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558-million-year-old fossil is oldest animal on Earth

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Cane toad genome offers hope for eventual control

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The mathematics of mass extinction

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Endangered SA bird song competition determines luck with the ladies

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The mathematics of malaria

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Cities drive natural selection

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Human-induced landslides are increasing

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Colouring up: macaws blush to communicate

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Researchers find the lost harbour of Pisa

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Increased irrigation efficiency actually reduces available water

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EU renewable-energy policy chips away at forestry protections

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Forests pull off a useful light trick

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Marine heatwaves more frequent and intense

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Why don't elephants get cancer as often as others?

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Easter Island happy, despite the grim faces

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Wild fairy-wrens taught stranger danger

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School teacher discovers fossil shark teeth along Australian coastline

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Platypus protein used in diabetes research

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Zapping a new approach to solar cells

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Lombok earthquake causes a permanent ground-shift

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How useful are stratospheric veils?

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A creepy crawly cure for Dravet syndrome

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Follow in the footsteps of megafauna

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The Spear Project aims to add to our understanding of Bronze Age life

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Asthma warning over potential killer dust storm

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Bacteria becoming tolerant to hand wash

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Super rare blue diamonds are a geologist’s best friend

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Bushland and farmland not always good neighbours

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HK’s microbes like to mingle, at least on the subway

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Heatwave deaths likely to rise steadily

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Island life makes birds smarter

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Old bones shed light on evolution of the human skeleton

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Global marine wilderness areas are shrinking

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Tropics need care and attention

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Experts issue warning about pet genetic testing

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Reef bleaching changed marine communities

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The amazing dragon of Lingwu

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Ebola may have helped bats resist infection

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Baby snake in amber a golden find

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Rising global meat consumption could spell trouble

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Great Barrier Reef not recovering like it used to

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Kelp’s record journey has an environmental downside

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Thawing permafrost offers climate clues

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Don’t challenge these guys to a chilli eating competition

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Cosmic neutrinos traced to their source for the first time

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Murray microbes test river health

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Discovery of SA’s oldest shipwreck

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Out of Africa, but not as one

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Two-thirds of Gippsland koalas have chlamydia

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Watch as a six-kilometre iceberg breaks away from glacier

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Zebrafish show how the brain reacts to predators

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Jumping genes found in animals and plants

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Spiders fly using electricity, not wind

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Puppies show their learning capacity

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This foot was made for walking – and climbing

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Bird bacteria linked to horse and human health

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Dingo Fence more than just a barrier

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Genetic code helps explain the ways of koalas

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When is a croc not a croc? When it’s a thoracosaur

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HIV treatment shortcomings identified in Ethiopia

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Virus combo gets the jump on pesky feral rabbits

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Atomic details of Zika virus laid bare

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Bees prefer inner-city living

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Past tells us about our warmer future

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Antarctica bedrock rising rapidly as ice melts

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Feral cats kill over a million reptiles a day in Australia

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Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, dies aged 46

1 minute

New gibbon species discovered in ancient Chinese tomb

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Eastern Quolls have a tough time on first release back on mainland

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Why are bluetongue lizard tongues blue?

3 minutes

Without China importing plastic waste, we’re kinda stuffed

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The nose knows: kangaroo face shape dictated by diet

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Toothpaste and hand wash boost antibiotic resistance

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Scaling 70 million years of reptile history

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Capturing the underwater magic of camera-shy fish

3 minutes

Bizarre “platypus-fish” inhabited Australia’s original reef

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Longevity is in the genes (for trees)

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Native fish tell story of Australia's less arid past

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Platypus hormone has potential to treat diabetes

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Eavesdropping on the mysterious narwhal

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Waves hasten Antarctic ice shelves collapse

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Pygmy perch swam across the desert

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Coral reefs save coasts and costs

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Queen bumblebees affected by insecticides and diet

1 minute

Tracking the false killer whale is not fake news

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5 revolutionary ideas that could shape the world in 2050

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Warming climate ups risk of global maize shortage

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Male dolphins know their mates’ names

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Zero sums: bees recognise nothing

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Tropical cyclones more sluggish – and dangerous

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Ancient jaws tell a food story

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Q&A with panda expert Dr Jake Owens

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Review: The Kingdom - How Fungi Made Our World

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How did agriculture really get started?

