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Bottlenose dolphins may use corals to help treat skin infections

Nature May 20, 2022
Can we monitor plant biodiversity from space?

Nature May 20, 2022
Ten new genes linked to hearing loss – a promising scientific find that could lead to future treatments

News May 20, 2022
Molecular Möbius strip: chemists make a geometric anomaly from atoms

Core Sciences May 20, 2022
Mars mission’s last gasp?

Space Exploration May 20, 2022
Ageing gracefully: the role of media in stigmatising aged care

News May 19, 2022

In Focus

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The science of the sausage sizzle

Australia May 19, 2022
More and more Australians want to live an energy-efficient and sustainable lifestyle

Sustainability May 17, 2022
Video

A mineral and some light can turn carbon dioxide into a cleaning agent

Core Sciences May 16, 2022
Global pandemic cooperation needed to head off inequalities worldwide, says “voice for science”

Health May 17, 2022

“Get back to the classroom”

Citizen Science

Qantas bets big on ultra-long haul flights, but experts say the future of aviation is in sustainably shorter travel

Energy

Brain science: a new way of thinking is needed

Biology

Grandstand platforms

Internet

The Aussie startup creating next-generation psychedelics.

Weekly

The science of the sausage sizzle

Australia

Explainer: what is aphasia?

Body and Mind

Venus: First Peoples recognising the Morning and Evening Star

Astronomy

Lunar traditions of the First Australians

Space

Open-source intelligence: as smart as it seems?

Ethics

Physics of birds and bees – sincerely, Albert Einstein

Culture

Learning about Australia’s largest bird of prey

Birds

Features

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Gene-editing cockroaches with CRISPR-Cas9 – and maybe other insects

Core Sciences May 17, 2022
Podcast

How “liveable” are Australian cities, really? Not at all, if you want to walk

News May 13, 2022
Explainer

Explainer: what are PFAS?

Core Sciences May 12, 2022

Cosmos Briefing

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Where does floodwater go? Investigating groundwater

Water April 28, 2022
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Medicine's blind spot

Medicine April 12, 2022
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Conserving Australia's precious biodiversity

Climate April 5, 2022

Space

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Mars mission’s last gasp?

Space Exploration May 20, 2022
Astronomers use “cosmic telescope” to study early universe

Space May 19, 2022
Supermassive black hole in Milky Way’s centre, Sagittarius A*, imaged for the first time

Space May 17, 2022

Nature

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Bottlenose dolphins may use corals to help treat skin infections

Nature May 20, 2022
Can we monitor plant biodiversity from space?

Nature May 20, 2022

Earth

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Can we monitor plant biodiversity from space?

Nature May 20, 2022
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Pop test: what are the major parties’ hydrogen strategies?

Technology May 19, 2022
Coal fired. How are the major parties planning for its end?

Technology May 19, 2022

History

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Dogs came in many shapes and sizes thousands of years ago

History May 18, 2022
Cue the Laos Cobra cave tooth, first clue in the Denisovan hunt down under

History May 18, 2022
First complex ecosystems formed in Ediacaran – millions of years earlier than thought

History May 18, 2022

People

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“Get back to the classroom”

Citizen Science May 20, 2022
Ageing gracefully: the role of media in stigmatising aged care

News May 19, 2022

Health

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Core Sciences

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Brain science: a new way of thinking is needed

Biology May 20, 2022
Bottlenose dolphins may use corals to help treat skin infections

Nature May 20, 2022
Ten new genes linked to hearing loss – a promising scientific find that could lead to future treatments

News May 20, 2022

Technology

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Qantas bets big on ultra-long haul flights, but experts say the future of aviation is in sustainably shorter travel

Energy May 20, 2022
Grandstand platforms

Internet May 20, 2022
Molecular Möbius strip: chemists make a geometric anomaly from atoms

Core Sciences May 20, 2022