Packaged food usually sits in plastic-lined bags designed to keep air, moisture and contaminants out. That same protection can also increase the chances of chemicals from the packaging seeping into the food. When a chemical ...
Not so long ago, we thought the ocean was an inexhaustible resource. There would always be plenty more fish in the sea.
Ecology
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A new fluorescence microscopy technique that generates super-resolution images from a single camera exposure could help researchers study rapid movements within cells that are difficult to capture with existing methods.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2026
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I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer. My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and I were ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2026
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Universities are increasingly introducing artificial intelligence (AI) teaching tools into classrooms.
Education
Sep 8, 2026
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Several chronic diseases—obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers—have been linked to lifestyles and diets high in calories, based on processed foods and lacking diversity and nutritional value.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2026
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A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually extraordinarily luminous galaxies powered by bursts of star formation. James Webb Space Telescope observations of the galaxies, seen ...
The federal government has introduced draft digital duty of care legislation designed to protect Australians from online harms.
Social Sciences
Sep 8, 2026
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A new study has found that expanding dog vaccination, rather than introducing routine pre-exposure vaccination for children, is the most effective and cost-effective way to eliminate rabies deaths in people in Kerala, India.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 8, 2026
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While most Australians assume the ivory trade ended decades ago, Adelaide University research has found an active collectors' market exists online, with most listings showing no proof that the items are legal.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2026
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