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The amazing world revealed through whale snot

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The fungus that could avert global warming crisis

6 minutes

US gives the nod to Golden Rice

1 minute

240-million-year-old lizard fossil discovery adds to reptile family tree

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Life bounced back quickly after that asteroid

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Ancient fish fossil fills gaps in the evolutionary tree

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The Great Barrier Reef has shifted position five times due to sea level changes

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Bumblebees' confusion over iridescence hints at camouflage strategies

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Marine microalgae ‘rafting’ into new territory

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The dinosaur-killing asteroid warmed the planet for 100,000 years

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Humans are just 0.01% of life, but we’ve wiped out most wild mammals and plants

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Quest to find more forgotten cities

3 minutes

Water management in Australia needs Indigenous voices

6 minutes

Eruptions and lava flows on Kilauea

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid shaped modern bird population

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Magpies disregard aircraft danger on runways

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Rising carbon dioxide will leach nutrients from rice

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When you need things to really stick, do like spiders do

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Hunting for ghost mushrooms

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Biodegradable plastic bags are not safe for the environment

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How birds got their beaks

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Scientists find a new way to group atoms

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Study could lead to evolution re-think

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Intermittent rivers boost global carbon emissions

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Itchy science: mosquito saliva triggers your immune system

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Hippos leave fish in deep do-do

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Genes tell of our distant insect-eating past

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Meet the marsupials that mate themselves to death before they disappear

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Dodo descendant found in ‘Zealandia’

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Extraordinary levels of hidden biodiversity discovered in Fiji

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Baleen whales didn’t always have baleen

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Genomes provide more clues to human migration

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Ants use collective problem-solving to find their way home

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The climate change we’re probably not noticing

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Bronze Age humans were infected with hepatitis B

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Scientists measure the weak charge of the proton

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The spider army is coming - scientists train spider to jump on command

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Throwing a lifeline to native fish stocks

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High time for ‘smart’ offshore energy plan

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Shifting sands yield clues to future coastal management

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Earthquake sensors in fight against elephant poachers

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Data gaps mean nano-agriculture benefits remain unclear

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Right-wingers and fossil fuel-rich countries more likely to doubt climate change

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It’s official, tourists are ruining the planet

6 minutes

From dinosaur to bird - the transition was more complex than we thought

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Plants communicate to each other when under stress

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There's a humpback whale baby boom going on

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Marsupial species eats spiders to stop spiders eating insects

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Mantis shrimp vision is even weirder than we thought

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Cereal crops have a secret weapon against drought

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Koalas’ chlamydia woes compounded by virus

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Butterfly wings inspire glaucoma eye implant

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A beetle named after Leonardo DiCaprio

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World’s oldest spider dies in Western Australia

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The Earth’s magnetic field is not about to flip

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Baby fish turned off by quiet reef

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Geothermal fluid injection triggered Korean earthquake

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The race is on to discover Aussie species before they're gone

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Battle of the Brains: Neanderthal vs. Homo sapiens

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Cane toads don’t give a damn about the weather

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Record plastic and other waste pollutes the Arctic

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Fluid dynamics offers clue to cryptocurrencies

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The secret (long) life of plants

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Humans, we shrank the mammals

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Exploding ants are the insect world's suicide bombers

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Food poisoning protection method doesn’t work, research shows

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Heatwave transformed Great Barrier Reef’s coral assemblages

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Australian scientists lead quest for sustainable oil spill tech

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Oldest rocks in the Pilbara pre-date plate tectonics

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LED light pollution wreaks havoc on the natural world

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Physics explains the mysteries of Guinness

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Charismatic animals are suffering too

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Modern humans came after the sweet potato

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Things are heating up in the oceans

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New light on human expansion into Indonesia

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Fish confused by too much carbon dioxide

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Nemo's home falls victim to climate change

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Researcher rediscovers a great ‘forgotten’ Australian woman of science

4 minutes

Friendly bacteria help lead ants down the garden path

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Happy chickens like one shade of grey

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Fishing more environmentally friendly than farming

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Health services must adapt to reality of climate change

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214 new viruses discovered in rarely studied vertebrates

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MantisCam reveals the secret invisible marine world

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Your organic fertiliser may contribute to microplastic pollution

3 minutes

Researchers make a small but big discovery about emu size

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Giant virus shows no mercy

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Golden orbs spinning key to new synthetics

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Researchers crack eggshell nanostructure for food safety

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Generating power from light and shadow

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Sunscreen designed to keep Great Barrier Reef cool

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Housing barriers are harming refugee health

3 minutes

Adelaide aquifers face a dry future

5 minutes

Why are whales so big?

