Science
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Desert Sands Reading: Indigenous Wildlife Tracking Fuels Major Project
As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like…
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The ‘Best Comet of the Year’ Is Here: Everything You Need to Know
Image Credit: AstroStar/Shutterstock In January 2023, a new comet was discovered. Comets are found regularly, but astronomers quickly realised this…
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Watch 1.8 billion years of tectonic plate movement across Earth’s surface in a new animation.
Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the…
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A billionaire and an engineer have completed the first private spacewalk.
Two astronauts have carried out the first-ever commercial spacewalk, using new less-bulky spacesuits designed by SpaceX. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman…
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Only 100 years ago the Milky Way was visible from central Paris.
For the more than 100,000 years humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the…
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Repeating aids believing: climate misinformation feels more true through repetition – even if you back climate science
If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a sceptic’s claim could shift…
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Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station
New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape…
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From microbes to mammals: we tracked the rapid rise of new ecosystems as glaciers retreat and ice sheets melt
As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world’s glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger…
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Coral restoration is a speculative, feel-good science that won’t save our reefs
Climate change has killed billions of corals and fundamentally changed coral reefs. The response, especially in Australia, has been to…
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