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Queensland researchers map muscle fibres and find calcium levels rising to high levels after a strenuous workout, increasing the risk of damage.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, health, medical-research, exercise-and-fitness, brisbane-4000, university-of-queensland-4072
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| UpdatedAustralia's first cryonics facility will be built in the sleepy NSW town of Holbrook, offering people the chance to be frozen after death in the hope they will one day be brought back to life.
Topics: science-and-technology, human-interest, offbeat, forensic-science, death, holbrook-2644
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| UpdatedThe first national audit of batteries that store solar power shows almost 7,000 were installed in Australian homes last year — and that's predicted to triple this year.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, environment, energy, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedDeep ocean trenches — considered the most remote places in the world — have levels of toxic, industrial chemicals 50 times higher than a highly polluted river system in China, an analysis of tiny deep-sea animals has found.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, science-and-technology, water-pollution, pollution, australia, new-zealand
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| UpdatedWith slick marketing from elite sportspeople smiling on your television screen, and the promise of protecting your future health with a simple pill, the allure of complementary medicine has never been stronger.
Topics: pharmaceuticals, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedThis Saudi Arabian-led research could help breed varieties of quinoa that will thrive in Australia's marginal cropping land.
Topics: grain, genetics, science-and-technology, rural, research, melbourne-3000, saudi-arabia
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Australia plays a critical role in many other countries' space programs, but if we're to capitalise on its strengths in space tracking as well as space science in such a rapidly growing sector, it's time we considered forming a space agency of our own.
Topics: space-exploration, spacecraft, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, australia
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Topics: spacecraft, space-exploration, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, canberra-2600
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Topics: space-exploration, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, spacecraft, new-norcia-6509, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe rippled stone of the outback Flinders Ranges used to be an ocean floor and scientists are now documenting fossils they hope will lead to World Heritage listing of the region.
Topics: environment, science-and-technology, fossils, palaeontology, parachilna-5730, sa
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The unlikely artist behind emoji, Shigetaka Kurita, didn't have any experience in design or programming when he designed the first set of tiny icons in the late 90s.
Topics: human-interest, arts-and-entertainment, art-history, information-and-communication, mobile-phones, science-and-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedYour phone holds a tiny collection of modern art – and this is the man behind it. The first emoji’s are on show at New York’s MOMA, creator Shigetaka Kurita went for a visit.
Topics: digital-multimedia, science-and-technology, arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, computers-and-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedOn International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we meet three budding young inventors taking their innovations from the classroom to the marketplace.
Topics: science-and-technology, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAn award-winning student has shown that sheep intended to control fireweed by grazing are instead, spreading it via their manure.
Topics: science-awards, science, environment, science-and-technology, sheep-production, livestock, beef-cattle, research, community-and-society, rural, secondary-schools, women-in-agriculture, weeds, bega-2550
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Grab your binoculars! After a quiet start to the year, Australian sky watchers will be treated to a close encounter with a green comet and a rare winking star.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids
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Arthur White and the Frog and Tadpole Study Group of NSW have been saving frogs lost in farming produce far from home.
Topics: amphibians, animal-science, science-and-technology, animal-attacks, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe technological world may be on the cusp of a revolution, the extent of which is predicted to mimic the take-up of the smartphone in the late 2000s, but some experts call for caution.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, science-and-technology, health, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA Queensland scientist plays a vital role in the world-first discovery of a "middleweight" black hole in space, after spending 40 years searching the universe to find it.
Topics: blackholes, astronomy-space, science-and-technology, research, university-of-queensland-4072, qld, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedA green and red Tasmanian slug is the latest animal to be named after naturalist David Attenborough, who was honoured today as a lifetime patron of the Australian Museum.
Topics: science-and-technology, environment, human-interest, animals, biology, animal-science, earth-sciences, offbeat, tas, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef help discover the remnants of an undersea landslide more than 30 times the volume of Uluru.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, science-and-technology, research, marine-parks, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedHeatwaves are becoming hotter, lasting longer and occurring more often, the Climate Council's latest report card on climate change says.
Topics: climate-change, environment, weather, research, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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See where you stand with our quiz based on the Australian Curriculum for students between Year 7 and Year 10. If you don't know the answer, ask a school student!
Topics: science-and-technology, biology, physics, chemistry
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Scientists discover a supermassive black hole that has taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star twice the size of the Sun — and it is still chewing away.
Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, space-exploration, the-universe, blackholes, stars, australia
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Topics: science-and-technology, astronomy-space, space-exploration, blackholes, stars, united-states