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Timor Island is only 470 kilometres long – about half the driving distance from Melbourne to Sydney. Yet only one of the two nations sharing it has managed to eradicate malaria.
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Fires create their own weather: both nearby, and in distant places. Scientists are starting to unpick exactly how these complex connections weave together.
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Want doctors on a long-duration spaceflight? Head to Antarctica first – or the Australian outback
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Laser hack of self-driving cars can ‘delete’ pedestrians
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Where should we plant trees to improve freshwater availability?
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Cat parasite Toxoplasma can hijack cells to get where it wants
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Explainer: How chemists identify mystery substances – from drugs at pill testers to final structure
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Not again! Another massive rocket body is about to crash back to Earth
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Next Big Thing
Sustainable development requires that we understand the size, scale, age and unique ecology of our subterranean water systems before we start extracting water for mining and agriculture.
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Port Augusta’s on-again, off-again solar thermal power plant is on again. But this time, the heat is on to prove the technology in time to transition other power station towns.
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