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Australian Government responds to privacy commissioner's AI warning

Technology June 1, 2023
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Watch: How do I become a citizen scientist?

Citizen Science June 1, 2023
Ultrasound breakthrough in diagnosing forearm fractures in children

Health June 1, 2023
Colour-changing microcrystals could be a cheap and safe way to monitor medicines

Chemistry June 1, 2023
Protein can sort rare earth elements better than current mining practices

Chemistry June 1, 2023
Egyptian Queen Hetepheres’s 4,600-year-old bracelets reveal ancient trade networks

History May 31, 2023

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“Couldn’t be more timely”: new data record shows marked decline in sea ice

Oceans May 29, 2023
Your Bluetooth headphones could be spying on you

Technology May 29, 2023
You're shedding your DNA everywhere you go

Podcast May 26, 2023
First evidence of rare Higgs boson decay at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Physics May 30, 2023

Winds of Change: Australia’s Offshore Wind Dilemma

Energy

CSIRO sets itself water quality mission

Water

Searching for the neutrino floor: Why matter matters

Physics

Safeguarding cycads from a modern-day extinction

Plants

Our big patchwork quilt: the greening of Australia’s building industry

Materials

Help astronomers hunt for near-Earth asteroids

Citizen Science

Here are 6 times in 2022 that science broke physics

Core Sciences

Orion spacecraft on Artemis 1 to carry an incredible new safety feature

Space

Study finds scientists are not reporting clinical trial ‘adverse reactions’ consistently

Core Sciences

Winter Olympic fashion: what properties does your fabric need?

Materials

Africa’s oldest dinosaur discovered and named – a 230-million-year-old, long-necked dino from Zimbabwe

History

Machine learning teaches artificial intelligence humanoids how to play soccer from scratch

Technology

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Cosmos Briefing

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Citizen Science June 1, 2023
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Proteins versus plastic: how enzymes can help with recycling

Sustainability May 23, 2023
Re-imagining robot design: meet crochet-wearing Blossom

Technology May 16, 2023

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Citizen Science

Help astronomers hunt for near-Earth asteroids

Citizen Science May 31, 2023
Neutron star surface explosions explained by element creation in lab

Space May 30, 2023

Nature

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Safeguarding cycads from a modern-day extinction

Plants June 1, 2023
Australia’s oldest pterosaur fossils include the country’s first juvenile

History May 31, 2023
Dog DNA in dingoes? There’s not as much as you think

Animals May 29, 2023

Earth

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CSIRO sets itself water quality mission

Water June 1, 2023
Taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turning it into vinegar

Materials May 30, 2023

History

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Safeguarding cycads from a modern-day extinction

Plants June 1, 2023
Egyptian Queen Hetepheres’s 4,600-year-old bracelets reveal ancient trade networks

History May 31, 2023
3D scan shows first soft tissue outline in Diprotodon-like ‘wanderer’ fossil

History May 31, 2023

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Australian Government responds to privacy commissioner's AI warning

Technology June 1, 2023
Video

Watch: How do I become a citizen scientist?

Citizen Science June 1, 2023

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Ultrasound breakthrough in diagnosing forearm fractures in children

Health June 1, 2023
Colour-changing microcrystals could be a cheap and safe way to monitor medicines

Chemistry June 1, 2023
Botox toxin can kill. These researchers just discovered how it enters the brain

Health May 29, 2023

Core Sciences

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Searching for the neutrino floor: Why matter matters

Physics June 1, 2023
Safeguarding cycads from a modern-day extinction

Plants June 1, 2023

Technology

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Winds of Change: Australia’s Offshore Wind Dilemma

Energy June 1, 2023
Our big patchwork quilt: the greening of Australia’s building industry

Materials June 1, 2023
Australian Government responds to privacy commissioner's AI warning

Technology June 1, 2023