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Chinese-Australian research finds climate change good news, and solves an evolutionary mystery Baby turtles influence their gender by moving around inside their eggs, research has …
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Macquarie University’s Professor Rob Harcourt urges Oceania-wide action to safeguard several species. Sharks in Australian waters are well protected but are at risk as soon as they leave them, a …
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Dr Stuart Ryder is venturing into the stratosphere on a NASA jet to study the birthplace of massive stars. Macquarie University astronomer Dr Stuart Ryder is in New Zealand to hitch a ride on a …
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Australian research finds little lizards learn very quickly. Young Australian eastern blue-tongue lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) are every bit as clever as adults, researchers have …
Australian and South American researchers posit wandering “ploonets” as unseen actors in distant solar systems. Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several …
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New Guinea is one of the only places in the world where frogs are safe from the species-destroying chytrid fungus. An international team of scientists has published a new paper that shows how to keep …
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