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Anti-vaccination network told to change its name or be shut down
By Rachael Dunlop
The heated battle between Australia’s anti-vaccine lobby, the Australian Vaccination Network, and those fighting against its misinformation has taken a positive turn with the New South Wales Department of Fair Trading ordering the AVN to change its name or risk being shut down.
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'Tis the season to get food poisoning
Research reveals food poisoning risk for the festive season, especially from raw egg dishes.
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2012: The Biggest (and Weirdest) Science Stories
The year's ten biggest science stories, and ten of the most weird and womderful science stories.
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What causes hot flushes during menopause?
Hot flushes are not 'in the head,' but new research suggests they may start there.
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What we could learn from Yasser Arafat's exhumation
By David Ranson
The remains of Yasser Arafat have been exhumed for “special testing” to determine whether he died from poisoning by a radioactive element or natural causes.
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Trading chemistry for ecology with poo transplants
By Dyani Lewis
As simple as the procedure sounds, we don’t yet fully understand how faecal transplants work.
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NASA's Curiosity shows there's more to life than life
By Kevin Orrman-Rossiter and Helen Maynard-Casely
The Curiosity rover has landed on Mars, driven around, and started reporting integrated science results.
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Just out of Curiosity, did life on Earth come from Mars?
By Jonathan Borwein and David H. Bailey
In an announcement on 3 December 2012, NASA poured cold water on rumours that its Curiosity rover had found life on Mars.
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Alert: you may be living in a simulated universe
By Geraint Lewis
Are our lives real or is the universe just an enormous computer simulation?
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Caring for Giants of the Deep
By South Australian Museum
The South Australian Museum's marine mammals team will study parts of a minke whale that has washed up at Ceduna on the state's west coast.
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