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Michaela Loukas from Marist Catholic College Penhurst, took home the title of Young Scientist of the Year for her project Assessing the Accuracy and Interpretability of a Recurrent Neural Network for Breast Cancer Classification and Molecular Subtyping using Ribonucleic Acid Sequencing Data.

Meet the HSC student who built an AI model to detect breast cancer

In the middle of her HSC, Michaela Loukas was able to identify malignant tissue with 98 per cent accuracy.

  • Emily Kowal

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The Diprotodon Optatum, the largest marsupial that ever lived.

Big as a minivan and jaws like a garbage compactor: Meet the Australian Museum’s latest star

Australia is pitching its oversized megafauna as its latest “dangerous” tourist attraction.

  • Linda Morris
Great Barrier Reef coral spawning

‘A bit funky’: What it’s like to swim through the world’s largest sex act

A spectacular storm of fertility has erupted in Australia during one of the world’s most crucial and beautiful natural events.

  • Angus Dalton
Haemophilia is a disease written into the genes.

This gene therapy costs $5 million a dose. Is it worth the price?

A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But there’s a $5 million problem.

  • Liam Mannix
Parramatta Powerhouse is stirring debate about what it means to be a “museum”.

Is our new ‘museum’ brilliant, bonkers or just a big box?

A billion-dollar cultural experiment is about to open its doors – and no one can agree on what, exactly, it’s meant to be.

  • Linda Morris
White sharks are responsible for most bites.

What the state’s growing system of shark sensors is telling us

Catching, tagging and releasing three species of sharks most commonly involved in biting humans is providing critical intelligence to marine scientists.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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An archaeological site of the Indus Valley Civilisation, 2500 BCE, now in modern-day Larkana District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.

How an ancient civilisation survived 1000 years of climate change

The Indus River Valley in South Asia hosted one of the most advanced societies at the time, along with Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Then it mysteriously disappeared.

  • Kasha Patel
Wildlife Queensland’s Dr Tamielle Brunt and Resilient Rivers SEQ director Joanna Burton.

SEQ wildlife whisperers prove platypus population’s proliferating

A new testing technique reveals the slippery mammals are more widespread than expected in our creeks and waterways.

  • Julius Dennis
Snickers – really satisfies?

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.

  • Liam Mannix
The CSIRO has announced it will cut up to 350 jobs.

‘It made me sick’: CSIRO job cuts due to waste, not underfunding, ex-senior staff say

The CSIRO this week announced job cuts of up to 350 staff. But a former executive says the agency’s management squandering a huge short-term government funding boost.

  • Liam Mannix and Brittany Busch

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