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Anatomy of a Monster Storm

When wild weather hammered Australia’s east coast, researchers leapt into action, collecting the...

Mar 22, 2021
Medium
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Die tödlichsten Waffen der Natur

Spinnen, Echsen, Schnabeltiere - Gifte kommen überall im Tierreich vor. Ihre Erforschung ist...

Mar 14, 2021
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
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Facebook’s Australian News Ban a Colossal Blunder

By Wilson da Silva IT CAME SUDDENLY and without warning: on Thursday 18 February 2021, Australians...

Feb 24, 2021
Medium
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Can You Trust a Computer Algorithm?

Artificial intelligence can mimic human decisions — but also drastically amplify biases. And...

Feb 13, 2021
Medium
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Turning Toxins to Therapies: The Wild World of Researching Venom

From deadly snakes and spiders to the box jellyfish and blue-ringed octopus, Australia’s legendary...

Feb 1, 2021
Australian Geographic
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The High Frontier: The Birth of Self-Sustaining Space Outposts

A new space race is unfolding, driven by commerce and permanent bases on the Moon. To succeed,...

Jan 11, 2021
Medium
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The Quantum Revolution Scales Up

Quantum mechanics began as curiosity-driven university research into fundamental physics, and now...

Nov 5, 2020
Science Meets Business
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Australia’s News Media: An Anglo-Celtic Panopticon

The lack of diversity in Australian newsrooms is not academic to me: it is lived experience. And...

Oct 18, 2020
Medium
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The Birth of Sputnik 1: Korolev, von Braun and the Drunk Driver

In the milieu of the Cold War, a roadside accident three generations ago led to Sputnik 1, and the...

Oct 3, 2020
Medium
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Back to the Moon: Australia’s Mining Expertise at Forefront of New Era of Space Exploration

Australia’s mining expertise is at the forefront of a new era of space exploration that’s looking...

Aug 6, 2020
Australian Geographic
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Australia’s Narrow Victory

The rapid response to COVID-19 by the Australia’s university science sector helped avert an early...

Aug 1, 2020
Science Meets Business
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The Man Who Inflated the Universe

Working late one night, Alan Guth accidentally struck upon a solution to the birth of the cosmos....

Jun 9, 2020
Medium
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CSIRAC: The Only First-Generation Computer Still in Existence

For decades forgotten in a warehouse, one of the grandfathers of modern computers — and only the...

Jun 7, 2020
Medium
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Down to Earth: How the Outdoors Makes Us Healthier

New research explains how exposure to the wilderness makes us healthy. By Wilson da Silva...

May 5, 2020
Medium
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Silk & Diamonds: The Fancy End of High-Tech Medicine

It turns out silk, an ancient natural fibre, has versatile uses in medicine — especially when...

May 4, 2020
Medium
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Why Japan Fears Not the Robot

Westerners can find robots creepy, but the Japanese see them as endearing — thanks to a...

Apr 21, 2020
Medium
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Sudden Impact: The Day the Sky Fell In

On a clear day 66 million years ago, the sky abruptly caved in and 75% of all life became extinct....

Apr 14, 2020
Medium
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My Robot Friend: The Promise of Social Robots

A new breed of automatons — friendly, even soft to the touch— is replacing the clunky robots of...

Apr 5, 2020
Medium
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How Lasers and Wi-Fi Were Born, Thanks to Cosmology

Truly revolutionary technologies come from the most unlikely places, like cosmology, which gave us...

Mar 31, 2020
Medium
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The Man Who Coloured the Cosmos

Once, all deep space photography was black-and-white. Then a chemist in Australia developed a new...

Feb 3, 2020
Medium
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