A quick way to weigh molecules
Researchers have found a simpler way to identify chemicals.
A mystery substance is analysed and found to contain, let’s say, five compounds. How is that analysis actually done? ...
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COVID Booster: Dreams, orphans and faster testing
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Behind the scenes: new national park offers an exclusive window into life at the dawn of time
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There’s a place where you can get a glimpse of the world as it was when animals were first becoming animals, and it h...
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Spyware unplugged
New software attacks cast a light on cybersecurity.
A major investigation conducted by news organisations has found that governments around the world may have been spied...
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Alice Hamilton hates heavy metal
This medical pioneer deplored the devastating effects of leaded petrol when it was first introduc...
In the early 1920s, scientists from a wide range of disciplines were involved in what the United States Environmental...
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How do mass drone displays work?
The Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremony showed the spectacular potential of drones to join the party. ...
As Australia burned through 2019’s devastating Black Summer, a Change.org petition circulated calling for the cancell...
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Clever cockatoos have learned to open kerb-side bins — and it has global significance
Move over, bin chickens: bin cockies are here, and scientists say they’re confirming the cultural...
John Martin, University of Sydney; Barbara Klump, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and Lucy Aplin, University...
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The polymer brush solution
Molecule-sized brushes: how on earth could they work?
Polymer brushes are substances with a range of medical and environmental uses - environmentally friendly cleaning pro...
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Engineering a Virus
What you need to know about gain of function research
Gain-of-function research is a technique used in virology and genetics to alter the function of a virus, in order to ...
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The billionaire space race
Who else is going to benefit?
The so-called "battle of the billionaires" to get into space has been filling column inches in newspapers and absorbi...
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Insight into the Martian underworld
NASA mission maps the Red Planet right down to its molten core.
What do you call an earthquake if it takes place on another planet? On the Red Planet they’re called marsquakes, and ...
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Space Race 2.0
As space-bound billionaires compete for airtime, and nations set their sights on Moon and Mars la...
Back in the 1960s, a good proportion of Americans didn’t think it was a good idea to go to the Moon: 47% of them thou...
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Moon-forming disc detected around another world
A distant ring of gas and dust offers new clues about solar system formation.
For the first time, astronomers have unambiguously spotted a disc of gas and dust around a planet in a distant solar ...
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When will fairy wrens help other fairy wrens?
Birds respond differently to predators if they’ve got a shot at breeding.
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Earth
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Age of water
When you’re drinking a cool glass of water, have you ever wondered how old it is? Age dating wate...
Australia is an ancient country, geologically speaking, and its groundwater aquifers reflect this: water in the Murra...
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Gorgon’s carbon capture target was the largest such project in the world. What does its shortfall mean for the future of CCS?
Chevron’s recent announcement has turned the spotlight onto the complex and controversial techniq...
On Monday, energy company Chevron announced that its Gorgon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project was about to hit a mi...
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Gorgon’s carbon capture shortfall
What was the plant trying to do, and what went wrong?
The self-described “world’s largest carbon capture and storage project” hasn’t captured enough carbon to meet its goa...
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Alice Hamilton hates heavy metal
This medical pioneer deplored the devastating effects of leaded petrol when it was first introduc...
In the early 1920s, scientists from a wide range of disciplines were involved in what the United States Environmental...
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Behind the scenes: new national park offers an exclusive window into life at the dawn of time
Remarkable fossils that date back to the earliest days of complex life on Earth are finally in pu...
This article first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 16 July 2021. For more stories like this, subscribe to Cosmos Weekly....
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Behind the scenes: new national park offers an exclusive window into life at the dawn of time
Remarkable fossils that date back to the earliest days of complex life on Earth are finally in pu...
This article first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 16 July 2021. For more stories like this, subscribe to Cosmos Weekly....
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Cosmos Pi-ku 2021 competition
It’s Pi Approximation Day already? Really? We need to do a little judge whippin’…
Only occasionally does a journalist get to write a ‘gosh, sorry’ story and have a genuinely reasonable hope of gettin...
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Health
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Alice Hamilton hates heavy metal
This medical pioneer deplored the devastating effects of leaded petrol when it was first introduc...
In the early 1920s, scientists from a wide range of disciplines were involved in what the United States Environmental...
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COVID Booster: Dreams, orphans and faster testing
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Fast or accurate: what’s a better test?A paper in PLOS Computational Biology has suggested that more, and faster,...
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Aussie teen (COVID) vaccine
Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 has been provisionally approved for Australian teenagers.
This morning, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Australia's medical regulator, announced it has provisional...
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A quick way to weigh molecules
Researchers have found a simpler way to identify chemicals.
A mystery substance is analysed and found to contain, let’s say, five compounds. How is that analysis actually done? ...
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The polymer brush solution
Molecule-sized brushes: how on earth could they work?
Polymer brushes are substances with a range of medical and environmental uses - environmentally friendly cleaning pro...
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Ancient viruses found in Tibetan glacier
Scientists uncover unknown viruses trapped in 15,000-year-old ice.
It sounds like the opening scene of an apocalyptic movie: scientists drilling ice cores from an ancient glacier uncov...
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How do mass drone displays work?
The Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremony showed the spectacular potential of drones to join the party. ...
As Australia burned through 2019’s devastating Black Summer, a Change.org petition circulated calling for the cancell...
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Spyware unplugged
New software attacks cast a light on cybersecurity.
A major investigation conducted by news organisations has found that governments around the world may have been spied...
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Super-strength spider silk made by bacteria
New bacteria engineered to produce fibre as tough as steel.
If you’re scared of spiders but also need really strong silk, have no fear, because engineers at Washington Universit...