Anna Salleh is a journalist with ABC RN Science Unit. As well as producing online content, she produces radio output for programs such as Science Friction, All in the Mind, the Science Show, Earshot and The Health Report. Anna has also worked as a TV researcher and producer on Australian Story, Quantum, The Investigators and Insight (SBS TV), and produced articles for Nature News, New Scientist, Australasian Science Magazine, Griffith Review, the Medical Observer, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times and Choice Magazine. She has degrees in science and journalism, a PhD in science and technology studies and has a special interest in the intersection between science and society. Anna has also taught journalism at university, contributed to the development of science journalism courses, and to a number of books. She also sings, plays – and produces radio documentaries about - Brazilian jazz.
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| UpdatedDid dinosaurs end up walking on all fours because they got too heavy to walk on two legs? Or did walking all fours let them grow big? This record-breaking Jurassic giant could shed light on the answers.
Topics: science-and-technology, physics, dinosaurs, palaeontology
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| UpdatedIn the past 10 years, there's been a fair bit of online chatter about something called an "egg timer test". Plug the term into your search engine, and you'll read that it's a blood test that gives a good indication of your fertility. But does it?
Topics: science-and-technology, womens-health, health, fertility-and-infertility, reproductive-technology, australia
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Jonathan Page's relationships with his patients were once characterised by "coldness … and a lack of grieving". But a mental health crisis that led him to Buddhist meditation helped change that.
Topics: science-and-technology, death, meditation-and-prayer, religion-and-beliefs, mental-health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cancer, health
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| UpdatedAn online screening test tells Anna Salleh she is at "high risk" for diabetes. After the initial shock wears off, she investigates what it means and what she can do about it.
Topics: science-and-technology, diabetes, lifestyle-and-leisure, environmental-health, health-policy, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, health, australia
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| UpdatedAs this year's Science Week focuses on the Great Barrier Reef, we hear from four Australians why they love the reef — what fears they hold for it and their hopes for the future.
Topics: science-and-technology, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, arts-and-entertainment, environment, education, water-pollution, great-barrier-reef, marine-parks, marine-biology, gladstone-4680, cairns-4870, heron-island-4680, qld
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| UpdatedReports that a defunct computer screen dropped at Officeworks for recycling was shipped to a junkyard in Thailand have renewed calls for Australia to get serious about e-waste controls.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, consumer-electronics, science-and-technology, electronics, environment, pollution, australia
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| UpdatedThe first step in any war is to know your enemy. In the war on electronic waste, test your knowledge about how much waste there is, why that matters and how it can be reduced.
Topics: science-and-technology, business-economics-and-finance, pollution, information-and-communication, computers-and-technology, electronics, consumer-electronics, recycling-and-waste-management
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| UpdatedAir pollution can lead to premature deaths and problems such as heart attacks and asthma, but the economic cost of this is not being pitted against the apparent benefits to the economy of burning fossil fuels, experts say.
Topics: science-and-technology, respiratory-diseases, asthma, health, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-health, air-pollution, climate-change
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| UpdatedIs the conflict between religion and science as deep as some think? We talk to three scientists about how they reconcile their faith with their work.
Topics: science-and-technology, philosophy, religion-and-beliefs
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| UpdatedSo says former IPCC scientist Mike Hulme, who thinks better politics, rather than more science, is needed solve the impasse on climate action.
Topics: science-and-technology, government-and-politics, climate-change, psychology, environmental-policy, community-education, community-development, community-and-society, australia, france
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| UpdatedA study of twins will shed light on how much nature and nurture contribute to our ability — or inability — to sing in tune.
Topics: science-and-technology, community-and-society, health, genetics, music, music-education
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| UpdatedFrom white to blue, yellow to green and even striped: here's the science behind iceberg colours.
Topics: science-and-technology, physics
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| UpdatedHow do you balance your desire to have kids with concerns about their impact on the environment? We get a range of perspectives on this thorny question.
Topics: science-and-technology, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-health, sustainable-living, environment, population-and-demographics, family-and-children
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| UpdatedAs a record number of Australian households benefit from putting solar on their roof, we look at some of the options for renters who have traditionally been locked out of doing this.
Topics: science-and-technology, economic-trends, housing-industry, housing, community-and-society, climate-change, energy, solar-energy, alternative-energy
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| UpdatedBecoming an astronaut or going to Mars is often the first thing people think about when it comes to working in space, but there's so much more on offer.
Topics: science-and-technology, business-economics-and-finance, international-law, engineering, careers, education, career-counselling, space-exploration, spacecraft
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| UpdatedVolcanoes are spectacular — sometimes deadly — forces of nature and Planet Earth is covered in hundreds of them. But how do these iconic wonders form, and what risks do they really pose?
Topics: science-and-technology, volcanic-eruption, earth-sciences, bali, indonesia, vanuatu, hawaii, iceland
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| UpdatedWhat gives an animal the uniqueness required to be classified as its own species? The problem is that scientists can't agree.
Topics: science-and-technology, ecology, biological-diversity, conservation
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According to some of the latest physics, time isn't exactly what we think it is. In fact, it may not even exist at all! When our best scientific theories sound crazy, can philosophers help science make better sense of time?
Topics: science-and-technology, philosophy, physics, australia
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| UpdatedHow many times have you felt the time fly on a busy day or felt it drag when you least wanted it to? Scientists explain what's behind some of our everyday experiences of time.
Topics: science-and-technology, neuroscience, psychology
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| UpdatedScientists use a 3D printer to create brain-like tissue in the lab using a 3D printer and special bio-ink made from stem cells — an innovation that may be used in the future to help treat epilepsy, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.
Topics: science-and-technology, biotechnology, diseases-and-disorders, bio-ethics, australia
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| UpdatedAstronomers use the gravitational warping of light, predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago, to measure the mass of a distant star as it passed in front of another star — an event Einstein himself thought would be impossible to directly observe.
Topics: science-and-technology, physics, astronomy-space, australia
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| UpdatedA dispute within the CSIRO about whether its climate science advice has been "missing in action" opens a fresh chapter in a long-running debate about the freedom of government scientists.
Topics: science-and-technology, federal-government, research-organisations, research
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| UpdatedLeaked emails from 2015 reveal a bitter dispute within CSIRO, Australia’s leading science body, as management tried to prevent top scientists from breaking ranks before the Paris climate summit.
Topics: science-and-technology, government-and-politics, research-organisations, research, australia
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| UpdatedParts of the Great Barrier Reef will never fully recover from repeated bleaching of its corals, caused by spikes in the water temperature, a detailed analysis of the reef over the past 20 years shows.
Topics: science-and-technology, climate-change, conservation, marine-biology, great-barrier-reef, port-douglas-4871, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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| UpdatedTest your ear with this short quiz that probes your musicality — can you pick out subtle variations in pitch and rhythm?
Topics: science-and-technology, neuroscience, music