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FILE - In this undated file photo, a lonely penguin appears in Antarctica during the southern hemisphere's summer season. The temperature in northern Antarctica hit nearly 65 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius), a likely heat record on the continent best known for snow, ice, and penguins. The reading was taken Thursday, Feb. 5, 2020 at an Argentine research base and still needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organization. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Jana, File)

Ice loss fears for pole

Antarctica has hit its highest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3c at a research station on its rocky peninsula.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 30, 2017, a juvenile Sunda pangolin feeds on termites at the Singapore Zoo. - The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said on February 7, 2020. Researchers at the South China Agricultural University have identified the scaly mammal as a "potential intermediate host," the university said in a statement, without providing further details. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)

Pangolins ‘possible virus host’

Strange new suspect emerges in the scramble to identify source of China’s deadly coronavirus outbreak.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 8 FEB 2020NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION FEE APPLIESJohn Hanger wildlife vet with koala Pic : Justine Walpole

Where koalas are not just surviving: they’re thriving

The bushfires have been devastating for koalas. But in one part of the country at least, there’s hope.

Jane Stephens

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Former federal health department head Jane Halton poses for photographs in Canberra, Thursday, February 6, 2020. Halton is coordinating the global effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine through umbrella group CEPI. (The Australian/Tracey Nearmy)

Global vaccine hunt a $2bn task in virus war

Australia will be asked to pay into a $2bn global fund to find a vaccine for the deadly Wuhan virus.

Jamie Walker

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This photo taken on February 6, 2020 shows a laboratory technician talking with each other as they work on samples from people to be tested for the new coronavirus at "Fire Eye" laboratory in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - BGI Group, a genome sequencing company based in southern China, said it opened on February 5 a lab in Wuhan able to test up to 10,000 people per day for the virus. The official Chinese death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose on February 7 to 636, with the government saying total infections had climbed past 30,000. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

Stopping virus not as simple as SARS

The spread of the coronavirus around the world will be much harder to contain than the SARS epidemic 17 years ago.

Natasha Robinson

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TOPSHOT - NASA astronaut Christina Koch reacts shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on February 6, 2020. - NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts after almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency. (Photo by Sergei ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP)

Astronaut back after record 328 days

After 328 days in space the American astronaut Christina Koch landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday AEDT.

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Dr Paul Scully-Power AM, Australia's first astronaut at the launch of the Brisbane G20 Global Cafe. Pic Darren England.

Space age plan to save wildlife

Australia’s first astronaut, Paul Scully-Power, is behind a hi-tech plan to save larger numbers of wildlife during future bushfires.

Brad Norington

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The coronavirus may never bne contained.

‘Virus will never be contained’

Scientific modelling has predicted the number of coronavirus cases confirmed in China will double every six days.

Natasha Robinson

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Aussie team backed in race for vaccine

Australian scientists have been bolstered in their efforts to create a coronavirus vaccine.

Natasha Robinson

The Times

Marks made by stone tools more than 7,000 years ago were left on the wood

Stone Age well is the world’s oldest wooden structure

A 7300-year-old well unearthed by construction workers is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered.

Mark Bridge

World

FILE - In a Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, pharmacist Mary Chindanyika looks at documents on a fridge containing a trial vaccine against HIV on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. The latest attempt at an HIV vaccine has failed. Researchers announced Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 they've stopped giving the experimental shots in a major study in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest HIV rates. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

Trial of vaccine for HIV called off

US health authorities halt a trial in South Africa of an HIV vaccine after it proved ineffective at preventing the infection.

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3/2/20: Kim Mckay, director of the Australian Museum and Dr Chris Reid, principal entomologist with 'Petalura Gigantea' or giant dragonfly's endangered specimens at the Australian Museum in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Museums urge more climate action

The nation’s most prestigious natural history museums call for more climate change action.

SID MAHER and David Ross

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk fronts a press conference outside of a yum cha restaurant in Sunnybank, Sunday February 1, 2019. She is reporting on her recent meeting with the QueenslandsÕs Disaster Management Committee in relation to the coronavirus. (AAP/Image Sarah Marshall)

Qantas suspends flights from China over virus

Airline halts its direct services as Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk calls for all flights into Australia from China to be suspended.

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WUHAN, CHINA - JANUARY 22: (CHINA OUT) A man wears a mask while walking in the street on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. A new infectious coronavirus known as "2019-nCoV" was discovered in Wuhan as the number of cases rose to over 400 in mainland China. Health officials stepped up efforts to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts confirmed can be passed from human to human. The death toll has reached 17 people as the Wuhan government issued regulations today that residents must wear masks in public places. Cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. (Photo by Getty Images)

China’s ticking time bomb

It’s easy to see why so many pandemic pathogens have sprung out of the region. Experts warn this particular virus is still in its infancy.

Jamie Walker

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Disease transfer rate a key danger

The world stands on the brink of learning how significant the spread of coronavirus will be outside China.

Natasha Robinson

Nation

31/1/20: L to R..Brooke Robinson, Matthew Whittet and Katy Warner. The are the three finalists in the Lysicrates Prize, an annual award for playwrights where excerpts from their plays are performed and the audience votes for the winner. Entrants this year were required to write a comic play. John Feder/The Australian.

Playing up funny side of science

A comic play about two scientists who discover an uncomfortable truth about human intelligence has won a drama contest.

Matthew Westwood

The Wall Street Journal

Athletic mother exercising in plank position while being with her baby in a health club. Copy space.

Baby steps back to full fitness

New mums increasingly want to return to their exercise classes as soon as possible after giving birth, but is it safe to do so?

Hilary Potkewitz

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Healthy cells ‘magically’ regrow when smokers quit

Quitting smoking can do more than just halt damage to the lungs. A study shows regrowth of cells unscathed by exposure to tobacco.

Kaya Burgess

Science

Drug trials positive in scabies fight

Researchers are making progress in developing a pill to eliminate scabies, which is endemic in some remote Aboriginal communities.

VICTORIA LAURIE

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Dr Mike Catton speaks during a press conference at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne on January 29, 2020. - Scientists in Australia have successfully replicated the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, in what they said would be a "game changer" in the fight against a deadly epidemic which has stricken thousands. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Aussie team cracks virus secrets

Australian researchers have replicated the coronavirus in laboratory conditions.

Natasha Robinson and Angelica Snowden

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