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Scitech’s days at City West are numbered.

Scitech needs a ‘forever home’, are its days at City West numbered?

WA Science and Innovation Minister Stephen Dawson said planning was already happening to find Scitech a new ‘forever home’.

  • Hamish Hastie

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Colossal squid caught on video in the wild for the first time.

‘Unforgettable’: Colossal squid filmed alive in deep sea for the first time ever

The heaviest invertebrate on the planet was discovered a century ago, but has largely remained a mystery. So much so that a team of scientists had no idea the magnitude of the footage they captured while on an expedition until days later.

  • Bronte Gossling

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

  • Will Dunham
COVID-19 came first. Now scientists are preparing for ‘Disease X’.

Why an Aussie lab is racing to make a vaccine for haemorrhagic fever

After the chaos of COVID-19, the world is bracing for the onset of the next “Disease X”.

  • Angus Dalton
A digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse’s brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function.

Watching The Matrix lit up this mouse’s brain. That’s good news for our health

The massive dataset from a new study is a step towards unravelling the mystery of how our brains work and could lead to treatment of human brain diseases.

  • Lauran Neergaard
Researchers have found Melbourne’s pollen season is starting earlier and giong for longer, which could mean more days per year when thunderstorm asthma consitions arise.

Melbourne is the thunderstorm asthma capital of the world. And the pollen season is getting longer

Melbourne is also the allergy capital of the world, and a longer pollen season will exacerbate it.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Professor Bryce Vissel.

Shingles-dementia link gives weight to a ‘heretical’ theory

The shingles vaccine seems to give some protection against dementia. But why?

  • Liam Mannix
Scientist Hugh Goold has completed the final stage of an international effort to create a synthetic yeast genome.

Hugh once delivered cheese to the Queen. Now he’s built the key to synthetic life

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

  • Angus Dalton
Senator Cory Booker spoke for more than 25 hours without leaving the flood.

‘Urological mystery’: The gargantuan strain Booker’s 25-hour speech put on his body

Sore feet, back pain, a neglected bladder, sleep-deprivation: how physiological effects would have plagued the record-breaking senator.

  • Angus Dalton
Scientists catch, tattoo and release cleaner wrasse fish on Lizard Island as part of a behavioural research project.

The scientists working to keep the ‘lights’ on at the Great Barrier Reef

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with reality.

  • Angus Dalton

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