When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what if the best solution – for people and nature – isn’t to confine rivers, but to give them more space? This alternative is increasingly being considered as an approach to mitigating flood risk. But allowing
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Silicosis is an incurable but entirely preventable lung disease. It has only one cause: breathing in too much silica dust. This is a risk in several industries, including tunnelling, stone masonry and construction. Just last week, ABC reported that 13 workers from tunnelling projects in Sydney have been diagnosed with silicosis. It’s yet another reminder that current
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We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Our discovery is published today in Nature Communications. Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we
A grab of a handout video taken on January 26, 2025 by Condrik Research and Preserve NGO shows a humpback anglerfish near the coast of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. The video of a humpback anglerfish is a very unusual sighting, as this kind of fish lives between 200 and 2000 metres deep in tropical
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US company Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of a “woolly mouse” — a laboratory mouse with a series of genetic modifications that lead to a woolly coat. | Photo Credit: Colossal Biosciences/The Conversation US company Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of a “woolly mouse” — a laboratory mouse with a series of genetic modifications that lead to
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U.S. President Donald Trump has regularly praised tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for its role in cutting the size of the federal workforce and halting thousands of government programs and contracts. In just nine weeks entire government agencies have been dismantled and tens of thousands of workers from the 2.3-million strong federal
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A 2018 artist’s concept shows the Parker Solar Probe flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more about the star. | Photo Credit: NASA Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the most foreboding. On December 24,
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Just like the government uses an Aadhaar number to uniquely identify an individual for social security purposes, a person’s DNA fingerprint can be used for biological purposes. This is why DNA analysis is such a big deal. Today, it is most often (but not exclusively) used together with technologies like PCR, capillary electrophoresis, and fingerprinting.
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QR codes are incredibly flexible data storage tools that can be leveraged to enhance a user’s business and brand [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ever since Meta introduced a QR code-based feature to share Instagram profiles, users no longer had to spell out their account name to a new friend or type it out. The
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Permafrost melting is emerging as a unique environmental threat in the Kashmir Himalaya. A new study has found that thawing permafrost could affect 193 km of roads, 2,415 households, 903 alpine lakes, and eight hydropower projects in the mountainous region. Permafrost is any type of ground — soil, sediment, rock, etc. — that has been
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