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Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
The ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.
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Drought-tolerant grape vines tested for Australian conditions
Increasing temperatures and frequency of heat waves are affecting vine harvests and our researchers are investigating potential solutions.
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Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion
The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
A fossil of the giant new trilobite species Redlichia rex.
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NASA and space tourists might be in our future but first we need to decide who can launch from Australia
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US, May 2019.
Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
The endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.
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‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
The exploitation of the land and sea is the number one reason for biodiversity extinction, according to a new report.
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Ethnic media are essential for new migrants and should be better funded
An annual indexation freeze in funding introduced by the Liberal government in 2013 has cost the sector almost A$1 million.
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