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Next Big Thing
Whether it’s a better battery, a new way of approaching conservation, or a paradigm shift in how we see a field, Australian scientists are working in every field to push research, knowledge and innovation into our national future. Every week, they tell us what excites them in their field.
Best of the Rest
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What makes doctors likely to stay in the countryside?
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Mapping memories in the brain
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Israeli research identifies an algal strain that can help make green hydrogen on an industrial scale
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Evolutionary mystery of egg mimicry cracked
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Another challenge to the Standard Model: weird W bosons
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“Big John” the Triceratops was in bust-up with another trike
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They call it ‘chipageddon’: the worldwide shortage of silicon chips prompted by the COVID pandemic and the fact that almost two-thirds are manufactured in Taiwan. What happens next?
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An analysis of corporate Australia and their progress to net zero emissions shows some surprising frontrunners, and pinpoints the lagging sectors.
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New research suggests climate lawyers need to catch up to climate science to improve their chances of success in court. But it depends on a new branch of climate science that has its limitations, too.
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Make no mistake: there are people out there publishing scientific studies off the back of extremely dodgy research. How do we protect COVID science from fishy data?
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Anti-vax claims are largely recycled but effective in the maelstrom of online information. Now science is looking at ways to ‘pre-bunk’ dangerous theories and disinformation.
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