Dog days in prehistoric Europe
Remains suggest wild hunting dogs arrived in Europe more than 1.7 million years ago.
Scientists have unearthed the earliest evidence of wild hunting dogs in Europe, from more than 1.7 million years ago ...
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The climatic ups and downs of the pandemic and Black Summer fires
Climate impacted more by catastrophic bushfires than COVID-19 lockdowns.
A team of US scientists has used modelling to find that Australia’s 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires had a more dramati...
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Australia joins star wars
Federal government looks to counter space jams and attacks.
In the face of emerging space threats, the Australian government is looking for a new ground-based Space Electronic W...
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Machine learning and solar energy
How to find cheaper and more efficient materials for solar cells.
As we build a clean energy future, solar cell research is booming. Right now, typical silicon solar cells can only ca...
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Killer carbon emissions
New metric calculates 83 million climate-related deaths this century.
A new study has coined another metric for estimating the damage inflicted by climate change – this time, looking at t...
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Olympic cardboard beds win a silver medal
Does cardboard cut it as furniture?
The world’s best athletes are always the focus at Olympics, but this year in Tokyo they’ve been almost outperformed a...
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Water’s metal tally
A trick in a synchrotron has made water behave like a metal.
An international team of scientists has succeeded in making droplets of water behave like a metal.On a chemical l...
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Seeing red – do tomatoes feel pain?
Fruit sends out warning signals to the rest of the plant when under attack.
Tomatoes might seem like the strong silent types, but they cry out when they get hurt.A team of researchers, led ...
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How to give a Neanderthal a blood transfusion
More information about modern human ancestors emerges from a genetic study of blood types.
It began as a joke. A paleoanthropologist, a geneticist and a blood specialist were hanging around an espresso machin...
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In search of the oldest animal
Sponge-like fossil found in ancient reef might be the earliest evidence of animal life.
In the latest instalment in the quest to find our oldest animal ancestor, a Canadian geologist has unearthed a sponge...
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First light detected from behind a black hole
X-rays bouncing off a black hole’s disc confirm Einstein’s predictions.
For the first time, astrophysicists have caught sight of light reflected from behind a black hole, proving Einstein r...
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Bees benefit from coffee buzz
Even the foraging abilities of bumble bees are better focused with a caffeine charge.
Most of us are familiar with that morning coffee buzz caffeine-hit– and need it to get started on our working day. Bu...