Science & Health: Space, Medicine, Climate Change And Humans

The Dish: Australia’s Most Famous Radio Telescope Added to Heritage List

Science & Health

3 months ago

The Dish: Australia’s Most Famous Radio Telescope Added to Heritage List

Sarah Basford Canales

How to Keep your Contact Lenses Clean (and What Can Go Wrong if You Don’t)

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3 months ago

How to Keep your Contact Lenses Clean (and What Can Go Wrong if You Don’t)

Nicole Carnt

No, the Extra Hygiene Precautions We’re Taking for COVID-19 Won’t Weaken our Immune Systems

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3 months ago

No, the Extra Hygiene Precautions We’re Taking for COVID-19 Won’t Weaken our Immune Systems

Vasso Apostolopoulos and Maja Husaric and Maximilian de Courten

At Night, the Martian Sky Pulses and Glows When Viewed in Ultraviolet Light

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3 months ago

At Night, the Martian Sky Pulses and Glows When Viewed in Ultraviolet Light

George Dvorsky

Mauritius Faces Environmental Crisis as Stranded Ship Leaks Oil

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3 months ago

Mauritius Faces Environmental Crisis as Stranded Ship Leaks Oil

Alyse Stanley

Cats Can Get And Spread the Coronavirus to Other Cats, Study Finds

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3 months ago

Cats Can Get And Spread the Coronavirus to Other Cats, Study Finds

Ed Cara

Rare Underwater Inca Offering Pulled From Lake Titicaca

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3 months ago

Rare Underwater Inca Offering Pulled From Lake Titicaca

George Dvorsky

How Science and Courage Saved the Stunning Australian Alps

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Science and Courage Saved the Stunning Australian Alps

Philip Gibbons

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Did the First Person Evolve?

Ian Moffat

Shallow Lightning and Mushy Hail: Violent Storms on Jupiter Are Weirder Than We Thought

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3 months ago

Shallow Lightning and Mushy Hail: Violent Storms on Jupiter Are Weirder Than We Thought

George Dvorsky

How New Zealand Got Rid of a Virus that Keeps Spreading Across the World

Science & Health

3 months ago

How New Zealand Got Rid of a Virus that Keeps Spreading Across the World

Michael Baker and Amanda Kvalsvig and Nick Wilson

Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say

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3 months ago

Covid-19 Sent a Healthy 40-Year-Old Man Into Life-Threatening Catatonia, Doctors Say

Ed Cara

Isaias Shows America’s ‘Dinosaur Energy System’ Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

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3 months ago

Isaias Shows America’s ‘Dinosaur Energy System’ Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

Dharna Noor

The Atlantic Hurricane Forecast for This Year Just Got Way Worse

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3 months ago

The Atlantic Hurricane Forecast for This Year Just Got Way Worse

Brian Kahn

Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects

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3 months ago

Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects

George Dvorsky

What Groundhog Day (and My Time in a Monastery) Taught Me About Lockdown

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3 months ago

What Groundhog Day (and My Time in a Monastery) Taught Me About Lockdown

Dawn LaValle Norman

Scientists May Have Found 2 Billion-Year-Old Birthmarks of Earth’s First Supercontinent

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3 months ago

Scientists May Have Found 2 Billion-Year-Old Birthmarks of Earth’s First Supercontinent

Huaiyu Yuan

What is Ammonium Nitrate, the Chemical that Exploded in Beirut?

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3 months ago

What is Ammonium Nitrate, the Chemical that Exploded in Beirut?

Gabriel da Silva

Why are Melbourne’s COVID-19 Numbers so Stubbornly High?

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3 months ago

Why are Melbourne’s COVID-19 Numbers so Stubbornly High?