4 minutes

Vegan diets could improve global food security

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Orange snow covers Russia and eastern Europe

1 minute

Reconstructing the Neanderthals' genetic history

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More of the massive Totten Glacier is floating than thought, increasing sea level threat

3 minutes

Tracking the elusive echidna with citizen science

4 minutes

Seed collection sheds light on earliest African agriculture

2 minutes

Our complex past with the Denisovans saw us interbreed twice

3 minutes

Graphene finds a new use – as hair dye

3 minutes

Quantum physics comes in from the cold

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Whipworms hijack host guts to keep numbers low

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Ocean acidification slows rate of coral growth

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Even our cells show a gender bias

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There’s more to a raven’s call than meets the ear

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Rivers clogged with micro-plastics – until the floods come

2 minutes

Top five examples of convergent evolution

3 minutes

In Class with Tim Flannery

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Nanotech fertilisers set to shake up farming

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Even in the furthest corners of the ocean, shark numbers have plummeted

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Protein cuts water loss in plants

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Tackling climate change also means tackling global inequality

3 minutes

Extremophile survival secret could hold clues for disease treatments

4 minutes

Lack of oxygen brings pore outcome for grapes

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Microbes in cows' stomachs may hold keys to biofuel production

2 minutes

The surprisingly complex social lives of sleepy lizards

1 minute

Science can help save 15 million people from mercury poisoning

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Fracking does cause earthquakes – but you can avoid them

4 minutes

Tiny birds go the same way as the dodo

2 minutes

Chimps and bonobos find a common language

2 minutes

Secrets of super sorghum revealed

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The caterpillar that learnt to whistle

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Scientists map the elephant's genetic family tree

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Marine ecosystems could counteract some adverse effects of climate change

3 minutes

Archaeologists discover new tombs in ancient Egyptian cemetery

2 minutes

Where have all the wild horses gone?

3 minutes

Neanderthals were as artistic as modern humans

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Commercial fishing takes over more than half the world's oceans

3 minutes

Bats are host to many deadly viruses – so how come they don't get sick?

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When it comes to survival, having the right roots is critical

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Paris climate agreement won't stop sea level rise – what the experts say

8 minutes

First 3D models of Tasmanian Tiger joeys

3 minutes

Jellyfish crisps could revolutionise the food industry

3 minutes

Farmers take tips from volcanoes to enhance soil

3 minutes

Your perfume may be a major cause of air pollution

6 minutes

Orangutan numbers facing an apocalypse in Borneo

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Fat is everything in the coldest place on Earth

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Murray-Darling plan on the brink - but what do the experts think?

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No soldier left behind – how ants look after their wounded

2 minutes

What Archaeology can tell us about climate change

1 minute

Surprising animal behaviour discovered through Biological Sciences

1 minute

What ancient birds can tell us about challenges to today's species

1 minute

Primitive fish had more sense than we thought

3 minutes

Russian connection sheds light on the mystery of the Ediacaran fossils

4 minutes

Ancient bird poo? Tell me moa!

