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Atlas moth on leaves

Saving species starts at home: how you can help Australia’s 1,000 threatened invertebrates

Sadly, almost 1,000 Australian invertebrates are threatened with extinction and need protecting.

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Great Sandy Desert
Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Since colonisation cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.

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podcast
Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Everybody wants to start a podcast these days – even AI. What does this mean for the future of science communication?

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The Joker
Thu, 03 Oct 2024

What can we learn from the Joker character about our cultural fascination with duplication and disintegration?

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Pluto and one of its moons
Wed, 02 Oct 2024

Much mystery still surrounds Pluto and its moons. But in new research published in Nature Communications researchers announced they’ve found carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

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Goanna tracks
Fri, 27 Sep 2024

For many years, scientists have been working with Indigenous people in the desert to record these observations in a systematic way. New research collates this data.

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Wheat in a lab
Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Discussions about the rules governing genetic technology in New Zealand remain complex. But they need not be marked by conflict, as long as people’s views and values are genuinely considered.

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Time
Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Society says time is money; but ANU physicist Peter Riggs says aspects of time might not even be real at all.

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Water flowing creek
Tue, 27 Aug 2024

What types of chemicals are actually considered “forever chemicals”? And how should we deal with the escalating threat they pose?

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Penguin antarctica
Thu, 22 Aug 2024

New research shows Antarctica’s coastlines more connected to land in the Southern Hemisphere than previously thought.

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