A new angle on that asteroid
Chicxulub simulations reveal trajectory of impact.
The asteroid that most believe wiped out the dinosaurs struck at the deadliest possible angle, according to new analy...
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...
News
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Viewing the neurons of the heart in 3D
New virtual model may be a model for others.
Researchers in the US have reported the development of a virtual 3D heart that digitally showcases the unique network...
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Using maths to improve ocean rescue
New algorithm promises to find missing people faster.
When someone gets lost at sea, every minute counts, as the probability of finding people alive plunges after six hour...
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A laser that could really make waves
Researchers deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second.
Physicists in Australia and the US have developed a new type of laser that can deliver high amounts of energy in very...
Features
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Conversation
Sport's back. How do players reduce risks?
We have to look at sweat and spit in completely new ways.
As we emerge from lockdown, so does our sport. And many sporting bodies are grappling with the best way to do this wh...
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History
Friedrich Miescher gets ahead of the double helix
Swiss physician started the story of DNA.
In just over 75 years, DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid – has risen in public and scientific status from being “an obscure...
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Event
Watch as a journalist’s mind is rewired
It’s been voted Best Film at SCINEMA 2020.
The world is confusing and unsettling, even more so now than ever before, and more of us than ever are finding it aff...
Space
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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...
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Early disc galaxy puts theories in a spin
It’s huge and distant, so how did it form?
Astronomers have found a massive rotating disc galaxy that formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, when the...
Technology
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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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Mosquitoes are really on the radar
New approach may help curb malaria.
The quest to curb the spread of malaria rightly knows no bounds, and now we’re even turning to radar technology – wit...
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Nature
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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...
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What shapes genetic diversity in mammals?
Global map points to evolution and climate.
On the heels of the International Day for Biological Diversity, scientists have compiled the first comprehensive map ...
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Viper uses zig and zag to bamboozle predators
One pattern has three uses, research finds.
The European viper (genus Vipera) is designed to deceive, it seems. New research from Finland suggests that the ch...
Earth
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Research
A new angle on that asteroid
Chicxulub simulations reveal trajectory of impact.
The asteroid that most believe wiped out the dinosaurs struck at the deadliest possible angle, according to new analy...
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Pictures you’d only take with a drone
Here’s a safe way to monitor explosive volcanoes.
Above is a standard, though admittedly rather impressive, view of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. At right is a...
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Tropical forests quite resilient to warming
But carbon storage could plummet.
In an ambitious, long-term study of more than half a million trees, a virtual army of scientists has found that tropi...
History
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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...
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An Aussie elaphrosaur younger than the rest
Tiny fossil proves a significant find.
Australian palaeontologists have chanced upon an unusual toothless dinosaur that roamed the continent around 110 mill...
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Megafauna fossils found in tropical Australia
Rich site suggests climatic change drove extinction.
More than 40,000 years ago, Australia’s tropical northeast was home to species of giant birds, reptiles and marsupial...
People
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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...
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Why Italians aren’t all the same
Genome study shows differences are longstanding.
Any Italian will tell you that the north and south are poles apart, and it appears those differences may have begun a...
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Health
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The good things that live in your nose
It’s not just the gut that benefits from the right bacteria.
There are bacteria that choose to live in your nose, and that’s actually a good thing. Belgian studies suggest tha...
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Inherited genetics may drive cancer's spread
Study with melanomas first to reveal a link.
US researchers say they have shown for the first time that our genes can promote metastasis, the process by which can...
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Conversation
Sport's back. How do players reduce risks?
We have to look at sweat and spit in completely new ways.
As we emerge from lockdown, so does our sport. And many sporting bodies are grappling with the best way to do this wh...
Core Sciences
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Viewing the neurons of the heart in 3D
New virtual model may be a model for others.
Researchers in the US have reported the development of a virtual 3D heart that digitally showcases the unique network...
-
Using maths to improve ocean rescue
New algorithm promises to find missing people faster.
When someone gets lost at sea, every minute counts, as the probability of finding people alive plunges after six hour...
-
A laser that could really make waves
Researchers deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second.
Physicists in Australia and the US have developed a new type of laser that can deliver high amounts of energy in very...