Are those earmuffs, or beermuffs?
Presenting a head-warmingly new non-invasive technique for measuring blood alcohol levels.
Japanese researchers have a developed a pair of earmuffs that can measure real-time changes in your blood alcohol con...
News
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It’s Thank a Climate Scientist Day
We talk to First Dog on the Moon about expressing thanks to those who heroically keep on climate ...
It’s 12 June, the main day of the year – and there really ought to be more than one – when we stop to thank climate s...
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COVID Booster: Delta, drinking and diet
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Pfizer vaccine looks to be somewhat effective against Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant A study on blood serum has found th...
Time travel and tipping points
Truly coming to grips with the vastness of geologic timescales isn’t easy, but it could be key to...
by Lauren Fuge I’m hiking down a tributary of Arkaroola Creek, right in the middle of Cryogenian Period. Above me ...
Cosmos 2021 Pi-ku competition
Entries close near the end of June: don’t miss out!
March 14 is International Day of Mathematics – UNESCO declared it so at its 40th General Conference in 2019 – and als...
Features
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Conversation
Why it took 20 years to 'finish' the human genome
And why there’s still more to do.
By Melissa Southey, Monash University and Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Monash University The release of the draft human genom...
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Conversation
How an app to decrypt criminal messages was born
The Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with it ‘over a few beers’.
By David Tuffley Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years...
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Conversation
What's the Delta COVID variant found in Melbourne?
Is it more infectious and does it spread more in kids? A virologist explains.
By Kirsty Short Victoria’s current COVID outbreak took another turn last week when a new variant was discovered by...
Cosmos Briefing
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Event
Cosmos Briefing: Accessing Antarctica
Watch three experts discuss who should be allowed access to Antarctica and why.
Remote and wild, Antarctica was once solely the domain of hardcore explorers. As the continent becomes more accessibl...
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Cosmos Briefing: Intelligent Manufacturing
How will AI change our manufacturing sector, and what skills will we need to stay competitive?
Over the next decade, the Australian manufacturing industry will need to change its practices to continue making thin...
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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...
Space
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New telescope quadruples fast radio burst count in just one year
535 new observations will help answer fundamental questions about the Universe.
In just one year of peering up at the Universe, a new telescope in Canada has quadrupled the number of fast radio bur...
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Really big black holes
What are some of the largest known black holes in our universe?
Dying stars can form black holes up to five times larger than once thought possible, scientists have discovered. B...
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Interstellar mission powered by lasers
Researchers present new spacecraft design for the Breakthrough Starshot project.
Australian researchers have just designed a propulsion system for an interstellar mission to shoot a spacecraft off t...
Nature
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Small, but mighty important
Krill are crucial to the marine ecosystem, and new research being undertaken has the potential to...
I vividly remember the moment back in Tokyo when I first borrowed an encyclopedia about zooplankton from my primary s...
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Giant map of giant kelp forests
Satellite data shows where kelp is sticking around – and where it needs help.
A paper published in Communications Earth & Environment has tracked 35 years of satellite data to create a comprehens...
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Earth
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Wasaburo Ooishi and the jet stream
The discovery of a high-speed air current above the Earth was first exploited as a weapon of war.
In his recent book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation And The Longest Night Of The Second World War, journalist ...
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It’s Thank a Climate Scientist Day
We talk to First Dog on the Moon about expressing thanks to those who heroically keep on climate ...
It’s 12 June, the main day of the year – and there really ought to be more than one – when we stop to thank climate s...
-
Event
Cosmos Briefing: Accessing Antarctica
Watch three experts discuss who should be allowed access to Antarctica and why.
Remote and wild, Antarctica was once solely the domain of hardcore explorers. As the continent becomes more accessibl...
History
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Wasaburo Ooishi and the jet stream
The discovery of a high-speed air current above the Earth was first exploited as a weapon of war.
In his recent book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation And The Longest Night Of The Second World War, journalist ...
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Found: Oldest bilby and bandicoot fossils
Million-year-old fossils of Aussie icons found in archives of US university.
A scientist from the Western Australian Museum has discovered the oldest known fossils of two iconic Australian anima...
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Meet Australia’s largest dinosaur
Massive plant-eater from southwest Queensland has just stomped into the record books.
Palaeontologists have just officially named and described Australia’s biggest dinosaur – Australotitan cooperensis, t...
People
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Are those earmuffs, or beermuffs?
Presenting a head-warmingly new non-invasive technique for measuring blood alcohol levels.
Japanese researchers have a developed a pair of earmuffs that can measure real-time changes in your blood alcohol con...
-
It’s Thank a Climate Scientist Day
We talk to First Dog on the Moon about expressing thanks to those who heroically keep on climate ...
It’s 12 June, the main day of the year – and there really ought to be more than one – when we stop to thank climate s...
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Health
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Conversation
Why it took 20 years to 'finish' the human genome
And why there’s still more to do.
By Melissa Southey, Monash University and Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Monash University The release of the draft human genom...
-
COVID Booster: Delta, drinking and diet
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Pfizer vaccine looks to be somewhat effective against Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant A study on blood serum has found th...
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Developing vaccines for forgotten flaviviruses
While COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines, flaviviruses have silently affected thousands wor...
In early 2015, several people presented to hospitals in north-eastern Brazil with mild fever, rashes, conjunctivitis,...
Core Sciences
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Are those earmuffs, or beermuffs?
Presenting a head-warmingly new non-invasive technique for measuring blood alcohol levels.
Japanese researchers have a developed a pair of earmuffs that can measure real-time changes in your blood alcohol con...
-
Conversation
Why it took 20 years to 'finish' the human genome
And why there’s still more to do.
By Melissa Southey, Monash University and Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Monash University The release of the draft human genom...
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Sports injury forecast in a blood test… coming soon to a footy team near you?
The Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics is working on a simple blood test to forecast whether a pla...
Port Adelaide footy players are rightly feeling pretty good. They are sitting in fifth position on the AFL ladder, ha...
Technology
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Previewing data stored in DNA
A new technique allows researchers to ‘preview’ DNA strands without sequencing them entirely.
DNA stores tremendous amounts of genetic information, but it also has a lot of potential for storing digital data. It...
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Turning textiles into raw materials
We talk to Robert Speight and Adrian Jones about recovering fabric waste at BlockTexx.
If they can’t be used second-hand, is it possible to recycle old clothes? What about recycling other fabrics and text...
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Conversation
How an app to decrypt criminal messages was born
The Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with it ‘over a few beers’.
By David Tuffley Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years...