Erin Smith

U.S. Military Releases New Video of What Trump Calls ‘Super Duper Missile’

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3 months ago

U.S. Military Releases New Video of What Trump Calls ‘Super Duper Missile’

Matt Novak

From Superheroes to the Clitoris: 5 Scientists Tell the Stories Behind These Species Names

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3 months ago

From Superheroes to the Clitoris: 5 Scientists Tell the Stories Behind These Species Names

Anthea Batsakis

These Dogs are Trained to Sniff out Coronavirus, And Most Have a 100% Success Rate

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3 months ago

These Dogs are Trained to Sniff out Coronavirus, And Most Have a 100% Success Rate

Susan Hazel and Anne-Lise Chaber

Biodiversity Loss Could Be Making us Sick

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3 months ago

Biodiversity Loss Could Be Making us Sick

Jake M. Robinson

Satellite Images Reveal New Penguin Colonies in Melting Antarctica

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3 months ago

Satellite Images Reveal New Penguin Colonies in Melting Antarctica

Yessenia Funes

Ancient DNA From Preserved Cave Lions Reveals They Were a Unique Species

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3 months ago

Ancient DNA From Preserved Cave Lions Reveals They Were a Unique Species

George Dvorsky

Baby Boomers Are Experiencing Greater Cognitive Decline Than Previous Generations, Study Finds

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3 months ago

Baby Boomers Are Experiencing Greater Cognitive Decline Than Previous Generations, Study Finds

Ed Cara

Sloth Safely Returned To Trees After Accidentally Taking A 64 Kilometre Truck Trip

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3 months ago

Sloth Safely Returned To Trees After Accidentally Taking A 64 Kilometre Truck Trip

Andrew P. Collins

Why Australian Healthcare Workers are Inadequately Protected Against Coronavirus

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3 months ago

Why Australian Healthcare Workers are Inadequately Protected Against Coronavirus

Alicia Dennis and Jane L Whitelaw

Giant Panda Conservation is Failing to Revive the Wider Ecosystem

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3 months ago

Giant Panda Conservation is Failing to Revive the Wider Ecosystem

Jason Gilchrist

Why Damaging Myths About Women and Science Keep Coming Back in New Forms

Science & Health

3 months ago

Why Damaging Myths About Women and Science Keep Coming Back in New Forms

Gina Rippon

Paleontologists Identify Cancer in a Dinosaur Fossil for the First Time

Science & Health

3 months ago

Paleontologists Identify Cancer in a Dinosaur Fossil for the First Time

George Dvorsky

Drastic Decline in American ER Visits Suggests Many People Avoided Critical Medical Care in March and April

Science & Health

3 months ago

Drastic Decline in American ER Visits Suggests Many People Avoided Critical Medical Care in March and April

Ed Cara

How Do People Actually ‘Die From Old Age’?

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Do People Actually ‘Die From Old Age’?

Daniel Kolitz

Science Twitter Got Catfished by a Fake Professor Who ‘Died From Covid’

Science & Health

3 months ago

Science Twitter Got Catfished by a Fake Professor Who ‘Died From Covid’

Ed Cara

Testing Czar Admits U.S. Covid-19 Tests Have ‘Limited Utility’ When Pandemic Is Out of Control

Science & Health

3 months ago

Testing Czar Admits U.S. Covid-19 Tests Have ‘Limited Utility’ When Pandemic Is Out of Control

Matt Novak

What is a ‘State of Disaster’ and What Powers Does it Confer?

Science & Health

3 months ago

What is a ‘State of Disaster’ and What Powers Does it Confer?

Anne Twomey

The Hunt for Life on Mars is About to Get Serious

Science & Health

3 months ago

The Hunt for Life on Mars is About to Get Serious

Monica Grady

We Discovered a New Species, But War Means it May Now Remain Hidden Forever

Science & Health

3 months ago

We Discovered a New Species, But War Means it May Now Remain Hidden Forever

Alec Moore

California Is Burning: 8,093.72 ha Fire Rages On Uncontained, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate

Science & Health

3 months ago

California Is Burning: 8,093.72 ha Fire Rages On Uncontained, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate

Jody Serrano

Elon Musk Invited to Egypt to Prove Pyramids Weren’t Built By Aliens

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3 months ago

Elon Musk Invited to Egypt to Prove Pyramids Weren’t Built By Aliens

Tegan Jones

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Lands Safely in the Gulf of Mexico

