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In its early days, the Milky Way was like a giant smoothie, as if galaxies consisting of billions of stars, and an enormous amount of gas had been thrown together into a gigantic blender.
Astronomy
Feb 22, 2022
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A University of Melbourne-led team has perfected a technique for embedding single atoms in a silicon wafer one-by-one. Their technology offers the potential to make quantum computers using the same methods that have given ...
Nanophysics
Jan 12, 2022
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Astronomers have turned a cluster of galaxies into a gargantuan magnifying lens, using it to study another galaxy, 10.7 billion light years away, in unprecedented detail.
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2021
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Designer babies, mutant mozzies and frankenfoods: These are the images that often spring to mind when people think of genome editing.
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2020
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Data gathered by NASA's now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery.
Astronomy
Dec 4, 2019
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Analysis of reef damage in the Indo-Pacific during the 2016 El Nino reveals that several stressors influence bleaching.
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2019
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Birthplace exerts a lifelong influence on butterflies as well as humans, new research reveals.
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2019
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A newly discovered ancient star containing a record-low amount of iron carries evidence of a class of even older stars, long hypothesised but assumed to have vanished.
Astronomy
Aug 1, 2019
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Monash University researchers along with collaborators from CSIRO and Deakin University have printed a jet engine. In fact Monash and their spin-out company Amaero, have printed two engines. One is on display this week at ...
Engineering
Feb 25, 2015
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The shape of a centuries-old Buddhist singing bowl has inspired a Canberra scientist to re-think the way that solar cells are designed to maximize their efficiency.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 8, 2014
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