Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is the foundation of modern biology. It might sound like a fairly straightforward exercise, but in fact it's complicated and often controversial.
Ecology
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By the end of Year 11 we know almost exactly how well New South Wales students will perform on the state's senior school exams. We used predictive analytics to reliably predict a student's HSC (Higher School Certificate) ...
Education
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Our memories of the job market prior to COVID have become rosier: the last decade was a period of fairly low unemployment, even if wage growth was less than stellar.
Economics & Business
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A new study has developed a method to determine the life expectancy and maximum lifespan of wild animal populations.
Plants & Animals
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Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified two new dust-reddened (red) quasars at high redshifts. The finding, detailed in a paper published July 16 on the arXiv pre-print server, could improve the understanding ...
What's the most interesting fact you know about Uranus? The fact that its rotational axis is completely out of line with every other planet in the solar system? Or that Uranus' magnetosphere is asymmetrical, notably tilted ...
Space Exploration
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The twist has been taking the field of condensed matter physics by storm. No, not the 1960s dance craze made famous by Chubby Checker— the stunning discovery that two sheets of graphene, a flat honeycomb-shaped lattice ...
Nanomaterials
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On the morning of 23 June 2020, a strong earthquake struck the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The 7.4-magnitude earthquake prompted evacuations in the region, triggered a tsunami warning and damaged thousands of houses. ...
Earth Sciences
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Fragile, beautiful, and fascinating, butterflies flutter their way into our gardens and seem to just as quickly wing their way out.
Plants & Animals
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New research from the Australian National University (ANU) has shown that Australia is prone to shallow and potentially destructive earthquakes.
Earth Sciences
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