Ingenuity rules (and flies)
Brief hover demonstrates that controlled flight is possible in thin Martian gravity, only about a...
After an eight-day delay due to a software glitch, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has had its Wright Brothers momen...
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The Great Dying was longer on land
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in oceans.
New research published in the journal PNAS has found that, while life in the ocean rapidly disappeared during the Gre...
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Why do big nuts rise to the top of the bowl?
Shape and orientation are key.
If you put your hand into a bag of mixed nuts or cereal, you might notice that the big bits are at the top. Why does ...
How many T. rexes ever lived? Billions
Analysis reveals 2.5 billion of these iconic carnivores roamed the Earth.
Paleontologists have crunched the numbers to estimate just how many Tyrannosaurus rexes lived and died – and the answ...
Laser to zap space debris, funding for SKA
ANU team helps build a laser to move space debris; PM announces funding boost for astronomy.
Australian National University researchers working with defence technology company EOS have developed lasers to blast...
Features
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Conversation
A US ban on kangaroo leather is a missed farming opportunity
A ban could be an animal welfare disaster.
By George Wilson, Australian National University, and John Read The US Congress is considering a proposed law to b...
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Conversation
Attack of the alien invaders
Pest plants and animals leave a frightening $1.7 trillion bill.
By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Boris Leroy, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Camille Berne...
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Odd Jobs: Dr Dog Poo
Emily Bryson is a “fecal decompologist” with a horticultural spin.
If anybody knows how to get their hands dirty, it is Emily Bryson, PhD student at Central Queensland University. “...
Cosmos Briefing
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Cosmos Briefing: Water
How do we protect our most precious resource?
Join our Cosmos Briefing - Water: Our most precious resource, Thursday 6 May Water is the most vital resource on E...
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Getting to zero
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel discusses how we’ll shift greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
Dr Alan Finkel trained as a neuroscientist and engineer and forged a successful career as a technology entrepreneur. ...
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Video
Chief scientist talks about AI, machine learning
A special Cosmos Briefing panel including Dr Cathy Foley tackles some of the big future-science i...
During a visit to Adelaide last week, chief scientist of Australia Dr Cathy Foley very kindly agreed to join a taped ...
Space
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Ingenuity rules (and flies)
Brief hover demonstrates that controlled flight is possible in thin Martian gravity, only about a...
After an eight-day delay due to a software glitch, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has had its Wright Brothers momen...
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Gender equality in astronomy could take 60 years to achieve
Serious reforms needed to bring more women into space research, modelling shows.
Without affirmative action, it could take another 60 years or more before women make up a third of Australia’s astron...
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Focus
Laser to zap space debris, funding for SKA
ANU team helps build a laser to move space debris; PM announces funding boost for astronomy.
Australian National University researchers working with defence technology company EOS have developed lasers to blast...
Nature
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The great unknown of global microbial diversity
Scientists warn of a gap in our knowledge – with consequences for all life on Earth.
While biologists are desperately raising the alarm about the rapidly decreasing diversity of plant and animal life, t...
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Conversation
Attack of the alien invaders
Pest plants and animals leave a frightening $1.7 trillion bill.
By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Boris Leroy, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Camille Berne...
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Earth
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Conversation
A US ban on kangaroo leather is a missed farming opportunity
A ban could be an animal welfare disaster.
By George Wilson, Australian National University, and John Read The US Congress is considering a proposed law to b...
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How sustainable are the Olympic Games?
Not very, according to a new evaluation.
The International Olympic Committee’s Sustainability Strategy claims to support the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Su...
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Odd Jobs: Dr Dog Poo
Emily Bryson is a “fecal decompologist” with a horticultural spin.
If anybody knows how to get their hands dirty, it is Emily Bryson, PhD student at Central Queensland University. “...
History
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The Great Dying was longer on land
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in oceans.
New research published in the journal PNAS has found that, while life in the ocean rapidly disappeared during the Gre...
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History
Nils Aall Barricelli
The Italian-Norwegian mathematician was a genuine original.
In March 2003, science and technology historian George Dyson gave a typically entertaining TED talk about the creatio...
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World’s smallest stegosaur footprint
Cat-sized dinosaur footprint discovered in China.
First dog-sized dinosaurs, and now a cat-sized stegosaur? An international team of paleontologists has discovered ...
People
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Odd Jobs: Dr Dog Poo
Emily Bryson is a “fecal decompologist” with a horticultural spin.
If anybody knows how to get their hands dirty, it is Emily Bryson, PhD student at Central Queensland University. “...
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When to talk to children about racism
Research suggests it’s parents, not kids, who don’t want to talk about it.
A study by Monash University suggests kids want to talk about issues of race and racism in the classroom, but parents...
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Health
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COVID Booster
Five things we learned about COVID this week.
Physical inactivity a risk factor for severe COVID and death A paper published in BMJ Sports has established a lin...
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Vaccine efficacy on variants
How do we know if current vaccines will be effective against new variants?
The emerging of new COVID variants around the globe is raising concerns on whether these might blunt the efficacy of ...
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How do COVID variants emerge?
Evidence suggests that people with weak immune systems may be accelerating mutations.
Since its first appearance in Wuhan, China, SARS-CoV2 has been acquiring random mutations. In recent months several n...
Core Sciences
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You may have missed...
Stray science stories from last week to cheer up your Monday.
Ocean ghost currents undo gravity Flinders University researcher Jochen Kaempf has discovered how ghost currents a...
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History
Nils Aall Barricelli
The Italian-Norwegian mathematician was a genuine original.
In March 2003, science and technology historian George Dyson gave a typically entertaining TED talk about the creatio...
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Conversation
New warp drive research dashes faster-than-light travel dreams
But reveals stranger possibilities.
By Sam Baron, Australian Catholic University In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology th...
Technology
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Why do big nuts rise to the top of the bowl?
Shape and orientation are key.
If you put your hand into a bag of mixed nuts or cereal, you might notice that the big bits are at the top. Why does ...
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First entanglement-based quantum network
Dutch researchers build the basis for the internet of the future.
A team researchers from quantum-computing company QuTech in the Netherlands has established the first multi-node quan...
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Video
Chief scientist talks about AI, machine learning
A special Cosmos Briefing panel including Dr Cathy Foley tackles some of the big future-science i...
During a visit to Adelaide last week, chief scientist of Australia Dr Cathy Foley very kindly agreed to join a taped ...