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Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott votes in his electorate of Warringah in 2019.

The science that could explain the federal election result

Commentary tends to focus on the day-to-day campaign, but political researchers say there are long-term structural forces at play in how we vote.

  • Liam Mannix

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese’s Labor legacy is secured. But he should run again

The government should focus on redefining Australia’s place in the world, not a leadership struggle.

  • Peter Beattie
Screengrabs from videos posted by Tim Friede, who filmed himself goading black mambas and taipans to bite him. Scientists are now trying to make a broad-spectrum antivenom from his blood.

Bitten 200 times by venomous snakes, this mechanic didn’t die. Here’s why

Tim Friede has survived the deadly venom of taipans, black mambas, vipers and cobras. Scientists have used his blood to craft a potential broad-spectrum antivenom.

  • Angus Dalton
Dr Kaitlin Cook, deputy scientific director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, and Emeritus Professor David Hinde.

How this Australian particle accelerator highlights a crisis facing AUKUS

Australia’s strongest particle accelerator helped conjure new elements into being. But many students trained at the facility are being hired offshore.

  • Angus Dalton
It took months for Scarlett Paige to be diagnosed with epilepsy.

Brainstorm: Australian inventor may have key to predicting epilepsy seizures

Scarlett Paige had the world at her feet. And then she couldn’t control her mouth. It took months to be diagnosed with epilepsy but a new device could change that.

  • Liam Mannix
A biochar machine, seen here at Earth Systems in Port Melbourne.

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

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

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

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

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/science-61n