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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’s ever been. Some scientists say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with reality.

  • Angus Dalton

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Medical researcher Adrienne O’Neill lived with chronic fatigue for a decade before receiving a diagnosis.

It took 11 years for Adrienne’s illness to be diagnosed. A new computer model could change everything

Chronic fatigue syndrome is notoriously difficult to diagnose, but a new computer-assisted model can predict it with 85 per cent accuracy.

  • Broede Carmody and Hannah Kennelly
James was diagnosed with ADHD after emerging from lockdown in the pandemic - part of a growing cohort diagnosed post-pandemic

How the pandemic prompted a surge in adult ADHD diagnoses

Everything changed in 2020. Millions of Australians found themselves stuck inside – just as an ecosystem of ADHD content creators was flourishing on social media.

  • Liam Mannix
Shark killers extraordinaire, orcas Port and Starboard.

Two killer whales are hunting down great white sharks, Hannibal Lecter style

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean’s fiercest predators.

  • Jonathan Edwards
Did the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation really invent Wi-Fi?

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding.

  • Liam Mannix
Former ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt.

‘Sugar-daddy’ Trump comes for CSIRO on scientific research funding

The Trump administration is demanding Australian government researchers answer a diversity, gender and climate survey to guarantee funding as experts warn we’ve become overly reliant on the United States.

  • Liam Mannix and Hannah Kennelly
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Fish kill in Ballina waterways in the weeks after Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kill chokes waterways in Byron region

The rivers of the NSW North Coast are clogged with thousands of suffocating fish, prawns, eels, and crabs.

  • Angus Dalton

Gold coins, diamonds, old champagne: Who gets to keep shipwreck treasure?

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does it take to find these ghostly vessels?

  • Angus Holland
Gilmour Space’s rocket stands on its launchpad.

Failure to launch: The huge rocket ‘stuck’ in a small Australian town

As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s burgeoning space industry sat on the launch pad.

  • Liam Mannix
Trump’s staffing cuts to a key US meteorological agency threatens data used by Australia to monitor severe weather.

Trump’s attacks on science are a massive blow to Australia. These numbers show why

The ability to track and predict potentially deadly cyclones is just one of the capabilities scientists fear we could lose as the Trump administration guts “woke” scientific research.

  • Angus Dalton

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