A quick way to weigh molecules
Researchers have found a simpler way to identify chemicals.
A mystery substance is analysed and found to contain, let’s say, five compounds. How is that analysis actually done? ...
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What you may have missed…
Baby pterosaurs soaring, Venusian weather, crafty crows and more – here’s what went on in last we...
Baby pterosaurs fly the nestInfant pterosaurs may have taken to the air as soon as they cracked out of the egg, a...
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COVID Booster: Dreams, orphans and faster testing
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Fast or accurate: what’s a better test?A paper in PLOS Computational Biology has suggested that more, and faster,...
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Insight into the Martian underworld
NASA mission maps the Red Planet right down to its molten core.
What do you call an earthquake if it takes place on another planet? On the Red Planet they’re called marsquakes, and ...
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When will fairy wrens help other fairy wrens?
Birds respond differently to predators if they’ve got a shot at breeding.
Researchers have revealed the nuanced calculations that purple-crowned fairy-wrens make when deciding to defend other...
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Aussie teen (COVID) vaccine
Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 has been provisionally approved for Australian teenagers.
This morning, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Australia's medical regulator, announced it has provisional...
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Rapid antigen tests
They’re the fast and cheap COVID-testing alternative. How do they work and when should we use them?
In Australia, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests are the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19, while rapid antige...
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Spyware unplugged
New software attacks cast a light on cybersecurity.
A major investigation conducted by news organisations has found that governments around the world may have been spied...
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Cosmos Pi-ku 2021 competition
It’s Pi Approximation Day already? Really? We need to do a little judge whippin’…
Only occasionally does a journalist get to write a ‘gosh, sorry’ story and have a genuinely reasonable hope of gettin...
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Moon-forming disc detected around another world
A distant ring of gas and dust offers new clues about solar system formation.
For the first time, astronomers have unambiguously spotted a disc of gas and dust around a planet in a distant solar ...
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The polymer brush solution
Molecule-sized brushes: how on earth could they work?
Polymer brushes are substances with a range of medical and environmental uses - environmentally friendly cleaning pro...
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Gorgon’s carbon capture shortfall
What was the plant trying to do, and what went wrong?
The self-described “world’s largest carbon capture and storage project” hasn’t captured enough carbon to meet its goa...