Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
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The achievement of gender parity in a large astrophysics research centre
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Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
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Saving the Red Handfish from extinction
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The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
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Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad
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Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds
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I touched the world's most painful plant - Gympie gympie (the suicide plant)
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'The platypuses were glowing': The secret light of Australia's marsupials
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The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
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Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection
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Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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New South Wales and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
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How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year
News article: How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year The study: The economic benefits of improving social inclusion
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Taking the sting out: Australian gene editing is crossing the pain threshold
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How do meteorologists work out the weather forecast? And how far into the future can they go?
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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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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
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Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least (with some local flavour) An article from New Scientist: Australians care if...
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least (with some local flavour)
An article from New Scientist: Australians care if politicians tell lies, but people in the US don’t (from a non-Australian point of view)
The study itself in Royal Society Open Science: Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample.
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century
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A marathon procedure to seperate conjoined 14-month-old twins Nima and Dawa is underway at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, with doctors saying the operation is "all about the connections".
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Geologists show Tasmania and the Grand Canyon were connected on ancient supercontinent
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Hundreds of bees mysteriously die in regional South Australia
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Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity first proven correct at what is now Australian lawn bowls club
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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Koala genome project reveals secrets about its toxic diet and disease
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A mass colony of tent spiders have created a mesmerising display in a nature reserve on Australia's east coast, capturing the imagination of locals
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Satellite images capture the spectacular transformation of Lake Eyre
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Fossils from Alcoota site shed more light on origins of gigantic, goose-like bird
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This humble Australian bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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Australian tornadoes flying under the radar but more common than you think, BOM warns
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