Last week, police confirmed four students at Victorian boarding school Ballarat Grammar had been cautioned over a series of "strappings" of younger students. This followed other allegations of hazings and abuse at the school, ...
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Carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) is a type of volatile organic compound (VOC) that was once widely used as a refrigerant and cleaning agent, but is now strictly regulated due to its toxic properties. However, its environmental ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 2, 2025
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Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2025
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When parliamentarians disclose their additional income from lobbying work, they gain more trust from the electorate. This was shown by researchers at the University of Basel in a survey conducted in seven European countries. ...
Economics & Business
Dec 2, 2025
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University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2025
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The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud ...
Astronomy
Dec 2, 2025
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Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have developed a method for quantitative imaging of ATP levels inside living cells. The study, published in Nature Communications, introduces ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2025
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Synchrotron radiation sources generate highly brilliant light pulses, ranging from infrared to hard X-rays, which can be used to gain deep insights into complex materials.
Condensed Matter
Dec 2, 2025
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Globally, coral reefs are under siege by multiple stressors, one of which is herbaceous algae. An overabundance of algae on reefs can lead to regime shifts of reefs from being coral-dominated to algal-dominated.
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2025
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New pan-European research has shown that the spread of conspiracy theories across the continent is driven by a continuous feedback loop between media reporting, political rhetoric, protest movements and social media algorithms—not ...
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2025
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