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Sounds Like the Samsung Galaxy S30 Will Be Missing One Big Camera Feature
Now that Galaxy Unpacked has finally been and gone, we thought we’d get a breather from Samsung leaks for a bit. But no! For this is Hell Year, and in Hell Year all things are terrible (except cats). The usual “people familiar with the matter” have been talking about what we might expect to see…
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Tree Ferns are Older Than Dinosaurs, But That’s Not Even the Most Interesting Thing About Them
With massive fronds creating a luxuriously green canopy in the understory of Australian forests, tree ferns are a familiar sight on many long drives or bushwalks. But how much do you really know about them? First of all, tree ferns are ferns, but they are not really trees. To be a tree, a plant must…
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From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, Citizen Scientists Proved Vital to Australia’s Bushfire Recovery
Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could help in response to the environmental disaster. Hundreds contacted the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), Australia’s peak citizen science body, for guidance on how to participate in relevant scientific projects. It was a golden…
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How We Found Europe’s Oldest Bone Tools, and What We Learned About Their Makers
Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered – fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally preserved 26km-wide ancient landscape of stone, it provides a virtually untouched record of early humans almost half a million years ago. The most…