4 minutes

Sea level rise is accelerating

3 minutes

All-female Amazon molly is asexual and thriving

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Soil proves rich source of new antibiotics

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Spiders win gold in fastest spin competition

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Lasers search for cyanide in food plants

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Praying mantis 3D vision gets moving

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Finally we know where citrus fruit came from

4 minutes

Sharks inspire aero engineering of the future

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Ozone continues to deplete

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Making solar cells more sustainable

2 minutes

Clues about endangered blue whale population

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New nano ways illuminate future of medicine

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Shark tourism provides a hook for conservation

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Endangered black-footed wallabies face 'genetic bottleneck' threat

4 minutes

Spider with a tail found trapped in 100-million-year-old amber

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Ancient Indian tools suggest humans left Africa much earlier than we thought

2 minutes

Pussycat, Pussycat where have you been? Cat Tracker study to reveal the covert lives of cats

3 minutes

A day in the life of a polar bear struggling to feed itself

2 minutes

Baby fish fail to learn around noisy boats

2 minutes

Chinese scientists to test a laser so powerful it could rip apart empty space

4 minutes

Orca taught to mimic human speech – and to blow a great raspberry

4 minutes

How artificial sweeteners are helping to monitor wastewater pollution

1 minute

Painting buildings white could help avoid extreme heat

3 minutes

A huge dinosaur discovery fills gaps in Africa’s history

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Birds and mammals beat lizards and amphibians to survive climate change

2 minutes

Great Barrier Reef mapped in high resolution for the first time

2 minutes

Earliest modern human remains found out of Africa

2 minutes

That mosquito is targeting you on purpose, here's how to get payback

3 minutes

The chocolate chip cookie dough theory of Earth's mantle

3 minutes

Why speed alone can't save a zebra from a lion

3 minutes

Monkey clones born in China will be used for research

8 minutes

Four animals that can find their way around better than you

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Volcanic ‘time capsule’ crystals may help us predict eruptions

3 minutes

Geoengineering could lead to extinctions and disaster

3 minutes

Climate may be less sensitive to carbon dioxide than predicted

3 minutes

Tasmanian devils and tigers both went extinct on the mainland 3,200 years ago

2 minutes

Sounding out fish to estimate the value of marine parks

2 minutes

Shale gas is an unsustainable dead end, finds research

4 minutes

How the mantis shrimp uses a boxer's technique to protect itself

3 minutes

Islanders flee as long-dormant volcano eruption worsens

2 minutes

Lamprey study hints at signalling pathways used in spinal cord regeneration

3 minutes

Not just the oceans, freshwater acidification is happening too

2 minutes

Why do they need more refrigeration mechanics in Antarctica?

8 minutes

Waging war takes its toll on wildlife

2 minutes

2017 was the third hottest year on record in Australia

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The blackest bird feathers rival Vantablack

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Warmer climates are turning green sea turtles female

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El Niño lets Antarctic ice shelves grow taller, even as they lose weight

2 minutes

My beautiful deadly city - when home makes you sick

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Death of a beetle - the battle for life under the microscope

1 minute

In search of the perfect pig - happy AND tasty

1 minute

Where are the snows of yesteryear?

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Champagne – and the importance of bubbles

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How the pangolin's protective shield became a liability

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Operation IceBridge – Beauty from the ends of the world

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Can Reindeer fly? Answers for inquisitive minds this Christmas

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Cosmic rays might lead to cloudy days - but claims of affecting climate change look exaggerated

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Decorator crabs get into the Christmas spirit for science

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Surfing citizen scientists monitor ocean pollution

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Cooking up new ways to clean our planet

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Happy dolphin population deserves protection in Coffin Bay

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Kangaroo-sized flying turkey once roamed Australia

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Flirty finches live up to their name

3 minutes

Habitats give penguins their ‘sounds’

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Holy megafauna, it’s a giant penguin!

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Ticks found with dinosaur feathers trapped in amber

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Lizards share more than love

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Why does a thylacine look like a dog not a tiger?

3 minutes

Recent mongoose immigrants are viewed with suspicion

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Duck-billed predator dinosaur discovered in Mongolia

2 minutes

How Antarctic microbes survive on thin air

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Changing the colour of fishing nets could save thousands of penguins

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Science ruins the Yeti - finds eight bears and a dog

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Could the Great Barrier Reef regenerate?

