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‘Chaos terrains’ on Jupiter’s moon Europa, grasshopper teeth, and a new biopolymer.
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Found a frog? There’s an app for that
New citizen science data from FrogID tallies up a quarter of a million frog sightings.
Finally, the day you frog nerds have been dreaming of is here – the third dataset from the FrogID project has just be...
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419.14 ppm: tracking weekly climate news
Gas stoves, animal-based diets, and drought-tolerant crops
Welcome to the first in our new regular segment on new climate science stories you might have missed. The title refer...
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Mapping microplastics on Australian beaches
An interactive map shows where the tiny pollutants are washing up.
It’s hard to tell what the long-term consequences of wide-scale microplastic pollution will be – but it’s important t...
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Oral vaccines, rare ecosystems and microplastic map
The ‘Oscars’ of Australian research, Eureka! 2021 rewards new ideas.
Black summer bushfire research, a vaccine against a childhood virus and a science education program for Indigenous st...
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Coral crusaders
The power of citizen science collaboration.
A massive coral has just been discovered on the Great Barrier Reef, more than 10 metres wide - and it's all thanks to...
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An algorithm that labels galaxies
New neural network can speed up galactic classification.
Classifying galaxies currently needs to be done manually, requiring a lot of time from astronomers and citizen scient...
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There are about 50 billion birds alive today
Data from a massive citizen science project is used to estimate global bird numbers.
An Australian study has set out to measure the number of birds worldwide, returning an estimate of 50 billion – altho...
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Help piece together Australia’s climate puzzle
Volunteers needed to create longest daily weather record from globally recognised climate change ...
The glittering coastal city of Perth has experienced some of the most dramatic climate-change-driven shifts in weathe...
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How to hunt fossils responsibly
5 tips from a professional palaeontologist.
By Kailah Thorn, EdCC Earth Science Museum Curator, University of Western AustraliaMany of us, at some point or a...
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Playing detective for native trees
Help collect evidence about death and recovery.
Dead trees are nothing new in the Australian landscape, but last summer was particularly severe.Following weeks o...
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Itching to stop mosquitoes?
Mozzie Monitors launches a new program.
From improvements to insecticides to understanding mosquito senses and even releasing genetically modified population...