Features
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Conversation
Media mythbusting can grow false beliefs
Cognitive bias can overcome even the best of us.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, politicians, medical experts and epidemiologists have taught us about f...
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Conversation
Sport's back. How do players reduce risks?
We have to look at sweat and spit in completely new ways.
As we emerge from lockdown, so does our sport. And many sporting bodies are grappling with the best way to do this wh...
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History
Friedrich Miescher gets ahead of the double helix
Swiss physician started the story of DNA.
In just over 75 years, DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid – has risen in public and scientific status from being “an obscure...
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Event
Watch as a journalist’s mind is rewired
It’s been voted Best Film at SCINEMA 2020.
The world is confusing and unsettling, even more so now than ever before, and more of us than ever are finding it aff...
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Conversation
Just how well do bees count?
Quantity discrimination can be a vital skill.
If you were a honeybee, how would you choose where to find flowers? Imagine your first flight out of the hive searchi...
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Conversation
How hot will it get this century?
Latest climate models don’t offer good news.
Climate scientists use mathematical models to project the Earth’s future under a warming world, but a group of the la...
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History
Thank Valdemar Poulsen for your music collection
The telegraphone made all formats possible.
In homes today people might possess recordings in a dozen different formats, from vinyl platters playable at various ...
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Conversation
Why astronomy matters in times of crisis
The thoughts of Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large.
In an international emergency like the present one, you might expect the science of the stars to be the last thing on...
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Conversation
Why not all twins are identical
Academics explain an evolutionary puzzle.
When a mother gives birth to twins, the offspring are not always identical or even the same gender. Known as fraterna...
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Conversation
The healing power of data
The true legacy of Florence Nightingale
When you’re in a medical emergency, you don’t typically think of calling a statistician. However, the COVID-19 outbre...
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Conversation
Why are there so few antivirals?
It's all a question of cell biology, academics explain.
As the end of the second world war neared, mass production of the newly developed antibiotic penicillin enabled life-...
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History
Ronald Ross explains malaria
He was the first to prove the link to mosquitoes.
In March this year, US President Donald Trump, for reasons that have yet to be made clear or acquire scientific valid...