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$2.4 billion proposal to commercialise science

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Gut bacteria in infants play a vital role for life-long health

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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Genetic study answers key questions about the pink cockatoo

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds

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Dung beetles. Without them, we’d be buried in it.

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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Microscopic animal demonstrates UV resistance

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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Less security than a barista for early career researchers in Australia

Published: March 13, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Fossil fish site in central NSW now in safe hands

Published: March 13, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds

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A tribute to Japan’s father of seismology

Published: March 13, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Seaweed festival celebrates beauty and importance of seaweed

Published: March 13, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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COVID pandemic an apt time to rewrite the significance of Rosalind Franklin

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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Iceberg introduces children to Antarctica

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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Scheme attracts the world’s top researchers to Australia

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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Changing language brings pain for some

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds

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The Botany of Gin

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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New approach needed for urban settlements after apocalyptic bushfires

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds

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Plans for the Australian Space Agency

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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Sharing the overview effect

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Investigating the upper limit to the speed of sound

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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3D printers now producing body parts

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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Fish moving polewards so they can breathe

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds

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What led to Greta?

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Perovskites promise new ways of generating solar power

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds

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Cathy Foley Australia’s new chief scientist

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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90% of all big fish have been taken from the oceans

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds

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Communicating science in Russia

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Music’s healing power and cultural foundations

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Ancient DNA reveals secrets of the dire wolf

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

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Soil Carbon – huge potential or complicated high-risk climate solution?

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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Birdsong inspires music

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 4 seconds

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New director for Sydney Institute of Marine Science

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Metazoa traces the evolutionary history of consciousness

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 46 seconds

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As mining causes roads to crack and houses to collapse, a Swedish city is moved

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds

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Howard Florey - the Australian researcher who developed penicillin

Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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EnviroTeens take young readers on fun adventures learning about the environment

Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds

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Children’s book helps to discuss the environment with children

Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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The discovery of mauve

Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 36 seconds

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Beatrix Potter - author and amateur pioneer mycologist

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 5 seconds

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Peering through the looking glass at Lewis Carroll

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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A tribute to Terry Pratchett

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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A nod to Dylan Thomas

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds

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No acknowledgement, no thanks for Rosalind Franklin who made the discovery of DNA structure possible

Published: Dec. 26, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 31 seconds

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James Clerk Maxwell - poet, mathematician and the father of light

Published: Dec. 26, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild

Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Radiation treatment for benign conditions put thousands at risk of illness and death

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

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Big push into nano medicine at The University of Sydney

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds

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Children’s book celebrates pioneer of surgical osteointegration

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds

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Australian trees growing all over the world

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Similarities between COVID-19 and climate change

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

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Space weather a risk for life

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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The fine line for the scientific illustrator

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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The path towards reduced waste in Australia

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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New technology for recycling composite materials

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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Western Australian Museum opens after rebuild

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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New theories about human origins

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds

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Communicating science and health messages in Africa

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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How humans have changed natural environments

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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More screen time increases risk of myopia

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds

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Australian Museum Sydney opens following major transformation

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Rare monkey finally named

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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NSW Premier’s Prize for battery research

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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NSW Premier’s Prize for research and leadership in medical biological science

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Henry the Flying Emu

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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Twenty years of climate extremes

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds

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Barry Jones tracks changes since the 1980s

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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How debating helped in the transition years

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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The Carbon Club exposes those behind Australia’s toxic carbon politics

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds

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What is Life?

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 16 seconds

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Revisiting the great Carlos hoax

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds

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More Prime Minister’s Science Prizes winners

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds

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Australian Andrew Lloyd awarded UK Future leader fellowship in Wales

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Merlin Crossley wins NSW Premier’s Award for work on sickle cell anaemia

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Brisbane entomologist has more than 200 species named in his honour

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds

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Monitoring ecosystems after intense fires

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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A series of accidents led to humans and each individual to be here today

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

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Never give up. Here’s what can happen!

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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Prime Minister’s Prize for Science awarded for discovery of gravitational waves

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 4 seconds

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Celebrating Ruby Payne-Scott and the birth of radio astronomy

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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Hope in Hell

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 57 seconds

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Working towards bigger, better lithium batteries

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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Should scientists take a position in the US election?

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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The Human Body Survival Guide

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Fish of the eastern Pacific

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

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Wild fish catch easily replaced by aquaculture

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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