Science & Health

3 months ago

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Lands Safely in the Gulf of Mexico

Alyse Stanley

Hundreds of Kids in Georgia Tested Positive for Coronavirus After Summer Camp

Science & Health

3 months ago

Hundreds of Kids in Georgia Tested Positive for Coronavirus After Summer Camp

Ed Cara

Spacecraft Carrying Perseverance Switches to ‘Safe Mode’ After Glitch, but NASA Says Not to Worry

Science & Health

3 months ago

Spacecraft Carrying Perseverance Switches to ‘Safe Mode’ After Glitch, but NASA Says Not to Worry

George Dvorsky

723 New COVID-19 Cases in Victoria Could Reflect More Testing, But Behaviour Probably has Something to Do With It

Science & Health

3 months ago

723 New COVID-19 Cases in Victoria Could Reflect More Testing, But Behaviour Probably has Something to Do With It

Philip Russo and Brett Mitchell

Online

3 months ago

NASA Is Launching A Helicopter To Mars

Jason Torchinsky

Perseverance: The Mars Rover Searching for Ancient Life, and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build it

Science & Health

3 months ago

Perseverance: The Mars Rover Searching for Ancient Life, and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build it

David Flannery

How to Stop Feeling ‘Survivor Guilt’ During COVID-19

Science & Health

3 months ago

How to Stop Feeling ‘Survivor Guilt’ During COVID-19

Erin Smith

Google Now Lets You Fill Your Home with AR Insects

Science & Health

3 months ago

Google Now Lets You Fill Your Home with AR Insects

Holly Brockwell

This Is the Best Spot on Earth for Stargazing, If You Can Handle It

Science & Health

3 months ago

This Is the Best Spot on Earth for Stargazing, If You Can Handle It

George Dvorsky

Sea Level Rise Alone Threatens to Crush the Global Economy

Science & Health

3 months ago

Sea Level Rise Alone Threatens to Crush the Global Economy

Yessenia Funes

Science & Health

3 months ago

Why Is My Face Changing Shape As I Get Older?

Daniel Kolitz

NASA’s Mars Rover and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build It

Science & Health

3 months ago

NASA’s Mars Rover and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build It

David Flannery

Science & Health

3 months ago

Why Does Exercise Start Hurting Two Days After A Workout?

Daniel Kolitz

Study Links Serious Gum Disease to Dementia Decades Later

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3 months ago

Study Links Serious Gum Disease to Dementia Decades Later

Ed Cara

Shady Stem Cell Therapies Can Cause tumours, Infections, and Death, Doctors Report

Science & Health

3 months ago

Shady Stem Cell Therapies Can Cause tumours, Infections, and Death, Doctors Report

Ed Cara

Are we Doomed if we Don’t Manage to Curb Emissions By 2030?

Science & Health

3 months ago

Are we Doomed if we Don’t Manage to Curb Emissions By 2030?

Robert McLachlan

The Mystery of the Top End’s Vanishing Wildlife, and the Unexpected Culprits

Science & Health

3 months ago

The Mystery of the Top End’s Vanishing Wildlife, and the Unexpected Culprits

The Conversation

How Does the Sun Help Your Body Make Vitamin D?

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Does the Sun Help Your Body Make Vitamin D?

Robyn Lucas

Australian Scientists Name New Flies After Marvel Characters Like Deadpool and Loki

Online

3 months ago

Australian Scientists Name New Flies After Marvel Characters Like Deadpool and Loki

Tegan Jones

Someone’s Cat Caught Covid, but Don’t Panic

Science & Health

3 months ago

Someone’s Cat Caught Covid, but Don’t Panic

Holly Brockwell

Ancient Microbes Spring to Life After 100 Million Years Under the Seafloor

Science & Health

3 months ago

Ancient Microbes Spring to Life After 100 Million Years Under the Seafloor

George Dvorsky

Who Are ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’, the Pro-Trump, Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Weirdos Banned From Social Media?

