South Australia accelerates COVID-19 vaccine development
The UniSA-Sementis vaccine aims to target mutant variants.
A South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to accelerate the development...
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Prescribed burning in numbat habitat under fire
Scientists warn strategic fires are killing native wildlife, including endangered numbats.
Western Australian scientists petitioned their Premier this week for a full, independent scientific enquiry into the ...
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Paralysed man ‘handwrites’ with brain chip
Machine learning algorithm translated neural signals to write letters.
For the first time, a man paralysed from the neck down has been able to ‘handwrite’ by using a special AI brain chip....
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It’s worth repeating: science has never been more important or interesting. Scientists are working to return us to a ...
Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
Features
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Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
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History
Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck gets a virus
Nephew of a renowned brewer, Delbruck converted lifelong learning into a collaboration-enriched N...
In what has to be one of the best titles for a paper ever submitted for publication – “The Sword and the Armour: scie...
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Conversation
Sports concussions affect men and women differently
Female athletes need more attention in brain research.
By Shreya Mcleod and James F. Donnelly. News emerged last week that AFLW player Jacinda Barclay, who died last ye...
Cosmos Briefing
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Cosmos Briefing: Intelligent Manufacturing
How will AI change our manufacturing sector, and what skills will we need to stay competitive?
Join our Cosmos Briefing – Intelligent Manufacturing, Thursday 20 May Over the next decade, the Australian manufactur...
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Video
Cosmos Briefing: Water Policy in Australia
How do we protect our most precious resource?
Water is the most vital resource on Earth and underpins all areas of survival. Over the next 10 years, we will need m...
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Balancing mining and sustainability
Rio Tinto’s approach to mitigating its environmental impact.
The effects of mining on the environment can be immense. Damage to ecosystems and cultural sites, high carbon emissio...
Space
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Rocket debris draws international criticism
Remnants of China’s biggest rocket splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
A large, uncontrolled piece of rocket debris hurtled towards Earth over the weekend – more than 20 tonnes travelling ...
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Voyager 1 hears plasma ‘hum’
The distant space probe has found a signal from the interstellar gas.
The most far-travelled thing humans have ever made, Voyager 1 is still transmitting trinkets of information to Earth....
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The search for alien life
New technologies and techniques are searching for signs of alien life as never before. What and w...
In the midst of lockdown, a voice echoed in my headphones from a world away, carefully explaining to me that one of t...
Nature
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Prescribed burning in numbat habitat under fire
Scientists warn strategic fires are killing native wildlife, including endangered numbats.
Western Australian scientists petitioned their Premier this week for a full, independent scientific enquiry into the ...
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Spotted gum, complete
A second species of eucalypt has had its complete genome revealed.
A second complete eucalypt genome has been assembled and publicly released following a decade-long project involving ...
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Earth
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Glyphosate dangerous to beetles as well as plants
The herbicide could harm bacteria that insects rely on.
The commonly used herbicide glyphosate might not be just bad news for bees. New research has found it could have broa...
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Bushfire experts clash over logging impacts
Did forest management contribute to the severity of the Black Summer bushfires?
A new report claims that past logging and wildfire disturbance had little effect on the severity of the Black Summer ...
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An answer to the clean water crisis?
UniSA researchers refine solar evaporation water tech.
Researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) are currently developing and refining a low-cost technique...
History
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Bronze Age migrations changed the genomics and culture of ancient Italians
Pontic-Caspian Steppe culture and genes found in Italian burial sites.
Ancient DNA has told the story of how Bronze Age Italians interacted with people from Eastern Europe. Many ancient...
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Chicken-sized dinosaur hunted at night
The odd little dinosaur dubbed Shuvuuia had incredible hearing and vision.
A little dinosaur called Shuvuuia may have hunted in the dark using night vision and super hearing. This chicken-s...
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Oldest human burial in Africa unearthed
Discovery sheds light on the evolution of modern human behaviour.
About 78,000 years ago, at the mouth of a yawning cave complex in today’s south-eastern Kenya, someone placed the bod...
People
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Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein
A newly discovered letter reveals that Einstein predicted recent bee research seventy years ago.
In 2019, a group of RMIT researchers were in the midst of publishing a series of grand discoveries about how bees use...
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95% of cell lines used in clinical research of European descent
Scientists say pre-clinical cellular research needs to be diversified.
The basis for medical research is the pre-clinical research phase, which almost invariably focuses on cellular work i...
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Health
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South Australia accelerates COVID-19 vaccine development
The UniSA-Sementis vaccine aims to target mutant variants.
A South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to accelerate the development...
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I’m pregnant. Should I get a COVID-19 vaccine?
Without enough women in clinical trials, it is hard to say.
Getting any type of vaccination is a big decision when pregnant – but the more data we have the better informed we ca...
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Ethicists call for ‘soft’ mandatory vaccine policy for healthcare workers
Experts argue that health workers who choose not to get vaccinated should have their jobs modified.
There are currently seven COVID-19 vaccines being administered globally, with demand outstripping supply. In most cou...
Core Sciences
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Wireless brain implant to make friends?
Tiny, wireless brain implant programs mice socialise when light shines on it.
For the first time ever, scientists have used a wireless brain implant to make mice socialise with each other, accord...
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Next Big Thing: Catalysts can change the world
It is possible to step towards a sustainable world – you just have to be clever with the chemistr...
We now have more cars in Sydney’s CBD then we had in the 1970s, yet our air quality is radically better. Why? Because...
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Mathematical modelling: A dark art comes to light
When there’s no time to waste and the stakes are high, a computer model can be just what you need...
You could say that mathematical modelling’s moment had arrived. The coronavirus had reached Australia, state health o...
Technology
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Paralysed man ‘handwrites’ with brain chip
Machine learning algorithm translated neural signals to write letters.
For the first time, a man paralysed from the neck down has been able to ‘handwrite’ by using a special AI brain chip....
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Event
Cosmos Briefing: Intelligent Manufacturing
How will AI change our manufacturing sector, and what skills will we need to stay competitive?
Join our Cosmos Briefing – Intelligent Manufacturing, Thursday 20 May Over the next decade, the Australian manufactur...
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Using a phone to identify molecules
Researchers have put together a cheap device that could carry out sophisticated chemical analyses.
With a few additions, commercial smartphones can be used as microscopes and medical monitors. But the humble phone ma...