#washingtonpost.com. #Mar.28.2025 A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.. A paleontologist discovered dinosaur footprints in the roughly 200 million year old boulder, which was donated to an Australian school two decades ago.
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.25.2025 ‘Perfect space crop’: Australian company to attempt to grow first mushrooms in orbit. Experiment onboard upcoming SpaceX mission will examine how nutrient-rich oyster mushrooms grow in microgravity
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.25.2025 Australia's science agency sent questions from Trump administration asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology. Other questions include whether science organisation receives funding from China and whether it is a climate or ‘environmental justice’ project
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.21.2025 Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back. Researchers spot orange Maori octopus clinging to back of large shark off coast of New Zealand in December 2023
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.21.2025 Quill Awards 2025: Guardian journalist wins Melbourne Press Club award for reporting on disability. Nino Bucci highly commended in feature writing, investigations and news reporting, while Petra Stock highly commended in science, medical and health reporting
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.21.2025 Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table. Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home
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#washingtonpost.com. #Mar.18.2025 Iguanas on rafts floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji, study finds. The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.17.2025 ‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW. Fossils retain microscopic structural features including stomach contents and provide first detailed evidence in Australia for fish called Osmeriformes
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.17.2025 Trump cuts to have ‘chilling effect’ on climate science and ‘degrade’ Australia’s ability to forecast weather. Australian meteorologists and scientists will be impacted by mass firings at Noaa, experts warn
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.11.2025 Over 60 dinosaur footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years. The one-square-metre slab has one of the highest concentrations of fossilised footprints ever documented in Australia, according to new analysis
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#theguardian.com. #Mar.05.2025 ‘Paradigm shift’: Australian researchers discover key to treatment of bacterial vaginosis. Study shows that male partners can help in limiting recurrence of the condition afflicting almost one in three women
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#bbc.com. #Feb.19.2025 More than 150 whales stranded on remote Australian beach. Authorities are trying to save dozens of false killer whales after more than 60 died.
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#theguardian.com. #Feb.05.2025 Australian scientists produce kangaroo embryos using IVF for first time. Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.25.2025 Neale Daniher, former AFL player and motor neurone disease advocate, named Australian of the Year. Indigenous scientist Dr Katrina Wruck awarded Young Australian of the Year, and charity co-founder Brother Olly Pickett named Senior Australian of the Year
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#bbc.com. #Jan.24.2025 'Corpse flower': Australians react to smell of plant in bloom. Almost 20,000 people visited Sydney's Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of a rare plant in bloom.
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#aljazeera.com. #Jan.24.2025 Thousands flock to smell plant that reeks of dead rat, rotting rubbish. Huge crowds queued in Sydney to catch a whiff of the flower that smells like ‘hot rubbish’
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.20.2025 Australian oysters’ blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find. Protein found in Sydney rock oysters’ haemolymph can kill bacteria and boost some antibiotics’ effectiveness, scientists discover
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.14.2025 Dream come true for Australian funnel-web spider enthusiast after he discovers a new species. Newcastle funnel-web spider’s last shared common ancestor with the Sydney funnel-web was 17 million years ago, experts say
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.10.2025 ‘The worst way of dying’: scientists urge coordinated effort to stop whales getting tangled. Experts recorded 45 entanglements off Australia’s east coast in 2024 – but believe that’s ‘the tip of the iceberg’
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.07.2025 Cockney influences found in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, says expert. Linguistics professor says London dialect is most likely to be spoken in Essex, but aspects have traversed the globe
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#wired.com. #Jan.04.2025 Wildfire Smoke Is Even More Dangerous Than Anyone Knew. Smoke exposure, researchers have found, raises the risk of dementia, poor mental health, fertility problems, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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