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  Saving the rufous fantail with a taxidermied chipmunk

  The rufous fantail was wiped out on Guam by an introduced snake species. Now researchers are trying to future-proof the species here in Australia. Ann Jones investigates.

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  What supermassive black holes can tell us about Australia

  Sure, Australia is gradually heading north — but we're also turning sideways, bobbing up and down, and entire cities are moving further apart. And we know all this thanks to black holes.

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  You say you want to get fit, but do you really?

  You've vowed to get fit. Great. The thing is, it's a promise you've made to yourself before. So how can you tell if things will be different this time? Personal trainer Cassie White shares her observations with Life Matters.

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  WA's South West a 'canary in the coalmine' for climate change

  European settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West. Bill Bunbury reports.

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  The bizarre history of US presidential inaugurations

  Pneumonia, filibusters and getting your dad to help — a lot can go wrong at a presidential inauguration, writes Breakfast's Matt Bevan.

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  The power of plant-based diets

  Eating a plant-based diet — rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes — can help slow or prevent various processes of disease that begin long before diagnosis, writes Karen Burge.

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  What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating?

  The good news is that if the Earth's rotation stopped, we wouldn't fall off. With water pushed to the poles, we could walk on land around the entire equator, but it would be a very inhospitable place, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.

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