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Garbage Guts
A healthy adult hawksbill turtle checking out divers in the Maldives. Photo: Denice Askebrink
By Blake Chapman
Why are turtles attempting to eat shopping bags, balloons and other forms of human rubbish in preference to natural food sources?
Dr Blake Chapman completed her PhD in marine biology and neuroscience at The University of Queensland, and is a freelance science communicator.
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Will Your Smart Meter Make You Less Smart?
By Peter Bowditch
The introduction of smart electricity meters has led to some silly public misconceptions.
Peter Bowditch is a former President of Australian Skeptics Inc. (www.skeptics.com.au).
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Citizen Scientists Find Exoplanet
By David Reneke
News from the space and astronomy communities around the world.
David Reneke is an astronomy lecturer and teacher, a feature writer for major Australian newspapers and magazines, and a science correspondent for ABC and commercial radio. Subscribe to David’s free Astro-Space newsletter at www.davidreneke.com
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Four Academies Are Working Together
By Robin Batterham
Australia’s four learned academies are integrating their expertise in science, technology, social science and humanities to form a better evidence base for advice to government.
Professor Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE finishes his term as President of ATSE in December. He is a former Chief Scientist for Australia and was Rio Tinto’s most senior scientist before taking his current appointment as the Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
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How Hepatitis Escapes the Immune System
The liver’s unusual cellular architecture makes blood flow slower than in other organs. Perforations of the lining of the blood vessels within the liver allow a unique contact between the circulating blood cells (red) and the liver cells (green), and explains why activated T cells (blue) are efficiently retained in the liver. Credit: Frederic Sierro
By Patrick Bertolino and David Bowen
Recent discoveries about the unusual behaviour of immune cells in the liver could open the way to new strategies for transplantation and the treatment of viral hepatitis.
Patrick Bertolino and David Bowen are co-heads of the Liver Immunology group at the Centenary Institute in Sydney.
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Know Your Enemy
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By Hsei Di Law
New research has revealed a key mechanism by which our immune system turns against us.
Hsei Di Law is a research technician at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University.
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Take a Closer Look at that Christmas Card
By Magdeline Lum
Many Christmas cards and decorations have incorrect depictions of the Moon and snowflakes.
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I Can Feel Your Pain
Empathy for pain has conceptual commonalities with synaesthesia. Credit: iStockphoto
By John Bradshaw
Empathy for someone else’s pain shares common characteristics with synaesthesia, a sensory condition where individuals can smell music or taste colours.
John Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at Monash University. This article is adapted from a script broadcast on Ockham’s Razor, and has been updated with additional information from Bernadette Fitzgibbon.
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Green Is Mean and White Is Nice
By Stephen Luntz
Public understanding of rip research is saving Australian lives each summer.
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