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The Southern Hemisphere’s Biggest Battery Just Got Switched On in Victoria
Victoria just turned on the biggest battery in the Southern Hemisphere, intended for soaking up excess power from solar and wind farms.
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Early Data on Omicron: There’s Good News and Bad News
The first glimmers of data on the Omicron variant of the coronavirus are starting to come in, and the verdict is decidedly mixed. Early experiments have found that antibodies from vaccinated people are clearly less able to neutralise Omicron in the lab, if not rendered completely useless. But antibodies generated through natural infection and vaccination…
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Astrophysicists See a Galaxy That Weirdly Appears to Have No Dark Matter
Dark matter is the invisible something that gloms together galaxies like cosmic duct tape. But a team of researchers say they’ve found a distant galaxy entirely devoid of dark matter, a finding that could shake up understandings of both dark matter and galaxy formation.
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This Is What Actually Happens to Your Cells When You Exercise
A study by a handful of Australian universities and researchers has revealed how the mitochondria really reacts during exercise. For those that don’t know or were simply not on Tumblr during 2013, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and acts as a brain to the rest of the cell. While it’s massively important…