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Hundreds of pterosaur eggs help reveal the early life of flying reptiles

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Aerial drones monitor leopard seals in Antarctica

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Endangered birds adapt rapidly

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The long lost river of the ancient Indus civilisation

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Simple solution saves 97% of dolphins from fishing nets

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Scientists get closer to the origins of gold

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Dairy farming boom has made New Zealand's rivers unswimmable

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If you're going to meet a dingo, always carry an umbrella

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There's a source of CO2 emissions everyone has missed until now, and it comes from groundwater

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The Tawny Frogmouth Should Be Australian Bird of the Year

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Gene drive pioneer warns CRISPR-based pest control may spin out of control

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Gene modification saves bananas from Panama disease

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Ancient grape seeds show date that modern winemaking began

1 minute

How porpoises use physics (and their heads) for super accurate long distance sonar

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Climate geoengineering could have unforeseen effects

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Explainer: What is a superbug?

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Ancient Life Form Discovered in Remote Tasmanian Valley

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New FrogID App to Help Save Australian Frogs

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Sheep can recognise Baaarack Obaaama

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New Marine Prehistoric Reptile Named for Werner Herzog

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2017 in top three hottest years on record

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ANU helps discover a new species of orangutan

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Risk-taking loners: why most woolly mammoth remains are male

3 minutes

Your flight is about to get a whole lot bumpier

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Chatty bats learn accents from their mates

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Did modern humans simply replace Neanderthals through migration?

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Kakadu freshwater floodplains to disappear in a century due to sea-level rise

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Sea snail extract shows promise as anti-inflammatory

1 minute

Ancient skull belonged to earliest known tsunami victim

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Cane toads at invasion edge are bolder risk-takers

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A life changing protein

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Climate change: Now in high resolution

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Fire, fire, burning blight

3 minutes

Much expression. Many feels. Dogs use facial expressions to communicate with us.

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Hot, hot, hot...and now even hotter: Melbourne and Sydney could reach 50 degrees Celsius

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Queensland’s own rapid response tool for monitoring coral bleaching

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Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Mexico

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Australia’s response to climate change

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How snowflakes are made

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Food that turns you into royalty? Yas queen!

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Let’s talk about sex. Beetle sex.

4 minutes

Experts React to Plans for World's Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant in South Australia

6 minutes

Science Update: The Health Impacts from Chernobyl and Fukushima

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Indigenous Rangers Protect Country

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To Foray or Forage Australian Native Mushrooms?

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Rate of Sea Level Rise Up 50% in Two Decades

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How Cats Conquered the World

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The Original Australian Big Bird

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The Featherless King of the Dinosaurs

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Antarctica: Sledging into the Prehistoric Past

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19 Experts React to US Pulling Out of Paris Climate Agreement

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Ponzi’s Ecology, a Loaf of Bread and Late Capitalism

14 minutes

Baby Dugongs Bounce Back

1 minute

Maybe Life Started on Land and Mars

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Excluding Dingoes Bad for the Environment

2 minutes

Globally Coral Bleaching Is Worse Than We Thought

4 minutes

Weird Science: Spiders Could Eat Everyone and Still Want Dessert

2 minutes

Sea of Chemicals

7 minutes

Weird Science: Your Cat Isn’t Just In It For Itself

2 minutes

400 ppm Carbon Dioxide Milestone

8 minutes

How Trade Killed a Million People in One Year

1 minute

A Slice of Dinosaur Life in Footprints

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Dancing with Dingoes

2 minutes

Weird Science: Who’s Scared of Big Chicken?

1 minute

Is bleaching the new normal for the Great Barrier Reef?

2 minutes

Bio Jet Fuels to Fight Climate Change

1 minute

The Need to Plan the Future of Mining

3 minutes

Evolution is Weird

4 minutes

Weird Science: Dogs get Funky!

2 minutes

Ancient, Hot and Steamy: the World's Oldest Fossil

2 minutes

Weird Science: Is Your Ant Bikini Body Ready?

3 minutes

Dolphins Learn to Follow Trawlers

1 minute

Komodo Dragon Blood Fight Microbes

2 minutes

Science Update: Sea Ice, Land Ice and Rising Sea Levels

9 minutes

Science Update: Methane, Climate Change and Extinction

5 minutes

Science Update: Golden Rice

7 minutes

Science Update: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

10 minutes

Science Update: GMO Safety

5 minutes

Science Update: Beeyond Beemageddon

9 minutes

Science Update: Glyphosate

3 minutes

Lasers Detecting Greenhouse Gases

8 minutes

Classroom Antarctica

7 minutes

Your Guide to Weather Radars

6 minutes