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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

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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
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
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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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