Science & Health

3 months ago

Who Are ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’, the Pro-Trump, Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Weirdos Banned From Social Media?

Matt Novak

How Meme Factories are Crafting Public Health Messaging

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Meme Factories are Crafting Public Health Messaging

Crystal Abidin

How a Scientific Spat Over How to Name Species Turned into a Big Plus for Nature

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3 months ago

How a Scientific Spat Over How to Name Species Turned into a Big Plus for Nature

The Conversation

Carbon Emissions are Chilling the Atmosphere 90km Above Antarctica, at the Edge of Space

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3 months ago

Carbon Emissions are Chilling the Atmosphere 90km Above Antarctica, at the Edge of Space

John French and Andrew Klekociuk and Frank Mulligan

Queensland Pub Bans Emus for Bad Behaviour

Online

3 months ago

Queensland Pub Bans Emus for Bad Behaviour

Tegan Jones

At the Evangelical Creation Museum, Dinosaurs Lived Alongside Humans and the World is 6,000 Years Old

Science & Health

3 months ago

At the Evangelical Creation Museum, Dinosaurs Lived Alongside Humans and the World is 6,000 Years Old

William Trollinger and Susan L Trollinger

Record-Breaking Number of Americans Called Out Sick From Work in April, Study Finds

Science & Health

3 months ago

Record-Breaking Number of Americans Called Out Sick From Work in April, Study Finds

Ed Cara

Man With Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons Retweets Random Fistfight

Science & Health

3 months ago

Man With Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons Retweets Random Fistfight

Matt Novak

Here’s What We Know So Far About the Long-Term Symptoms of COVID-19

Science & Health

3 months ago

Here’s What We Know So Far About the Long-Term Symptoms of COVID-19

Peter Wark

Women in STEM are Still Far Short of Workplace Equity, And COVID-19 Risks Undoing Even These Modest Gains

Science & Health

3 months ago

Women in STEM are Still Far Short of Workplace Equity, And COVID-19 Risks Undoing Even These Modest Gains

Alan Finkel and Lisa Harvey-Smith

3 Questions to Ask Yourself Next Time you See a Graph, Chart or Map

Science & Health

3 months ago

3 Questions to Ask Yourself Next Time you See a Graph, Chart or Map

Carson MacPherson-Krutsky

What a WWII Typhus Outbreak Can Teach Us About Stopping Coronavirus

Science & Health

3 months ago

What a WWII Typhus Outbreak Can Teach Us About Stopping Coronavirus

Ed Cara

Hanna, First Hurricane of the Atlantic Season, to Strike Coronavirus-Ravaged Texas

Science & Health

3 months ago

Hanna, First Hurricane of the Atlantic Season, to Strike Coronavirus-Ravaged Texas

Jody Serrano

Health Experts Call for Second U.S. Shutdown to Halt Coronavirus Spread

Science & Health

3 months ago

Health Experts Call for Second U.S. Shutdown to Halt Coronavirus Spread

Ed Cara

Boris Johnson Calls Anti-Vaxxers ‘Nuts’ as He Belatedly Implements UK Mask Mandate

Science & Health

3 months ago

Boris Johnson Calls Anti-Vaxxers ‘Nuts’ as He Belatedly Implements UK Mask Mandate

Tom McKay

The Living Ghost Dogs That Haunt the Amazon

Science & Health

3 months ago

The Living Ghost Dogs That Haunt the Amazon

Dharna Noor

Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think

Science & Health

3 months ago

Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think

Erik Nelson

As if Space Wasn’t Dangerous Enough, Bacteria Become More Deadly in Microgravity

Science & Health

3 months ago

As if Space Wasn’t Dangerous Enough, Bacteria Become More Deadly in Microgravity

Vikrant Minhas

Which Mask Works Best? We Filmed People Coughing and Sneezing to Find Out

Science & Health

3 months ago

Which Mask Works Best? We Filmed People Coughing and Sneezing to Find Out

The Conversation

The World’s First Quantum Engineering Degree Will Be Offered by a Sydney University

