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Australian honours Honoured researchers urge colleagues to fight anti-science
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Scientists need to fight against a growing anti-science sentiment worldwide by joining the debate, say two researchers acknowledged in today's Australia Day Honours.
News in Science
Do plants feel Earth's magnetic field?
Friday, 24 January 2014
Aussie science
OzOmics: celebrate Australia's DNA
Thursday, 23 January 2014 5 comments
Fresh finding
Mars once had fresh water on surface
Friday, 24 January 2014
Quiz
Aussie Dinosaurs Quiz
Friday, 3 October 2008
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A frog's love song is a bat's dinner bell
Friday, 24 January 2014
One male frog's loud, low mating call in search of a love connection has a deadly unintended effect - attracting frog-eating bats, researchers have found.
Dr Karl
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Freeze dried bodies, goosebumps, chicken BO.![This article has audio attached Article has audio](/web/20140125131052im_/http://www.abc.net.au/science/css/img/icon.audio.png)
Thursday, 12 December 2013
What would the rate of body decomposition be in space because there is no air?
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How on Earth does gold get into gum trees?![This article has audio attached Article has audio](/web/20140125131052im_/http://www.abc.net.au/science/css/img/icon.audio.png)
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Gold originally came from exploding stars, but there are many layers to the story of how this precious metal found its way into eucalyptus trees. 6 comments
StarStuff Podcast
![The Rosetta orbiter and its Philae lander are preparing for an historic comet landing Rosetta orbiter and Philae lander](http://web.archive.org./web/20140125131052im_/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201401/r1227632_16152624.jpg)
Rosetta awakens for comet landing
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
European spacecraft on target to rendezvous and land on a comet. Also; astronomers discover the third closest star system to the Sun, and hypervelocity stars fast enough to leave the Milky Way galaxy.
The Geeky Gardener
![The chitin in prawn shells could help control nematodes in the garden prawns on the bbq](http://web.archive.org./web/20140125131052im_/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201401/r1224532_16080477.jpg)
Put another prawn on the garden
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Can leftover prawn shells control nasty nematodes? Anna Evangeli aka The Geeky Gardener explores the science of gardening.
Opinion
![Disenchanted young researchers are reluctantly giving up on careers in science altogether and are being lost permanently to other professions Lab coats](http://web.archive.org./web/20140125131052im_/http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201401/r1225295_16099000.jpg)
Hanging up their labcoats: Australia's new brain drain
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Faced with limited job opportunities, disenchanted young researchers are giving up on careers in science, writes Tim Nielsen. 207
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