World's biggest bee found alive
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Zebra stripes prevent biting flies from making controlled landings
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The devastating allure of medical miracles
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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Links between gut microbes and depression strengthened
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How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world
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The lizard and the egg: lizards break golden rule of biology
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Are negative ions good for you?
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How the brain creates a timeline of the past
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Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition
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The case for transmissible Alzheimer's grows
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Becoming - Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse
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White-tailed spiders may be Australia's most misunderstood animals, caught in a tangled web of myth and hysteria. We take a closer look.
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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
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Biopunk Manifesto - Meredith Patterson
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Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put five DNA ancestry kits to the test
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Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment
A report published in Nature Human Behaviour (hard paywall): Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment An article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (soft paywall): Your...
A report published in Nature Human Behaviour (hard paywall): Sleepers track informative speech in a multitalker environment
An article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (soft paywall): Your brain is listening and processing while you sleep
A press release published in Mirage News (no paywall): Active sleep is more than just counting sheep
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It's the end of the gene as we know it
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
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Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
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AIDS – An approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
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After bloodbath, the National Zoo’s naked mole-rats finally choose their queen
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How do you feel what you can't touch? Scientists crack the nerve code.
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century
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First gene-edited babies claimed in China
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How a change in climate wiped out the ‘Siberian unicorn’
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The “geno-economists” say DNA can predict our chances of success. Critics counter that their methods are naïve, offensive or both.
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The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared
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Cat tongue spines help smear saliva and inspire new 3D-printed brush
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Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting (South Korea)
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DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one
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Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics
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Test tube trees
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Dinosaurs had birdlike lungs
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Hundreds of bees mysteriously die in regional South Australia
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Extreme botany: The precarious science of endangered rare plants
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The Pando aspen clone or 'trembling giant', the world's largest organism, is collapsing
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Most White Americans’ DNA can be identified through genealogy databases
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Meet the scientists bringing extinct species back from the dead
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Introduction to human behavioral biology
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Arthur Ashkin’s optical tweezers: The Nobel Prize-winning technology that changed biology
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The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads.
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Elephants have a zombie gene that comes back to life to fight cancer
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Human egg precursor generated in a dish
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The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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How the octopus got its smarts
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Exterminate Mosquitoes for the Sake of Humanity
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