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Clare PeddieClimate and Environment editor

Clare Peddie is the climate and environment editor at The Advertiser driving the Green Zone campaign. She joined The Advertiser in 2006 having previously worked at the CSIRO, universities and research institutes. A passionate science communicator with an extensive and ever-expanding network of contacts, she thrives on exploring new ideas with talented people. Follow @ClarePeddie

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Education

Artwork from the animated "choose your own adventure" story Deadly Slime from Animate Your Science. Credit: Dr Flynn Slattery,

Science brings to life the battle against deadly bugs

Dive into the slimy battlefront of the war with supervillain superbugs in Deadly Slime: a choose-your-own-adventure animated experience for National Science Week 2020.

Early Years

Finley (11) and Cohen (9) Howland playing the ANiMOZ Trading Card Game with Kinta the Quokka on August 11, 2020 at the Adelaide Zoo. Picture Matt Turner.

It’s game on for endangered animals

Conservation organisations are getting behind a Flinders University student’s plan to save endangered animals using his new trading card game. Vote for your favourite addition during August.

Tertiary

Aiding the aged has never been more crucial

SAHMRI researchers improving the lives of aged care residents feature in the 2020 Tall Poppies of SA Science. See the full list of award winners.

Tertiary

Micro-X Engineering Manager Anthony Skeats. STORY: about a new defence/security partnership. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

X-ray vision contender for innovation award

An Adelaide company that won the worldwide race to make a better, mobile x-ray machine – opening the way for mini CT scanners in ambulances – is a 2020 SA science award finalist.

Tertiary

12/08/20 - University of Adelaide pathology Professor Roger Byard with Arielle, 2 months, for Red Nose day.Picture: Tom Huntley

Professor has a nose for the truth on SIDS

The Adelaide pathologist who not only wrote the book on SIDS, he wrote five, is determined to answer one question that has puzzled him for more than 30 years.

SA News

5/8/20. Former AFL player Mark Mickan, 59, Fulham who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in August 2016. He doing rehab work in the gym, Brain Body Fitness Studio, for a research story about the possible connection between brain injury and the disease (although that's not why he thinks he's got it) Picture: Keryn Stevens

Medical breakthrough: SA study to help predict Parkinson’s

Hard knocks to the head cause lasting damage such as Parkinson’s disease in some people and scientists want to understand why. Now a $2 million SA study is developing a new forecasting tool to predict a patient’s long-term prognosis.

Bushfire Support

05/08/20 - University of Adelaide researchers Lucas De Simoni, Patrick O'Brien, Dr Roberta De Bei with grower Tim Bartsch of Lenswood Rise at Lobethal, where fire burnt 10 hectares of his vineyards. Picture: Tom Huntley

Sparking new ways for vines to recover

Bushfire-ravaged vines in the Adelaide Hills are being analysed and new methods are being used to restore the living back to health, in a project bringing growers and researchers together.

Coronavirus News

Medical scientist Belinda Price prepares vials for Coronavirus test samples at SA Pathology laboratory on Frome road Adelaide Wednesday April 22,2020.Picture Mark Brake

Positive or negative: What you need to know about COVID tests

Confused about how a positive SA test suddenly became a negative? We checked in with the experts who know just what goes on behind the scenes in a screening lab.

Bushfire Support

Koala joey Lana at the International Koala Centre of Excellence, ClelandWildlife Park, one of two koalas born during the Kangaroo Island bushfiresand translocated to Cleland as stowaways in the mother's pouch. Credit:Ashleigh Hunter

Flaming miracles of KI disaster

Cleland Wildlife Park is now home to two cute koala joeys, two unexpected “fire babies” who stowed away in the rescue from the fireground at Kangaroo Island.

Coronavirus

Peter Hammond, 60 of Karatta on Kangaroo Island (near Flinders Chase National Park) with an oversized Australia Post Wildlife Recovery series postage stamp featuring his photograph of the Kangaroo Island dunnart. Pictured next to one of the six artificial tunnels built to provide safe refuge for the species on his property, after the bushfires Credit: Sean McGowan

We need influencers to tell the world SA is still great

We don’t want people crossing the border right now. But when the time is right, foreign backpackers will be just what the state needs to spring back from lockdown – because they spend big on finding adventure and wildlife.

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