramic cement
Two new ideas about materials old and new.
Whatever you’re building, strength tends to be a prerequisite, so anything that makes things stronger and more reliab...
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Do you see how I see?
New artificial eye design mimics the real thing.
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a proof-of-concept artificial eye with a similar structure to a human one. An...
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Nature
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Sea snakes have to change to keep seeing
They’ve been evolving for 15 million years, study shows.
Sea snakes have been evolving ever since they entered the marine environment 15 million years ago to survive in chang...
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How invasive species wreak climatic havoc
They turnover more carbon by making new friends.
When non-native plants invade an ecosystem, their interactions with new insects and microorganisms accelerate carbon ...
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Marine migrations and ecosystem disruption
Warming waters penetrate the ocean’s depths.
Our warming planet is dislocating all manner of species as they travel poleward in search of cooler temperatures, and...
Earth
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Chicxulub asteroid created huge hydrothermal system
Researchers examine cores from more than a kilometre down.
Mexico’s 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater continues to reveal its secrets. Just three days ago researchers sug...
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Antarctic ice sheets capable of hasty retreat
Researchers look back to the end of the last Ice Age.
The ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coastline were retreating at up to 50 metres a day at the end of the last I...
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Research
Cyclones can damage even distant reefs
Models underestimate their impact, study suggests.
Here’s some sobering news with the Atlantic hurricane season just days away. New research shows that strong cyclones,...
History
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Cannabis identified at Judahite shrine
Researchers link it to ancient cult practices.
Israeli researchers say they have identified traces of cannabis and frankincense at an ancient shrine, suggesting bot...
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Small works of art on a large canvas
Researchers explore how rare stencils were created.
Australian researchers are exploring the backstory to the most detailed examples ever found of a rare form of rock ar...
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A new old link between Siberia and America
Researchers find answers in prehistoric genomes.
Researchers have revealed the oldest and deepest connection yet found between the peoples of Siberia and the Americas...
People
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History
Gifford Pinchot plants an idea
US politician also made his mark saving forests.
Gifford Pinchot was both a politician and a scientist, living in a time when the two were not mutually exclusive, as ...
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Western Asia connected before rise of cities
Genomic analysis reveals early human movement.
High levels of human movement in parts of Western Asia – which includes the modern-day Middle East – led to a more ge...
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Health
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Narrowing down the time of death
New model could vastly improve forensic predictions.
Estimating someone’s time of death can be a complicated and vague affair, with important ramifications – especially i...
-
Focus
How ferrets can help in a pandemic
They’re a bit like us, but respond differently to viruses.
About an hour southwest of Melbourne on the Geelong waterfront sits a CSIRO facility that houses one of only a few Ph...
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Researchers link vaping to risk of oral disease
And the damaging effects aren’t linked to nicotine.
US researchers say just a few months of vaping puts healthy people on the brink of oral disease. The bacteria in t...
Core Sciences
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Genes linked to evolution of languages
A musical background helps too, research suggests.
If you say “ma” in Mandarin, you could be saying mother, hemp, horse or scold, depending purely on your pitch. Thi...
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Human tumours harbour unique bacteria
Study shows they are found even in ‘sterile’ tissue.
Different human tumour types harbour their own unique bacterial communities, according to a new and comprehensive mic...
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Chemistry, concrete and ceramic cement
Two new ideas about materials old and new.
Whatever you’re building, strength tends to be a prerequisite, so anything that makes things stronger and more reliab...