Rare non-returning boomerangs analysed for new clues
Find underlines the threat of climate change to ancient artefacts.
Four summers ago, Katheryn Litherland, a Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka woman from north-eastern South Australia, and Jas...
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Ancient Aboriginal memory technique improves recollection
The ancient technique boosted recall three-fold.
An ancient memory technique developed by Aboriginal Australians significantly helps medical students retain informati...
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Rewind: Six of the best from 2020
Another look at great work and fascinating people from Australian science.
Did you know the Royal Institution of Australia has other platforms? We'd like to introduce you to some of the conten...
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Evidence of Indigenous botanical knowledge
Insight into the innovation of earliest Indigenous people.
Australia’s first plant foods – eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago – have been discovered in Arnhem Land. Pr...
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Low indigenous vaccination rates
Vaccination rates are still low, and declining in some areas.
We need urgent action to reverse declining targeted flu and pneumococcal vaccination rates among adult Indigenous Aus...
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Indigenous youth suicide rates
Suicide rates among Indigenous youth are at crisis point.
A new systematic review has shed light on the risk factors and prevalence of suicide, self-harm and suicide ideation ...
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Indigenous arrival huge planned migration
Over 50,000 years ago a group of people planned and prepared.
The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed...