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| UpdatedIt was a big year in science — with tremendous advances in our understanding of the world around us from the ancient universe to the future of artificial intelligence and designer genes. See how well you do at our quiz recapping the weird and wonderful year in science.
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| UpdatedJack Maughan may have grown up with the glorious grain fields of the Eyre Peninsula, but it is geology and rocks, not wheat and barley, which captures his imagination.
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Australian researchers discover how to make a special kind of diamond that is only found in nature where meteorites have hit the earth and is harder than the regular variety used for jewellery.
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A meteorite recovered in Western Australia could lead to further discoveries about Earth.
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Changes to South Australia's earthquake monitoring services will leave hundreds of tremors a year potentially ignored by scientists, an amateur seismologist says.
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Adelaide palaeontologist Professor John Long is travelling to Antarctica in search of fossils to prove humans evolved from fish.
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| UpdatedThe discovery of tiny fossils in outback Western Australia may help scientists understand soils on Mars, according to a leading palaeontologist.
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Glistening ceilings, cascading flowstones and dripping stalactites delight visitors to Naracoorte Caves as heavy spring rains bring the cave system to life ahead of schedule this year.
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| UpdatedA former sheep station in Western Australia becomes an internationally important conservation reserve, housing rare and threatened species as well as a huge range of stromatolites.
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| UpdatedThe second-largest meteorite ever discovered, weighing more than 30 tonnes, is dug up outside a small town in Argentina.
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| UpdatedThe discovery of the world's oldest known fossils in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland by an Australian-led team of researchers pushes back evidence of life on Earth by 220 million years.
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| UpdatedControversial research by a team geologists at the University of Tasmania could fundamentally change the way we view Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and help explain periods of mass extinction.
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A geologist from the Hunter Valley is travelling to Antarctica to be part of an international leadership conference for women in science.
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