Science & Health

3 months ago

The World’s First Quantum Engineering Degree Will Be Offered by a Sydney University

Sarah Basford Canales

A New Map Gives Clues About What Dark Matter Is, But Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic Expansion Rate

Science & Health

3 months ago

A New Map Gives Clues About What Dark Matter Is, But Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic Expansion Rate

Julian Bautista

New 23andMe Study Reveals the Genetic Legacy of Slavery in the Americas

Science & Health

3 months ago

New 23andMe Study Reveals the Genetic Legacy of Slavery in the Americas

Ed Cara

Why Aren’t Melbourne’s COVID-19 Case Numbers Going Down, Even After Lockdown?

Science & Health

3 months ago

Why Aren’t Melbourne’s COVID-19 Case Numbers Going Down, Even After Lockdown?

Vasso Apostolopoulos and Maja Husaric and Maximilian de Courten

Science & Health

3 months ago

Why Can’t Humans Grow Wings?

John Long

Australia’s Native Bees Are So Damn Precious, New Study Shows

Science & Health

3 months ago

Australia’s Native Bees Are So Damn Precious, New Study Shows

Sarah Basford Canales

Science & Health

3 months ago

Bega Cheese is Making AI Honey Now

Tegan Jones

DIY Labs Will Spur Inventions After the Coronavirus Pandemic

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3 months ago

DIY Labs Will Spur Inventions After the Coronavirus Pandemic

Felix Arndt

Incredible Image Shows a Pair of Exoplanets Around a Sun-Like Star

Science & Health

3 months ago

Incredible Image Shows a Pair of Exoplanets Around a Sun-Like Star

George Dvorsky

Are the Earth’s Magnetic Poles About to Swap Places?

Science & Health

3 months ago

Are the Earth’s Magnetic Poles About to Swap Places?

Yael Annemiek Engbers and Andrew Biggin

Artificial Intelligence is Now Being Used to Resolve Divorces

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3 months ago

Artificial Intelligence is Now Being Used to Resolve Divorces

Tania Sourdin and Bin Li

Those Ridiculous Giant Ocean Sunfish Start as Tiny Larvae

Science & Health

3 months ago

Those Ridiculous Giant Ocean Sunfish Start as Tiny Larvae

Sarah Basford Canales

Coronavirus Report: The Projects Bidding to Win the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

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3 months ago

Coronavirus Report: The Projects Bidding to Win the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Liam Petterson

Neurostimulation May Herald a New Treatment for Depression

Science & Health

3 months ago

Neurostimulation May Herald a New Treatment for Depression

Jérémie Lefebvre

FBI Arrests Ohio Republicans in Alleged $US60 Million Bribery Case for Coal and Nuclear Bailout

Science & Health

3 months ago

FBI Arrests Ohio Republicans in Alleged $US60 Million Bribery Case for Coal and Nuclear Bailout

Yessenia Funes

How Did This ‘Screaming Mummy’ Really Die?

Science & Health

3 months ago

How Did This ‘Screaming Mummy’ Really Die?

George Dvorsky

‘Genomic Fingerprinting’ Helps Us Trace Coronavirus Outbreaks, But How Does it Work?

Science & Health

3 months ago

‘Genomic Fingerprinting’ Helps Us Trace Coronavirus Outbreaks, But How Does it Work?

Rebecca Rockett

Brains Manage Neurons Like Air Traffic Controllers Manage Airplane Movements

Science & Health

3 months ago

Brains Manage Neurons Like Air Traffic Controllers Manage Airplane Movements

Jérémie Lefebvre

Searching for Misha: The Life and Tragedies of the World’s Most Famous Polar Bear

Science & Health

3 months ago

Searching for Misha: The Life and Tragedies of the World’s Most Famous Polar Bear

Henry Anderson-Elliott

Sanctuary Temples in Ancient Greece Had Accessibility Ramps, New Research Suggests

Science & Health

3 months ago

Sanctuary Temples in Ancient Greece Had Accessibility Ramps, New Research Suggests

George Dvorsky

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