News
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Can cat genes explain their nine lives?
Maybe not, but they can help unravel genomic mutations.
Move over human genomic medicine – scientists are now getting closer to gene therapy for felines, thanks to an Abyssi...
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Delicate balance in the Falklands
Threat to seabirds is a threat to the ecosystem.
Seabird droppings helped shape the delicately balanced ecosystem of the Falkland Islands, which is in danger of abrup...
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Have wings will glide – at best
Two small dinosaurs struggled in the air, analysis suggests.
Just having wings doesn’t mean you can fly. Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, it seems, were barely able to glide. ...
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Small spirals could have big impact
Twistronics meets the world of non- Euclidean geometry.
This microscopic, twisting spiral was "grown" by depositing sheets of 2D material over a substrate curved slightly by...
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History
Georges Lemaître comes in with a bang
Belgian priest a big part of big scientific debates.
In 1927, Catholic priest Georges Lemaître published a paper in the Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles in...
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Making it easier to find ‘new Earths’
Australian sensor can correct the distortion of starlight.
Australian researchers have combined artificial intelligence and photonics to develop a new type of adaptive optics s...
How do we know stats can be trusted?
Talking to the humans behind the numbers.
By Samantha Vilkins, Sujatha Raman and Will J Grant, Australian National University In April, as the coronavirus p...
Aussie Backyard Bird Count takes flight
Join in on one of Australia’s largest citizen science events.
In celebration of National Bird Week, Australia’s largest annual citizen science event has kicked off, running until ...
Features
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Focus
Cosmos Q&A: A forgotten foe returns
Scarlet fever is back on the research radar.
Scarlet fever was a feared disease until well into the 20th century. Characterised by a red, sandpapery rash, it typi...
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Conversation
How AI can affect our choices and decisions
We seem more comfortable telling all to robots.
By TaeWoo Kim, University of Technology Sydney Have you ever used Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa t...
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Citizen Science
Your at-home guide to appreciating snails
Watch what they do, then tell their stories.
Ah, the humble snail. They’re slow, slimy and a have a lousy habit of devouring our hard-grown veggies. However, like...
Space
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What happens when you hit an asteroid
OSIRIS-REx shows how to collect samples at a distance.
NASA has just released this short video of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s brief but all important contact with the aster...
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Cheers as spacecraft tags asteroid
OSIRIS-REx touches down for a sample of Bennu.
In a brief moment that its principal scientist Dante Lauretta described as “transcendental”, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacec...
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Poised and ready for a date with Bennu
OSIRIS-REx has hopes, dreams and contingency plans.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is poised to make a daring landing on asteroid 101955 Bennu, briefly touching down in a tin...
Technology
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Small spirals could have big impact
Twistronics meets the world of non- Euclidean geometry.
This microscopic, twisting spiral was "grown" by depositing sheets of 2D material over a substrate curved slightly by...
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Microscopy gets boost from z-splitter prism
Researchers unveil a new and versatile technique.
US researchers say they have developed a simple way to capture high-quality 3D images of live cells and organisms wit...
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Nature
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Can cat genes explain their nine lives?
Maybe not, but they can help unravel genomic mutations.
Move over human genomic medicine – scientists are now getting closer to gene therapy for felines, thanks to an Abyssi...
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Ageing chimps value old friends
It’s a human trait we didn’t know they had.
As humans age they tend to favour small groups of old friends, where interactions are positive and stress-free. It...
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Signs of change from a turbulent era
Drill core reveals boom-bust landscape in Africa’s Rift Valley.
A new drill core, preserving a million years of environmental history in the East African Rift Valley, is helping unt...
Earth
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Delicate balance in the Falklands
Threat to seabirds is a threat to the ecosystem.
Seabird droppings helped shape the delicately balanced ecosystem of the Falkland Islands, which is in danger of abrup...
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Rain really can move mountains
Himalayan study describes dramatic impact of erosion.
Plate tectonics tends to dominate the common view of mountain formation: where two plates meet, rock is pushed up. Ho...
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Report
Cosmos Q&A: Putting biodiversity in focus
Scientists call for new agency to drive reform.
The Australian Academy of Sciences (AAS) has called for an independent agency to be established to drive reform of bi...
History
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Have wings will glide – at best
Two small dinosaurs struggled in the air, analysis suggests.
Just having wings doesn’t mean you can fly. Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, it seems, were barely able to glide. ...
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Plague spread quickly in Medieval Europe
Documents reveal an increasing transmission rate.
The speed of plague transmission in London increased four-fold between the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague o...
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Let the Eurasian games begin
Ball sports were played much earlier than thought.
This area of northwest China may have been the venue for Eurasia’s oldest ball games. A team of Swiss, German and ...
People
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Conversation
How do we know stats can be trusted?
Talking to the humans behind the numbers.
By Samantha Vilkins, Sujatha Raman and Will J Grant, Australian National University In April, as the coronavirus p...
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Citizen Science
Aussie Backyard Bird Count takes flight
Join in on one of Australia’s largest citizen science events.
In celebration of National Bird Week, Australia’s largest annual citizen science event has kicked off, running until ...
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Health
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COVID news and trends @ 23 October
A digest of science, research and reporting highlights.
The numbers World COVID-19 hotspots are anchored in the Americas and western Europe, with more than 1000 cases per...
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Focus
Cosmos Q&A: A forgotten foe returns
Scarlet fever is back on the research radar.
Scarlet fever was a feared disease until well into the 20th century. Characterised by a red, sandpapery rash, it typi...
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The gene that tells us it’s time to pee
Research finds PIEZO2 has an important ‘sixth sense’.
US researchers say they have discovered that a gene with a “sixth sense” may be responsible for the powerful urge to ...
Core Sciences
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History
Georges Lemaître comes in with a bang
Belgian priest a big part of big scientific debates.
In 1927, Catholic priest Georges Lemaître published a paper in the Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles in...
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Making it easier to find ‘new Earths’
Australian sensor can correct the distortion of starlight.
Australian researchers have combined artificial intelligence and photonics to develop a new type of adaptive optics s...
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Big brains, big math scores
Genes could be the reason you’re a natural – or not.
A gene called ROBO1 helps brain development, which can also lead to higher math scores, according to new German resea...