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2020年11月8日 星期日
New Wiradjuri name for The Dish 'paying respect to our people, our culture, our language'
The iconic Parkes Radio Telescope, which is famous for broadcasting the moon landing, given a Wiradjuri name to mark the start of NAIDOC week.
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2020年11月1日 星期日
Thought 'someone's meth lab just blew up': Fireball and sonic boom reported over Perth's east
Residents in Perth's hills and Wheatbelt towns as far as Northam, Toodyay, and York report a sonic boom Sunday night, now confirmed to have been an asteroid.
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2020年10月28日 星期三
Futuristic designs surface for Great Barrier Reef's coral 'ark'
The building, with a brief to "secure the future of coral reefs" and designed to resemble a mushroom coral, will house 800 species, research laboratories and an exhibition centre.
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2020年10月22日 星期四
Newly imported dung beetle species set to improve farmers' bottom line
Australian livestock produce about 80 million tonnes of dung a year, and a new species of dung beetle from Morocco is set to help farmers recycle and make the most of the nutrient-rich poo pats.
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2020年9月24日 星期四
'Sperm transplants' the future of animal breeding? Male livestock engineered to produce the sperm of other males
A US scientist says new research shows it is possible to use CRISPR genetic engineering to sterilise males and make their bodies produce the sperm of other males.
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Drunk dancing earthworms earn scientists an Ig Nobel Prize
It started as an exercise in curiosity, placing earthworms on a subwoofer in a backyard shed. But it earned physicist Ivan Maksymov and applied mathematician Andriy Pototsky an Ig Nobel Prize.
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2020年9月16日 星期三
'Little things add up': Primary school students get muddy to help Tasmanian burrowing crayfish
Students from Andrews Creek Primary at Wesley Vale have been counting crayfish burrows and creating model chimneys out of clay, part of a program to preserve habitat for the local crayfish population.
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Are you suffering from COVID brain?
Adapting to a global pandemic is hard work and many of us are feeling tired, disoriented, and forgetful.
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2020年9月10日 星期四
ANU researchers make 'really exciting finding' in reducing risk of Alzheimer's disease
Bob's greatest fear is 'losing my marbles', but after participating in a six-month study conducted by the ANU which found that older people already in cognitive decline can reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, he has hope.
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2020年9月2日 星期三
'Spectacular' native geckoes being poached and sold on black market as most at-risk reptiles named
Rare Australian geckoes and lizards are under threat from climate change, land clearing and poachers, scientists warn, as they call for more action to protect endangered reptiles.
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2020年9月1日 星期二
Honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells, Australian research finds
Venom from honeybees is found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially ground-breaking new Australian research, with hopes the discovery will lead to the development of a treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.
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2020年8月31日 星期一
Why do clouds have flat bottoms?
Not all clouds, but it's quite common and definitely not just luck. There is some steamy science behind those flat-bottomed clouds.
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2020年8月24日 星期一
Iconic dish that played a part in moon landings may be set for demolition
The telecommunications dish in Carnarvon that transferred data for NASA's first moon landing 50 years ago, and subsequent others, faces an uncertain future.
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Genome testing is part of the hunt for the source of Queensland's COVID-19 cluster. How does it work?
Genome testing is being used to trace the source of a prison worker's infection, the origins of which remain a mystery to health authorities. So what actually is genome testing and how does it work?
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2020年8月20日 星期四
Indigenous rangers locate night parrot on remote WA salt lake
Rangers in Western Australia's remote northern salt lake country have found one of the world's most enigmatic birds, which was once thought extinct.
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