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Rotating rocket science
Australian engineers complete successful test of new rocket engine.
As Australia’s space industry gears up, a team of Australian researchers has successfully tested a new type of engine...
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COVID booster: vaccine news and game theory
Five things science learned last week about COVID-19.
A toolkit to speed up vaccine development and research An international team, including researchers from Griffith ...
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Massive study shows Pfizer vaccine is effective
A nation-wide study has once again found the vaccine works.
A study with over half a million subjects has found the Pfizer mRNA vaccine to be 92% effective at preventing infecti...
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5G: more science, same safety
New standards aim to shine a light on the scientific evidence.
The Australian guidelines for radio wave safety have been updated for the first time in nearly 20 years. The Australi...
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Cosmos Briefing: Building Australia’s Space Industry
Experts discuss Australia’s future in space.
Australia’s Space Agency is young, but that doesn’t mean we should be underestimated in space: that’s the message fro...
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Towards a Strep A vaccine
Researchers use novel technique to produce a vaccine candidate for deadly Streptococcus A.
New research from Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics, Queensland, has advanced the development of a vaccin...
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How to jet power wind turbines
Fast lower-atmosphere winds have a complicated effect on wind power.
Wind farms and their turbines have been growing over the past decade – both in area and in height. The larger a tu...
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Really ancient art
A kangaroo painting is now Australia’s oldest known rock art.
An image of a kangaroo has been identified as Australia’s oldest known rock painting, dated to over 17,000 years old....
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Medieval tipples
New research finds evidence of winemaking in Islamic Sicily.
Chemical residue from grapes has been found inside medieval containers from Islamic Sicily, suggesting there was wine...
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Stray science stories from last week to cheer up your Monday.
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Passing oil pollution from dolphin to calf
Oil spills affect dolphin health for a decade and counting.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill and subsequent oil pollution have had long-term health effects for dolphins, accordi...
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Ancient mammoth DNA
The oldest DNA found in the world has been sequenced from a mammoth specimen.
Ancient DNA is famously tough to extract and identify. Until today, the oldest sequenced DNA came from a horse that h...
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Dinosaurs take a hike
Drops in carbon dioxide levels may have allowed herbivorous dinosaurs to get to Greenland.
A new paper pinpoints the date that a large group of dinosaurs made it to Greenland, suggesting that climatic changes...
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COVID Booster: Inhalable droplets and talking to kids
Five things science learned about COVID last week.
Nebuliser might be responsible for transmission in hotel quarantine Nebulisers – medical devices that turn liquid ...
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Explainer: Titan’s chemistry
Atomic-force microscopy allows new understanding of Saturn’s moon.
New research from the Astrophysical Journal has identified some of the intricate molecules and reactions happening on...
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Brain buster
Genes help explain differences between Neanderthal and human brains.
Researchers have identified a mutated gene that appears to be responsible for a large disparity between Neanderthal a...
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Conch shell tones
Ancient conch makes music for the first time in 17,000 years.
How old-fashioned is your taste in music? Researchers have recreated notes from a 17,000-year-old conch shell, found ...
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Pollen likes the heat
You can expect worse allergy seasons as the climate warms.
Climate change is causing allergy seasons to start earlier, last longer, and be more intense, according to a new stud...
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