Nature is for everyone
How to break down the barriers to make nature accessible for all.
The outdoors has something for everyone, but is nature accessible to all? This panel explores the diverse valu...
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COVID Frontline: What’s it like to get a Moderna booster?
Jeff Glorfeld takes us through the cleaning-products aisle to a COVID-19 booster shot.
On 17 September, CNN published an online story with the heading: “Moderna’s vaccine is the most effective, but Pfizer...
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Conversation
What is COP26 and why does the fate of Earth depend on it?
Does Australia’s prosperity depend on this climate summit?
By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University In just over two weeks, more than 100 world leaders will gather in the Scott...
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COVID Frontline: Getting COVID in a lockdown city
We hear from Chuck Smeeton, who has just been diagnosed with a breakthrough COVID infection in Me...
So on Tuesday I got a text: Your COVID test is POSITIVE. That’s how I became only the second person I know well wh...
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Bernardino Ramazzini is on the job
Delve into the life of the Italian physician who is often called “the father of occupational medi...
Looking for a career in healthcare? Occupational medicine, with its focus on treating work-related injuries and illne...
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Conversation
Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher
How do you crack a centuries-old cipher?
Richard Bean, The University of Queensland; Megan Piorko, Georgia State University, and Sarah Lang, University of Gra...
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Why are viruses considered non-living?
Viruses lack many of the features that are considered signs of life.
Viruses: living or non-living? Viruses are responsible for some of the world's most dangerous and deadly diseases, i...
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Plastic versus bioplastic | Cosmos Weekly Taster
Understanding the true costs of “green” packaging.
This article on bioplastic first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 8 October 2021. For more stories like this, subscribe t...
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Has our hydrogen future arrived?
The plan for developing a green hydrogen industry has gone from mud-map to GPS in less than a week.
Hydrogen has been discussed as the fuel of the future in recent times, with state and federal governments aiming to s...
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Animal? Vegetable? Now mineral.
When did the first animal evolve? And would we know it when we saw it?
All other photos in this story by Ian Connellan. On a hillside just west of the Flinders Ranges, geologist Mary Dr...
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COVID Frontline: Brazil
We hear from researcher Gustavo Soares, who was in São Paulo, Brazil, at the start of the pandemic.
In February 2020, São Paulo had a major street carnival. I lived in the old downtown area, where the most interesting...
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Ruth Benerito saves cotton
With the world agog over synthetic fabrics, a chemist and her colleagues ‘smoothed out’ cotton – ...
In 1938–39, a department store in the United States capital, Washington, DC, featured a “Fabrics of the Future” exhib...