australian scientists
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Meet Macinley Butson: Teenage Inventor And NSW Young Australian Of The Year
Video: At the 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering fair (AKA ‘The Olympics for Science’), for the very first time in its 67 year history, an Australian took out first prize. That Australian was 16 year old inventor Macinley Butson, and she has just been named NSW Young Australian of the Year.
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Mental Health Experts Speak Out: ‘Same Sex Marriage Needs To Be Legalised ASAP’
The results of the $122 million non-binding postal survey are in – 61 per cent of Australians support a change to marriage laws that would allow equal rights to same-sex couples. But even with this resounding “Yes” vote, health experts are warning that the psychological effects of this whole ordeal are far from over –…
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Thanks To This Underwater Drone, Australian Scientists Are Exploring New Areas Of The Great Barrier Reef
“We have no idea what we might find,” Dr Dean Miller, Director Science and Media at the Great Barrier Reef Legacy tells me. “As scuba-divers we can get down to around 30 to 40m safely but with this ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) we are allowed to to 150m so this really turns into exploration…
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We Now Know Where Dingoes Came From (And It Might Help Save Them)
It’s underwater now, but there used to be a land-bridge between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea. A new DNA study shows dingoes migrated across this bridge between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago in two waves. And genetically, the two groups are quite different – so we now know how to manage them separately, for…